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Newsgroups: alt.fandom.cons
Subject: Re: Art Show Mail In
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 06:32:15 GMT
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi

   I don't know of any Conventions in the New Orleans, Louisiana to
Mobile, Alabama area that don't accept mail in art. CoastCon, held in
Biloxi, Mississippi every spring, has accepted mail in art for years.
I would say that it varies in amount of the total art, but from
30 percent to 50 percent would be the ballpark figure.

       Later, DJ.

-- 
 Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM - Gulf Park Campus 
             jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 08:31:01 GMT
Newsgroups: alt.fandom.cons
Subject: Re: Con's
Reply-To: blarson@usc.edu
From: blarson@blars.UUCP

In article <1992Dec12.211720.10208@infonode.ingr.com> crossgl@infonode.ingr.com (Gordon Cross) writes:
>In article <351@blars.UUCP> blarson@usc.edu writes:
>>Feb 5-7   Escapade III  Santa Barbara Holiday Inn	Multimedia adult/slash
>>I'm not going to attend all of them myself...  Anybody know what a
>>"Multimedia adult/slash slumber party" is?

>Would someone please post contact info for this con??  I'd like to know also!

[I should have stated that I could supply more info on any of these
cons from the flyers on request.]

[quoting from the flyer:]

Questions, comments, derisive remarks? Just contact us.

Jennifer Holland or Christine Logsdon
P.O. Box 592
Goleta, CA 93116

Registration is $36, Payable to J. Holland at the same address.
Besides the usual questions on the form (name, address, suggestions,
begging for volenteers, additional info desired) are "Do you want to
be left out of our address book?" and "I, the undersigned, hereby
acknoledge that on February 5, 1993, I will be at least 18 years of
age."

When I mentioned it to someone who has been before, I found out they
are getting more "mainstream erotica" than in the past, then the
discussion wandered off to KS.  (Apperently enough stories are written
about Kirk and Spock being lovers that it has it's own designation.)

-- 
blarson@usc.edu			usc!blarson			blarson@zog
		C news and rn for os9/68k!
I think I hear a scream.  A great many dramatic situations begin with a scream.
							-- Barbarella
Newsgroups: alt.fandom.cons
From: crossgl@infonode.ingr.com (Gordon Cross)
Subject: Re: Con's
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 21:17:20 GMT

In article <351@blars.UUCP> blarson@usc.edu writes:

>Feb 5-7   Escapade III  Santa Barbara Holiday Inn	Multimedia adult/slash

>I'm not going to attend all of them myself...  Anybody know what a
>"Multimedia adult/slash slumber party" is?

Would someone please post contact info for this con??  I'd like to know also!
-- 

Gordon Cross          UUCP:     uunet!ingr!infonode!crossgl   "all opinions are
111 Westminister Way  INTERNET: crossgl@infonode.ingr.com    mine and not those
Madison, AL 35758     MA BELL:  (205) 730-3760               of my employer."
Newsgroups: alt.fandom.cons
From: crossgl@infonode.ingr.com (Gordon Cross)
Subject: Re: ChattaCon and Marcon
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 21:13:52 GMT

In article <723kVB3w165w@cybernet.cse.fau.edu> doctor8@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (Clay Evans) writes:

>I'd like to hear from anyone (Whovians and RD fans, especially) who're 
>going to either Chattacon or Marcon.

There's a good chance that I'll be going to ChattaCon if I can find enough
folks to share a room with to make the whole thing affordable.  Interested?
-- 

Gordon Cross          UUCP:     uunet!ingr!infonode!crossgl   "all opinions are
111 Westminister Way  INTERNET: crossgl@infonode.ingr.com    mine and not those
Madison, AL 35758     MA BELL:  (205) 730-3760               of my employer."
From: mfriley@pacman.WPI.EDU (Margaret F Riley)
Newsgroups: alt.fandom.cons
Subject: Need Anglicon Contact address
Date: 15 Dec 1992 20:03:15 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: pacman.wpi.edu

HI,

A friend desperately needs a contact person for Anglicon.  Does 
someone know who/where to write or call, or how can I find out.

Margaret
mfriley@wpi.wpi.edu
From: electro@access.digex.com (Gary Ehrlich)
Newsgroups: alt.fandom.cons
Subject: Re: Balticon Info Needed
Date: 17 Dec 1992 03:34:56 GMT
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.com


Here's the vitals on Balticon:

April 9-11, 1993
Hunt Valley Inn (I-83N at Shawan Road)

Info and pre-reg: 
   BSFS (Baltimore SF Society)
   Box 686
   Baltimore, MD 21203
   
   $25 til 3/13/93
   $35 at the door

The Guests of Honor:
   Don Maitz - Artist GoH
   Allen Steel - Writer GoH
   Leslie Fish - Filk Goh (*rare East Coast appearance*)

Rooms are $78 in the Hunt Valley Inn; there is an Embassy Suites and a
Mariott Courtyard across Shawan Road (bit of a trek with one *heck* of 
a tough road to cross)

Hope this answers your questions!



-- 
     ELECTRO   | Gary J. Ehrlich           | "Real filkers don't document;
    E_____     |                           |  if it was hard to write it   
   E           | electro@access.digex.com  |  should be hard to scan" 
  ELECTRO      | G. EHRLICH on GEnie       |          
Newsgroups: alt.sci.planetary
From: bigoness@sage.cc.purdue.edu
Subject: Re: Lunar Eclipse. A question...
Originator: bigoness@sage.cc.purdue.edu
Organization: Purdue University
Distribution: alt.sci.planetary
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 23:47:07 GMT

In <Bz20sG.CF9@wrs.com> gak@wrs.com (Richard Stueven) writes:

>In article 0111@UNBVM1.CSD.UNB.CA, U21A <U21A@UNB.CA> () writes:
>>I was lucky enough to witness the lunar eclipse this evening, here in
>>Fredericton, NB, Canada. My question is this; just before totality,
>>approximately 1910 or so local time, I noticed what appeared to be
>>spots of light located at the top of what was left of the moon at
>>that time. These spots appeared to be red, and yellow, sometimes
>>white, and seemed to flash on and off.
>
  Possibly some lunar version of Bailey's Beads?  These are points
  of light that appear just before totality in a SOLAR eclipse.
  They're caused by the sun's light skimming off craters and mountains
  on the Moon's surface.

  Maybe there was light refracting around the Earth enough to
  cause such an effect...  But then again, they were probably 
  just UFOs...


  RB
Newsgroups: alt.sci.astro.figaro
From: sns@bondi.jpl.nasa.gov (Sam Southard)
Subject: image display colors
Summary: how many do you like?
Organization: SAR Systems Development & Processing, JPL
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 18:15:38 GMT

I'm planning the addition of overlay planes into the new version of figdisp.
There are a variety of ways this could be done, some fast, some not so fast.
To choose between the various methods, I need to know what users think about
colors.

How many colors would be useful for graphics overlay?
How many colors would be useful for text overlay?

Also, what do you feel is the absolute minimum number of distinct colors you
need to see in your image?  What do you feel is a resonable number?  How many
colors would it take to make you happy as a clam?

By colors I don't mean numerical data values - a full 8 or 16 bits will still
be available even with 2 colors.  I mean the number of distinct colors or
shades of grey, aside from the background, which will be visible in a figdisp
window at one time.

Sam Southard, Jr.
Newsgroups: alt.sci.astro.aips,sci.astro,sci.med.physics,sci.engr.biomed,sci.geo.geology
From: carlin@gandalf.nosc.mil (Mike Carlin)
Subject: image processing packages
Originator: carlin@gandalf.nosc.mil
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 22:15:27 GMT


Hello,

Does anyone know of any researchers who have been using the Astronomical
Image Processing System (AIPS) software package for acoustic imaging
(e.g. medical imaging, petroleum exploration)?  If yes, I would 
appreciate it if you could provide me with information as to how to
contact them.  I have the same request concerning users of the MIDAS and
IRAF image processing packages.

For those of you using AIPS, MIDAS or IRAF for non-radio astronomical
purposes, did you find it easy to use and easy to modify for your 
purposes?

Can anyone doing acoustic imaging recommend any other software packages?

Thank you for your time.

Michael Carlin
carlin@nosc.mil
(619) 553-1795
From: hcbarth@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Bart Bartholomew)
Newsgroups: alt.sci.physics.new-theories
Subject: Gravity
Date: 20 Dec 92 07:18:49 GMT
Organization: The Great Beyond


	Lemme see if I understand this correctly:
Current ideas on gravity support something like this:
(Gravitron, breathlessly):  Hi, Mass.  I'm from that
big sun about 10 light-years over yonder.  It wants you
to move a little closer.  Thanks.
(Mass, obligingly): O.K.  Is this enough?
(Gravitron): Yes, that's just right.

	I'm sorry, but for me this just does not compute.
	BartB

-- 
"I'll need a sample."  "Come again?"  "No, once is enough." Joel<-> Holling
If there's one thing I just can't stand, it's intolerance.
*No One* is responsible for my views, I'm a committee. Please do not
infer that which I do not imply.  hcbarth@afterlife.ncsc.mil
From: mlevin@husc8.harvard.edu (Michael Levin)
Newsgroups: alt.sci.physics.new-theories
Subject: Electromagnetic Field Effects on Living Systems
Date: 11 Dec 92 21:23:42 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Harvard University Science Center


Hi all -

   I just saw a posting on electromagnetic field effects on living
systems. I don't know anything about Tom Beardon, but my specialty (I
am a graduate student at Harvard Medical school, have been keeping up
with the literature for years, and have done several years of active
research in the area) is in EM effects on living systems, and I want
to offer several things, for people who are interested.  Here's some
information to start with:
1) EM-field effects are *NOT* considered a fringe phenomenon - there
is a veritable ton of papers in the standard biological journals about
these effects. That is not to say that many biologists are
unaccustomed to thinking about it - it is a relatively new field.
2) there does not have to be any magnetite in the tissue for effects
to take place. magnetic fields can affect electrically charged
particles, which are ubiquitous in living systems.
3) effects are non-linear: strong fields can have less effect than
very weak fields etc.
   Now, if anyone wants more information on this, please email me at
mlevin@husc8.harvard.edu. Also, I have amassed a bibliography of
papers in the standard scientific literature. The bibliography is
about 30 pages long, and contains references to applied field effects
(everything from microwaves to ELF to DC fields), natural fields (the
importance of the earth's fields, as well as fields  and radiations
produced by biological systems naturally), etc. This can be had by
sending me your land-mail address and $15 to cover copy costs and
shipping.

Mike Levin
From: noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring)
Subject: Would like update on ZPE or vacuum energy extraction
Summary: Anybody here doing any type of research in this area?
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 19:21:40 GMT

Hello,

It's been a while since I've heard much about the possibilities of tapping
or releasing useful energy from the vacuum energy.  Thus, if you have any
knowledge or information concerning current research in this area, I'd like
to hear from you.  Anything:  anecdotes, rumors, published articles, etc.
I'm just trying to assemble as much information as I can.

I'm particularly interested if you've heard anything recently from/about
Jupiter Technologies, especially about the large company that is now
backing the development of their CCT device for vacuum energy extraction.
Two of the main people at Jupiter are Hal Puthoff and Ken Shoulders.

Thanks.

Jon Noring

(btw, if you'd like to get information of what has been published/posted
concerning Jupiter/Puthoff/Shoulders, just anonymous ftp over to site
lupulus.ssc.gov, and in subdirectory /papers you'll find quite a bit
of material including references to published papers in refereed journals.)

-- 

Charter Member of the INFJ Club.

Now, if you're just dying to know what INFJ stands for, be brave, e-mail me,
and I'll send you some information.  It WILL be worth the inquiry, I think.

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From: sbooth@coral.bucknell.edu (Booth Stephen Alexander Edwin)
Newsgroups: alt.sci.physics.new-theories
Subject: Query: QED w/ mag. poles
Date: 16 Dec 1992 00:01:26 GMT
Organization: Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, USA
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X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]


	I'm a senior physics major writing a thesis on nni
the theoretical consequences of magnetic monopole.
I have a question having to do wwith the "bare mass" of the 
photon.
	Apparently, QED with magnetic poles uses in 
an essential way the possibility of performing gauge  
transformations on the electromagnetic potenials.
Therefore, the existence of Dirac poles provides 
some understanding for the zero "bare mass" of 
the photon.  Where in QED without magnetic poles, photons
with a finite "bare mass" can be rationalized.  

The above is a summary of an article by Amaldi.
If anyone can elaborate on the above, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks in advance.

---
Steve Casagrande        "Dirac was a Dude"
(Using S. Booth's account)  
Bucknell University
Lewisburg PA
mail to sbooth@coral.bucknell.edu

A


Newsgroups: alt.sci.physics.new-theories
From: payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne)
Subject: Re: Electromagnetic Field Effects on Living Systems
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 00:18:52 GMT

In article <BzBIrq.4x8@news.iastate.edu> tomes@iastate.edu () writes:
>In article <1992Dec15.141623.16670@netcom.com> payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne) writes:
>>In article <BzA9z4.6x@news.iastate.edu> tomes@iastate.edu () writes:
>>>FCC regulation would produce a field noticeably stronger than the background
>>>of the field generated by the 60hz all over the place.
>>
>>I beileve the FCC regulations are for radio noise, not electric/magnetic
>>fields in the 50-60 hz range suspected of affecting biological functions.
>But the 50-60hz fields are primarily generated by power systems, and a laptop 
>is normally run (on the lap, anyway) by DC batteries, and the disk drives are
>run by DC permanent-magnet motors.  The only thing that would be oscillating in
>the 50-60 hz range would be the screen drivers (interleaved 30 frames/sec=60hz)
>if they follow convention.  I believe the current is too low for the lcd to 
>produce an appreciable field, and the backlight is covered by other FCC regs.

You forget the crystal master clock. This is what is referred to when
you see an ad for a 33MHZ 486. The CPU can emit quite a bit of radio noise,
from both the master clock, and harmonics. Another thing which can cause
a lot of noise is an unshielded or poorly grounded serial cable.
 
>CP Tomes
>Henrys? I don' need no steenkin Henrys!!


Rich

payner@netcom.com
From: sk4i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Samuel John Kass)
Newsgroups: alt.sci.physics.new-theories
Subject: Re: Experiment: At-Home time travel experimentation
Date: 11 Dec 92 19:13:55 GMT
	<1992Dec10.123018.1@woods.ulowell.edu>
Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

On 10-Dec-92 in Re: Experiment: At-Home tim..
user cotera@woods.ulowell.edu writes:
>In article <ROLAND.92Dec10095341@helicon.sics.se>, roland@sics.se
(Roland Karls
>son) writes:
> 
>> No, not necessarily.  If you leave a note somewhere telling a future
>> time machine inventor to visit you at a given place and time. then you
>> do not need to invent any time machine.  Going forward in time is no
>> problem at all, you just wait and there the future comes (Zwooooshh),
>> and there it went into the past.
>> 
> 
>True, but if your descendent explained how the time machine works, then you
>could invent it if you wish (assuming that the technology is available).  If
>you do invent it then you are the inventor, always was always will be.
>--Ray Cote

But if you copy a design from someone else, then it's not invention.
Newsgroups: alt.sci.physics.new-theories,sci.physics,sci.electronics
From: hank@well.sf.ca.us (Hank Roberts)
Subject: Re: Electromagnetic Field Effects on Living Systems
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 03:00:50 GMT


Please keep posting; now that I've read in the local papers that
3-1/2 minutes per day with an old AC-powered electric razor
correlates with a higher frequency of leukemia, I am finding myself
a little dubious every time the hard drive in my lap-top Mac winds up.....
Newsgroups: alt.sci.physics.new-theories,sci.physics,sci.electronics
From: et@teal.csn.org (Eric H. Taylor)
Subject: The Theories are Full of Holes
Followup-To: alt.sci.physics.new-theories
Summary: So just what is resistance anyhow?
Keywords: electrons, holes, resistance, superconductors
Organization: 4-L Laboratories
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 12:54:04 GMT

                    THE THEORIES ARE FULL OF HOLES
                                or
                  IS RESISTIVE HEATING A GAS EFFECT?

It is common knowledge that an electric current thru a resistor causes heating.
But why?
Consider: most currents are cause by increased pressure. Normally, we cause
a current by "pushing" the electrons thru a conductor. Since electrons are
a gas, like with any gas, as pressure is increased, so does temperature
increase. The usual explanation of resistive heating is that collisions
of electrons with nuclei increases the temperature due to friction. I claim
instead that the temperature rise is due to increasing the pressure of the
electron gas, and the conductor is heated via a thermal heat transfer.

This concept gets very interesting when you consider the effect of running
an electron hole current thru a conductor. An electron hole is the
absence (instead of presence) of an electron. The electrical properties of
a hole are identical to electrons, except that they "move" positive charge
instead of negative charge. Realizing that a hole current would represent
a decreased pressure, the temperature of the electrons would decrease.
Again, as thermal transfer, the temperature of the conductor would also
decrease.

So the primary questions are how should we modify the basic electrical
calculations of voltage and resistive effects under conditions of large
hole currents?

For example, heat transfer is given as I^2*R. Should this be rewritten
to be (In - Ip)^2*R? [Where In is the electron current, and Ip is the
hole current] Would the total current be |In| + |Ip|? If a large hole
current was run thru an incandescent light bulb, how would the spectrum
change?

Can you design electrical circuits that would amplify holes preferentially
over electrons? Or how about a circuit that discriminates (and separates)
hole currents from electron currents? In other words, how would you design
an experiment to test the above equation (In - Ip)^2*R?

High temperature superconductors are ceramic semi-conductors at normal
temperatures. Does anyone have data on electron and hole mobilities in
various high temperature superconductors, both at room temperature, and
at superconductive temperatures?

----
 ET   "A Force of Nature"
----
Newsgroups: alt.sci.physics.new-theories
Subject: Re: quarks
From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Matt McIrvin)
Date: 18 Dec 92 21:44:34 GMT

corey@amiganet.chi.il.us (Corey Sweeney) writes:

>Would someone like to tell me thier interpetation of spin, charm, flavor, etc?

Charm is a kind of flavor.  Flavor is just a sort of property that quarks
can have; experiments reveal six different kinds of quark that have
different masses, grouped into three pairs, with one quark of charge +2/3
and one of charge -1/3 in each pair (the antiquarks have the correspondingly
opposite charges).  Quarks can change flavor by means of weak interactions.

Nobody knows why there are six flavors.  Nobody knows why the quark masses
are what they are (they vary over a huge range).

>on spin i was told by someone that it's the "magnetic field" created by the
>particle spinning about it's own axis.  therefore if i have a particle that has
>a spin of -1/2 all i have to do is flip it upside down & it then has a spin of
>+1/2.  would someone like to correct this?

I'd say that the spin is related to the magnetic field, not that it is
the magnetic field-- the electron and the proton are both spin 1/2 
particles, but the magnetic dipoles associated with them are different.

To say that the particle "spins around its own axis" is to speak very,
very metaphorically, since many of these particles are too small to
actually be spinning at the required rate in any physically sensible
way.  (The electron is smaller than the size probed by any current
experiment; it's typically modeled as a true point particle).  It's
better to say that particles can have an intrinsic angular momentum
other than that which comes from their motion through space, and that
that is called "spin." 

It's true that if you turn over a particle of spin +1/2 (this can
be done to neutrons if you're careful, I understand) you get a
particle of spin -1/2.  For rotational angular momentum, the
vector corresponding to the angular momentum is usually taken to point
in a direction along the axis of rotation, with a right-hand rule
determining which way it points along the axis.  With spin there's
nothing really rotating, so you can't exactly say this, but what it
does under rotations is similar to what happens if you imagine the
particle spinning on its axis.

You might be troubled now by the statement that the component of
spin along any axis can only be plus or minus 1/2 (or h/4pi in
angular momentum units).  What happens if you only turn the particle
halfway over, so it's spinning on its side?  What's the spin in the
z direction then?  The answer is that it becomes uncertain:  if you
measure it you'll get either +1/2 or -1/2 with equal probability.
A kind of uncertainty principle exists between the various components
of spin; by making the spin in, say, the x direction definite, the other
components become uncertain.

This is a very, very basic and elegant example of the kind of trickiness
involved in quantum mechanics.

-- 
Matt McIrvin
Newsgroups: alt.sci.physics.new-theories
From: tomes@iastate.edu ()
Subject: Re: Electromagnetic Field Effects on Living Systems
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 17:53:05 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.053518.23716@netcom.com> payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne) writes:
>Opps, just re-read what you said. There is a bit of a discontinuity here.
>Sallright, you did not address my original point either. Life goes on.


Everyone's right, everyone's wrong.  Life goes on mutating to the tune of
laptops everywhere!!!

Finals suck!!

CP "Chuck the Merciless" Tomes
Red lectroids from planet 10 have taken over the financial aid office at ISU
and cancelled all of my aid and no one cares!!
From: reese@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.sci.physics.new-theories
Subject: Who/What is Sarfatti?
Date: 18 Dec 92 17:10:23 GMT
Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620


So, what is all this stuff that Sarfatti posts?  I don't have time to
read all of it, so I can't decide whether it is bogus physics or not.
Could someone please enlighten me on where Sarfatti comes from, what
he wants to do, whether his work is sound or not, and whether he's on
the edge of some kind of breakthrough.
Thank you.

Jason
Newsgroups: alt.sci.physics.new-theories