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| Date | 2014-08-02 |
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| Message | Hello, George Musser. I am Philip De Parto, Director of the Science Fiction Association of Bergen County. Our monthly General Meetings feature talks and other presentations by experts in sf and related fields. This includes people from the sciences from time to time. We meet on the second Saturday night of each month in Bergen County, New Jersey. Would you be interested in speaking out string theory at some future date? All the best. Philip (I wrote to you back in February through the NJ/NY Writers Meetup and can find no record of a response from you.) |
Private Message added 2014-07-09 |
| Date | 2014-07-03 |
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| Message | mr musser, ran across your Sci Am article on the VU1 ESL lamp from 2011. it appears VU1 only offers a 500lumen R30 - not really enough light output as a replacement for most currently configured applications. I would probably need to double the number of cans installed in my kitchen to replace my current LEDs - a major construction effort! the VU1 also does not promise a very long life compared to available LEDs. any new thoughts - VU1 or lighting options in general since 2011? thx, kyle miller |
| Date | 2014-07-02 |
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| Message | The "Ultimate Paradox" resolved: Have read your essay "The Mysterious Flow" in Scientific American "A Question of Time". How do people speculate about time without defining the word IF there is no empirical evidence of its existence to speculate around? There is no empirical evidence for Time's concrete existence (all we evidence are events happening), therefore it is abstract. If abstract, it is merely a word, and the words usage is defined by us, it originators. Time is actually very simple. Read the dictionaries, and Time becomes clear, it has two subtly distinct core meanings: its a non-specific collective term for events and its a framework to reference calibrate and index events (i.e the 't' in science). That is it - time wholly explained. The 'flow' we perceive is the 'flow' of events happening. Time is not real, universal, nor fundamental. It is specific to every (quantum) event (that's an awful lot of time dimensions). What you scientists should concentrate on are the underlying fundamentals to which Time refers - e.g. events and the relationship between them. And if spacetime is a viable construct of two separate paradigms, they need to be paradigms of compatible nature. 'Space' also refers to the abstract framework in which we index, reference, and calibrate the spatial dimension - so it too is abstract. Hence Spacetime must be an abstract. More full explanation here www.thisistime.co.uk - I hope it helps Kind regards |
Private Message added 2014-06-28 |
| Date | 2014-06-18 |
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| Message | Hi George, Wanted to let you know that one of our researchers has recommended you for the Santa Fe Institute's Journalism Fellowship In Complex Systems and that applications are now being accepted. The submission deadline is August 1, 2014. SFI's five inaugural journalism fellows -- Sandy Blakeslee, Nikki Greenwood, Guy Gugliotta, Julie Rehmeyer, and Alex Witze -- have added demonstrably to the intellectual environment here at the Institute, and each gives the fellowship high marks. For the fellowship's second year we are again looking for accomplished, actively reporting members of the print, online, television, or radio news media. Fellowship durations and dates are flexible. If you are not interested in this opportunity, please accept my apology for the intrusion, and please feel free to forward this email to any news media colleagues who come to mind. For more information and to apply, the fellowship website is here www.santafe.edu/j-fellowship. Please let me know if you have any questions. Cheers. John John German Director of Communications Santa Fe Institute 1399 Hyde Park Road Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 505.946.2798 www.santafe.edu |
| Date | 2014-06-13 |
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| Message | George, you need to hear my solar panel story. First google me and my city and throw in the word solar and read what you can find about my saga. I'd love for you to hear the whole ugly ball of wax. Something needs to be done to change the process and I think you writing about it might just be the thing that gets positive change to happen. Frances Babb Clarkson Valley, MO 63005 |
| Date | 2014-05-23 |
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| Message | Hello George! I lived upstairs from you freshman year at Brown. My career has taken me far from physics (lately I have been navigating a boat to the lava flows at Kilauea Volcano.) In November I gave a presentation at UH-Hilo where I linked Pauli Exclusion to General Relativity. I would like to tell you about it. Please email me. Sincerely, Roy Carvalho Brown '88 |
Private Message added 2014-05-05 |
| Date | 2014-04-15 |
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| Message | Gidday from Down Under, I am trying to email Amanda Gefter re her new book. I think its great Could you provide me with her work or home email address. Appreciate any assistance re this enquiry. Regards Michael Laverty |
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