The Meaning of Life? And Other Mundane Things

With all the Track and Field and Golf getting in the way of Physics stuff lately, I have let quite a bit pile up.  Let's see if I can remedy that with an All-Physics Post just to catch back up.  The long delay has seen Physicists discover the fundamental mystery of matter, additional revelations on time travel and possibly The Meaning of Life.  Lowly neuro-anatomists may also have unlocked the secret to Einstein's brain, although none of this explains his mismatched socks.  ( The Meaning of Life may just boil down to one thin mint anyway.)

We'll start with the concept that  measurements performed in the future may influence the present.  It's way too much for me to comprehend but Discover Magazine tries to explain it to me anyway.

Next we jump to CERN where we discover neutrinos morphing into another type of neutrino, (Warning for some: This is a Fox News Link) explaining something or another about the very nature of matter.  Ho hum Hadron Collider, because next we have the Tevatron possibly explaining the very existence of matter in the first place!  (Thanks to Official Physicist Brian Boyer for the link.)

The possible explanation of matter leads invariably to The Meaning of Life in my mind.  But my mind is no where nearly as complex as Einstein's was. Though he had no more neurons than you and I, give or take a few, he did have way more glial cells than the rest of us.  Could this be the secret to "Genius"?  I can't help but think that the chemical communications between glial cells in the brain can't possibly be helped by my morning Mountain Dews.  What the heck did Einstein drink in the morning?

For those keeping score (and I know you're out there!) that's one Radical right wing link and three straight-down-the-middle, politically correct links. 

Here's an important update on the Hadron Collider in Switzerland.