Nov 20, 2007 08:23 am interesting read.
ben still sucks tho ::pokes forty with stick::
surfer dude may be this century's einstein?
Posted on Nov 20, 2007 06:48 am
fortymile
Member Since: Jan 18, 2003
absolutely no way for laypeople to evaluate this, but look: a homeless extreme sports fanatic is getting major press for a grand unification theory idea, and at least some physicists are listening...
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol...icle2889309.ece
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Nov 20, 2007 08:23 am interesting read.
ben still sucks tho ::pokes forty with stick::
Nov 20, 2007 09:29 am That is pretty interesting, but the LHC they're building kinda scares me.
They're building a machine that has the possible potential to create black holes and catalyze the decay of matter? Wow. Maybe Nostradamus was right- 2012 and we're done.
Nov 20, 2007 09:31 am Actually, it's 2010 that were done if memory serves, but who's counting. Cuz that's when our alien creators will put an end to the experiment of "earth".
Nov 20, 2007 10:41 am December 21, 2012....er... man.
Mayan Calendar stops, Hopi Calendar stops (both have been incredibly accurate).
And Ben doesn't suck.
Nov 20, 2007 10:50 am Yeah, tallchaps right, I forgot about the calendar thing. Were screwed. I like the Earth experiment
(Ben Sucks)
Nov 20, 2007 01:58 pm the surfer einstein is exciting. what if this is it, the real GUT? people have been questing for it forever. to think that it could come out of left field is cool. though i can't understand the guy's theory (the actual paper is absolutely incomprehensible to laypeople; check it out, it will make your head spin: www.arxiv.org/pdf/0711.0770) it seems that what's going on is that the guy mapped his ideas onto this shape and discovered that the relationships inherent in the shape match up with the relationships between all known particles in the standard model, with holes left over where the missing ones which would describe gravity would fit. i think. not sure, but i think that's what it's saying. which, if true, seems like more than a coincidence.
i dug myself a hole in that other post, but i gotta post this. below is a snippet from a great site, football outsiders. this is part of a longer and correct analysis of what went wrong in the jets/steelers game:
www.footballoutsiders.com...en-sunday/5781/
The seven sacks actually do not tell the whole story. Roethlisberger, as is his pattern, eluded possibly a half-dozen more sacks. The Steelers have become too reliant on Roethlisberger’s immense physical ability. To date, their strategy has been to struggle on first and second down and allow Roethlisberger to make miracles on third down. Entering the game, the Steelers were a below-average offense on first and second down but were by far the league’s best offense on third down:
The ridiculous third-down efficiency is in part attributable to putting the ball in the hands of Roethlisberger, the Steelers’ best player. Still, the disparity was so great and the third-down efficiency was so high that a game where third-down failures killed the offense was inevitable. Sunday was such a game; the Steelers only converted five out of 16 third downs.
The reason for the failed third downs was largely the pass rush, but the Jets also performed well in coverage.
Nov 20, 2007 02:13 pm Lisi's mathematical matrix representation of the g2 gluon is daunting to say the least. I was kinda able to follow it up until that point. I got to page 6, but all of it's way outta my league. I feel like I need to go back to school now :(
Nov 20, 2007 02:36 pm haha **** you can follow even some of that?
*bows*
Nov 20, 2007 02:41 pm yeah, sadly I took an advanced mathematical theories series in college. I think this is the first time I've used it since class 2 years ago, lol.
I either shoulda gone to Full Sail, Berklee, or had a V8, I can't decide.
Nov 20, 2007 02:46 pm you can still have a V8, though i recommend the fruit blends above the pure totato based ones.
here's an old, good article about why physics may not ever see another einstein. i think this is the one.
einstein's gift for simplicity:
discovermagazine.com/2004...-for-simplicity
Nov 20, 2007 02:53 pm Yeah, I read that about a year ago. Might be right, but it's not likely. I think there's plenty of Einsteins out there, but they're too involved with modern lifestyles to delve into theory. Life's more complicated now then it's ever been simply because we've tried to make it so simple. It's a Murdeaux collapse theory in every day life. Which makes it even further complicated, lol.
Nov 20, 2007 04:04 pm actually black holes out of the LHC wouldn't be the worst of it... it could produce a bubble with fundamentally different laws of physics that expands at the speed of light (watch the end of Akira for the general idea)... though so could cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere...
Nov 20, 2007 04:07 pm but peeps have said that the black holes thing won't happen after all at the LHC
Nov 20, 2007 07:15 pm All I can say is interesting as well. Most or all of it is way over my audio geared head.
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