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From the point of view of Special Relativity, there is a one-to-one relation between the allowed speeds for a particle, and the square of its mass: Positive mass squared -> Speed must be less than the speed of light Zero mass squared -> Particle travels exactly at the speed of light...

There's a general point about health care schemes, that is related to the question originally posed here. Opponents of national health care plans like to claim that it will lead to a rationing of health care, with the decisions made by "faceless bureaucrats" rather than by the patient and...

Well, I did say IIRC; I haven't studied chemistry for 10 years. And I certainly don't want to claim that I know how terminology is used among professional chemists. Still, I've never thought of things bound by van der Waals interactions as compounds. On which note, when you say just how...

There are a few compounds involving noble gases, though. IIRC, all of them except Helium have been observed to bond with something. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_gas_compound .

Based on a little Googling, over 2 billion dollars had been spent on the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) when it was cancelled. I don't think they every filled in the tunnels, though. As for the LHC and it's ability to produce the Higgs boson, it's almost guaranteed to produce the Higgs...

There's no contradiction here. The statement of Special Relativity is that the speed of light in a vacuum is the same for all (inertial) observers. The speed of light in anything else can be, and usually is, less and (I think) observer dependent. Some additional comments. First, you ask if...