Photons

Photons are massless and travel at the speed of light; approx 186,ooo miles per second. Since photons travel at the speed of light, time = 0 in reference to the photon. I have been wondering if you were on a photon would you be aware of the velocity that you are traveling at. What I mean -- velocity = distance / time. If time = 0, then your velocity = ??? well I guess your velocity would be undefined since you can not divide by zero. From the perspective of the earth it takes light approx 8.5 mins to reach the earth, so the photon has a velocity relative to the earth, but what of the photon it's self? how does the photon perceive it's self? If you were on top of a photon would you be aware of motion? and how would you perceive the universe?

The State of Physics -- String Theory or I guess M-Theory

From all the books that I have read on string theory (the ones by Brain Greene), and the shows that I have seen on NOVA about ST I had always thought that there was some underlying emperical evidence that was pointing to ST but ST is not that cut and dry. The book that I just finnished reading "The Trouble with Physics" by Lee Smolin has painted a dark picture for ST. ST has taken on some religious connotation's that can be eximplified by the argument that took place between the Church and Science, when the observations confimed that the Earth was not the center of the Solar System but the Sun was. When the Earth was the center of the Solar System, the system was so complicated to explain the motion of the sun and planets that it was ridiclous, but once the Sun was place at the center of the Solor System the motion of the Sun and Planets became simplified and able to make accurate prodictions relating the to Solar System.

With ST instead of epicircles you have dimensions, and with these dimensions you have equations that are so complicated that they can not be solve. From what I understand right now there are 11 dimensions in ST, in some other books of ST I have read that there are 16 dimensions; that just seems to complicated to me, and it does not represent the universe that I live in. The other problem that ST has is that the theory does not make any predictions and it is untestable. Once the new super collider comes operational, maybe ST can be tested and evaluated like other theorys have been.

Cool computer, check it out.

There sure is a lot of grey hair on MM's blog.

Another Church.

CW was a funniest Missionary that I ever new, he was cool.

MM, these are the kind of churchs I did missionary work in.

Here is a blast from the past.

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Ancient Manuscript Suggests Jesus Asked Judas to Betray Him.

Shadowpaint99, I had said that string theory was in a dissarry a while ago, and I think that I can answer your question as to why now. I am reading a new book, "The Trouble with Physics" by Lee Smolin, he is a theoretical physicist living in Canada. He worked on ST and now he is working on Loop Quantum Gravity which seems to give results relating to the real world. To the basics of science and how it relates to ST.

The basics of science -- the sceintific method:

1. Ask a Question
2. Do Background Research
3. Construct a Hypothesis
4. Test Your Hypothesis by Doing an Experiment
5. Analyze Your Data and Draw a Conclusion
6. Communicate Your Results

Example:

1. "Is the earth 10,000 years old?"

2. The earth strata, dinasours seem to indicate that the earth is older then 10,000.

3. I think the the earth is older then 10,000 years.

4. Determine how hot the earth is after 10,000 years by using heat equations -- yea that's that anwser.

5 & 6 After working out the heat equations, if the earths was 10,000 years old the earth would be 15,000 degrees C, so the earth is NOT 10,000 years old because the earth is colder then 15,000 C.

Will back to string theory, right now there is no way to apply the sceintific principal to ST, I emphasis there is NO empirical evidence for string theory, it is all math, and right now there is no way to do any experiments to prove string theory. This is causing some people to rethink their position and wonder if they have spent their lives for nothing because there is no hard evidence or experimental data for ST. When the new particle accelerater (the biggest) which is being built in Geneva, Switzerland it could provide the first emperical evidence for string theory or againest the theory but even that is not sure.

Brian Greene is the person I guess you could (lead physistics person on string theory), he is the person who did the show on NOVA said in his book "The Fabric of the Cosmos"; "Even today, more then three decades after its initial articulation, most string practitioners believe we still don't have a comprehensive anwser to the rudimentary question, What is string theory? ... Most researches feel that our current formulation of string theory still lacks the kind of core principle we find in the heart of other major advances."

There are equations in ST that are so difficult that cannot be solved. I think that the real problem is that ST does not model the real world, and lacks real empirical evidence.

You Are an Alien

You're so strange, people occasionally wonder if you're from another world. You don't try to be different, but you see most things from a very unique, very offbeat perspective. Brilliant to the point of genius, you definitely have some advanced intelligence going on. No matter what circles you travel in, you always feel like a stranger. And it's a feeling you've learned to like. Your greatest power: Your superhuman brain Your greatest weakness: Your lack of empathy - you just don't get humans You play well with: Zombies

What Kind of Monster Are You?

Boat Owners

There were these two twins Jim Ryall and Bill Ryall. Jim was the owner of an old dilapidated boat. It just so happened Bill's wife died the same day Jim's boat sank. A few days later a kindly old woman saw Jim and mistaking Jim for Bill stated "I'm sorry to hear about your loss. You must feel just terrible." Jim, thinking about the boat said, "Hell no, fact is I'm sort of glad to be rid of her, she was a rotten ole thing from the beginning. Her bottem was all shriveled up and she smelled like an old dead fish, she was always losing water. She had a crack in the back and a pretty big hole in the front too. Every time I used her, her hole got bigger and she leaked like crazy. I guess what finally finished her off was when I rented her to four guys looking for a good time. I warned them that she was'nt very good, but they wanted to use her anyhow. The damn fools all tried to get in her at once and she split right up the middle. "

The old woman fainted!!!

NOVA had a show the other day about what happened in Washington State about 15,000 years ago, how glaciers from Canada created a huge dam ( Glacial Lake Missoul ) with trillions of gallons of water or 500 cubic miles of water estimated. When the dam broke it created the Scablands about 200 miles east of Seattle. The interesting was part was how the scientest discovered the process by which water (which is supercooled, below 32 C) interacts with the ice breaking the glacier apart which then creates deluge of water and ice. The process was discovered I think they said Greenland; in 1993 there was a glacier/water flood on a smallar scale but it was discovered that water under tremendous pressure water will not freeze, it then becomes "supercooled" and then starts running through fissures in the glacier, this in turn starts to weaken the structure of the glacier which then results in the water and ice creating a flood. This is what happened in the Scablands, but on a much larger scale it created valleys a 1000 feet deep, a waterfall 5 times wider then Niagara Falls and the evidence seems to point that is all happened over a 48 hour period. Interesting show.

J's new duty station will be Ft. Lewis, Washington. I will think he will have s good time there, he may end up with a cushey job, maybe. Ft. Lewis was the place where the some drug pushers decided to take on the Rangers that where stationed at Ft. Lewis. I do not remember all the details, it happened between 1989 or 1990, somewhere in that time frame, anyways from what I remember one of the Ranger's wives, or home was threated by some not too intelligent drug dealers that where in the neighorhood, and thought they owned the block. Idiots, do not threated Rangers, where there is one, there is many, they are brother's in arms. So, about 30 Rangers (if I remeber right) came armed with a basic load, and cleaned out the drug dealers. The dealers did not know what hit them, the neighborhood was cleaned out and everybody was happy except the police, and the CG. I do not remember what happen to the Rangers.

My first duty station was Ft. Riley, KS. I was with 1st Engineers ( 12B's Combat Engineers ) I was working in the S-3 shop, or operations for the Battalion (that is what S-3 does), or command and control. This where I drove a track vehicle; M577A2, Command Carrier, 13 tonnes of fun. Other then that, I really did not like being there, but the housing that me and Lily lived in was great, we really like our quarters after the new living room was added on. For the most part I was gone from 5:00am till about 6:00pm, I usually was home by 6:30. We had a idiot major who did not want to go home, it seemed that 4:30pm (when everybody else was going home) was time to start work with him, so we always had to do crap for him.

One weekend the whole Battalion was locked in because some idiot lieutenant, and sargent tried to steal M16A1 and colt .45. That Friday about 12:00pm a rumor started circling that a weapon was missing from one of the line companies arm's room. At 4:30 the whole Battalion was marched down to the motor pool for formation and the Battalion commader was there, since he was there we knew something was up. Anyways he said that a M16, and .45 was missing and we could not go home until it was found. Everything in the motor pool was tore apart, all storage containers emptied, but no weapons. So we had to go back to our offices and lay everything out and be inspected, and no weapon. So the whole Battalion stayed in the barracks Friday and Saturday night. On Saturday we had to walk the whole route by foot from the firing range to the barracks. On Sunday morning an anonymous phone call (so we were told) told where the weapons could be found, so once the weapons were recovered and secured in the arms room, we all went home. Fun in the Army.

J is still at Ft. Jackson going through AIT or Advanced Individual Training, in other words he is learning how to do his job which is "Light Wheel Mechanic." Basically working on Hummers, and other SUV's in the military motor pool's. I have talked to him a few times and things seem to be going alright for him.

I took my AIT at Ft. Belvior, Virgina and I had a blast. We had weekend passes all the time, and we (my class) all the time went into Washinton DC. I went to the Smithsonian and went through all the exhibits plus I saw all the other things to see in DC. You may be wondering how we got there since no one had a car, well there was this guy that we called Mr. Bill and he had a old school bus. I am not sure who or why he did this but he would come around on the weekends and pick up the GI's on post and then pass a hat around and everybody would put in a few dollars for gas and he would take us to DC. He had regular stops in DC at specific times, so that is how we travelled from the post to DC.

There was this guy who was in the National Guard and he was from the Virgin Islands, he never come out of his thermal underwear. He said that he was always cold, and we thought that is was hot at Ft. Belvior. Every night at last formation we had 13E (MOS) I forget what their job title was, but they were some kind of Nuclear specialist, anyways they allways ended formation by saying:

"Nuc them until they glow, and then shoot them in the dark"

I always thought was quit humours, Lily did not think so, ooooowellllll.

Your Five Variable Love Profile

Propensity for Monogamy: Your propensity for monogamy is medium. In general, you prefer to have only one love interest. But it's hard for you to stay devoted for too long! There's too much eye candy to keep you from wandering. Experience Level: Your experience level is high. You've loved, lost, and loved again. You have had a wide range of love experiences. And when the real thing comes along, you know it! Dominance: Your dominance is low. This doesn't mean you're a doormat, just balanced. You know a relationship is not about getting your way. And you love to give your sweetie a lot of freedom. Cynicism: Your cynicism is low. You are an eternal optimist when it comes to love and romance. No matter how many times you've been hurt - you're never bitter. You believe in one true love, your perfect soulmate. And if you haven't found true love yet, you know you will soon. Independence: Your independence is high. You don't need to be in love, and sometimes you don't even want love. Having your own life is very important for you... Even more important than having a relationship.

The Five Variable Love Test

Taken from the Other World.

I am reading the book "Science a History 1543 - 2001" by John Gribbin. There was a mathemation who lived from 1768 to 1830 and his name was Fouier and he developed equations that dealt with time varying phenmena, which means he developed heat equations, how much time if takes for things to cool off. So googled Fouiers and found his equations and then did the math for if the earth was 10,000, let me tell you; NO I will show you.

1. I will use present day values (so I will not here any crap about things were different back then, which means that God can not create a consistant system, or he is playing games for the Baptist) of heat production from radioactive decay in the earth produce by ²³⁸U, ²³⁵U, ²³²Th, and ⁴⁰K and has a value of 6.18 x 10^-12W/kg (Turcotte and Schubert, 1982)

2. If you only take inaccount for agument sake heat flow from the mantle and crust

(6.18 x 10^-12W/kg) x (4.0 x 10²⁴kg) = 2.47 x 10¹³W

Fourier's Law of Heat Conduction

Q = K dt/dz

k = thermnal conductivity of rocks W/m ^oC
dt/ds = geo thermal gradiant or "rate of change"
Q = W/m²

total surface of the earth = 5.1 x 10¹⁴m²

2.47 x 10¹³W
----------------------- = .048 W/m² surface heat flow
5.1 x 10¹⁴m²

3.00 W/m ^o is a average thermal conductivity of rocks

dt/dz = .048 W/m²


500 years will be used as 1/2 life for the radactive elements listed above

Now figure out the decay rate constant labda (ʎ) so we can caclculate the heat producdion of the past

t = ^1/2 ln 2/ʎ or

ʎ = ln 2 / t^1/2

using 500 years for t^1/2 ʎ = 1.38 x 10^-3

H^past = H^present x e^ʎ(t-10)

H^present = 6.18 x 10^-12W/kg

t - t₀ = 10,000 years & ʎ

(6.18 x 10^-12) x (e^{1.38 x 10-3 - 10,000})
= 6.08 x 10^-6 W/kg

H_past x (mass of mantle and crust) = total heat production

H_past = (6.08 x 10^-6W/kg) x (4.0 x 10²⁴kg)
= 2.43 x 10¹⁹W

2.43 x 10¹⁹W
Q = --------------------- = 47724.58 W/m²
5.1 x 10¹⁴m²


47724.58 W/m²
------------------------ = 15,908^oC/km
3.00 W/m

Which means if the earth was 10,000 years old the surface of the earth would be as hot as Hell (15,908 degrees Celsius).

New citizenship exam emphasizes principles. MM study hard.

It takes light (photon) from the Sun approximately 8.5 minutes, but from the reference of the photon no time has passed at all. If there was a clock on the photon, "time = 0" or the clock would not start.

The middle bear cub has completed Basic Training at Ft. Jackson, SC. Basic Training is one of those things that it is you are glad that your did it, but you never want to do it again. I did basic at Ft. Dix, NJ, and that post is nothing but sand. We marched everywhere and it felt you were taking 2 steps forword with 1 step back. Before we graduated, the last thing we had to do was a 12 mile road march with full ruckstack (about 40 to 50 pounds), and we had time limit of 4 hours. By the time we made it back to the barracks, I was dead tired, but there was a Eskimo in our platoon and he was tough. At the end of the roadmarch, as we were recovering( in our beds) the Eskimo(I do not remember his name) was walking around wondering what to do. I think he was the toughest person I ever met.

To me the toughest part of Basic Training was staying awake, and finding time to rest in the restroom. If we were in class and were falling asleep we were to stand up and move to the wall, or stand up and say" ZZZZZ monster get off by back" which we did alot. Since we were always marching, or sleeping or in class (believe me your 24 hours are filled up) it was hard sometimes to find time to go to the bathroom.

I had never fired a gun or in the Army a "weapon" until I join the Army. I am glad I never had to fire on somebody in my 12 years in the military, but I loved going to the firing range. It was fun shooting different types of weapons, and I like shooting the pop up targets with a M16A2, the best I ever did was 37/40, I missed 2, 300 meter targets.

I just wish that the little bear cub would have went in as an Officer, life is easier as an Officer in the Army.

Auto Tuner, I think that this is what I am going to buy. What do you think? Kawasaki’s newest version of the Z1000 offers style, fun, and performance

Sooooooooooooooooo what kind of Hog does Hogrider have?

Sooooooooooo, what kind of Hog does Hogrider have?

Burger update: Whataburger has really delicious bacon, oinion ring, ranch burger right now, I give it two thumbs up. I was talking to a Whataburger representative and she said that in November Whataburger is bringing back their honey barbque chicken sandwich, which is most excellent. I highly recommend the chicken sandwich.

Wondering what is happening in Shreveport? Shreveport City Council to consider saggy pants ban. A city council with nothing to do.

I know what I am going to be when I grow up an Quantum Cosmologist and study Loop Quantum Gravity

Hey Auto Tuner, I have been thinking of your concept that we are all dasies and that God is the gardener, that God has the right to pick whatever flower from the flower garden with the consequences of the actions being irrelavant, or of no repercussion. You can not equate the life of a flower with the life of human beings there is no comparision. A flower has no mother, father, siblings, or relationships outside the family body. So when you tell me that God has the authority to pick a flower in reality God is breaking up family relationships, and that if God put together a marriage that is under the Christian umbrella of marriage the marriage is being broken by God; for example when MM said that God took his friend home, that says to me God killed the guy, broke a marriage and left some children without a father. You cannot equate that to a gardener just picking some flowers.

I am buying one of these.

I thought of a new dating system for History: BCP and ACP.

1. BCP -- Before Cell Phones
2. ACP -- After Cell Phones

What triggered this is that I am watching all old TV shows (we have Netflix) that I used to watch, and what I noticed right away is cell phone use in todays TV shows. In the pre-cell phone TV shows the means of communication was the pay phone, or just regular phone.

I had a friend in Grande Prairie that I always played chess with in school. His name was Wayne Showalter, and we always had a great time playing chess, he beat me more that I beat him, but by playing him so much it made me good. When I played other players I usually won. I remember the one chess game where I was getting wiped of the map and then I saw my chance, I scarfice my queen, and by doing the I created a trap for my opponent and I won; such a great feeling-- defeating someone on the chess board. I miss playing chess, I have tried playing over the internet, but it is not the same.

Anyways back to my story, last year I was looking through my yearbooks, and I came accross Wayne's picture, so I decided to "google" Wayne's name to see if I could find him. I came accross a Wayne Showalter, but I was not sure if that was him, but for whatever reason I dropped my search. Then this past Mondy I thought of Wayne again, so I decided to find Wayne's email address and email Wayne so see if this was the Wayne that I played chess with in school. End of the story, it was him. It has been about 35 years since I have seen Wayne, the net is cool.

Euclidean geometry has 5 postulates

1. Any two points can be joined by a straight line.

2. Any straight line segment can be extended indefinitely in a straight line.

3. Given any straight line segment, a circle can be drawn having the segment as radius and one endpoint as center.

4. All right angles are congruent.

5. Parallel postulate. If two lines intersect a third in such a way that the sum of the inner angles on one side is less than two right angles, then the two lines inevitably must intersect each other on that side if extended far enough.

It was by trying to prove the 5th postulate false that lead mathematician's to discover hyperbolic geometry. In fact Jesuit Girolamo Saccheri (1733) I guess is considered the father of hyperbolic geometry, he was trying to do just that.

All through High School and College I never considered that trig was really about objects on a 2-D plane. You plot points on a cartisian x-y plane, and draw your f(x) or object, but that really does not represent real world, because we live in a 3-D world, plus time, so you can consider that we are living in 3-D, space-time existance. From what little I understand of hyperbolic geometry, that is a more accurate representation of the universe that we live in.

a^2 + b^2 = c^2

Normally you have a problem in a trig math book were you figure out how high the plane is in the air. This formual does not take in to account the curvature of the earth, so what you are doing is finding a close approximation of how high the plane is above the earth. Also the plane is following a curved path, not straight. I need to learn more about hyperbolic geometry.

I am reading a new book -- "The Road to Reality; A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe" by Roger Perose. He is a mathmatician at Oxford ( in England ). I just read a chapter on Hyberbolic Geometry, and it was fascinating (now I want to take a class on HG). There is so much neat math to learn, a person could take math classes the rest of their lives. The mathmaticians that live in the 1700's and 1800's that developed that math that we do today, they were truly geniuses. Once a person had taked Calc, and DE, and other higher math classes, a person can appreciate the development and the thought that went into creating all the different math that exists today. I do, math is cool.

Tonight there was some Country Western music award show tonight (or some kind of country music show),the main caption -- "Country will rock tonight." Since when does country "ROCK"???????!!!!!!!!!! I am offended that country music is being equated with rock music, me being the rocker that I am. We all know that rock music especially "Classic Rock" is tons better then old nasty hillbilly country music. I must admitt though, Faith Hill -- a 10.

Remember there is that old Country Music expression, "sex, drugs and country music." NOT.

We are remodeling our house, I put in a door that has a decorative oval glass middle to the door. When we bought the door, I thought we just bought a door, but the door was framed in and the hinges were already attached. I just had to attach the frame of the door to the framed out opening of the house. At first I thought it would be alot more work then just hanging a door, but this turned out better, because it was easier to install the frame, then just hanging a door and then adjusting the hinges on the door. Gampa's hammer sure comes in handy.

The Corner.

Bless the Beast and Children.

Not for the faint of heart. People that do this kind of stuff do not deserve to live no matter what country they live in.

The Transformers movie was great, I might see it again.

Fish:1 Randy:0

In all the hamburgers that I have eaten around the country, I must admit that "Popa and Company" hamburger joint here in Shreveport has one of the best hamburgers that I have ever dined on. It is 1/2 or 3/4 pound hamburger that has all the fixings that is between homemade bun, it is juciy, and what ever sauce they use--- just makes the hamburger scrumptious. Then if you get fries with it --- what can I say, you are stuffed-- they are home made fries, delicious.
The only problem is that they have Coke; I hate Coke.

Went fishing; caught a tree. The tree was so small that I let it go back to the wild.

I want this computer.

Discovery Of The Oldest Adornments In The World

Science Daily — The discovery of small perforated sea shells, in the Cave of Pigeons in Taforalt, eastern Morocco, has shown that the use of bead adornments in North Africa is older than thought. Dating from 82 000 years ago, the beads are thought to be the oldest in the world. As adornments, together with art, burial and the use of pigments, are considered to be among the most conclusive signs of the acquisition of symbolic thought and of modern cognitive abilities, this study is leading researchers to question their ideas about the origins of modern humans. The study was carried out by a multidisciplinary team made up of researchers at CNRS, working with scientists from Morocco, the UK, Australia and Germany.Read more, if you are not afraid.

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Happy Father's Day

Earlier Water On Earth? Oldest Rock Suggests Hospitable Young Planet

Science Daily — Geological evidence suggests that Earth may have had surface water -- and thus conditions to support life -- billions of years earlier than previously thought. Scientists reconstructed the portrait of early Earth by reading the telltale chemical composition of the oldest known terrestrial rock. The 4.4-billion-year-old mineral sample suggests that early Earth was not a roiling ocean of magma, but instead was cool enough for water, continents, and conditions that could have supported life. The age of the sample may also undermine accepted current views on how and when the moon was formed. The research was supported in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF), and is published in this week's issue of the journal Nature.Read the rest

There is one downside to learning science -- physics in particular. Science fiction movies are not viewed the same as when I was a kid. I still love and enjoy Scifi movies and shows, but I have an understanding now of the universe and the laws that govern the universe.

For example I like how scifi movies and tv show overcome interia, Star Trek I think was the leader in addressing the physics of space travel. How did Star Trek overcome this problem -- "interia dampers" this way when the star ship dropped warp speed to sublight speed nobody was crushed into the hull of the space ship. Now "interia dampers" are reference in all scifi movies and shows.

In Star Trek the way people were transported was by beaming them around by the "transportor." This device took matter comverted it to energy then back to matter so the scifi writers had to address the problem of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. Bascially the principle states that you can know the speed of an elemently particule, but not precisely the position, or you can know the postion, but not know the speed of the particule. Sooooo, you may be asking what did Star Trek do to overcome this by creating a device called "the Heisenberg compensator"

As a sidebar a few years ago I read of an experiament in Australia where a photon (I think, it has been a few years) was transported some distance, but I have not read anything else on the subject.

For a transportor to work it would require enormous amount of memory, but the cool thing would be copy and paste. Theoretically speaking once the matter was converted to energy the Star Trek people created the pattern buffer which stored an image of the object, so since our bodies are symetrical if a person lost an arm, in the pattern buffer you could copy the one arm and paste it where the missing arm is.

You can not hear sounds in space, it sounds really nice but in Star Terk and Star Wars the sound of lasers being fired and the sound of space ships flying around the galaxy you just can not hear it. Speaking of lasers, you can not see a laser like in the movies, it just does not work that way. To see a laser light you would have to defuse the laser, which defeats the priciple of the laser because a laser is a coherent beam of light.

I still love scifi movies and shows though.

Climate Change Pushed Neanderthal Into Extinction In Iberian Peninsula, Spanish Researcher Says Climate Change Pushed Neanderthal Into Extinction In Iberian Peninsula, Spanish Researcher Says

Science Daily- Climate – and not modern humans – was the cause of the Neanderthal extinction in the Iberian Peninsula. Such is the conclusion of the University of Granada research group RNM 179 - Mineralogy and Geochemistry of sedimentary and metamorphic environments, headed by professor Miguel Ortega Huertas and whose members Francisco José Jiménez Espejo, Francisca Martínez Ruiz and David Gallego Torres work jointly at the department of Mineralogy and Petrology of the University of Granada (Universidad de Granada) and the Andalusian Regional Institute of Earth Sciences (CSIC-UGR).Read the rest.

Window Vista -- Even though a profile can be set up as an administrator, that does not mean you are an administrator and that can do anything to the operating system. Microsoft in their wisdom decided not to give the user as an adminstrator full access to the operating system to configure as the user wishes or desires. I am thinking about either loaded XP on my laptop or Linux. I can do everything free with Linux, plus Linux comes with a compiler, you can not beat that.

I really do not understand why Microsoft configured Vista so an administrator does not have full control of the operating system, other then Microsoft has decided that users are idiots and to keep their bloated operating system operating, this way keeps users from trashing Vista. There is a way to create a administrator profile and to do that, a user has get into "safe mode," then bring up the command promt and say;" net use andministrator / admin" ( I think, I am going have to google that again), anyways then an admin account is created. I thought "fine" I can now configure my laptop for PHP, but even after creating the admin account it still did not give me full access to the operating system. I still could not configure the ISS file because even as logged as an admin I still did not have the rights to modify the file. I could call Microsoft, but they want 59.00 for 1/2 hour. Why should I have to pay Microsoft money to tell me how to configure their stupid operating system when they are the ones that locked users out out by default, and then keep it a secret. Then Microsoft wonders why people are mad and then look for alteratives to Microsoft.

There is a Adam and Eve museum, I do not remember were it is located, but it has scientific inaccuracies. It does not matter what you believe, emperical truth is "emperical" there is no debate. This is just like the Catholic Church in the face of the truth stating that the Earth is the center of the our planetary system. This museum states that the earth is only 6,000 years old, and that man walk with the dinosaurs-- this is just wrong and the museum is wondering why they are getting flack from the scientific community. For the record the earth is 4.5 billion years old, and there have been no human foot prints discovered with fossil remains of dinosaurs.

I thought I was going to attend USF, but I read an science article that mentioned The University of Central Florida. I decided to check out their physics department and they have an astronomy section to go along with a physics degree. Sooooooooooo, I will be attending UCF in the near future, the classes that I will be taking are:

• Astronomy
  
• Techniques of Observational Astronomy
  
• Stellar Astrophysics
  
• Galaxies and Cosmology
  

I can hardly waite until I am taking these classes, I will be in heaven.

Well, I had my final in Linear Algebra today. I am always glad when class is over, but usally in a few weeks I start missing going to class. Since I change majors I have to go back and pick up a few classes; Chemistry, and Physics w/calculus. On to the stars!!!!!

Coffee flavored jelly beens are the worst. They just are!!!!!!!!!!!

I am reading another book on the history of the Middle Ages, this book is more indepth, more detailed in the history of this time period. The Germanic tribes that invaded during the last days of the Roman Empire were a lose confederation of tribes, they had a simple code of laws.

1. They would tie you up, and then drop you into a river, if you floated then you were innocent, but if you sunk then you were guilty. The thinking was that water was pure, so if you were pure, innocent, then the water would reject, but if you were guitly then the water would sollow you up and you would die, justice would be served.

2. A person could kill another person as along it was done in the open. That means two warlords, or what ever could be feuding and if people were killed ( or villagers were caught up in the conflict and they died) that was "ok," but if a homicide was commited in secret, then that was wrong, in the eyes of the law. This kind of like the code of the Wild West era.

The good thing about this is that there are no lawyers.

What is real? Are we really perceiving reality as we walk through the cosmos by using our 5 senses? Since our senses are converted to electrical impluses and then processed by our brain, is that not like Plato's cave wall. Are we just seeing shadows?

I have been watching some of the NHL playoffs, and I must say the hockey is subpare. The fights are inconsequential to the game(not quite true, it gives the other team the advantage when the result of the fight is that someone is in the penalty box), plus when your team is down a few games you would think that the penalties would be kept to a minimum, but noooooooooo. I was watching the playoff games between Calgary and Detroit, and all I can say is that Calgary desired to lose by the way they played the game.

All through Hockey School it was drilled into us take the person out of the play, and DO NOT PASS IN FRONT OF THE NET. What did Calgary do, let themselfs be out skated( not taking the person of the play), and passing infront of the net. Added to that, Calgary was taking more penalties then Detroit, which resulted in goals for Detroit, I really do not understand what the players on the Calgary team were thinking.

Then the last game between Calgary and Detroit, Calgary lost and what happen the last 30 seconds of the game; the Calgary goalie took his hockey stick and chopped a Detroit player in the stomach, why???? The goalie was ejected from the game, and then the players still in the player's bench patted him on his back, like he was unjustly ejected from the game. It was stated later as an excuse "the frustation level was so high, everybody wants to win." There no reason to purposely take a goalie stick, and chop someone in the stomach because you are losing. These are grown men being paid millions of dollars to play a game, only a game, and they do stupid stuff like this. There is no excuse, and the fights take away from the game.

What is mom looking at that is making her smile like that?

MM, I went to KFC and bought myself Big Box Meal.It was soooooooo good, I am going to have to eat another one.

Hey MM check out this web site. What do you think? I have never understood why Islam spread the way it did becasue Mohammed had to kill and destroy to spread his message. I do not understand why people accepted it. I think in the modern world, religion is more about money and poltical power then anything else.

I was friends with Ken through hockey, that is how we met. I am not sure why Mom and Dad became good friends with the Rudlands, but because Mom and Dad became good friends with them , me and Ken became better friends. Once the Rudlands moved to Sherwood Park, me and Ken hung around together at school. We also had a few jobs together; we worked together at Maid Marions( we had a lot of fun there, great eating), and we also worked at Bonanza( we had ice fights late a night there).

Then there was the year that I lived with Mr. and Mrs. Rudland, Ken and Vivian. One thing that I remember best about Viv was that she bought the "Saturday Night Fever" record, and everytime me and Ken came home from school were heard a million times; you know it--- The Beegees. Viv does not remember this, but I dooooooooo. Me and Ken came home for lunch sometimes, and what did we eat?????? Macarroni and Cheese!!! He would eat box, and I would eat box. Even now when I make a box Mac and Cheese I still think about those times that we would eat lunch together. That year was also when we started to make goofy noises together, it was goofy, but we injoyed and laugh together.

Then there was the trip to Arizona, and for whatever reason Mr. Rudland was drinking and driving, and Mr. Rudland did not were he was going. I think that we were looking for Mom and Dad, that is were we were going to meet. Anyways me and Ken were on the top part of the camper watching the road, and cutting up, joking around, singing "Airazonnna" I still sing "Airazonna," no one in my family really knows why I am singing that, but it creates a warm place in my heart; it makes me think of Ken and all the fun we had together growing up.

There are many more memories, but as I write this, these are the memories that stand out as I reflect back to my life in Canada. See you later Ken.

Ken Rudland died last night in his sleep, they do not know why he died. The EMT's tried to revive him 4 different times, but no success. We were friends for a long time, played hockey together, and lived together. Next to Randy; Ken was my next best friend, we had a lot of fun together, and worked the same jobs together too. We even got into trouble together, it was fun trouble though. I must say that I am in shock, I was not expecting this, Ken has been on my mind the last few days and I was thinking about all the time we spent together, and the stuff that we did together.

I will write more later. This just sucks.

Certain segments of the world society believe that we should not be drinking milk as adults. If that is true, then why do we have Oreo's, or donuts. Everybody knows that you have to have a cold glass of milk :)

If you drive slow, you will drive less miles then driving fast.

Been doing the Blackwolf thing, remodeling our bathroom. Glad I only have to do that once.

MM, I am sorry that you lost a friend.

MM I have a question for you. I was reading about the "Lost Tomb of Jesus" at Science Daily and it states that scholars of 1st century Judaism say that to preach in the synagogue a person had to be married. What do you know about preaching in the synagogues during Jesus's time period? What were the reqirements? What gave Jesus the right to preach in the synagogue? How were religious leaders identified?

Now, here is an hamburger!!!!!

According to this articule we should not be here, we should be dead. Global cooling. Man is not the cause of global warming, I am not going to pay any global carbon tax, and I am going to keep on driving my car. In case you are wondering "The Sun" is the cause of warming the earth.

We have CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and other new organizations. Public opinion is shaped somewhat by the news media: TV, print, and the internet news outlets. What would have happened in WWII if there would have been continious new coverage of D-Day, or the Battle of the Bulge. D-Day: 11,000 (approx) people died that day; how would that been reported? Would the news media declaired that the war was lost? That America has suffered a casualty rate that we could not recover from?

Then there was the "Battle of the Bulge." Would that have been reported as a turning point of the war? Outsmarted by the Germans? What would have been the headlines?

The news is produced, it has a producer. That means someone decides what is important, and what is not; as news. That is why when I watch the news and there is news about Brittney Spears, someone(smarter then me) decided that Brittney is important, and I need to know. I am glad as a nation we are in such good hands and so well informed.

The book that I am reading now is: "The Fourth Crusade -- and the Sack of Constantinople," by Jonathan Phillips.

The Physics of Stuff

When you start understanding what is happening with everyday stuff in a person life from a physics perspective I think it is amazing.

Cooking

When a person starts cooking food, then you smell it -- simple task that happens in everyday life-- physically what is happening is that the substance is absorbing heat( an endothermic reaction) at the molecular level the molecules are moving faster and faster until there is a phase change, and then molecules are liberated from whatever is being cooked. Then for a person to smell the food that means that the molecules are traveling through the air, bumping into the air molecules, but still making it into a person’s nose. The odyssey does not end there. The smell is ( I think) changed into electrical impulses that then must be interpreted by the brain as a smell, then classify what kind of smell. I think that is awesome.

A Whiteboard

A Whiteboard is a board you can write on with a marker, not a permanent marker. Anyways; the marker writes on the board, and then with brush( like a chalk brush) a person erases the whiteboard. What is happening though is the molecules from the marker are bonding to the whiteboard, but the bonds between the molecules on the whiteboard and the marker are not permanent. The molecules from the marker are forming bonds with the whiteboard, so what a person writes on the whiteboard stay there until the bonds are broken a person erases the whiteboard. There is a transference of energy( kinetic energy) supplied by the brush to the molecules of the marker(which is on the whiteboard), it is this energy that breaks the bonds between the marker and whiteboard, and then the marker that is on the whiteboard is absorbed by the dry eraser.

When I think of what happens at the molecular level (how energy is transfered to accomplish whatever task) for whatever process to happen in the world I think it is truely amazing.

You say that you were offended at my post what I commented on the DNA makeup of Jesus. Then you tell me what was the genetic make up of Jesus. It is said that Jesus was divine, but still human in His nature. From a DNA, genetic viewpoint I do not understand how that can be true. DNA (chromosomes) has to male and female parts to the DNA makeup of man. There two parts to male and female DNA:

1. female --mitochondrial DNA : the DNA sequence is so small that it has virually remain unchain and had not undergoing mutations

2. male -- the y-chromosome has gone through mutations because it is much larger then the mitochonrial dna that comes from a woman's dna. The mutations( or the changes that the chromosome undergoes by being copied) in the y-chomosome is called "polymorphisms."

My point is Jesus did not have a y-chromosome since it was an virgin birth. I have heard preached in the various churches that I have been that Jesus was conceived by the "Holy Spirit" and that Jesus was a purfect human being, but He was God. Since human male y-chromosomes which has undergoing polymorphism was not in His body(which is human); what does that mean?

I was watching a show on the History Channel today, and it was about how the Bible was written. They were interviewing a number of Rabbis from different universities and one Rabbis made an inertesting statement. He said that about 25 percent of words in the Old Testement, the orginal meaning of the word is lost. So that means that the scholars who translated the Bible were making their best guess at what the word meant.

Here is the notebook computer that I bought at Circuit City.

This is where I am taking Lily for Valentine's Day, well I guess you could say a Valentine weekend. Getway from the little birdies -- "get your own worms." Anyways, we will have a fun time.

We are in the process of remodeling our love nest. We decided that we wanted colorfull dishes, this is what we bought.

I rebuilt J computer this week. I gave him a new motherboard, with a screaming AGP graphics card( 8X, it had 512 megs of onboard ram) , 2 gigs of ram, 400 watt power supply, and a 20 inch monitor. I thought that Win XP ran fast with 1 gig of ram, and that there would be no difference, but I was wrong. There is a noticable difference, windows reponds faster, so I am thinking about adding another gig to my laptop, which means if I add, I have to add to Lily's laptop too.

I remember when I bought my Vic 20 a number if years ago. I remember the salesman telling me that 8k of memory was all I was every going to need. He was wrong. I then bought a Tandy TL/2 that had 640k, and then I bought a 40 meg hard drive to go with it. I was then told, no matter what that was all I was every going to need. He was wrong too.

The first thing I did when I brought my Tandy home was take it apart( now when I look back, that was really stupid because I could have killed my computer) and examine everything inside the CPU. And my Tandy had an 8086 processor,"OOOOOOOOOOOO" I was smoking. I guess I am going from 8k of ram to 2 gigs of ram, that is all I will ever need!!!????

I was reading a few weeks ago at Space.com that they have determined the rotation of two Black Holes. One was spinning at a rate of 960 revolutions per second, and the other was revolving at a rate of 1,110 rps. That is fast. I then wondered what the rotation of the Sun was in relation to the Black Holes. Well, the rotation of the sun is 26 to 28 days, the rotation period depends on which part of the Sun you are analysing.

This brings me to another thought. When you look at the sun( never look at the sun directly) you are seeing the sun as it was 8 & 1/2 min ago. That always amazes me. When you look up at the night sky, you are seeing photons(light) that have traveled millions of light years, and the photons could be 13 billion years old that are colliding with your cornea as you look up.

If God, Mohammed, or Allah is offended, why do they need lawyers, or people to defend their honor? They can just send down lighting bolts (since they are all powerfull)and destroy the infidel's. Simple and to the point.

Dad would be happy, the Indianapolis Colts won the Superbowl.

There are a number of web sites that are counting the number of civilians being killed in Iraq. If this is so important how come they were not counting before the war. It is estimated that Sadam was killing 83 people a day, but I guess that was not important back then as it is now.

I am: E.E. "Doc" Smith The inventor of space opera. His purple space war tales remain well-read generations later.

Which science fiction writer are you?

Since MM does not read my blog anymore, I guess I can say anything without hurting or offending his feelings. It seems to me that MM's knowledge of historical events as they are related to the Bible are bias; I guess I just thought that MM would be more of a scholarly nature since he has been in college and not so closed minded and that he would say what he thought about stuff, not what other people told him to say. Anyways, I have always been interested in "the truth" as the truth related to the world, universe, and the Church since I was brought up in that environment. As far as I was concerned the Bible was fact, and I just assumed that there was empirical evidence to back up everything that I had learned in Sunday School, and evidence for all the different sermons that I had heard over the years.

I read my first ancient history book a number of years ago, the book was about the Greek civilization, Alexander the Great, and there was detailed account of the Egyptian civilization, and the book stated that there was no evidence that Joseph( coat of many colors) never existed, and book also said that the Egyptian civilization was well documented. I remember that the statement really disturbed me. How could that be? Joseph was second to the Pharaoh, plus there was a great famine of 7 years. How could that not be in the Egyptian history records? Since then I have been on a sort of a quest to understand history, and how the Bible was written, and to understand the world.

Now, do not get me wrong I do not think that the Bible is invalid; I just think that the Bible is man's attempt to explain the world but it fails in that aspect. A person needs a philosophy to live by, and Jesus had a good answer to how to live your life. Jesus said," Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Lily and I may not always live up to those words, but we try our best with what we know about ourselves, and the people that cross our paths that we try to help. Back to history.

I read the Epic of Gilgamesh and there is a flood story in the tale. It is then I realized that this story was before the Bible and it was written by about 500 years before the Bible was written, so the only conclusion that I could conclude was that it was copied by the Jews when they were writing the Old Testament, not God. The last few books that I have read have explain how different myths from that time period have been incorporated into the Old Testament. The last book that I read stated the what the Israelites wrote was not necessary a fib, or tale, lie, but that what they were writing was their understanding of life, and how they as a people were coming to terms of life in that time period of which they were living in. The Old Testament also served another purpose; it gave the Israelites an identity, separate from the people from which they came from.

This was the plan this morning:

1. Bring S to school with us, because I needed to take him to the probation office.
2. Leave S in my lab and go and get my blood work, ( I was going to stop a the golden arches because I could not eat anything until I did my blood work) then come back and get S.
3. Get S and to his appointment and then take him home.

What really happen:

1. I forget that we had to take J to work, so we took J to work and dropped him off.

2. Arrived at the college, and found out that S forgot his paper work, sooooo had to go back home and get paperwork.

3. On the way to S appointment, stopped to do my bloodwork, but no McDonalds( and I was hungry).

4. Almost to the probation place, S says "Where are we", I say "almost there", S says"But I need to go to Amscot" , I say" I did not know that." So we back track( going faster then the speed limit) about 5 miles and we have 20 min until S appointment.

5. Get to Amsoct, 15 mins to go. I rip out of the parking lot cross the road missing a cop by inches, and then I decide to take a short cut, but I am not exatly sure of the route, I think to myself; "Self you are the Greatest, it will all work out, and you will get there on time." Anyways I am speeding down the road and I pass another cop, I thought I was going to qet a ticket maybe, but not, so I am weaving in and out of traffic doing about( not sure but faster then everyone else.) I finally make it to S appointed place with 3 mins to spare. All done in 2 hours.

I like the first plan better.

Auto Tuner 1, how old is the earth?

I do not understand why Microsoft in their wisdom decided to make IE 7 an update, why? Not all web based software will not work with IE7 until the software is updated by what ever software package that you are using. In my computer labs at HCC I have a number of web software programs that use IE as a portal for their software package, and my main program will not be updated until this summer. There are a number of other community colleges and universities using the same math program as I use in my labs so they have the same problem as I do. It would also be reasonable to assume that there are business out there have the same problem that I have about using IE that whatever they are doing that IE7 will not work for them either. So why is IE7 an update? Why make a program that does not work with all web based software, and make the decision to make the program downloadable through the update process so that potentially a person not knowing what they are doing could screw up a number of higher education institutions and businesses? What is Microsoft doing and why?

I do not remember Jesus every saying to anyone that He would have nothing more to do with them, as far as I can remember the only time Jesus was ever mad was over money and the religious leaders of the time. It was the religious leaders that had all the problems, nothing has changed in 2000 years.

As to the moon, and earth question here is the answer, you are using faulty data. The earth is 4.5 billion years old, that has been well established -- you need to do some reading. What is a "not?" Which version of the Bible is inspired? You never answered my question. Like I said before there is little empirical evidence that Jesus even existed, you know what "empirical" means right? plus Nazareth as a town was barely in existance when Jesus was alive. I thought this stuff was all true until I started reading history books, and found out was was not true. The church as a vested interest in this, that was what the inquisition was all about.

You tell me, what makes a female? What makes a male? xx-chromosome(female) xy-chromosome (male) There are people in this world who are in male bodies, but there genentic makeup is opposite of their body, do you deny that?. Jesus had no y-chromosome so what does that mean? The y-chromosome only comes from a human male.

I guess Jesus was a female in a male body, because there was no y-chromosome in his DNA, just xx.

Ok, it is time to rant and rave. I think that the Mac commercials that they have been running on TV are ridiculous. Just for your information I have used Apple/Mac computers before and found them cumbersome. Anyways, these commercials would make a person think that IBM compatable computers are archaic and antiquated, which is not the case. If Mac's are so great then why did they change to Intel processors, which non-apples have been using for quite some time now. If Mac's are so great why do they only have 2%-5% of the computer market; that is partly's Apple's marketing stragedy fault (but fact is that Apple is barely a blip on the pc market, they cost more, and software is more expensive), so I do not see the advantage of owing a Mac.