I skimmed through the actual paper from arXiv.org, and noted what seems to me to be -- even if you accept his proposed Hamiltonian -- a significant flaw in his analysis.
He shows the Hamiltonian with both a magnetic and gravitomagnetic vector potential, and then claims that by analogy with the Meissner effect which excludes the magnetic field, the gravitomagnetic field will also be excluded. This is because, he claims, the phase integral of A must vanish, and so the phase integral of h must also vanish, due to the requirement that the wave function of the Cooper Pairs is single valued.
But there is only one wave function, and only one phase: it cannot impose two constraints! So if his equations are correct, it means that there will be a small gravitomagnetic correction to the Meissner effect, but no separate effect for gravitomagnetism.
Once again, if his Hamiltonian is correct, (which I suspect it isn't quite), the place to look would be in superfluids or gaseous Bose-Einstein condensates, which are made up of neutral objects than won't have a magnetic effect that swamps the gravitational one...
[P.S. It's been a few years, but I was a theoretical physicist in a former life, so I might not be speaking complete nonsense...]
Of course, the "g" is silent. (It doesn't stand for anything anyway.*) For convenience, you can spell it without the "g" too, as long as you remember that it's there.
(* GNU stands, of course, for "GNU's not Unix"; the "G" should be eliminated due to the stack overflow error that necessarily results...)
You don't have to "open" an attachment to get the Klez worm; all you have to do is "view" the message in the Outlook Express preview pane.
The *only* way to see a message in OE without risking viruses is to view the "Message Source" under "Properties" for the email. It is unreasonable to expect that a user view every email this way -- it would take 10 times as long to read email...
I've got news for you: for some of these worms, including Klez, you *don't have to open anything* in order to get infected.
I know this now after 3 days removing Klez and the W95/Elkern.cav.c (sp?) virus that it carried from my home system. How did it come in? Through the Outlook Express *preview pane*, which treats certain file types as being safe enough to display even if the user does not explicitly request that they be opened.
Why, oh why does OE allow **any** content other than ascii text (or maybe heavily-restricted html) in the preview pane?
One of my favorite SF writers, Kim Stanley Robinson, has written a great novel about Antarctica. Called, reasonably enough, _Antarctica_, it covers a little of the same sort of political ground that he uses in his _Mars_ trilogy, but in a more, um, terrestrial setting.
He also goes over the history of some of the early South Pole expeditions; while all opinions are expressed by the characters, not the author, it's clear he has considerable sympathy for the "Scott wasn't a *complete* screwup" point of view.
Not surprisingly, this topic is red hot with controversy -- sharply dividing a world scientific community...
This is a claim that Reuter's is making I'm pretty sure this isn't true.
Indeed! I've seen this dozens of times. Jimmy Whacko makes an outrageous scientific claim. Reporter interviews ten Respectable Scientists(tm), every one of whom says that Jimmy W is full of it. Reporter reports that Jimmy's ideas are "highly controversial"!!! Right... Among the 10 R.S.'s, there's no controversy at all...
Can you support your claim that "This same organization is lobbying the US gov't to actually STOP production of these toys."?
You can't, because it's not true.
Read their website yourself. The strongest statement that they make about government action is that they want Congress to pressure the toy industry to stop **marketing** adult content toys and video games to children. That's not the same at all.
As for parents looking at toys for themselves, well, of course. The actual *list* is more of a publicity tool for their campaign to get parents to consider the effect of violent toys and games than it is a tool for parents to use in screening. If you *were* a parent who wanted to avoid violent toys and games, I'd guess that the actual number of items you'd need to avoid would be in the thousands, not a dozen!
The most revealing part of this article was the comment that Transmeta and TSMC were pointing fingers at each other over reliability problems. This is *very* bad for Transmeta -- reminiscent of the whole Ford/Firestone squabble over tires.
Transmeta is a "fabless" semiconductor company; their advantage is supposed to be in their architecture and circuit implementation, not in the process and manufacturing technology. Who makes their chips should be invisible to the public and their customers, and should be determined entirely by internal questions of who can deliver what they need at the lowest price.
If their technology depends on the fab doing tricky, custom stuff for them, they will be at the mercy of the Intels, AMDs, and IBMs that have their own manufacturing facilities under their own control.
LOL! I have this fantasy where in Star Trek, any Star Trek, someone's digging around in the historical archives and comes across... Star Trek, the Television Show.
Mel Brooks did it, in Spaceballs. IIRC, they even went through the Spaceballs videotape to figure out what was going to happen...
I also fantasize about somebody in [a] time-locked cartoon strip (Foxtrot,... ) discovering that time isn't progressing.
(In linked strip, Jason responds to a comment about Dad growing up, "Whoa. Did I just stumble into 'For Better or For Worse'?")
FYI, "For Better or for Worse" is perhaps the *only* strip I can think of where the kids age in real-ish time.
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I skimmed through the actual paper from arXiv.org, and noted what seems to me to be -- even if you accept his proposed Hamiltonian -- a significant flaw in his analysis.
He shows the Hamiltonian with both a magnetic and gravitomagnetic vector potential, and then claims that by analogy with the Meissner effect which excludes the magnetic field, the gravitomagnetic field will also be excluded. This is because, he claims, the phase integral of A must vanish, and so the phase integral of h must also vanish, due to the requirement that the wave function of the Cooper Pairs is single valued.
But there is only one wave function, and only one phase: it cannot impose two constraints! So if his equations are correct, it means that there will be a small gravitomagnetic correction to the Meissner effect, but no separate effect for gravitomagnetism.
Once again, if his Hamiltonian is correct, (which I suspect it isn't quite), the place to look would be in superfluids or gaseous Bose-Einstein condensates, which are made up of neutral objects than won't have a magnetic effect that swamps the gravitational one...
[P.S. It's been a few years, but I was a theoretical physicist in a former life, so I might not be speaking complete nonsense...]
Gee, didn't I see this story somewhere before?
(BTW, check out Carl Oppedahl's comments to that story...)
From now on, I'll be calling it "Lignux".
It's a nice name, flows smoothly...
Of course, the "g" is silent. (It doesn't stand for anything anyway.*) For convenience, you can spell it without the "g" too, as long as you remember that it's there.
(* GNU stands, of course, for "GNU's not Unix"; the "G" should be eliminated due to the stack overflow error that necessarily results...)
I've said it before and I'll say it again:
You don't have to "open" an attachment to get the Klez worm; all you have to do is "view" the message in the Outlook Express preview pane.
The *only* way to see a message in OE without risking viruses is to view the "Message Source" under "Properties" for the email. It is unreasonable to expect that a user view every email this way -- it would take 10 times as long to read email...
Don't open unknown files, you say?
I've got news for you: for some of these worms, including Klez, you *don't have to open anything* in order to get infected.
I know this now after 3 days removing Klez and the W95/Elkern.cav.c (sp?) virus that it carried from my home system. How did it come in? Through the Outlook Express *preview pane*, which treats certain file types as being safe enough to display even if the user does not explicitly request that they be opened.
Why, oh why does OE allow **any** content other than ascii text (or maybe heavily-restricted html) in the preview pane?
(The scene I'm thinking of has Swan (Williams) mixing and filtering the Phantom's voice until he sounds "Perfect..." --- just like Williams.)
One of my favorite SF writers, Kim Stanley Robinson, has written a great novel about Antarctica. Called, reasonably enough, _Antarctica_, it covers a little of the same sort of political ground that he uses in his _Mars_ trilogy, but in a more, um, terrestrial setting.
He also goes over the history of some of the early South Pole expeditions; while all opinions are expressed by the characters, not the author, it's clear he has considerable sympathy for the "Scott wasn't a *complete* screwup" point of view.
Check it out.
Indeed! I've seen this dozens of times. Jimmy Whacko makes an outrageous scientific claim. Reporter interviews ten Respectable Scientists(tm), every one of whom says that Jimmy W is full of it. Reporter reports that Jimmy's ideas are "highly controversial"!!! Right... Among the 10 R.S.'s, there's no controversy at all...
Can you support your claim that "This same organization is lobbying the US gov't to actually STOP production of these toys."?
You can't, because it's not true.
Read their website yourself. The strongest statement that they make about government action is that they want Congress to pressure the toy industry to stop **marketing** adult content toys and video games to children. That's not the same at all.
As for parents looking at toys for themselves, well, of course. The actual *list* is more of a publicity tool for their campaign to get parents to consider the effect of violent toys and games than it is a tool for parents to use in screening. If you *were* a parent who wanted to avoid violent toys and games, I'd guess that the actual number of items you'd need to avoid would be in the thousands, not a dozen!
The most revealing part of this article was the comment that Transmeta and TSMC were pointing fingers at each other over reliability problems. This is *very* bad for Transmeta -- reminiscent of the whole Ford/Firestone squabble over tires.
Transmeta is a "fabless" semiconductor company; their advantage is supposed to be in their architecture and circuit implementation, not in the process and manufacturing technology. Who makes their chips should be invisible to the public and their customers, and should be determined entirely by internal questions of who can deliver what they need at the lowest price.
If their technology depends on the fab doing tricky, custom stuff for them, they will be at the mercy of the Intels, AMDs, and IBMs that have their own manufacturing facilities under their own control.
LOL! I have this fantasy where in Star Trek, any Star Trek, someone's digging around in the historical archives and comes across... Star Trek, the Television Show.
... ) discovering that time isn't progressing.
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Mel Brooks did it, in Spaceballs. IIRC, they even went through the Spaceballs videotape to figure out what was going to happen...
I also fantasize about somebody in [a] time-locked cartoon strip (Foxtrot,
http://www.ucomics.com/foxtrot/viewft.cfm?uc_fn
(In linked strip, Jason responds to a comment about Dad growing up, "Whoa. Did I just stumble into 'For Better or For Worse'?")
FYI, "For Better or for Worse" is perhaps the *only* strip I can think of where the kids age in real-ish time.
I love self-referential humor...