Before you ask what the neutron emits as it makes a transition from one state to another, you might want to think carefully about the spectrum of bound states and the boundary conditions that enforce said quantization. It's not clear to me why you would expect the transition to be associated with emission or absorption of a graviton.
A nice update on Colella, Overhauser, and Werner can be found in Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 181 (1991) or Rev. Mod. Phys 70, 685 (1998) where Kasevich and Chu measured the local value of g (and incidentally verified the equivalence principle) to one part in 10^10.
As has been noted, Metcalfe, Fanning, Ventner, Torvalds, Moore, et al. have not been particularly innovative of late (if ever).
What most of the winners have going is the gift of public recognition irrespective of merit.
Many of the WTN's choices are in fact questionable. The nominations are somewhat well-balanced, but going through the list of winners reminds one of the good old boy network -- senescent, white has-beens and businessmen caught up in an orgy of co-promotion and intralaudatory gibberish.
How could it be any different, with an awards committee co-chaired by the likes of GlaxoSmithKline, CNBC, and Enron? And don't forget how hard Nature has been trying to broaden its readership.
On reflection, it seems clear that the point of this exercise was not - as advertised - to recognize achievement going forward, so much as to allow companies in need of makeovers to associate themselves with names they consider to be influential in the present public consciousness.
In the most charitable interpretation, one can see this as their attempt to honor achievement as they recognize it.
That, my friends, is an honor that most of us could do without.
- Cantankerous in Cantabrigia
P.S. -- What on earth has Michael Schrage ever done to merit the press' accolades -- besides strenuously cultivating his friendships?
Hello? Wireless is *already* the next big thing. The problem is the outrageous cost of spectrum, which leads to companies sticking to ill-conceived standards (i.e. 3G, Bluetooth, etc).
3G isn't going to provide anything you couldn't get from an 802.11{b,a} network with a similar level of infrastructural support.
802.11 is here *now*, and it works. We all know that. WEP is a stopgap and a dead horse to boot. For security, use peer-to-peer encryption (SSL) or a secure network (IPSec). I feel reasonably secure when I use 802.11 this way.
So go out and get the Prism II chipset and build those 802.11 IP phones today! We'll get voice and data using proven technology based on open standards instead of the horrible situation we have now.
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To be fair, it's only 98% of what you need. The other 1.8% you can get by poking around in /proc/{pid} and reading the state of open
file descriptors.
Golly. And people wonder why the bubble finally burst.
A nice update on Colella, Overhauser, and Werner can be found in Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 181 (1991) or Rev. Mod. Phys 70, 685 (1998) where Kasevich and Chu measured the local value of g (and incidentally verified the equivalence principle) to one part in 10^10.
Many of the WTN's choices are in fact questionable. The nominations are somewhat well-balanced, but going through the list of winners reminds one of the good old boy network -- senescent, white has-beens and businessmen caught up in an orgy of co-promotion and intralaudatory gibberish.
How could it be any different, with an awards committee co-chaired by the likes of GlaxoSmithKline, CNBC, and Enron? And don't forget how hard Nature has been trying to broaden its readership. On reflection, it seems clear that the point of this exercise was not - as advertised - to recognize achievement going forward, so much as to allow companies in need of makeovers to associate themselves with names they consider to be influential in the present public consciousness.
In the most charitable interpretation, one can see this as their attempt to honor achievement as they recognize it.
That, my friends, is an honor that most of us could do without.
- Cantankerous in Cantabrigia
P.S. -- What on earth has Michael Schrage ever done to merit the press' accolades -- besides strenuously cultivating his friendships?
Hello? Wireless is *already* the next big thing. The problem is the outrageous cost of spectrum, which leads to companies sticking to ill-conceived standards (i.e. 3G, Bluetooth, etc). 3G isn't going to provide anything you couldn't get from an 802.11{b,a} network with a similar level of infrastructural support. 802.11 is here *now*, and it works. We all know that. WEP is a stopgap and a dead horse to boot. For security, use peer-to-peer encryption (SSL) or a secure network (IPSec). I feel reasonably secure when I use 802.11 this way. So go out and get the Prism II chipset and build those 802.11 IP phones today! We'll get voice and data using proven technology based on open standards instead of the horrible situation we have now.