There is indeed a theoretical reason for the well validated nonexistence of magnetic monopoles. The electromagnetic potential A must exist in the Lorentz gauge so that charged particles can be a source of gravity that is conserved over time. Then, given any reasonable A, the Bianchi identity, namely ddA = dF = 0 - "The boundary of a boundary equals zero.", is a topological theorem that specifies precisely the impossibility of magnetic monopoles.
I was going to say no way to this effect. But frame dragging is very real. It can be seen from afar, just as the preprint claims. But this is not free energy, but maybe an increase in propulsion efficiency.
Almost unknown to academics, it seems, is the extent of constraints that the Bianchi identity places on the existence of tachyonic regions (shortcuts between locations in space made out of spacial dilation). They cannot be created by any causal mechanism operating in time, but merely encountered. They are part of the boundary conditions of the cosmos.
The Bianchi identity, "The boundary of a boundary is zero.", prohibits any point to point existence, but requires indefinitely long extension in the direction of the dilation. These tachyonic regions do not naturally persist in time.
A blue shifted region can serve as a portal to another "room" of the universe. But this is no shortcut, and makes for slower travel rather than quicker.
All of this can be understood by applying the Bianchi identity to the Einstein tensor. The proper tensor rank and correct diagrammatic representation should be used for the Einstein tensor. Again, this is all practically unknown in academic physics, despite the mathematical power available.
I could have mentioned that Jauch is a physicist who spoke of quantum states as a kind of categorical proposition. Now, categorical propositions are not the same kind of stuff as the pure geometry of spacetime. So the upholding of nonlocality does show the existence of a separate system other than general relativity.
Remember that Niels Bohr denied that such a test of nonlocality was possible. Einstein had said that this phenomenon was "incredible" in his "EPR" article, thus rejecting his own prediction. And Bohr replied in effect that such things were taboo metaphysics.
The article's speculation almost found something significant, I would say. Metaphysics is necessarily permissive, as Spinoza understood. Different mathematics, then, must permissively overlap where logic allows, because there is no cosmic censor consistently possible to keep them separate. And, classical mathematics - not subject to Church's thesis, are distinct in their range of expression. So, the most expressive of those are found most, namely Einstein-Davis and Kaluza-Klein.
The Einstein-Davis and Kaluza-Klein theories really make the canonical alternative here - something which should not go unexamined if one wants understanding. Here, spacetime distortions are what classical things are made of. Things have rest mass in this scheme by being red-shifted to an effective halt at or below an event horizon, a black hole. Field sources in this scheme are momentum in a fifth or higher dimension, and sensitivity to a field comes with velocity in that same dimension. There is nothing ad hoc here, the results follow as theorems from the premises (within their proper range of expression).
Quantum mechanics of a new variety, probably loop quantum gravity, is needed to stabilize, or at least describe, this sort of black hole. A quantum creation of the things in question is probably needed to account for the very high momentum to mass ratio.
(It is remarkable that the standard model does not refer to either string theory or gravitation. And, string theory has an imperfect accommodation of gravity, and therefore predicts things contrary to general relativity such as magnetic monopoles, exotic matter, and hot event horizons. To top it all, the master of loop quantum gravity has prohibited consideration of higher dimensions. Without this prohibition, it seems that loop quantum gravity would rule.)
Yes indeed, whatever happened to X then limits the possibility of what Y is or can do. The conservation theorems of momentum, energy, and angular momentum apply in this instance, so that Y is influenced by the same sort of nonlocal entity which the conservation theorems are. Quantum states are of the same substance, it seems, as physical laws.
It is just that your example is purely classical physics, it is causal, so that the QM entanglement is not shown at all, and QM entanglement for your example is not predicted by any one.
Caused states must not communicate at a distance, this is classical behavior. But, uncaused quantum transitions have the appearance of at-a-distance communication simply because quantum states do not have a classical position. Only the classical manifestations of a quantum state have their separate positions.
Quantum states themselves resemble categorical propositions in their lack of having a location. For example, where is the proposition, "Roses are red.", located? It becomes much more atractive than one first imagines to state that quantum states are actually a sort of categorical propostion.
Yes, logical coherence is what I have recently come to call an a-priori principle of selection. (Read about the Susskind paradox in my journal here.) But, the internal logic of a classical timeline requires its continued existence.
I concur! You remind me that the many worlds theory of time travel is not attractive because it requires an organized material being to emerge out of a white hole, else conservation theorems are violated.
The retrograde causality interpretation of quantum collapse was proposed in the early 1980s by Prof. Barbara D'Amato at USC Greenville and noted in the Sci. Am. then.
This interpretation of quantum mechanics fits very well with my own systematic and fundamental criticism of academic physics (which I write about in my journal here).
Sci. Am. had the definitive article on learning back in 1953. There, it was argued that drill and repetition have their role in conceptual learning until insight is achieved. But, there is no quality to be gained afterward from repetition, but only the durability of memory. This was said to be in contrast to the value of simple repetition in improving the quality of athletic and manual skills.
And, contrast the plight of the gifted to normal classroom practice, where they often require no drill at all to acquire concepts, but only an adequate statement of the relevant principles.
Projects should be used for the sake of memory, not drill.
I would claim that there is new information on the term, addiction, from a recent Sci. Am.. The term should be reserved for drugs which directly subvert the habituation nerve circuits. But, habits, good or bad, are mediated by legitimate pleasure.
Will power is not strong against habits, but the motivation created by perception or the leverage applied by circumstances is.
Segway tech is not useless simply because the competitive tech is not yet out of the lab, and even then the competition will not be decisively superior.
Consider "The Ghost in the Shell" combat tanks with wheels on jointed legs. A simple trolley of wheels does not compare to Segway at all. Where is the example of a wheeled vehicle which compares?
Really, It is folly to export a position based on talent - it's like asking an Indian citizen to write advertising copy for American eyes. I can only agree in all respects with Paul Graham on programmer productivity.
You can make ordinary college graduates productive of software by reducing the task to a declarative spreadsheet, but then there is no longer a need to export the work. Quality control and systems support are still needed, and they are based on knowledge rather than talent, but there seems to be no need to export these functions either.
Agriculture could be killed by withdrawing subsidies before it is made viable again by reinternalizing all of the hidden costs of transportation. This would be a wasteful result of the careless retrenchment of subsidies.
The plight of individual property owners and workers caught in an economic shift is actually a valid target of government action, I would say. And, crop insurance is a need which can not be provided by the market, but is needed to preserve farming as a stable enterprise - action by government again, but this is not really a subsidy.
Tcl has shimmering type conversions with two different representations of the value (virtually) available at all times. Type conversion is not the same thing as loose typing. A type accident in Tcl would be a bug in the language implementation, and not something for which the blame can only be shifted onto the programmer as in C.
Tcl adds shimmering type conversion to competency in all of the important Lisp idioms and easy connection to Unix functionality. The other scripting languages do not compare to Tcl in their Lisp functionality, and thus they do not rival Tcl in my preferences.
Let's abstract the problem to finally say that an all-purpose extended sensory system for computers is what X needs to build toward. Other kinds of networking protocols extend the internals of a computer, but X should neatly and efficiently package for distribution the sensory functions of a computer.
These extensions are plainly impelled to be smart and complex, not minimalist.
Yes, I agree with you that HTML must be mentioned. It is the most successful of GUI interfaces after all. And, Gosling is defying this success. File caching and fonts are left to the browser to optimize the use of bandwidth. HTML pages are incomparably preferable to PDF transmissions. As for improvement of the X protocol, whatever happened to the X compression methods where fonts were cached instead of being resent?
The future must resist this kind of reductionism proposed by Gosling. Instead, high extensions are needed for caching and parametric transforms, and for audiovisual channels, joysticks, and other kinds of telemetry.
I was just meditatating on the economic theory of agency and moral hazard, and had coined this formula just before I found your post; so allow me to show off.
The economic theory is that sales is really an agency for the customer which ought to be paid for by the customer. That this does not happen is described as a moral hazard. Another moral hazard is that, paid by the customer or not, a sales agent will not present the product which serves the customer best.
In contrast, a marketer should be paid by the producer to offer correct product information to the best sales force. Ebay automates this.
Thus the future of the Ebay and Google types is as producers and consumers respectively of better semantic information. Can the semantic web deliver?
And, the point is made above that marketers also comsume sales information.
What the heck is missing from Tcl/Tk? I do not miss explicit memory allocation, object encapsulation, checking of type declarations, or structs. A standard single-inheritance object extension is available.
I did sit down for two days to write an extension to concatenate namespaces as freely as concatenating strings (and that capability had already been written elsewhere). And, I would write computational physics in Fortran, anyway.
Let me praise the uniquely clever shimmering variable types, communications access to hierarchies of processes, and the uplevel command to allow safe run-time macros.
This proposed law does not meet constitutional standards. Any intelligent court will toss evidence obtained by intrusive means not following from a warrant. A popular vote is insufficient to change this safeguard.
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There is indeed a theoretical reason for the well validated nonexistence of magnetic monopoles. The electromagnetic potential A must exist in the Lorentz gauge so that charged particles can be a source of gravity that is conserved over time. Then, given any reasonable A, the Bianchi identity, namely ddA = dF = 0 - "The boundary of a boundary equals zero.", is a topological theorem that specifies precisely the impossibility of magnetic monopoles.
I was going to say no way to this effect. But frame dragging is very real. It can be seen from afar, just as the preprint claims. But this is not free energy, but maybe an increase in propulsion efficiency.
Carl Sagan did not necessarily get it right.
Almost unknown to academics, it seems, is the extent of constraints that the Bianchi identity places on the existence of tachyonic regions (shortcuts between locations in space made out of spacial dilation). They cannot be created by any causal mechanism operating in time, but merely encountered. They are part of the boundary conditions of the cosmos.
The Bianchi identity, "The boundary of a boundary is zero.", prohibits any point to point existence, but requires indefinitely long extension in the direction of the dilation. These tachyonic regions do not naturally persist in time.
A blue shifted region can serve as a portal to another "room" of the universe. But this is no shortcut, and makes for slower travel rather than quicker.
All of this can be understood by applying the Bianchi identity to the Einstein tensor. The proper tensor rank and correct diagrammatic representation should be used for the Einstein tensor. Again, this is all practically unknown in academic physics, despite the mathematical power available.
I could have mentioned that Jauch is a physicist who spoke of quantum states as a kind of categorical proposition. Now, categorical propositions are not the same kind of stuff as the pure geometry of spacetime. So the upholding of nonlocality does show the existence of a separate system other than general relativity.
Remember that Niels Bohr denied that such a test of nonlocality was possible. Einstein had said that this phenomenon was "incredible" in his "EPR" article, thus rejecting his own prediction. And Bohr replied in effect that such things were taboo metaphysics.
The article's speculation almost found something significant, I would say. Metaphysics is necessarily permissive, as Spinoza understood. Different mathematics, then, must permissively overlap where logic allows, because there is no cosmic censor consistently possible to keep them separate. And, classical mathematics - not subject to Church's thesis, are distinct in their range of expression. So, the most expressive of those are found most, namely Einstein-Davis and Kaluza-Klein.
Check out my journal here.
--
Michael J. Burns
The Einstein-Davis and Kaluza-Klein theories really make the canonical alternative here - something which should not go unexamined if one wants understanding. Here, spacetime distortions are what classical things are made of. Things have rest mass in this scheme by being red-shifted to an effective halt at or below an event horizon, a black hole. Field sources in this scheme are momentum in a fifth or higher dimension, and sensitivity to a field comes with velocity in that same dimension. There is nothing ad hoc here, the results follow as theorems from the premises (within their proper range of expression).
Quantum mechanics of a new variety, probably loop quantum gravity, is needed to stabilize, or at least describe, this sort of black hole. A quantum creation of the things in question is probably needed to account for the very high momentum to mass ratio.
(It is remarkable that the standard model does not refer to either string theory or gravitation. And, string theory has an imperfect accommodation of gravity, and therefore predicts things contrary to general relativity such as magnetic monopoles, exotic matter, and hot event horizons. To top it all, the master of loop quantum gravity has prohibited consideration of higher dimensions. Without this prohibition, it seems that loop quantum gravity would rule.)
It's been written in the Sci. Am., if I recall, that that addictive drugs can bypass the pleasure stage and directly stimulate habituation.
Niels Bohr actually did claim that this was untestable in his reply to Einstein. But, the standard QM theory does lead to actual tests.
Yes indeed, whatever happened to X then limits the possibility of what Y is or can do. The conservation theorems of momentum, energy, and angular momentum apply in this instance, so that Y is influenced by the same sort of nonlocal entity which the conservation theorems are. Quantum states are of the same substance, it seems, as physical laws.
It is just that your example is purely classical physics, it is causal, so that the QM entanglement is not shown at all, and QM entanglement for your example is not predicted by any one.
Caused states must not communicate at a distance, this is classical behavior. But, uncaused quantum transitions have the appearance of at-a-distance communication simply because quantum states do not have a classical position. Only the classical manifestations of a quantum state have their separate positions.
Quantum states themselves resemble categorical propositions in their lack of having a location. For example, where is the proposition, "Roses are red.", located? It becomes much more atractive than one first imagines to state that quantum states are actually a sort of categorical propostion.
Yes, logical coherence is what I have recently come to call an a-priori principle of selection. (Read about the Susskind paradox in my journal here.) But, the internal logic of a classical timeline requires its continued existence.
I concur! You remind me that the many worlds theory of time travel is not attractive because it requires an organized material being to emerge out of a white hole, else conservation theorems are violated.
The retrograde causality interpretation of quantum collapse was proposed in the early 1980s by Prof. Barbara D'Amato at USC Greenville and noted in the Sci. Am. then.
This interpretation of quantum mechanics fits very well with my own systematic and fundamental criticism of academic physics (which I write about in my journal here).
--
Michael J. Burns
Sci. Am. had the definitive article on learning back in 1953. There, it was argued that drill and repetition have their role in conceptual learning until insight is achieved. But, there is no quality to be gained afterward from repetition, but only the durability of memory. This was said to be in contrast to the value of simple repetition in improving the quality of athletic and manual skills.
And, contrast the plight of the gifted to normal classroom practice, where they often require no drill at all to acquire concepts, but only an adequate statement of the relevant principles.
Projects should be used for the sake of memory, not drill.
I would claim that there is new information on the term, addiction, from a recent Sci. Am.. The term should be reserved for drugs which directly subvert the habituation nerve circuits. But, habits, good or bad, are mediated by legitimate pleasure.
Will power is not strong against habits, but the motivation created by perception or the leverage applied by circumstances is.
--
Michael J. Burns
Segway tech is not useless simply because the competitive tech is not yet out of the lab, and even then the competition will not be decisively superior.
Consider "The Ghost in the Shell" combat tanks with wheels on jointed legs. A simple trolley of wheels does not compare to Segway at all. Where is the example of a wheeled vehicle which compares?
Really, It is folly to export a position based on talent - it's like asking an Indian citizen to write advertising copy for American eyes. I can only agree in all respects with Paul Graham on programmer productivity.
You can make ordinary college graduates productive of software by reducing the task to a declarative spreadsheet, but then there is no longer a need to export the work. Quality control and systems support are still needed, and they are based on knowledge rather than talent, but there seems to be no need to export these functions either.
Agriculture could be killed by withdrawing subsidies before it is made viable again by reinternalizing all of the hidden costs of transportation. This would be a wasteful result of the careless retrenchment of subsidies.
The plight of individual property owners and workers caught in an economic shift is actually a valid target of government action, I would say. And, crop insurance is a need which can not be provided by the market, but is needed to preserve farming as a stable enterprise - action by government again, but this is not really a subsidy.
Tcl has shimmering type conversions with two different representations of the value (virtually) available at all times. Type conversion is not the same thing as loose typing. A type accident in Tcl would be a bug in the language implementation, and not something for which the blame can only be shifted onto the programmer as in C.
Tcl adds shimmering type conversion to competency in all of the important Lisp idioms and easy connection to Unix functionality. The other scripting languages do not compare to Tcl in their Lisp functionality, and thus they do not rival Tcl in my preferences.
Let's abstract the problem to finally say that an all-purpose extended sensory system for computers is what X needs to build toward. Other kinds of networking protocols extend the internals of a computer, but X should neatly and efficiently package for distribution the sensory functions of a computer.
These extensions are plainly impelled to be smart and complex, not minimalist.
Yes, I agree with you that HTML must be mentioned. It is the most successful of GUI interfaces after all. And, Gosling is defying this success. File caching and fonts are left to the browser to optimize the use of bandwidth. HTML pages are incomparably preferable to PDF transmissions. As for improvement of the X protocol, whatever happened to the X compression methods where fonts were cached instead of being resent?
The future must resist this kind of reductionism proposed by Gosling. Instead, high extensions are needed for caching and parametric transforms, and for audiovisual channels, joysticks, and other kinds of telemetry.
I was just meditatating on the economic theory of agency and moral hazard, and had coined this formula just before I found your post; so allow me to show off.
The economic theory is that sales is really an agency for the customer which ought to be paid for by the customer. That this does not happen is described as a moral hazard. Another moral hazard is that, paid by the customer or not, a sales agent will not present the product which serves the customer best.
In contrast, a marketer should be paid by the producer to offer correct product information to the best sales force. Ebay automates this.
Thus the future of the Ebay and Google types is as producers and consumers respectively of better semantic information. Can the semantic web deliver?
And, the point is made above that marketers also comsume sales information.
What the heck is missing from Tcl/Tk? I do not miss explicit memory allocation, object encapsulation, checking of type declarations, or structs. A standard single-inheritance object extension is available.
I did sit down for two days to write an extension to concatenate namespaces as freely as concatenating strings (and that capability had already been written elsewhere). And, I would write computational physics in Fortran, anyway.
Let me praise the uniquely clever shimmering variable types, communications access to hierarchies of processes, and the uplevel command to allow safe run-time macros.
This proposed law does not meet constitutional standards. Any intelligent court will toss evidence obtained by intrusive means not following from a warrant. A popular vote is insufficient to change this safeguard.
Let no one tell you that your story is pathological. I am glad that no one seems to have tried in any serious way.
Check out the SENG www site and my Slashdot journal for information on giftedeness.