Today’s physics news: Thursday, 2 September 2010

Stephen Hawking says universe not created by God
Physics, not a creator, made the Big Bang, Hawking claims in his new book
Guardian
Times
Telegraph
Independent 
 
Galileo saw more than he admitted
An historian has brought Galileo’s admirers down to earth by suggesting that he probably lied when he claimed not to have seen a revolutionary “eyeglass”
Times 
 
Greatest Roberto Carlos free-kick was no fluke’ say physicists
One of the most incredible goals in international football was no fluke, physicists claim after working out the science of the seemingly impossible free kick.
BBC
Telegraph

STEMming the rate of decline
Leif Johansson, the chairman of the European Round Table of Industrialists, recently observed that Europe is in danger of being overtaken by China and India economically because of a dearth of engineers
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