Norman Albers

Empty space is that in the neighborhood of the observer and considered with no relative velocity. I enjoyed reading the original statement of "...to first orders and small quantities"...

Doug Sweetser is a bright fellow who has a development of GEM theory, and if I recall correctly he has an assymmetry of charge and gravitation. . . . . . . I am working hard to combine a Kerr exterior solution of the electron as source of angular momentum and charge, yet 'negligible' mass...

I have arrived at the challenge I asked for: construct a General Relativistic representation of the electron as a strong angular momentum source of circulating electromagnetic energy with negligible total energy, i.e., mass. There certainly are terms remaining in the expression for the Kerr metric, even when the "m"-term is set to zero. I am working to sort through the coordinate transforms.

iNow figured the increased ethanol demand accounts for a third of the corn price increase.

Protests in Cairo; stay tuned... we shop harder for bread less than $3, but many people are hurting. OK, just now NPR said there is a world shortage of rice. The US is a strong exporter so we see only somewhat higher prices, but many are seeing subsistence prices soar.

It seems several of you are ahead of me in your awareness. I did not understand what I just heard, that one-fourth of the US corn crop has been offered to the ethanol market. Am I correct that this is so, by government policy? It is crazy. (Mod note: This thread was split off from Virgin Atlantic to run 747 on Biofuel.)

How do you define 'plus' and 'minus'? It seems at first reading that you are 'justifying the status quo', which I think is what NATURE does.

You would enjoy reading the work of Hans Alfven. He modelled a universe evolving with alternating regions of particle/anti... with annihilating boundaries. For some reason this was seen not adequate. He did a beautiful study of two giant current streams in space, opposite but neighboring plasmas. They become a spiral galaxy...

We still nail 'em up, folks. I will not accept your moral burdens.

I will be thinking about what you say. I say gravitation is described well, to a point, by General Relativity. It is built on the flat-space Lorentz transform. Both light and gravity are possibilities of the vacuum, and we will have unification when our theoretics encompass this from the bottom up.

You are milling in circles. I have not talked myself into powerlessness as you do.

Pioneer, if there were particle/antiparticle pairs being produced in an antisymmetric, matter environment, wouldn't they select the matter particle through attrition as the antiparticle recombines with some other particle? There remains no net count. What makes you say antiprotons are not as stable?

As I build my understanding of the mathematics here, I am impressed by the importance of the many coordinate transforms used at the drop of a simplifying hat. One must keep track of these or be lost! My work today indicates this is true of the degenerate metric form which is quite useful in getting the Kerr rotational solution. Having this form depends upon the coordinate choice, and so one must use caution in finding physical theoretics. To get the axially symmetric Kerr form, one abandons this simplicity.

Phi for All, Rub his nose in the poop.

iNow today on National Public Radio was a feature of a Chinese-American woman saying exactly what I laid out on nationalism. I have no thing more to say here. Figure it out. I'd rather be doing physics.

Pangloss, I demand a society where attitudes and rules are applied equally around. Say what you've said to me also to iNow. As to the painful development of this thread, I have no further argument here. My politics is to choose any available means of saying NO to China. Find your own.

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Ah, yes, now we are getting to deep philosophic masturbations. Have fun, Inow.

Cap'n, thank you. Today in New Delhi more than ten thousand police achieved an emptying of the streets.

Agentchange, deal with it.

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Analyzing the interior Schwarzschild metric solution I see that it does not conform to metric degeneracy, so I find support for the need to let go of this characteristic in the interior metric solution. This does not change the characterization of the "far-field" as the accomplished Kerr-Newman-schild metric parts. The electrodynamic model I am working with begins to show appreciable vacuum charge response at roughly the classical radius of the electron.

Thank you, ParanoiA.

iNow, No. This morning a news commentator on NPR acknowledged China as the world gold medal winner in executions, quite a few thousand. I get banned while this ugliness stands? I am losing respect for this site.

Your intellectual circles escape me.