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Created: 22nd January 2005 
Hello virtuality,

Monday 25th June 2007

newolder :: old in a newer place.

Watching::eta Carinae but i have most of the planet between me and it, most of the time.
A person lying on the ground, looking at the stars

Unitary group in three dimensions, U(3), is real, positive, definite (Penrose, 2004) and Special Unitary group theory in eleven dimensions, SU(11), probably solves all physics. WOW! (Paul J. Steinhardt and Neil Turok, 1998 - present)

SU(dimension count tends to infinity) has us in its grasp too, I guess.

Pragmatist since 1958, give or take. In all probability, yet another supersymmetric spartner that is just a guy.

The bug reporting section is found at: downtime thread

Evidence anent reality here and hereabouts

Red shapes in the sky The 'answer' is eta Carinae.

Hear also, Mark E. Smith and The Fall.

Hoping this finds you well and in good spirits,

ed.

Sole applicant: inaugural "Screw Loose" professor of physics and comparative absurdity at Holwick, County Durham, UK.

Paperwork :: B.Sc. Honours, Physics, Class 2 Division ii (Liverpool University, 1980); Ph.D. (UMIST, 1984); F.R.Met.S.

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Total solar eclipse, 2006

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I would like to stay in touch with you....Oct 5, 2006
Uni: Physics is solvable.Jun 21, 2006
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Red shapes in the sky
May 24, 2007

Whilst browsing the catalogues of recent telescopy, i stumbled upon the events around eta Carinae - formerly about 150 Solar masses but now down to ~100 or so - still, that's >> 10^30 kilogrammes!

I feel sad that just when the monkeys have worked out what's goin' on, they get obliterated by a product of their best theories, namely, a hypernova: just like the one seen to explode on 18th September last year as SN2006gy; a star in a far-off galaxy (326 million light years distant) showing the effect of such an explosion as eta Car. is about to make (next 10 thousand years, perhaps?). The violence of a hypernova (from where the element gold is forged) means that the immediate neighbourhood of SN2006gy (say within 10 thousand light years radius) is almost certainly sterlised of 'life' for the foreseeable...

eta Carinae is at a range of 5700 light years. It was last seen to erupt in the 19th century (when it became the 2nd brightest object for a while in the earth's southern hemisphere) to shed 40 Solar masses worth of nickel in two lobes.

Are the lobes expanding yet? Or are they returning to the central maelstrom to add their weight to the final blast, i wonder? ed.

http://newolder.netfirms.com/Red%20...are%20and%20Rectangle%20nebulae.htm

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Measure Problem
Oct 21, 2006


In “The Measure Problem in Cosmology”*, Gibbons & Turok write:

“Choosing units in which Mpl^2 “is equivalent to” 1/8πG = 1.”

I am aware of the identity h = c = 1 from undergraduate days and that leads to masses in high energy physics being quoted in electron Volts, eV. (To be dimensionally correctly, the unit is eV/c^2 but the identity allows the “per c^2“to be dropped.)

I am also content that dimensional argument leads to Mpl^2 = h-bar c/G

Using the ‘undergraduate’ identity, therefore, we can say Mpl^2 “ is equivalent to” 1/2πG

I am lost, however, over the apparent ‘extra’ factor of ¼.

Does anyone have pointers to where this factor ¼ comes from, please? Without it, I’ll not be able to get the measure of things hereabouts, never mind in the cosmos at large, correct.

I’ve asked the authors and posters at Elmhurst a similar question. ed.

* http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/hep-th/pdf/0609/0609095.pdf



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ekpyrosis (continued)
Sep 22, 2006

Thursday, 21st September 2006. BBC Radio 4's "Material World" begins with a discussion of the cosmological theory known as The Ekpyrotic Universe. Neil Turok, damtp @ Cambridge UK, outlined aspects of the theory to Ruth Gregory and presenter Quentin Cooper.

Ekpyrosis is a word from Greek meaning "Out of fire" and a striking feature is its use of a 4th space dimension that permits relatively simple answers to apparently simple cosmological issues such as, "What came before the Big Bang?" and "What is the observable universe expanding into?" - questions that are difficult/impossible for Big Bang plus inflation (BB+I, the hitherto standard cosmology) to answer.

A specific prediction about Einsteinian gravity waves is that none will be found to originate in the proximity of the observable universe's early bang whilst BB+I predicts a plethora of such waves. The Planck telescope, due to launch in 2008, will search for these and other gravity waves and its results will help greatly in cosmological argument.



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eclipse (continued...)
Dec 17, 2005

with apologies for the blogging nature of my drivel (1 too-many, again…) but since the eclipse is within a hundred (or so) sleeptimes…

I think it’s science. Any interest? ed.tea choc

http://eclipse2006.netfirms.com/

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Total solar eclipse, Wednesday March 29th 2006
Oct 17, 2005

The next total solar eclipse (hyperlink: http://...nasa.gov/..., starting in Brazil and ending at sunset in Mongolia, passes over the north east coast of the Black Sea.
It is my aim to observe at least some of this eclipse and use internet technology to allow others to join the fun.
On Wednesday March 1st 2006 me and eddie the warthog beagle mountain bike will set off for Teesside Airport (hyperlink) and fly as close to the eclipse path as practicable. From there, train and other transport should yield spectacular results, unless it is a cloudy day or I don't make it for other reason.
Just thought some other may be interested to read something other than bird-flu tales. <I>ed</I>run .


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