Norman Albers

Lockheed, are we seeing quarks and gluons?

[bIG TEETH]. . . [/bIG TEETH] To be specific, I have criticized the drawing of two halves of a photon wrapping over each other without adding angular momentum density, which I specifically calculate, as a fully accounted field. I took and thoroughly enjoyed Complex Analysis and I can really dig on a continued manifold. However, you are going to have to do some fast dancing to convince me it is here. Half a year ago I told one of our esteemed French bluestars that if you allow me to use negative radius for 2pi radians, I will cook up some really badass physics. BenTheMan, recently I spent a little time in a book on spinors, so I am learning where you are. . . .Could you elaborate on your comments about electromagnetism not being geometric, and Einstein?

Does angular momentum characterize all the states we have mentioned here?

I thought at first I am a victim of my own cartoon when I cranked the tensor machinery to get a trace of the contracted stress-energy tensor [math]{T^a}_b[/math]: it is perfectly nothing. After getting reassurance from my book (Adler, Bazin, Schiffer) that it is indeed zero, I am emboldened to offer for comments my rendering of [math]T_{ab}[/math] for the fields in my electron model, [math]E_r [/math] and [math]A_\phi[/math]: [math]T_{ab}=\left( \begin{matrix} T_{00} & 0 & 0 & -e^{-\lambda} rsin\theta E_rB_\theta \\0 & T_{11} & -rB_rB_\theta & 0\\ 0 & -rB_rB_{\theta }&T_{22} & 0\\ -e^{-\lambda}rsin\theta E_rB_{\theta} &0&0&T_{33} \end{matrix}\right) [/math], where the diagonals are: [math]\left(\begin{matrix} 2T_{00}= e^{-\lambda}E^2 + e^{\nu - \lambda}B_\theta^2 + e^{\nu}B_r^2 \\2T_{11}=-e^{-\nu}E^2 - e^{\lambda}B_r^2 + B_{\theta}^2 \\2T_{22}= e^{-(\nu+\lambda)}r^2E^2 - e^{-\lambda}(rB_{\theta})^2 + (rB_r)^2\\2T_{33} = e^{-(\nu+\lambda)}(rsin\theta)^2E^2+e^{-\lambda}(rB_{\theta})^2 + (rsin\theta B_r )^2 \end{matrix}\right) [/math] . All this assumes a diagonal form of the metric tensor as in the Schwarzschild solution, and I do not expect this will be adequate. It is useful, though, to ascertain the form of expressions to this point.

I'd like to know how to lay out matrices (4x4). . . . .OK I see how to get started on p. 2; sorry.

Thus an orbiting craft can boost itself to a farther circular orbit by one firing of rockets to create an ellipse, and then at the perigee, another similar firing to make the ellipse a circle.

I watched the Trade Towers being built, in the sense that every 2-3 months I drove between Long Island and Princeton University. I was moved by the skeletal structure of a few central steel members and a spindly-looking web for the floors.

Is this what keeps the clock going in my computer when it's unplugged, low-leakage caps?

I noted last year that the chicken crossed the road to show the possum that it could be done. Tonight my point involves the zoo/aquarium at the coast featuring both lions and porpoises, the latter being known for their unembarrassed sexual cavorting. The lions were well fed and so laid around most of the day, grabbing an occasional seagull venturing too close. An ambitious keeper started killing seagulls to feed to the porpoises, since they were a major attraction. Eventually she was arrested for transporting gulls across staid lions for immoral porpoises.

The other point where I laughed reading The God Particle was where Lederman needed a collimator for particle output, and scored a scrap 20 ft. Navy destroyer gun barrel. It had rifling on the inside which had to be cut down, and a graduate student of relatively slight build was just able to go inside and grind. After an hour or two of this, the student crawled out, and told him where he could put this job. Lederman quipped, "Oh my, where will I find another student of your caliber!"

As I modelled them, photons have transverse as well as longitudinal-scalar modes.

In the US the endowed professorial positions are prestigious. (Dr. Didgeridoo is the So-and-So Professor of Such-and-Such.

If I ever met Dylan I'd certainly razz him. There has to be a song lyric here! Once a friend was straightening me out about pronoucing Edvard Witten's name. We debated addressing him, and I said "Baltimore? That is East Coast so I'd use 'Ed babe'." Tree,, if I ever meet Penrose should I address him as Doctor, Professor, or Matey???

Tree, we distinguish tenured professors. What is the significance in Britain?

Yah, Swansont, when I was 13-14 we tortured Robert Bates for quite a few months... I will admit it kicked my butt when journals addressed their responses to Dr. Albers. Awright! However, I don't think I'd be comfortable with an honorary doctorate. When I graduated Princeton in 1970 I was quite proud of the institution for going on record against the Vietnam War, and supporting our protests. There was something too strange about watching BOB DYLAN walk on stage in a robe to accept one.!.?.

I have for years been trying to persude friends and neighbors to address me as "Master Albers". Dang, I can't seem to make it stick.

How did you decide what to look for. fattyj?

A few months before I wrote my study on photon localization, I realized I had succeeded in representing an inhomogeneous charge and current field. Quite excitedly I thought I had finally found the mechanism responsible for quantization. Then, strangely, I saw that there is nothing in my analysis which declares the magnitude of wave packets such as I describe. In terms of field densities, energy and angular momentum are proportional, but there is nothing, in the assumption of vacuum response allowing infinitesimal charge densities, which sets a total angular momentum of [math]\hbar[/math]. Thus I was led to voice a challenge to our quantum representation of the vacuum. If vacuum polarizability behaves as I have described, then I have shown the mechanism for the localization of E&M disturbances.

Nicely said, lucaspa. I don't walk in other peoples' shoes, and they don't walk in mine.

Yah, here is a reference I just received from my brother: http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Professional_Fasters_Deep_Under_The_Sea_Floor_999.html

Babe, I think you speak understandably. This is a major aspect of quantum theory and I think it is called the Copenhagen interpretation whereby the wavefunction is taken to be useful as a probability density. This is not the only possibly useful perspective. Do our measurements demand that there be a unit of charge in some place?

Ringo Starr of the Beatles played for years on the same set of Ludwig drums, to where the letters were mostly worn away. George Harrison shared the story that Paul McCartney would introduce Ringo saying, "And on the Lu, folks, we have Ringo Starr!"

This part I cannot agree with. There have been several shocking passages in my six years of actively pursuing my thesis, where the mathematics I had labored over finally said something major to me. It's like falling through the floor into Tutankamen's tomb. Something falls away and what's left is a new kernel. You dust yourself off and look around...Yes, I have concentrated a lot of work to get here. Is there anything "new under the sun"?

You speak clearly, P...A, and it seems you are not allowing "quibblers" or people who say "I'm unsure". I think this is not the same posture as one saying, "we cannot know". The latter is, I agree, a decision.

I'd say science is the body of reproducible perceptions to which we seek analytic understandings. Thus the eternal dance of physics and mathematics.