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From: kim@Lise.Unit.NO (Kim Gunnar St|vring yhus)
Newsgroups: sci.physics
Subject: Re: TIME HAS INERTIA
Keywords: ATTENTION  Mr.  Benjamin WEINER
Date: 17 Dec 92 18:44:03 GMT
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology

In article <abian.724571877@pv343f.vincent.iastate.edu>, abian@iastate.edu (Alexander Abian) writes:
 > In <BzD4v8.J31@news.cso.uiuc.edu> met48546@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Marc E. Talbot) writes:
 > >>   I HAVE NO TIME TODAY TO REPEATING  HOW  (A3)  ALSO IMPLIES
 > >>(A1), (A2) and (A4).  Please consult my previous postings. 
 > >>Unfortunately (and really I regret that) I do not have TIME  for endless
 > >>repetitions.  
 > 
 > >Really?  You've been repeating yourself for a good 2 months here...
 > 
 >    So, I don't have to repeat  again.  HAVE NO TIME !

Here the EVIL Abian is demonstrating how STUPID he is. He clearly don't
understand that since he did write LOTS, he must have had time.

And Abian is LYING! He said that Daniel Seeman said he was modest and immodest. I
read him, and he said neither. Yet again Abian demonstrates how EVIL he is.

When I post in "TIME HAS INERTIA", abian never properly answers THE ACTUAL
QUESTIONS, he either ignores it, or say somethin BAD.

I am tired of seing ABIAN treating all the nice people here on sci.physics the
way he does. What can be done to make this SADIST disappear? His only goal here
in life is to PESTER and ATTACK.


>    With love                Alexander Abian

Abian say "With love" to all those he is agressive against. Only a REALLY EVIL
person would do a thing like that.

Gunnar.
Newsgroups: sci.physics
From: jcj@tellabs.com (jcj)
Subject: Re: Reluctant call for moderation of sci.physics
Organization: Carl Pellonpaa Fan Club - South Chapter
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 14:55:12 GMT

In article <13DEC199211444059@utahep.uta.edu> sawyer@utahep.uta.edu (Lee Sawyer) writes:
>The current flood of Abianology ...
>... can anyone suggest a way in VNEWS to tailor a kill file
>to filter the TIME HAS INERTIA postings ...

Put this line in your KILL file:

/abian/h:j

and any article with abian anywhere in the header will be junked.
Works for me.
From: rubio@pine.circa.ufl.edu (RUBIO)
Newsgroups: sci.physics
Subject: Re: help x^2+ax-xa+b=0
Date: 14 Dec 92 14:05:50 GMT
Reply-To: rubio@pine.circa.ufl.edu
Organization: University of Florida  (ufl.edu)
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4

In article <11727.723566653@jinr.dubna.su>, vignat@lnp01.jinr.dubna.su writes...
>Ladies and Gentlemen!
>I can say nothing about a simple nonlinear algebraic matrix equation
>x^2+ax+xb+c=0
>where a, b and c are noncommuting matrices. This equation can be
>reduced to the form
>x^2+Ax-xA+B=0
>with noncommuting matrices A and B.
>Can somebody help me with this equation. For what kind of matrices it
>can be solved analytically?
>I get this equation in dynamical diffraction theory.
> 
>Greatly appreciate any help.


	I'm not too sure what you mean. I assume x is a vector, so let me 
*try* to put some indices on the above eqn. This will show that, at 
least from my point of view, there is a problem with the way you've written 
them.
(sum over repeated indices.)

			x	->	x_i
			x^2	->	x_i x_i
			ax	->	a_ji x_i
			xb	->	x_i b_ij
			c	->	c_ij

	Therefore the first eqn. becomes

	x_i x_i  +  a_ji x_i  +  x_i b_ij  +  c_ij   =   0

one can now see the problem:	the first term is a scalar, the next two 
are vectors while the last one is a matrix! so you are tring to add a 
number plus a vector plus a matrix and you can't do that.


			-jose a rubio-

ps: this oppinions are my own but i'm willing to lend them to just about 
anybody.
From: carl@aoa.aoa.utc.com (Carl Witthoft)
Subject: re:superheroes
Organization: Adaptive Optics Associates
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 13:04:05 GMT

Organization: Adaptive Optics Associates

In article <rwallace.723515546@unix1.tcd.ie> rwallace@unix1.tcd.ie (russell wallace) writes:
>>When Superman flies, how does he create backthrust to propel himself
>>forward without (apparently) emitting any visible substances out of his
>>back end?
>>Serious answers only please.
>I think this is actually not so silly a question as it seems; it is
>related to the "reactionless drives" which are used in some science
x
SOrry if people are mis-associated w/ quotes above.
Of course this is a silly question, because Superman is a comic
strip character and DC comics does whatever it damn wants to create
a story.  Heck, the Justice Society of America (tons of DC superheros
in one book.... does this still exist?) back in 1966 or so ended up
using magic to stop the baddies.  To ask how Superman flies makes as
much sense as asking how Green Lantern's powers flow from a lamp
or the Human Torch over at Marvel shouts "Flame on" and flies in the plasma.
Or, how Superman can travel backwards or forwards in time by spinning
clockwise or CCW.


-- 
Carl Witthoft @ Adaptive Optics Associates
aoa!carl@bbn.com  carl@aoa.utc.com
54 CambridgePark Drive, Cambridge,MA 02140 617-864-0201
"88 is 55 if you want to fly."
Xref: sparky sci.physics:21082 talk.bizarre:41497
From: bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: sci.physics,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Why is the sky blue?
Date: 14 Dec 1992 05:07:23 GMT
Organization: Intel Corp., Chandler, Arizona
NNTP-Posting-Host: alfalfa.intel.com

Because nobody's kissed it since Hendrix died...

				--Blair
				  "Awwwwwwwww..."
Newsgroups: sci.physics
From: polowin@chem.queensu.ca (Joel Polowin)
Subject: Re: TIME HAS INERTIA - ABIAN  replies to Beatty
Organization: Dept. of Chemistry, Queen's University
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 21:57:42 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.210106.26302@cbfsb.cb.att.com> doerfler@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (ronald.w.doerfler) writes:

>Is it just me, or is this theory heading in an Aristotelian direction,
>with the five elements (earth, water, air, fire and the quintessence)
>and everything seeking its natural (read secure) place.  This actually
>did a decent qualitative job until it had to make testable, measurable
>predictions.

Abian is very much a follower of the Aristotelian mode.  For example, he	has expressed the view that all of the 1/r^2 interactions we know about
really ought to be considered as 1/r^3 -- despite the fact that the
1/r^2 equations fit the observed data really really well, and 1/r^3
don't, at all.  He's claimed as one conclusion of his theory that
particles are unstable in inverse proportion to how "big" they are;
regardless of how one defines "big", I think that mesons would be in
between electrons and protons in "bigness", and mesons have lifetimes
that are rather shorter than the others...  He claims that concentrated
sulfuric acid emits heat when it contacts water in an attempt to 
maintain its status quo by evaporating the water -- ignoring the fact
that conc. sulfuric will happily absorb water vapour from the air.

Data?  That's no fun at all.

Abian's a mathematician (of sorts), not a physicist.  He's bucking for
the Nobel prize, but he ain't gonna get it in physics, that's for sure.
Perhaps we could nominate him to receive the 1993 Nobel for mathematics?
:-)

Joel Polowin
polowin@silicon.chem.queensu.ca, polowin@chem.queensu.ca,
polowinj@qucdn.queensu.ca
From: crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass)
Subject: Re: Metals in liquid Nitrogen !!
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 00:21:03 GMT

In article <Bz4BCu.76p@knot.ccs.queensu.ca> polowin@chem.queensu.ca (Joel Polowin) writes:
>In article <1992Dec11.214822.10150@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass) writes:
>
>>>>Go back to fundimental chemistry.  Phase changes are generally exothermic.
>>>
>>>Um.  Exactly half of them are exothermic.  The other half are endothermic.
>>>:-)
>>
>>     Really?  Do you rule out phase changes in the early universe that
>>     may have no reverse counterpart in this universe?
>
><raised eyebrow>  Do you have some reason to believe that the reverse
>of those phase changes did not immediately precede the ones which we
>suppose to have taken place in the first 10^-whatever seconds?  Presumably
>if we do a big >crunch<, all of the phase changes would work in reverse...

     <Another raised eyebrow>  Do you have any reason to think Omega
     is one?

                          dale bass
-- 
C. R. Bass                                          crb7q@virginia.edu        
Department of Mechanical, 
     Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering
University of Virginia                              (804) 924-7926
Newsgroups: sci.physics
From: schumach@convex.com (Richard A. Schumacher)
Subject: Re: Richard P. Feynman
Organization: CONVEX Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx., USA
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 23:43:02 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

>but I was.  I don't see why I can't enjoy (and understand) both Hannah 
>Arendt and Oppenheimer or Feynman.  Please recall that Mr. Feynman 
>specialized in physics but also painted and played the bongos, among many 
>other endeavours not normally associated with 'scientists'.

Not true!. Many scientists are interested in and appreciative of the arts.
You must be thinking of engineers.





Newsgroups: sci.physics,alt.sci.physics.new-theories,sci.optics
From: ames!FNALD.FNAL.GOV!DROEGE
Subject: Christmas Suggestions
Reply-To: ames!FNALD.FNAL.GOV!DROEGE
Organization: Sci.physics.fusion/Mail Gateway
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 21:35:32 GMT

I got an early morning phone call from my brother.  It seems the NTT $565,000
cold fusion kit has made one the lists of things to buy those that have 
everything in the ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS.  This is not news.  What is news is
that they say that "two have been sold."  I wonder who bought them.  

Tom Droege   Droege@fnal.fnald
Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
From: mica@world.std.com (mitchell swartz)
Subject: A study of words
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 21:38:43 GMT




  In article sci.physics.fusion:4613, blue@nscl01.nscl.msu.edu 
(Dick Blue) states:


== <Cold fusion reactions are neutron-penic, that is, these
== <reactions appear to be deficient in the expected number
== <of neutrons...

==   "So we have a new word to play with here.  Cold fusion
==  advocates have been trying to have their cake and eat it too
==  with regard to neutron detection.  They want to use an
==  assortment of poor attempts at neutron detection as evidence
==  for the occurance of nuclear fusion without owning up to the
==  fact that all these attempts at neutron detection are really
==  indicating a null result.  Say "neutron-penic" and the
==  contridiction goes away without any thought as to what degree
==  of magic is required to keep most, but not all, neutrons
==  hidden.  It's is pure bunk!"

    Neutronpenic is a descriptive adjective describing what
has been seen, and  is based upon solid observation.

    Period.  It describes what has been measured and reported in some
 laboratories.  

 
    If the neutron detection has been poor, as Dick Blue claims
 above, it would hardly matter in a neutronpenic system.

    There is never a contradiction in describing what is in front of
 one's eyes, although it is relatively difficult.  

    Whereas I do not, and have not worked with magic
  no comment can be made on the rest.


Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
From: mica@world.std.com (mitchell swartz)
Subject: according to Webster
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 19:07:21 GMT

   In sci.physics.fusion:4556 [15 Dec 1992] and a previous
 post; greg@zaphod.uchicago.edu (Greg Kuperberg) states":

       
=   "I'm deliberately parroting what other people say."
                        ***
=   "Sedulous.  Now there's a word I had to look up.
=    I like it.  But I never claimed I was sedulous.
=    I'm not."


    To help finally correct this matter, because it is
 important that truth prevail (generally and especially here):

   From Webster's Dictionary [Merriam Co, 1961, page 613]:

 *** parrot *** 
  1: any of numerous widely distributed tropical zygodactyl
     birds that have a distinctive stout curved hooked bill
     and are often crested and brightly variegated and
     excellent mimics
  2: a person who sedulously echoes the words of another

  
     Therefore according to your very own words you apparently
 are, at least according to the current denotation.  


  Of much more importance, however, and most pertinent to this
 net:  We still are, respectfully, waiting for the (or
 whatever) logic - which your prose continues to avoid - but
 which is the basis for your parroted claims.
From: Dieter Britz <BRITZ@kemi.aau.dk>
Subject: Bibliography; a plea for help
Reply-To: Dieter Britz <BRITZ@kemi.aau.dk>
Organization: Sci.physics.fusion/Mail Gateway
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 15:21:03 GMT


Hello y'all,

is there anyone out there who has easy access to the Russian journal, in the
original Russian i.e., Pis'ma Zh. Tekh. Fiz? If so, could you maybe check to
see where in vol. 17, 1991, there is a paper by Konenkov et al, entitled
(in Russian, of course) "Quadrupole mass-spectrometric analysis of hydrogen
isotopes during deuterium implantation in titanium"? It seems that the Chem.
Abstracts entry is erroneous and from here, it is hard for me to find the
correct reference. I'd be grateful for any help. Thank you in advance. This
sounds like an interesting paper, Moishe Garfinkle, take note.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dieter Britz alias britz@kemi.aau.dk
Kemisk Institut, Aarhus Universitet, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
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Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
From: greg@marvin.uchicago.edu (Greg Kuperberg)
Subject: Re: Making it big.
Organization: Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Chicago
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 22:00:20 GMT

In article <1992Dec15.171426.2660@midway.uchicago.edu> greg@dent.uchicago.edu (Greg Kuperberg) writes:
>At least he's an honest businessman as far as I know, not like Milken or
>Boesky.  Milken may have set a new standard for annual income, but it's
>no fun being a billionaire if you'll burn in hell afterwards and
>you're behind bars.

I was contacted by e-mail by someone believes that Milken was
tossed in jail by dishonest prosecutors.

I must disclaim that everything I said about about Milken and
Boesky is based on reports in the New York Times and my characterization
of those reports may be completely inacurrate, as well as the reports
themselves.

Nevertheless I think it's unequivocal that he's behind bars and
that this can be a drawback to being a billoinaire.
Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
From: tomk@netcom.com (Thomas H. Kunich)
Subject: Re: Do major Japanese companies make mistakes?
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 18:58:13 GMT

In article <71919@cup.portal.com> Ted_Eugene_Viens@cup.portal.com writes:

>Gee, Greg.  Thanks for going through this effort to illustrate our large and
>very dangerous misunderstanding of Japanese business.

Perhaps you think that it's healthy to believe that Japanese businesses are
infallible?

>   Sony _earned_ 'hundred of millions of dollars' with Betamax.  They only
>failed to earn a few hundred more when VHS swept the US market.  Then they
>quickly licensed VHS and sell a wide range of VCRs and blank tape here.  

It is doubtful if Sony recovered the development costs (if they paid for
them in the first place.)

>   One or two brokers may have even have committed Hari Kari over the 
>securities flap.  But few Japanese businessmen thought this a real mistake...

This is, indeed, true.

>   Much of the Fifth Generation Computer Project was spent importing
>breaking technology from around the world until current state of the art
>eclipsed the original design statement.  Not too many corporate heads lament
>the lack of a showroom product....

As far as I know, virtually _none_ of the goals set for the 'fifth generation
computer' _as_originally_envisioned_ were met. This isn't a criticism
of Japanese ability, but of the original goals.

I find it distressing that so many people have gotten the idea that
Japan has some sort of 'magic' when it comes to product development.
The only real advantage that I've perceived is that Japanese management
tends to be a great deal more flexible in accepting ideas NIH. They
also treat their employees with much more respect. This is the major
reason that American companies have so much labor trouble while Japanese
companies only rarely so.

Do not confuse this with the belief that Japanese companies have any greater
reliance on their employees -- they do NOT. The American worker is far
more productive when treated in a proper manner.

I have always said that if the average American manager was _half_ as
competent at his job as the average American worker, there would be no
business troubles in the U.S.
From: mica@world.std.com (mitchell swartz)
Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
Subject: a experiment into relativity
Date: 20 Dec 92 19:48:37 GMT
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA


  In sci.physics.fusion:4659, and others,
 colin@physci.uct.ac.za (COLIN HENDERSON) and
 Jed Rothwell <72240.1256@compuserve.com> [with whom I am honored
     to have been confused on occasion, and who is innocent of the 
     quotes purported to him of which he is not the author]

  and others discuss: theory, evidence, experimentation,experts.

  IMHO the arguments reflect ignoring that there are ** both **
  theoretical and physical experimentations.
  A theoretician may sweat weeks to solve; an experimentalist may have
  similar travail.

            Both are work (force * distance)

                      Both make experts.


   If you think thought experiments are not work (and don't make experts)
 try the following thought experiment Einstein went through to prove
 E=mc2.  Such gendanken-though has  been alluded to here. 
   This is insightful and  is work.
   Just make bilateral two photon emission from a fixed frame of
 reference, and from a moving one.  Add in Doppler shift, and note that
 a delta-energy is needed.   Solve for it.   It is a mystical problem
 set, and therefore is highly recommended.


==  "You need to measure the temperature.  Simplistically, you
==  have a theory that mecury expands when it gets hot.  Then you
==  say "I have a rise in temperature - that means there's a flow
==  or source of heat".  Only then do you get to your watts." 
        [after colin@physci.uct.ac.za (COLIN HENDERSON)]


  "Evidence":  One person's interpretation from the conversion of data 
   into information, which is not always done correctly.
        [?Garbage in, garbage out]

  This is a good example with thermometers.  Observation came first.
  Increase in volume with temperature.   Then with calibration,
 what is a qualitative description metamorphoses into a semiquantitative
 calibrated result  [---> F, K, C].


  One final comment on describing the neutron output of cf experiments.

==  "Now that CF experiments have shown that aneutronic nuclear
==  reactions can occur in metal lattices, theories must be
==  devised to explain this."
          [after Jed Rothwell <72240.1256@compuserve.com>]

  Many claim that their experimental results are not "aneutronic".

                (aneutronic = void of neutrons)

   including many luminaries on this channel. 

   It would be wrong to avoid and ignore their considerable efforts,
 teaching, and contribution.   Some of these claims involve very
 low (or very very very very very low) levels of neutrons,

      hence: neutronpenic results. 



 SUMMARY: Although many cf experimenters report no neutron production
 (presumably within the limits of their system), others report
  neutronpenic results.


 IMPORTANCE: To some, the aneutronic experiments are NULL experiments.

  That may or may not be true, but the neutronpenic results
  are not NULLS, if properly performed.
From: jimp@alcor.concordia.ca ( Jim Poulin )
Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
Subject: Re: Holliday Plans
Date: 11 Dec 92 21:21:06 GMT
Organization: Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec


In article <921203133542.20603ac7@FNALD.FNAL.GOV> ames!FNALD.FNAL.GOV!DROEGE writes:
>
>Can anyone easily look up where .1 M - 1 M LiOD will freeze.  Just rough, I 
>don't need it to 3 decimal places. 
>
>The message I got from McKubre was that it was important to be clean and pure.  

And for that reason you should avoid using glass,PYREX, any silicate based     
material in a strong alkaline solution, because it will be taken into solution.
(This is how "water glass" is produced - disolve silica in sodium hydroxide.)
The containers for you new experiment should use some alkali resistant platic,
possibly teflon.

>For this a dish of Liquid Nitrogen was proposed.  This I can probably bring 
>home from Fermilab.  Since I am nervous about having chemicals in my basement, 
>I decided that the Phosphorous was out, even though some of you will assure me 
>that it is safe.  So I have bought some Drierite. 


Phosporous Pentoxide is non flamable. It will produce Phophoric Acid when
it reacts with water(or vapour). I would only be concerned with this as a
source of contamination for your cells. It is however a very acidic 
substance and corrosive.
>
>If the bag does not contain a vent tube, I will add one with a bubbler. (Oil?)
>
>So here is my plan for a clean operation.   Into the new (clean I hope) glove 
>bag I will put:
>
>The bottle of Lithium wire (in Oil?)

If you can obtain Lithium in an inert gas atmosphere, contamination by 
oil could be avoided. Depending on the type of oil (if any unsaturated
bonds) it could end up being hyrolyzed by the strong alkaline solution
and again end up as clutter in your cell.

>A flask to mix Li with the D2O

This reaction  is highly exothermic(evolution of deuterium)
. If there is any residual oxygen in the bag it will definitely ignite. 
Keep a positive nitrogen flow through the bag from evaporating liquid 
nitrogen. This removes the need for having D2O vapour, the wet paper towel
...
No need to wait 48 hours, only the time to flush with nitrogen.

>Clean new smaller bottles to store LiOD mix.
>Before opening up the bag, I will fill and seal the cell.

Jim Poulin
Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
From: ames!FNALD.FNAL.GOV!DROEGE
Subject: Science 101
Reply-To: ames!FNALD.FNAL.GOV!DROEGE
Organization: Sci.physics.fusion/Mail Gateway
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 21:56:06 GMT

While I am offering Cell Power Measurement 101, I cannot recal getting
Science 101 in my many hours of course work.  Looks like you have to get
it by osmosis.  I am not surprised that Jed Rothwell does no recognize 
Dieter Britz's (and also in this field Douglas Morrison) valuable 
contribution.  Some in science choose to do experimentation.  Some choose
to do theory.  Others choose to read everything and to try to make sense 
of it.  

So Jed, Dieter is doing a very valuable job.  He could not do the same job
if he also did experimentation.  It is wrong, I think, to criticize him.

Tom Droege
Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion