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now if someone says, could you push it in hyperdrive, honey? hyperdrive, i've got an infinite resistance to any change in motion now. and so we find out in the universe as we understand it in the 20th century, you can't do that. at least with material particles there is a speed limit, the speed of light. so you get that down. one of the important parts of relativity is this. before we understood relativity, we understood that the human race, no matter how sophisticated they became couldn't travel very far in space. and the reason is simple enough. the center of our galaxy for example is 20,000 light years away. it takes 20,000 years for light itself to go from the center of our galaxy to us. and our galaxy is nothing compared to the expanse of the whole universe. so how are you gonna be going through the universe when you can't even get to your galaxy, it's not gonna take you 20,000 years. if you're traveling at high, high speed, you might get there in 5 minutes. and if you travel at the speed of light, how far away would it be from a speed of
now if someone says, could you push it in hyperdrive, honey? hyperdrive, i've got an infinite resistance to any change in motion now. and so we find out in the universe as we understand it in the 20th century, you can't do that. at least with material particles there is a speed limit, the speed of light. so you get that down. one of the important parts of relativity is this. before we understood relativity, we understood that the human race, no matter how sophisticated they became couldn't...
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close friend died from pancreatic cancer, this 16-year-old from crownsville, maryland unleeshed his hyperdrive intellect on preventing more cancer deaths. >> it's 168 times faster over 26,000 times less expensive and over 400 times more sensitive than the current methods of diagnosis. >> axelrod: he tinkered in his room and using information readily available on line, he came up with a new way to detect cancer. >> all pancreatic cancers are diagnosed late when someone has less than a 2% chance of survival and our current test costs $800 per test and misses 30% of all pancreatic cancers. >> axelrod: his innovative mind got him a shout-out at the white house science fair. president obama was impressed by this young innovator's tenacity. >> jack "space from research labs to pursue his work nearly 200 times. 200 times he asked. 200 times he was turned down. finally, with the help of some folks at johns hopkins, he got research facilities that he needed. >> axelrod: did it sting when you would get rejections? >> it definitely did sting because i kind of knew that a lot of them were just kind of bei
close friend died from pancreatic cancer, this 16-year-old from crownsville, maryland unleeshed his hyperdrive intellect on preventing more cancer deaths. >> it's 168 times faster over 26,000 times less expensive and over 400 times more sensitive than the current methods of diagnosis. >> axelrod: he tinkered in his room and using information readily available on line, he came up with a new way to detect cancer. >> all pancreatic cancers are diagnosed late when someone has less...
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tepper saying if the fed doesn't taper, they were going to get into a hyperdrive market.ckwards argument, tepper explained, to keep the markets going up at a steady pace, the fed has to taper back. by his math, there is some $400 billion in the economy, searching for a place to go, stocks are one of those places. tepper saying he would be nervous to short anything in this environment. remember, tepper's appearance on cnbc in december 2010 sparked what some called the tepper rally. he said at the time the fed's bond buying program virtually guaranteed strength in stocks. since that appearance, the dow and the s&p have both rocketed higher by some 45%. and in terms of specific picks, tepper said he still has a small position in jpmorgan. his biggest holding remains citi and he still has a position in apple. take a listen to what he said about that stock. >> do they have something revolutionary in the horizon? revolutionary? yeah -- or do they have something evolutionary? if you don't have the steve jobs around to do the revolutionary kind of thing, do the evolutionary kind
tepper saying if the fed doesn't taper, they were going to get into a hyperdrive market.ckwards argument, tepper explained, to keep the markets going up at a steady pace, the fed has to taper back. by his math, there is some $400 billion in the economy, searching for a place to go, stocks are one of those places. tepper saying he would be nervous to short anything in this environment. remember, tepper's appearance on cnbc in december 2010 sparked what some called the tepper rally. he said at...
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overnight, the administration shifted into damage control hyperdrive. sudden moves within hours of each other. first, to try to calm the controversy over the targeting of conservative political groups by the irs. president obama has now forced the agency's acting commissioner out. for more now, let's go to dan lothian. >> reporter: trying to step out of a political sink hole, president obama expressed anger at misconduct within the irs. >> it's inexcusable and americans are right to be angry about it and i am angry about it. i will not tolerate this kind of behavior in any agency. >> the agency's acting commissioner steve miller was asked to resign and president obama vowed to put in place new safeguards and work with congressional investigators. >> i'll do everything in my power to make sure nothing like this happens again. >> but this scandal threatens to run much deeper, the justice department has launched a criminal investigation and attorney general eric holder was on the hot seat wednesday pressed for answers by the house judiciary committee. >> i
overnight, the administration shifted into damage control hyperdrive. sudden moves within hours of each other. first, to try to calm the controversy over the targeting of conservative political groups by the irs. president obama has now forced the agency's acting commissioner out. for more now, let's go to dan lothian. >> reporter: trying to step out of a political sink hole, president obama expressed anger at misconduct within the irs. >> it's inexcusable and americans are right to...