Life imitates art (or is this still at the stage of art imitates art?). Remember how in Snow Crash, you could get a virus from your avatar accepting data from another avatar? This sounds very similar.
That's quite right. Phase velocities faster than the speed of light are not new. The "speed limit" concept does apply to the propagation of information, which occurs at the group velocity. However, if you read the abstract of the paper, Applied Physics Letters, you see that it is, in fact, the group velocity that has been adjusted in these experiments.
I am deeply dubious that this is truly a relativity violation, but everything I have read online seems to point in that direction. I plan to head to the local university library as soon as I get a chance, so I can read the full article.
I'm on my 6th year of dealing with RSI. I started with Thoracic Outlet, but at the moment I have bilateral tendinitis in both elbow and wrist and nerve compression in all four joints as well. I use a Datahand and I couldn't work without it. I have, on occasion for various reasons, had to return to a conventional keyboard for some time. While I can usually work a full day with the Datahand, I'm in agony after 1 to 1.5 hours with the normal keyboard. Same desk, same chair, same posture, same work habits. I'm convinced.
It would also have helped if they would accept help!
I did my undergraduate thesis at MIT with the HETE team. I selected, tested, and wrote code for what was supposed to be an unmanned optical ground station linked with the satellite (to search for optical counterparts). After the first HETE satellite failed (fault of the rocket, not the satellite), the team started work again, but I had graduated. I returned and offered to pick up where my thesis left off as a _volunteer_, but was turned down. I never was sure if the problem was just that they couldn't be bothered to call me back or that MIT had some insurance problem with volunteers in the labs (which I doubt, considering that as an alum, I'm pretty much allowed all over campus).
However, they're a great team, and I loved working with them.
I work for a defense contractor, so of course our machines are completely locked down. We have to call a sysadmin just to reboot a workstation (HP-UX). However, we manage to develop our software just fine. We even manage some degree of efficiency.
However, I have no experience in a Windows type environment, so I don't know how restrictive that could be.
Eta Carinae is also a dying star. It is remarkable for it large size and brightess.
Actually, the hourglass shape with a pinch in the middle seems to be the norm for
dying stars (particularly red giants blowing off layers of gas). As the article says, however,
the really interesting part is: why does a mostly spherically symmetric object like
a star produce such a directed "explosion"? The most universal answer I've heard so far
is the angular momentum one (the star is spinning with a particular axis; the explosion behaves
differently at the poles and equator). It just doesn't seem to have enough magnitude, though.
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Well, if I recall correctly, the guide didn't make it onto the web until the mid-90's. And it was quite a scandal. The MIT groups had always tried to avoid this kind of media coverage to avoid the "stupid-newbie" problem. One had to be introduced to the community by an established member.
As an interesting aside, this activity is called "hacking" at MIT.
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Life imitates art (or is this still at the stage of art imitates art?). Remember how in Snow Crash, you could get a virus from your avatar accepting data from another avatar? This sounds very similar.
That's quite right. Phase velocities faster than the speed of light are not new. The "speed limit" concept does apply to the propagation of information, which occurs at the group velocity. However, if you read the abstract of the paper, Applied Physics Letters, you see that it is, in fact, the group velocity that has been adjusted in these experiments.
I am deeply dubious that this is truly a relativity violation, but everything I have read online seems to point in that direction. I plan to head to the local university library as soon as I get a chance, so I can read the full article.
I'm on my 6th year of dealing with RSI. I started with Thoracic Outlet, but at the moment I have
bilateral tendinitis in both elbow and wrist and nerve compression in all four joints as well.
I use a Datahand and I couldn't work without it. I have, on occasion for various reasons, had to
return to a conventional keyboard for some time. While I can usually work a full day with the
Datahand, I'm in agony after 1 to 1.5 hours with the normal keyboard. Same desk, same chair,
same posture, same work habits. I'm convinced.
It would also have helped if they would accept help!
I did my undergraduate thesis at MIT with the HETE team. I selected, tested, and wrote code for what was supposed to be an unmanned optical ground station linked with the satellite (to search for optical counterparts). After the first HETE satellite failed (fault of the rocket, not the satellite), the team started work again, but I had graduated. I returned and offered to pick up where my thesis left off as a _volunteer_, but was turned down. I never was sure if the problem was just that they couldn't be bothered to call me back or that MIT had some insurance problem with volunteers in the labs (which I doubt, considering that as an alum, I'm pretty much allowed all over campus).
However, they're a great team, and I loved working with them.
I work for a defense contractor, so of course our machines are completely locked down. We have to call a sysadmin just to reboot a workstation (HP-UX). However, we manage to develop our software just fine. We even manage some degree of efficiency.
However, I have no experience in a Windows type environment, so I don't know how restrictive that could be.
Eta Carinae is also a dying star. It is remarkable for it large size and brightess.
Actually, the hourglass shape with a pinch in the middle seems to be the norm for
dying stars (particularly red giants blowing off layers of gas). As the article says, however,
the really interesting part is: why does a mostly spherically symmetric object like
a star produce such a directed "explosion"? The most universal answer I've heard so far
is the angular momentum one (the star is spinning with a particular axis; the explosion behaves
differently at the poles and equator). It just doesn't seem to have enough magnitude, though.
Well, if I recall correctly, the guide didn't make it onto the web until the mid-90's. And it was quite a scandal. The MIT groups had always tried to avoid this kind of media coverage to avoid the "stupid-newbie" problem. One had to be introduced to the community by an established member.
As an interesting aside, this activity is called "hacking" at MIT.