Norman Albers

I will explain this reference and wish someone knew how to put in the picture of water in a rotating pan of some sort manifesting different polygonal shapes at different speeds of a lower plate (with fixed walls). "Hoist up the JohnB sails; see how the mainsail sets..."

Very cool, hypertilly. I have tuned pianos for thirty years and have dealt with more personalities than I care to. There have been three or four people I literally walked out on as fast as I could, and a few others who will not see me again. These are not bad statistics for dealing with a few hundred people per year.

I am a song-writer; maybe I'll give it a shot.

What is love? I can admit that what I think is truly a primal feeling in tribal experiences has to do with my selfish needs. By focussing a common effort we can achieve a larger thing that we all need. It's not simple to describe my feelings about the other individuals, but there has to be some level of love, namely an appreciative feeling of coexisting in a shared matrix. For ten years I lived communally so I have more than average experience, though everyone with a family has experience.

Perhpas we confuse ourselves by shifting frames of reference in and out of the consciousness of the actor.

My brother reports this study: http://www.physorg.com/news66924222.html . We're on our way again to the coffee cup with <m=13>.

Gypsy Cake, I certainly recognize both tendencies in myself. At the age of 58 I expect people to be narrowly selfish and am occasionally surprised. I also understand we all conspire to create the society. I do experience a fundamental joy in shared accomplishments, poeple working together with shared purpose.

Molotov-, if people don't recognize this they are fools.

If your define things as JHAQ does you get a clear science discussion. What if an individual is not in good social relationship? Humans have the minds and sometimes the power to pervert a lot of things that we theorize to proceed more harmoniously.

PHI FOR ALL must have thought nobody would see, but a couple of nights ago he strode absolutely naked across the approach to the physics building and in to his office. He was obviously in a state of excitement and proceeded to work for an hour and a half at his desk. I recall a cute scene in the movie "The Piano Player" where the brown man is practicing naked. Now personnaly I am one of the more tolerant beings around when it comes to such things, but dude, you are going to have to face the policy kept firmly by authorities around here of NO NUDE PHYSICS!

There is more to it. In most animal groups individuals must feed and fend for themselves, but counterexamples are easy to find, Queen bees, and group behavior such as I witness in the flock of wild turkeys roaming my woods. Sometimes three or four males will stand in a line and all spread their fans, shielding the young and females foraging behind them! These are not such stupid creatures as sometimes we make out. You can find cellular automaton games which model selfish aggrandizement along with altruism, or sharing.

INHOUSE INVECTIVES: So-and-so has the levity of a uranium hexafluoride blimp.

It may be so that my depiction of an inhomogeneous electron nearfield is not sufficiently sharp. I will understand this when I learn how to interpret the scattering data we have vis-a-vis interpretations of charge and/or fine structure constant. However, mathematically I observe the strong fact that several lines of theoretic invesitgation, starting with Einstein and as I have read by D. Sweetser on another site, and then interpreted by H.Puthoff in an identical form in his isotropic GR "dark gray holes" analysis, have produced the "continuing polynomial" of EXP[-1/r]. I have read a paper by a person named Blinder who arrived at this also, with a different model of where to put the "epsilon-nought", basically, in modelling the electron. . So I see clear signs I should investigate a recasting of my approach, employing such an assumption. We theorists are somewhat shameless in this way.

Watto, what regimes are you studying? I have worked only in the small in the electron context. Are you doing massive bodies and quantum mechanics? Can you tell me about the regimes available and useful that are being investigated?

Robonewt, you are right if you're thinking it depends on the length of the trip. The acceleration distinguishes the two frames, but the time difference comes with steady velocity too. Mess with the equations, and think about "long strings of lights or clocks".

When you figure the energy contribution of my electron polarization field which has a positive sign for the inhomogeneous part of the electron's field, you get a negative energy contribution. This is the cancellation of both the [math]r^{-2}[/math] and [math] r^{-1} [/math] contributions. You may say, ah the electron is as a point source. At whatever level, certainly the Planck distance level, what I am talking about is the case. I am not talking ignorantly about 'something going around'. I am talking about a circulation in the energy field.

Swansont, can acceleration be handled as a differential succession of velocity states, with, heaven forbid, NO NEW PHYSICS? In radiative accelerations you have to do that analysis, no?

Way cool, JohnB. I'd like to see this. I have not seen hexagons in the sky since last I ate psychedelics. BECAUSE THE SKY IS BLUE, IT TURNS ME ON! False color, magenta, whatever. Hoist up yer sails.

Homosexuals have been demonstrating by the thousands lately in Paris. I say we must all now come OUT OF THE INHOMOGENEOUS CLOSET!!! All colors are welcome in the REV. NORM'S UNIFICATION CHURCH.

I am working from the wikipedia page "Maxwell's equations in curved spacetime" and would appreciate someone explaining the partial differential operator with a superscript, seen in the definition of the contravariant Minkowski field tensor, [math]F^{ab}[/math]. Good, [math] is back.

JohnB, I simply am impressed, both by what I'm seeing and by people who predicted it.

FINALLY I SEE A PATH, and have the current eq. I knew had to come out. I am entering with a contravariant 4-vector potential, and the Minkowski field tensor is mixed. I'm not making it at the moment in the LaTex, so I'll say that if we define that tensor in terms of covariant, not simple derivatives, we come out with the extra terms such as needed to describe curl in spheric coordinates. Now I may proceed to work out the altered metric equations with the magnetic terms.

My brother, Steve, who works at NOAA modelling mesoscale weather, twisters in the US Midwest, offers this: N'wa, Yes, this is an improved image of the feature that was discovered by Voyager circa 1980. Looks mystical, though it is likely a six wave pattern at high latitudes where the curvatures involved cancel out into a near hexagon... S'crunch

I always loved raisin-spice cake, dark with molasses. Someone, elsewhere, alluded to a spacetime "cake". We can agree that differerent observers slice differently according to their velocity frame of reference, so I told this person that it is not possible to uniquely define it. Relativity deals with differential changes from point to point. THIS IS IT'S GENIUS, AND IT'S LIMITATION, SURELY. Further, what is 'space' but the behavior of electromagnetic disturbance, and gravitational disturbance, and furthermore dark whatever describing our ignorance??? I propose a toast, To our ignorance!!

I want to know when form emerges from chaos. Do you know how we got the word 'chaos'? The Greeks, who had a story for everything, included the god of KAOS, which is so obviously part of life, like, what happens after you make plans. At the very least, this would help my personal feng sui.