Monday, February 16, 2009, 10:33 pm
Today's choir practice turned for the very worst that anyone could have expected, an hour just before the official time of dismissal.
Turns out while the CR17 was left unguarded and unlocked, some ass creep in and stole some of the belongings of the girls. The apparent evidence shows that it is done by an outsider who had rather plenty of time to search and ransack quite a few items from various bags. The person also managed to arrange everything back into place, except forgetting that Angela's bag was left on the floor before she left the room. Thus making a mistake.
The girls had only realised that their belongings were stolen at the end of the practice when we were preparing to vacate the room.
The Secondary One's were occupying the room till around 1700 hours before being dismissed. The room was visited again by Suchi and Sharon not long after that. They apparently left the room at around 1715 hours. Ever since then, no one within the choir is seen to enter the abandon classroom. It was only until 1750 hours that the boys and I return to the room. During the break, this is most probably the time that the theft entered the room secretly and stole numerous items out of the bags that laid on the tables, near the windows.
The suspicion lies around the workers that were around the area, in that particular block, doing some sort of repair work in the class rooms on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and maybe 4th floor too. However, no other surface evidence could prove that the crime has been committed by this group of workers. No evidence has also been able to futher eliminate the possible suspects. There were the Badminton group and Chinese Orchestra in the school campus within the area, during that period of time.
Thus far, it is known that many girls have lost their wallets, handphones, MP3s and cash. The theif apparently might have been rushed some how, during its attempt to steal items as he/she only emptied the cash in some wallets yet however, stole some wallets. This shows that there might be a short time that he/she was close to being discovered thus chose to grab the wallets his/her hands could lay on and run off with the loot.
This incident happened due to some form of miscommunication and mainly due to the fact that the room, CR17, was not locked when it was vacant. There are no futher source of evidence to trace up to the suspect currently, this obstructs possible leads for further investigation.
Diamond no longer nature's hardest material
* 13:03 16 February 2009 by Jessica Griggs
Diamond will always be a girl's best friend, but it may soon lose favour with industrial drillers.
The gemstone lost its title of the "world's hardest material" some time ago, to man-made nanomaterials of slightly greater toughness. Now a rare natural substance looks likely to leave them all far behind – at 58% harder than diamond.
Zicheng Pan at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and colleagues simulated how atoms in two substances believed to have promise as very hard materials would respond to the stress of a finely tipped probe pushing down on them.
For full article, click here.
Seven things you need to know about time
* 11:00 16 February 2009 by Michael Marshall
To accompany our feature article on hyper-accurate clocks (Super clocks: More accurate than time itself), we've rounded up seven articles about the nature of time and the way humans relate to it.
What makes the universe tick?
It turns out that if you want to understand time, you might need to grab some measurements from the future, watch a big bang explode at the edge of the universe, or delve into the anomalies presented by the most unruly of the subatomic particles. For some, the only solution is to scrap the notion of time altogether.
Calls to scrap the 'leap second' grow
At midnight on New Year's Eve, time stopped momentarily. Guardians of atomic clocks around the world added an extra "leap second" to 2008 to keep time synched with the Earth's rotation - but do they really need to bother?
Time slows for people who stop smoking
Time really does pass more slowly when you are gasping for a cigarette. Researchers found that when regular smokers gave up their habit, their perception of passing time was stretched by 50%.
Is time an illusion?
One group of physicists has recently found a way to do quantum physics without invoking time. If correct, the approach suggests that time really is an illusion, and that we may need to rethink how the universe at large works.
Outside of time: The quantum gravity computer
A quantum gravity computer would be the ultimate design, and radically different from anything we have ever seen. Not only might it be supremely powerful, defying the logic of cause and effect to give instantaneous answers, it might also tell us exactly how the universe works.
Time in the future seems to go further
The best time to ask someone for a favour is at least several weeks in advance, a new study suggests. The research finds that people consistently over-commit because they expect to have more time in the future than they do right now.
2008: Does time travel start here?
If a pair of Russian mathematicians are right, the launch of the Large Hadron Collider could be overshadowed by a truly extraordinary event. According to Irina Aref'eva and Igor Volovich, the LHC might just turn out to be the world's first time machine.
Mathematics: The only true universal language
* 16 February 2009 by Martin Rees
IF WE ever establish contact with intelligent aliens living on a planet around a distant star, we would expect some problems communicating with them. As we are many light years away, our signals would take many years to reach them, so there would be no scope for snappy repartee. There could be an IQ gap and the aliens might be built from quite different chemistry.
Yet there would be much common ground too. They would be made of similar atoms to us. They could trace their origins back to the big bang 13.7 billion years ago, and they would share with us the universe's future. However, the surest common culture would be mathematics.
For full article, click here.
That would be all for today.
Ja-na!~
You are my life now.
I'm a drug addict in an enclosed room, and you are just my type of Heroin.
-Addiction.
Turns out while the CR17 was left unguarded and unlocked, some ass creep in and stole some of the belongings of the girls. The apparent evidence shows that it is done by an outsider who had rather plenty of time to search and ransack quite a few items from various bags. The person also managed to arrange everything back into place, except forgetting that Angela's bag was left on the floor before she left the room. Thus making a mistake.
The girls had only realised that their belongings were stolen at the end of the practice when we were preparing to vacate the room.
The Secondary One's were occupying the room till around 1700 hours before being dismissed. The room was visited again by Suchi and Sharon not long after that. They apparently left the room at around 1715 hours. Ever since then, no one within the choir is seen to enter the abandon classroom. It was only until 1750 hours that the boys and I return to the room. During the break, this is most probably the time that the theft entered the room secretly and stole numerous items out of the bags that laid on the tables, near the windows.
The suspicion lies around the workers that were around the area, in that particular block, doing some sort of repair work in the class rooms on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and maybe 4th floor too. However, no other surface evidence could prove that the crime has been committed by this group of workers. No evidence has also been able to futher eliminate the possible suspects. There were the Badminton group and Chinese Orchestra in the school campus within the area, during that period of time.
Thus far, it is known that many girls have lost their wallets, handphones, MP3s and cash. The theif apparently might have been rushed some how, during its attempt to steal items as he/she only emptied the cash in some wallets yet however, stole some wallets. This shows that there might be a short time that he/she was close to being discovered thus chose to grab the wallets his/her hands could lay on and run off with the loot.
This incident happened due to some form of miscommunication and mainly due to the fact that the room, CR17, was not locked when it was vacant. There are no futher source of evidence to trace up to the suspect currently, this obstructs possible leads for further investigation.
Diamond no longer nature's hardest material
* 13:03 16 February 2009 by Jessica Griggs
Diamond will always be a girl's best friend, but it may soon lose favour with industrial drillers.
The gemstone lost its title of the "world's hardest material" some time ago, to man-made nanomaterials of slightly greater toughness. Now a rare natural substance looks likely to leave them all far behind – at 58% harder than diamond.
Zicheng Pan at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and colleagues simulated how atoms in two substances believed to have promise as very hard materials would respond to the stress of a finely tipped probe pushing down on them.
For full article, click here.
Seven things you need to know about time
* 11:00 16 February 2009 by Michael Marshall
To accompany our feature article on hyper-accurate clocks (Super clocks: More accurate than time itself), we've rounded up seven articles about the nature of time and the way humans relate to it.
What makes the universe tick?
It turns out that if you want to understand time, you might need to grab some measurements from the future, watch a big bang explode at the edge of the universe, or delve into the anomalies presented by the most unruly of the subatomic particles. For some, the only solution is to scrap the notion of time altogether.
Calls to scrap the 'leap second' grow
At midnight on New Year's Eve, time stopped momentarily. Guardians of atomic clocks around the world added an extra "leap second" to 2008 to keep time synched with the Earth's rotation - but do they really need to bother?
Time slows for people who stop smoking
Time really does pass more slowly when you are gasping for a cigarette. Researchers found that when regular smokers gave up their habit, their perception of passing time was stretched by 50%.
Is time an illusion?
One group of physicists has recently found a way to do quantum physics without invoking time. If correct, the approach suggests that time really is an illusion, and that we may need to rethink how the universe at large works.
Outside of time: The quantum gravity computer
A quantum gravity computer would be the ultimate design, and radically different from anything we have ever seen. Not only might it be supremely powerful, defying the logic of cause and effect to give instantaneous answers, it might also tell us exactly how the universe works.
Time in the future seems to go further
The best time to ask someone for a favour is at least several weeks in advance, a new study suggests. The research finds that people consistently over-commit because they expect to have more time in the future than they do right now.
2008: Does time travel start here?
If a pair of Russian mathematicians are right, the launch of the Large Hadron Collider could be overshadowed by a truly extraordinary event. According to Irina Aref'eva and Igor Volovich, the LHC might just turn out to be the world's first time machine.
Mathematics: The only true universal language
* 16 February 2009 by Martin Rees
IF WE ever establish contact with intelligent aliens living on a planet around a distant star, we would expect some problems communicating with them. As we are many light years away, our signals would take many years to reach them, so there would be no scope for snappy repartee. There could be an IQ gap and the aliens might be built from quite different chemistry.
Yet there would be much common ground too. They would be made of similar atoms to us. They could trace their origins back to the big bang 13.7 billion years ago, and they would share with us the universe's future. However, the surest common culture would be mathematics.
For full article, click here.
That would be all for today.
Ja-na!~
You are my life now.
I'm a drug addict in an enclosed room, and you are just my type of Heroin.
-Addiction.
