Just 2 shopping days remain before the 2nd annual Holiday Stroll. Which is fine. The Stroll — on Saturday, December 3 (5 to 7 p.m.) — is where you can take care of all your holiday shopping. Plus: Where your kids can meet Santa, enjoy face painting and get balloon animals. All with live caroling (you can join the singers!), and lots of free food nibbles and hot chocolate (some happy hour drink prices too). The Holiday Stroll — co-sponsored by “06880” and the Westport Downtown Association — covers a wide swath. The main tent will be on Main Street (in front of Cold Fusion). Over 40 stores and restaurants have joined in, from Sconset Square to the Post Road, Church Lane and across the bridge to the west bank of the river too. Highlights include Greens Farms Academy’s… Source link

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Scientists have long pursued a deeper understanding of wormholes and now appear to be making progress. Researchers announced on Wednesday that they forged two miniscule simulated black holes — those extraordinarily dense celestial objects with gravity so powerful that not even light can escape — in a quantum computer and transmitted a message between them through what amounted to a tunnel in space-time. It was a “baby wormhole,” according to Caltech physicist Maria Spiropulu, a co-author of the research published in the journal Nature. But scientists are a long way from being able to send people or other living beings through such a portal, she said. “Experimentally, for me, I will tell you that it’s… Source link