"Haisch is perfectly prepared to believe that the rest mass of a particle - its mass-energy - is "explained" by the Higgs mechanism and that the rest mass is intrinsic to the particle. However, Haisch believes that the inertial mass and gravitational mass of a particle are not explained by the Higgs mechanism and are not intrinsic. If they are not intrinsic then there is only one other option. They must be "extrinsic". "In other words, they must somehow arise from the interaction between a particle and the environment through which it moves," says Haisch. "That environment can only be the 'quantum vacuum'."
This might explain why the Higgs mass is small. Haisch's theory suggests a mechanism similar to the Higgs effect, but relies on Zero Point Field Quantum Fluctuations instead of The Higgs Boson, and the Electromagnetic Quantum Vacuum instead of the Higgs field. But their work also tantalizingly suggests that Gravity appears to be the same phenomenon, but behaving differently in the presence of warped space-time.
So if mass (inertial, gravitational, and rest), is a function of either Quantum fluctuations or Higgs bosons, then it might be possible to manipulate not only mass, but also gravity.
One of the hallmarks of many Aspies is a sense of justice.
Whether true or not, he sought to bring information that
was potentially important to the world out in the open---
legal or not. Once upon a time, it was illegal
to allow blacks in "white" washrooms. But people broke
the law (despite protests from whites and uncle toms)
in order to win equal rights. Some of yesterday's wackos are
today's heroes.
Similar battles for justice continue to this day. McKinnon
felt he was doing the right thing. But at the same time,
was not treated for a condition that is best diagnosed at
an early age.
I think he's been punished enough. At this point, he needs
help, not punishment in the hands of a foreign, hostile
government.
Nails are a simple human invention. Let's not simplify the matter.
Humans are actually radically different from other organisms.
If we chose to, we might be able to destroy virtually all the
large life forms on the planet. No other organism in history
has that capacity. After billions of years, this milestone was
achieved only decades ago. Hard to say that we are not different.
We can also leave a biosphere that does not permit other organisms
(as far as we know) to leave without technological means.
We have used our technology to create shelters that allow us to live in
harsh climates in larger numbers than would have been possible
say twenty thousand years ago.
Many of us who have been exposed to physics and math realize
that the complexity of the universe does not appear to be random
or mystical. We can only speak of what we know. And that is
that we have used our understanding of nature to create for
ourselves and to understand and predict physical realities
to great accuracy. This process continues in a progressive manner.
And I believe we will make even more *discoveries* that (when applied)
will radically alter how we live---just as we always have.
Therefore the onus is on YOU to prove that we "invent".
Arguing against your post is (strangely) like having to reply to am anti-
evolution proponent.
Your entire argument feels like almost religious doctrine that says "it doesn't
make sense that we should understand the universe".
I can understand your confusion. For hundreds of millions of years there were
(we assume) no organisms on earth that could ponder about the nature of the
universe beyond the subject of survival.
However, it is a fact that nature has produced us through a progressive
process (we did not simply "appear" by accident as nihilists would like to
argue). I would argue that humans (or organisms with the cognitive capacity
of humans) are a predictable notch in that process. Therefore, in my opinion,
the universe and its math don't need to be invented by our race in particular.
Maybe it's possible that the universe is not an "absolute truth". That somehow
there may be other universes/realities with different math that cannot possibly
make sense to us using *our* math. But that is outside the scope of "our
universe".The math in our universe makes sense because we exist in THIS
universe.
There is no mysticism here. Unless relativity seems like hocus pocus to
you. I know, it's hard to believe that while sitting at your computer
the planet is moving at about 30 km/second around the sun. Or that the
earth is indeed round.
We can even simulate reality by applying mathematical formulae and object
oriented computation. We are held back from progressively producing more realistic
simulations of the universe by the limits of computer processing. Seeing is believing.
There is no mysticism there.
those who see it as being invented are nihilists who cannot see that there is
great order to the universe. We've applied math to achieve feats of engineering.
Even nature has employed technical mechanisms in organisms that existed long before human-
kind came into the picture. To suggest that we invent math is pompous at best.
Yes we do invent impressive but often inadequate math to simulate or understand
the natural world. It is from first realizing that there are simple and then increasingly
more complicated mathematical observations that we know there is possibly an ultimate
mathematical description of the universe that exists outside of human thought.
The nihilists believe we are the only intelligent life forms in the entire universe.
It is from this viewpoint that they base their argument. Who's the mystic?
Good on you. Of course we pay, in fact my stupid telecom ISP continues to
try to do direct withdrawals from my bank account when I told them to stop
it over a year ago. They're so loaded with cash that they can afford
to be stupid. And now, they're throttling me and wholesale reseller
ISPs who would have been my next choice. So they want my money and are
killing the competition to make sure they get it from me. We are certainly
not getting a free ride here. No pity for them...they've had since the early
90s to find a solution.
In the face of FCC embarrassments, this is a public relations stunt
to confuse the public into believing torrents will now be treated politely.
Like others have said, they have the technology to play nice with specific content
provider torrents (friendly corporations) and not other legitimate torrents.
thanks for this. Yes I suspected it happened only with times new roman but never
got around to testing it. So I'm assuming the new version is delightfully cool!
I can also use the presentation tool to make foldable pamphlets. They should consider
marketing that ability as well... or maybe make a new tool in the suite for
people who want an easy alternative to the non-free pagemaker..
I have this problem that I would have thought should be easy for them to fix.
If I try to export to.pdf a writer document (say a CV), some characters
kern very badly (some pairs right on top of one another).
It seems like an easy one to fix... anyone else notice this obvious problem?
Democrats and Republicans in bed with the corporations. It's all about Comcast, a witch-hunt,
pure and simple. It's pretty unnerving to see this unfold.
Links:
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpposted/archive/2007/11/05/bell-sympatico-admits-to-blocking-bandwidth-traffic.aspx
I know I'm being throttled because at one time, I would routinely get 200KB/s on torrents (I have a 5MB DSL line). Then suddenly, in the November 2007 timeframe, I was at 30KB/s during the daytime. I have experimented and found that right after midnight, it will increase to about 50KB/s, then to a higher speed at the top of the next hour (200 KB/s). But clearly, many customers are clueless about this and therefore not aware that they are not getting what they pay for. I encountered this pattern of decrepit service with non P2P traffic each time I moved. I was consistently getting 2M service when I was paying for 5MB. It took a lot of patience, blood, and hair-pulling before I got to a senior technician who corrected the situation. My three experiences convinced me that particular problem probably affected thousands of unsuspecting customers and was grounds for a class-action lawsuit.
Examples of services that will be deregulated include fibre-based transmission facilities, which are high-speed data connections to businesses. As well, third-party operator services will be deregulated.
The CRTC will continue to regulate services it deems are "essential," along with ones linked to the public good and others that ensure customers on different networks can communicate with each other.
The article is not clear enough on what would be deregulated or not.
And additionally, Mirko Bibic, Bell Canada's chief of regulatory affairs believes
... it will take too long to change those rates considering the grace period. Moreover, he pointed out that a lot of wholesale services will still be regulated.
I should clarify. Bell Sympatico includes one of the larger ISPs
which are the subject of the article. Many smaller ISPs--at least
here in Montreal (which do not practice throttling) use Bell's
Central Office and equipment to provide their service, at a cheaper
price. If correctly understood, the new ruling would make it even more
cheaper to provide these other services.
Like comcast, they are using network shaping but continue to go legally unchallenged . They've also overcharged for decrepit services each time I moved. I have spent many long hours just trying to get past the service people in India, back to a techie in my Central Office, down my block to properly provision the DSL lines cards.
Now, we will finally have a larger selection of ISPs to choose from, with much more competitive prices!
...........once we invent spaceships with in-flight artificial gravity, can leave vertically via anti-gravity,
and...hmm... wouldn't that solve most of the problems? We're done! Yay!
So instead of claiming something widely considered impossible, he describes it as simply some sort of "very efficient" electric motor, a perfectly reasonable (if unlikely, given his background) idea.
Hmmmm, what do you mean by that?? By your argument, the Wright brothers should have been
aerospace engineers before proving they had a working airplane? They were ridiculed as well.
If you have access to lexus nexus or similar, you should go to respected Washington post
a few years before they flew. Statements like "man will never fly" were common by the top
scientists and engineers of the day. I doubt that it was easy for all of those "strange"
inventors who were being laughed at.
Uh actually, most scientists (indeed anyone) with a PhD thinks highly of him or herself.
---even if they only really know their little area of expertise and are really bad
at the much less interesting duty of teaching. In fact I know one student who was
shocked at how her teacher told the class "they were the elite" now, when much of
stuff they are learning in class is memorization or meaningless gibberish that they
will forget anyway.
These are not the people who will usher in the next pivotal invention...sorry.
If Germany can do it, do we really think it hasn't already been done in the states?
Skype, is very popular and would be a logical means for governments to monitor
conversations---especially when said program touts itself as being encrypted and
secure. So the German revelations are likely a national security goof.
My other half worked for a major polling firm for over a year.
She was shocked by what really happens there.
- polling questions can be crafted to lead to specific results.
For example, pharmaceutical companies looking for a
specific result set would ask the questions in a way that would
make their specific drug seem desired or appear to be effective.
- most importantly, not all demographics respond to polls. For example,
often lower income people were simply not home because they were
working two jobs. Many people did not speak English well enough
to understand the questions. Polling firms require that all questions
be answered. If the respondent does not understand the question
because the english is too advanced for them, the survey is ditched.
There are other things but I don't remember them for now.
It could be voting machines in part. But my girlfriend's experience has
definitely lead me to question ALL polls.
Former Governor: ET's already here!
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Yeah, it's a waste. If you don't find the upcoming Washington DC UFO
conference compelling, then I guess you don't mind throwing money at Seth Shostak.
You diatribe above is usually administered to activists who are about to engage in civil disobedience where they know they will likely be arrested. This is not what was supposed to happen here. Therefore, his response (disbelief and frantic calls to let him go since he didn't do anything) was understandable. In addition, no matter what we think of him, he clearly believes in conspiracies and the highly unusual manner in which the police reacted to him AFTER he asked the question about skull and bones aggravated his belief that they were shutting him down to prevent his unraveling of a conspiracy. I am sure he was genuinely afraid and not an attention whore as some have suggested.
So not only was the taser unjustified, but the initial attempt to subdue him was also unjustified. They could have asked him to leave after cutting off the mic, but there is no indication of this....only hands trying to grab him from behind.
I think wireless is overrated. I'm on a wired connection right now
and like it that way. I prefer it to Heroes bittorrents making there
way through my cells. Anyway, wireless is a huge security hole. It's
too easy to hijack other people's web sessions and snoop on their
conversations.
UFOs, whatever their origin, are an air safety hazard.
There are literally thousands of credible, documented encounters between
Civil/Military Aviation aircraft alone. See http://narcap.org/ headed by a
retired NASA scientist who has scientifically categorized various
air encounters, EM interferences, and near-collision events.
The recent hovering UFO incident over the busy and restricted airspace of O'Hare
airport is yet another example. The airline employees who reported
the incident did so because they felt a craft of some sort was in an area
that was clearly posing a threat. One of the employees, not comprehending
the origin or dynamics of the object fearfully thought it was a terrorist
attack.
A MOD report released last year, although skeptical about little green men,
acknowledged that UFOs appear to be a real phenomenon, likely natural and
not yet understood. And it suggests that all pilots who encounter them
stay away from them as they may be dangerous.
Through (effectively) a campaign of ridicule (as expressed here and in other
media), a phenomenon deserving of serious scientific inquiry is not
being studied because researchers are afraid of being discredited.
There really should be a scientific body collecting,
and analyzing UFO data.
The incidents of UFOs being reported in aviation is likely much
smaller than the actual accounts for similar reasons.
It's unfortunate that the problems and circus around the Roswell
story are being used to further discourage trained observers, and
first responders from reporting more incidents that would ultimately
benefit science and technology.
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Applications for mass/gravity manipulation are possible some speculate. But not necessarily due to Higgs.
Cosmologist Marcus Chown says of the "Quantum Vacuum Intertia Hypothesis" work of Calphysics.org: (From http://calphysics.org/articles/chown2007.html)
"Haisch is perfectly prepared to believe that the rest mass of a particle - its mass-energy - is "explained" by the Higgs mechanism and that the rest mass is intrinsic to the particle. However, Haisch believes that the inertial mass and gravitational mass of a particle are not explained by the Higgs mechanism and are not intrinsic. If they are not intrinsic then there is only one other option. They must be "extrinsic". "In other words, they must somehow arise from the interaction between a particle and the environment through which it moves," says Haisch. "That environment can only be the 'quantum vacuum'."
This might explain why the Higgs mass is small. Haisch's theory suggests a mechanism similar to the Higgs effect, but relies on Zero Point Field Quantum Fluctuations instead of The Higgs Boson, and the Electromagnetic Quantum Vacuum instead of the Higgs field. But their work also tantalizingly suggests that Gravity appears to be the same phenomenon, but behaving differently in the presence of warped space-time.
So if mass (inertial, gravitational, and rest), is a function of either Quantum fluctuations or Higgs bosons, then it might be possible to manipulate not only mass, but also gravity.
This isn't the first mystery missile that has been launched near a coast that has baffled military and intelligence experts. It happened 12 months ago off the coast of Canada where THREE missiles were seen. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/05/28/ufo-newfoundland-dnd.html http://youtube.com/watch?v=Jjl6k8NB7mE
One of the hallmarks of many Aspies is a sense of justice. Whether true or not, he sought to bring information that was potentially important to the world out in the open--- legal or not. Once upon a time, it was illegal to allow blacks in "white" washrooms. But people broke the law (despite protests from whites and uncle toms) in order to win equal rights. Some of yesterday's wackos are today's heroes.
Similar battles for justice continue to this day. McKinnon felt he was doing the right thing. But at the same time, was not treated for a condition that is best diagnosed at an early age.
I think he's been punished enough. At this point, he needs help, not punishment in the hands of a foreign, hostile government.
Nails are a simple human invention. Let's not simplify the matter.
Humans are actually radically different from other organisms. If we chose to, we might be able to destroy virtually all the large life forms on the planet. No other organism in history has that capacity. After billions of years, this milestone was achieved only decades ago. Hard to say that we are not different.
We can also leave a biosphere that does not permit other organisms (as far as we know) to leave without technological means.
We have used our technology to create shelters that allow us to live in harsh climates in larger numbers than would have been possible say twenty thousand years ago.
Many of us who have been exposed to physics and math realize that the complexity of the universe does not appear to be random or mystical. We can only speak of what we know. And that is that we have used our understanding of nature to create for ourselves and to understand and predict physical realities to great accuracy. This process continues in a progressive manner. And I believe we will make even more *discoveries* that (when applied) will radically alter how we live---just as we always have.
Therefore the onus is on YOU to prove that we "invent".
Arguing against your post is (strangely) like having to reply to am anti- evolution proponent.
Your entire argument feels like almost religious doctrine that says "it doesn't make sense that we should understand the universe".
I can understand your confusion. For hundreds of millions of years there were (we assume) no organisms on earth that could ponder about the nature of the universe beyond the subject of survival.
However, it is a fact that nature has produced us through a progressive process (we did not simply "appear" by accident as nihilists would like to argue). I would argue that humans (or organisms with the cognitive capacity of humans) are a predictable notch in that process. Therefore, in my opinion, the universe and its math don't need to be invented by our race in particular.
Maybe it's possible that the universe is not an "absolute truth". That somehow there may be other universes/realities with different math that cannot possibly make sense to us using *our* math. But that is outside the scope of "our universe".The math in our universe makes sense because we exist in THIS universe.
There is no mysticism here. Unless relativity seems like hocus pocus to you. I know, it's hard to believe that while sitting at your computer the planet is moving at about 30 km/second around the sun. Or that the earth is indeed round.
We can even simulate reality by applying mathematical formulae and object oriented computation. We are held back from progressively producing more realistic simulations of the universe by the limits of computer processing. Seeing is believing. There is no mysticism there.
those who see it as being invented are nihilists who cannot see that there is great order to the universe. We've applied math to achieve feats of engineering. Even nature has employed technical mechanisms in organisms that existed long before human- kind came into the picture. To suggest that we invent math is pompous at best.
Yes we do invent impressive but often inadequate math to simulate or understand the natural world. It is from first realizing that there are simple and then increasingly more complicated mathematical observations that we know there is possibly an ultimate mathematical description of the universe that exists outside of human thought.
The nihilists believe we are the only intelligent life forms in the entire universe. It is from this viewpoint that they base their argument. Who's the mystic?
Good on you. Of course we pay, in fact my stupid telecom ISP continues to try to do direct withdrawals from my bank account when I told them to stop it over a year ago. They're so loaded with cash that they can afford to be stupid. And now, they're throttling me and wholesale reseller ISPs who would have been my next choice. So they want my money and are killing the competition to make sure they get it from me. We are certainly not getting a free ride here. No pity for them...they've had since the early 90s to find a solution.
In the face of FCC embarrassments, this is a public relations stunt
to confuse the public into believing torrents will now be treated politely.
Like others have said, they have the technology to play nice with specific content
provider torrents (friendly corporations) and not other legitimate torrents.
Don't stop the pressure! CLASS ACTION SUIT NOW!
thanks for this. Yes I suspected it happened only with times new roman but never got around to testing it. So I'm assuming the new version is delightfully cool!
I can also use the presentation tool to make foldable pamphlets. They should consider marketing that ability as well... or maybe make a new tool in the suite for people who want an easy alternative to the non-free pagemaker..
I have this problem that I would have thought should be easy for them to fix. If I try to export to .pdf a writer document (say a CV), some characters
kern very badly (some pairs right on top of one another).
It seems like an easy one to fix... anyone else notice this obvious problem?
Democrats and Republicans in bed with the corporations. It's all about Comcast, a witch-hunt, pure and simple. It's pretty unnerving to see this unfold.
Links:
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpposted/archive/2007/11/05/bell-sympatico-admits-to-blocking-bandwidth-traffic.aspx
I know I'm being throttled because at one time, I would routinely get 200KB/s on torrents (I have a 5MB DSL line). Then suddenly, in the November 2007 timeframe, I was at 30KB/s during the daytime. I have experimented and found that right after midnight, it will increase to about 50KB/s, then to a higher speed at the top of the next hour (200 KB/s). But clearly, many customers are clueless about this and therefore not aware that they are not getting what they pay for. I encountered this pattern of decrepit service with non P2P traffic each time I moved. I was consistently getting 2M service when I was paying for 5MB. It took a lot of patience, blood, and hair-pulling before I got to a senior technician who corrected the situation. My three experiences convinced me that particular problem probably affected thousands of unsuspecting customers and was grounds for a class-action lawsuit.
I should clarify. Bell Sympatico includes one of the larger ISPs which are the subject of the article. Many smaller ISPs--at least here in Montreal (which do not practice throttling) use Bell's Central Office and equipment to provide their service, at a cheaper price. If correctly understood, the new ruling would make it even more cheaper to provide these other services.
Like comcast, they are using network shaping but continue to go legally unchallenged . They've also overcharged for decrepit services each time I moved. I have spent many long hours just trying to get past the service people in India, back to a techie in my Central Office, down my block to properly provision the DSL lines cards.
Now, we will finally have a larger selection of ISPs to choose from, with much more competitive prices!
...........once we invent spaceships with in-flight artificial gravity, can leave vertically via anti-gravity, and...hmm... wouldn't that solve most of the problems? We're done! Yay!
It's quite simple actually. Most of the positive studies are either funded by wireless companies or are watered down for fear of litigation.
aerospace engineers before proving they had a working airplane? They were ridiculed as well.
If you have access to lexus nexus or similar, you should go to respected Washington post
a few years before they flew. Statements like "man will never fly" were common by the top
scientists and engineers of the day. I doubt that it was easy for all of those "strange"
inventors who were being laughed at.
Uh actually, most scientists (indeed anyone) with a PhD thinks highly of him or herself.
---even if they only really know their little area of expertise and are really bad
at the much less interesting duty of teaching. In fact I know one student who was
shocked at how her teacher told the class "they were the elite" now, when much of
stuff they are learning in class is memorization or meaningless gibberish that they
will forget anyway.
These are not the people who will usher in the next pivotal invention...sorry.
If Germany can do it, do we really think it hasn't already been done in the states? Skype, is very popular and would be a logical means for governments to monitor conversations---especially when said program touts itself as being encrypted and secure. So the German revelations are likely a national security goof.
My other half worked for a major polling firm for over a year. She was shocked by what really happens there.
- polling questions can be crafted to lead to specific results.
For example, pharmaceutical companies looking for a
specific result set would ask the questions in a way that would
make their specific drug seem desired or appear to be effective.
- most importantly, not all demographics respond to polls. For example,
often lower income people were simply not home because they were
working two jobs. Many people did not speak English well enough
to understand the questions. Polling firms require that all questions
be answered. If the respondent does not understand the question
because the english is too advanced for them, the survey is ditched.
There are other things but I don't remember them for now.
It could be voting machines in part. But my girlfriend's experience has
definitely lead me to question ALL polls.
Yeah, it's a waste. If you don't find the upcoming Washington DC UFO
:-(
conference compelling, then I guess you don't mind throwing money at Seth Shostak.
http://www.freedomofinfo.org/media/PRESS_ADVISORY.pdf
It's only open to media and congressional staffers
You diatribe above is usually administered to activists who are about
to engage in civil disobedience where they know they will likely be
arrested. This is not what was supposed to happen here. Therefore, his
response (disbelief and frantic calls to let him go since he didn't do anything)
was understandable. In addition, no matter what we think of him, he clearly
believes in conspiracies and the highly unusual manner in which the police reacted
to him AFTER he asked the question about skull and bones aggravated his
belief that they were shutting him down to prevent his unraveling of a conspiracy.
I am sure he was genuinely afraid and not an attention whore as some have suggested.
So not only was the taser unjustified, but the initial attempt to subdue him
was also unjustified. They could have asked him to leave after cutting off the
mic, but there is no indication of this....only hands trying to grab him from behind.
I think wireless is overrated. I'm on a wired connection right now and like it that way. I prefer it to Heroes bittorrents making there way through my cells. Anyway, wireless is a huge security hole. It's too easy to hijack other people's web sessions and snoop on their conversations.
UFOs, whatever their origin, are an air safety hazard.
There are literally thousands of credible, documented encounters between Civil/Military Aviation aircraft alone. See http://narcap.org/ headed by a retired NASA scientist who has scientifically categorized various air encounters, EM interferences, and near-collision events.
The recent hovering UFO incident over the busy and restricted airspace of O'Hare airport is yet another example. The airline employees who reported the incident did so because they felt a craft of some sort was in an area that was clearly posing a threat. One of the employees, not comprehending the origin or dynamics of the object fearfully thought it was a terrorist attack.
A MOD report released last year, although skeptical about little green men, acknowledged that UFOs appear to be a real phenomenon, likely natural and not yet understood. And it suggests that all pilots who encounter them stay away from them as they may be dangerous.
Through (effectively) a campaign of ridicule (as expressed here and in other media), a phenomenon deserving of serious scientific inquiry is not being studied because researchers are afraid of being discredited. There really should be a scientific body collecting, and analyzing UFO data.
The incidents of UFOs being reported in aviation is likely much smaller than the actual accounts for similar reasons.
It's unfortunate that the problems and circus around the Roswell story are being used to further discourage trained observers, and first responders from reporting more incidents that would ultimately benefit science and technology.