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?