Norman Albers

Ah, thanks, I shall.

Thank you, my friend. If there were an antisymmetric part could it interpret the non-commutation of quantum mechanics?

I have done quite a lot of mathematics supposing inhomogeneous response characteristics of the vacuum. I continue because my success has surprised me. My professionally experienced brother encouraged me to try to come up with something to measure. As of last February I have spent much time exchanging with solidspin, whose knowledge and feeling for mathematics awes me. We have a mutual appreciate of each other's talents and skills, and if you could combine our two minds it would make quite an intellect: we are working at this. His work is in NMR and he thinks he sees the path to make measurement of some aspect of the quantum vacuum. This is as per my dream.

Sounds like good medicine.

Certainly, Skeptic Lance, lead is a low melt temperature. Interesting to hear your knowledge. For 25 years I've had the same kitchen sink, used when I got it. I never learned about silicone grease on faucet O-rings, and always got one size too small. It was snug in the slot, but lasted only two years. Turns out I sized wrongly as is obvious when you 'mike' it. The right-size O-ring is a bit loose in the slot; even the inner part of it is compressed, and the whole thing gets nice and tight and I could hardly turn it until I figured out, a few days later, to ask about appropriate grease. I read this past season about one of the South American civilizations whose people built canals and aqueducts and the water deposited so much calcite that it sealed and kept building them higher and higher. . . . . . HERE IT IS: Scientific American, Oct.2006, a beautiful feature article on the pre-Aztec hydraulic engineeering in southern Mexico, like the Tehuacan Valley.

Interesting thoughts, Mr.Mongoose, on important aspects of kinetic interactions that I find somewhat subtle.

Actually I was just having too much fun and I disagree that alcohol helps keep one cold-free. The only times I've had any respiratory infection in maybe twenty years are when I drank too much and pulled down my fluid and immune system. I was talking about getting to sleep when you have a bad cough.

Horsefeathers.

Jerkiness.

Place a dead mouse at the right point.

Mongoose, you've spent too much time in the smoker.

I agree. There was not polyvinyl chloride, and soft-metal pipes won't carry much pressure. We used Bentonite clay to slow loss in our fair-sized pond.

I disagree. The first little bit goes into a small (not wide) place. The last bit filling up the gauge is one-to-one, yah? Mr.Skeptic, feel free to lay it on us. Without spilling the answer I can say to MrMongoose that there is a square root. Like I said, being not smart, I wrote ratios to express [math]\frac1 2 bh[/math].

Don't we all agree there must be some sort of inhomogeneity or we are in a mess? Swansont, where these folks use the term "aether", do you not use the terms, "quantum vacuum, and virtual fields?" I feel we have not well integrated these things into our cosmology; we pass off total vacuum energies as being irrelevant because they are the "common sea level".

Consider the shape, it's like an earthen dam profile with a broad foot. . . . . . <Could they have been storage? From the picture the one at Teotihuacan is more than 50 meters square. >

Thanks, Lance. Given a small army of laborers a "pump" could be a major "bucket line". If there is anything to this it should become evident in the structure itself, or, like, the aqueduct. What did the Egyptians do? (I have built hydraulic ram pumps which are a very cool momentum transfer device.)NEWS FLASH: Amazingly this week's issue of Science News features the plans of physicists to use muons to probe the structure of the large-looking Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan.

Babe, I hear you! I rebuilt a player piano a bit more massive than most. Built in the Chicago brick sit-house style, it was perhaps 1400 pounds total. When the center of it hung on a low threshold, two of us could not slide it. Thus I learned to meditate on rollers, yup. This was an upright piano; I have pictures of the Steinway factory in 1905 or so, NY, USA, several square blocks with four or five stories and steam from the basement piped throughout. Outside are teams of four and six horses to handle drayage of grand pianos. I have been privileged to rebuild a handful of these. I'd rather avoid the submersion. I work with hot-pot hide glue, as they did. {Yes, glue factory}. My friends were thinking that water was flooded actually into the pyramid. The wide base has the strength of a dam. I could imagine two separate but connected chambers to act as locks. If one were filled, then you could open the connection to get halfway up, then you'd have to pump (or carry) the other half. Then again, I can imagine lots of things. If an aqueduct delivered water high up it would be a free lift. Please be easy on me. My cement-working friend argues the space-beings had to do it.

Write the equation for "amount of rain entering the top of the V" relating to how far up it fills the V starting at the bottom. What terms turn out to be significant? MrMongoose, you are focussing on details. Back off and solve the basic geometry. Mr.Skeptic, if it looks like a bar fight is erupting, you should dramatically lift your veil.

Fermi messed with a 4-lepton construction. A man I know, Charles Southwood, has done a "brilliant naive" study. He just, out of his head, assumed that [math]\epsilon_0[/math] got dense inside. Turns out this is what I am looking at. I do not think you may hang on to classical pictures, however. In the hydrogen atom ground state, or positronium for that matter (my topic du jour with solidspin), there is zero orbital angular momentum. Bolero, not.

Here is a good example of why I am confused, from an admittedly older textbook, but which I find intelligently written. The subject is the broadening of spectral emission lines, and the first effect was Doppler shift. The second part is: "Pressure: Using the light from a single unresolved spectral line, it is possible, under favorable conditions, to produce interference fringes when the difference in the path of the two beams is a much as several hundred thousand wavelengths. In terms of classical theory, this fact was interpreted to mean that the wave train sent out by any particular atom is continuous, i.e., is without change of phase, for at least that number of vibrations. In order that the atom may emit wave trains of this length, it must be "free from interruptions" for a corresponding period of time. In the terminology of the kinetic theory of gases, this means that the mean free time between collisions with other atoms must, on the average, exceed the time required to emit a complete wave train..." Yah, OK, so what does QM interpret here??? Elas, part of what you say resonates with me. I am thinking that we do not adequately account for high-energy locales (particle nearfields) by speaking of [math]\epsilon_0[/math], vacuum permittivity, and then claiming to account for the vacuum fluctuations, or virtual field. It seems to me the electron may be seen as an arrangement of that field.

A friend of mine, a dental technician, offered an interesting answer to the question of how people thousands of years ago assembed large stones to construct pyramids. A different friend who did heavy-duty cement work like in boring nuclear test holes years back, said he thought we have a certain limit of weight we can lift with modern cranes and that some of the work building Mayan structures was challenging to that standard. The bright idea (?) is using water floatation, or displacement; Dora thought water was available nearby. Thinking about this, many rocks have specific gravity 3-4 times that of water. A cubic foot of water weighs 62.4 pounds, so a 600,000 pound stone displaces, in the nautical sense, about ten thousand cubic feet. This would be the displacement of a barge, say, 30' square, at a depth of 11'. FURTHERMORE, could one not suspend the stone beneath the barge and so gain an extra displacement and save 30% of the effort?

Both. These are the kinds of things I figure out when I'm fried from tensor calculus in GR. Ah, Mr.Skeptic is getting hot. Can you tell me, oh skeptic, what is the significance of the opening of the 'V' beyond what MrMongoose said? He was also quite warm. Everything I have said is germain and I am not playing games with metric conversion a la crashing Mars landers.

Thanks, iNow. I don't know the differences but Revenged makes it clear we need dry blends, which I naturally prefer.

Cool, Revenged. I'll stick to Scotch and positive placebo meditations.

Ouch! I do appreciate having my butt kicked, ajb. Have you read much of Doug Sweetser's GEM presentation (on a far-away forum in a distant galaxy)? I lost it at the point where he deals with an exterior derivative of the vector potential; I think he is constructing a rank two object (?)