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Saturday, September 29, 2007

Unhung zeroes

by Frank Paynter on September 29, 2007

a paper titled “Why Dilatation Generators Don’t Generate
Dilatations.” We had read a written version but hoped that his talk would help


What about that Mexican hat? WHAT HAPPENS IF THEY DON’T FIND THE MEXICAN HAT?
(Which was arrived by applying uncertainty around zero/a point.)
You make a PLAN “B”.
There are more amateurs then professionals.
You therefore, organize a party and ask everybody to come with anything that they can find that does not break the Planck scale.
If there is anything that looks promising then it can be pursued further.
The professionals have the abilities and tools to do more than the amateurs.
Most professionals will not be interested or inclined to look for a PLAN “B”.

eentsy weentsy distances and eentsy weentsy intervals defining the smallest possible alternate universes and of course the incredibly swift passage of a photon across the distance between them…

order me up some squarks order me up a slepton, perchance to dream on, and my imagination will thrive upon that kiss
Sweetheart I ask no more than this…

“What about the positivity of the spectral function?” Indeed, what about Skeletor himself?

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Goose Island Ramblers

by Frank Paynter on September 29, 2007

Google returns about 1,260 hits for “Goose Island Ramblers” yet there is no Wikipedia entry for the locally famous band.  I suppose I could begin the documentation, but then I’d probably have to create a new Glen and Anne’s page and a Polkabilly page and god knows what… probably an In Heaven There is No Beer page.

Yes, Nick Carr, it is tragic that the Montahue Jetson page has been demoted to a referrer entry for the main Jetson’s page, but consider the Ramblers who have no page of their own.  There is work to do if we truly mean to make this the source of all important knowledge.

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Bears repeating…

September 29, 2007

I wrote this a year ago and nothing much has happened to change my mind…
It’s not about the shallow nature and the greed of the second generation brass-ring boys seeking to spin straw into gold. It’s not even so much about the immutability of the straw, although that’s a big part of it. What it’s [...]

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Waldo Tunnel — Mystery Solved!

September 29, 2007

I thought the hippies did it — painted the rainbows on Marin’s famous Rainbow Tunnel on the Waldo grade just north of the Golden Gate Bridge. Seems rather it was done by Alan Hart, a state employee with a vision.
H/T to Brian Hayes for the story.
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