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Me: Well, I've a two talented kids; the younger said, 'Stop with the lectures.' Then asked, 'Dad, can I help you set up a blog?' Moments later, Me: 'OK, that's a great idea, thinkin' they might just read it someday.
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Winston Davids, 1969 - Trinity College Valedictorian - 1970; known endeavor: actuarial contributions to The Donald; since has contacted me and sadly is quite ill. Ask prayers for recovery; thanks for his brilliance and music.
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Please, a theory of ‘particle justice’, that equal amounts of anti and positive matter were created; this is a bogusly supported theory. Humans or any animal is not even bilaterally symmetric from left to right; how can anyone support ‘equality’. Is there sum Cass Sunstein g-d feeling creature out there counting ‘+’ beans and ‘-’ beans as they are squirted out from a singularity overload, only to see them equally destroying eachother like GOSHDARNIT, not G-D is a huge fireworks freak?
My suggestion that they need to play ‘Down By the Riverside’, when U of California gets it together to have some announcement as to the beginnings of the universe. Oh yeah, there were probably equal black and white particles as well, you know like salt and pepper, Obama’s mama and his Kenyan Polygamist papa, etc.
How do you think this will play on Big Bang Theory, eh Sheldon fans? Bazinga!
As my good buddy PAM Dirac (1932 Nobel Prize for proving Antimatter exists) once advised me ‘Show it mathematically, and it will be so.’ I’m sure that means that Goedel has some input as to initial conditions, aka ‘assumptions’ to any mathematical proof.
Wish Winston Davids, who graduated from Trinity College in 1970 with an 11.6 grade point in Mathematics, then went to Princeton’s School of Advance Studies for a year, could give me a booyah here.
Anti-Matter Atoms to Address Anti-Gravity Question
For every particle in physics, there is an associated anti-particle, identical in every respect that scientists have yet measured, except that it holds an opposite electric charge.
Current theory holds that, at the birth of the Universe, matter and anti-matter were created in equal amounts. When they meet, however, they destroy each other in energetic flashes of light. The question has remained, then, why did any Universe come into being at all, and why is the one we see overwhelmingly made of normal matter?
One of the characteristics that may differentiate anti-matter is its gravitational behaviour. Most scientists believe that anti-matter will be attracted to normal matter. Others are not so sure; anti-matter may repel - it may “fall up”. That has implications for the question of why the Universe didn’t disappear into a grand flash of light just as soon as it formed. It also might help explain why the Universe is expanding ever more quickly.
It has simply been impossible to test the idea, but researchers at the University of California Riverside are getting closer to addressing the question once and for all.
They have created electron-positron pairs that are in stable orbits around one another - the result is called a positronium. The pairs are kept from bumping into and destroying each other by carefully dumping energy into them to create what are known as “Rydberg states”.
Like the lanes of an automotive test track, particles can move into different orbits around one another if they reach higher energies, and these Rydberg positronium atoms are spun up to high energies, lasting for a comparatively long three billionths of a second. The team hopes to extend the method, up to a few thousandths of a second, preparing a beam of the artificial atoms and seeing just which way they fall.
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