U.S. Theoretical Physicists Organize To Stem 'Outsourcing'

University at Buffalo ^ | July 5, 2007 | Ellen Goldbaum

[SunkenCiv]

...the scientists who develop theoretical predictions for high-energy particle physics experiments say "outsourcing" in their field has allowed the U.S. to lag behind in this area of high-profile, global science... LHC-TI is a consortium of theoretical physicists whose goal is to train more U.S. graduate students in theoretical high-energy particle physics calculations relevant to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) being built near Geneva, Switzerland... After several years of grass-roots organizing among theoretical physicsts, the group is celebrating success: the awarding of the first LHC Theory Graduate Fellowship Awards, funded by the National Science Foundation and administered by The Johns Hopkins University. According to Baur, a co-principal investigator on the program, this prestigious fellowship structure will cultivate and support young theoretical physicists who will then go on to fill faculty positions at American universities. The awards, he added, will begin to build up the pool of talent that began to decline following Congress' 1993 decision not to build the Superconducting Super Collider in Waxahachie, Texas... Funding in the U.S. for particle physics as a whole and theoretical particle physics, in particular, has declined significantly over the past 15 years, Baur says.

[SunkenCiv]

Heh... who would have guessed this was all about funding? It's almost as if the string theory epidemic is directly attributable to lack of government financing.

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[EarthBound]

I had noticed that the theoretical physics stories always seem to come from Europe or Japan, hell even India these days and wondered what was up with that. Frankly, I don’t care who discovers it, as long as we’re the first to develop practical uses for it (FTL FTW). Thanks for all the articles, Sunken.

[SunkenCiv]

That’s pertinent, because a bunch of the pure research in the US in the 1940s and 1950s resulted in technologies now used in products like portable music players, computers (obviously), video systems, gaming systems, etc — and employment in eastern and southern Asia.

[MacDorcha]

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[SunkenCiv]

Absolutely NOT! Well, okay, yeah ya can... [hangs head in shame]

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[RightWhale]

theoretical physics stories always seem to come from Europe or Japan, hell even India

One of the Seven Wonders of the world is the Superconducting Supercollider, as in I wonder where it went.

[ckilmer]

I blogged about a recent demonstration in which John Kanzius, a florida inventor used radio waves to burn salt water. Judging by the related patents what's happening is that radio waves immitate the radio frequency of platinum--which is the industrial catalyst used in hydrogen steam reformation. steam reformation involves the catalyst platinum heat & pressure. The radio waves fool the water into thinking the catalyst water is nearby. With enough heat you can do without the pressure. The radio waves first destablize the H2O bonds and then the radio waves are absorbed by the Na ions in the saltwater. The Na acts as a heat sink just as any metal would in a microwave. The enormous heat generated by the Na ions finally break off the H2 from the O.

A spark then starts a fire only its an electrical fire as the Na now serves an electrolyte. Kanzius has said that subsequent experiments have shown that the fire persists 3 seconds after the radio waves have been turned off. Two seperate experiments have said that the process --unlike electrolysis--creates more energy than it consumes.

I cant say that I'm a chemist/scientist. So I would like someone to look at the available evidence and hazard an opinion... someone who made their living doing related stuff.

[ckilmer]

The radio waves fool the water into thinking the catalyst water is nearby....

should read

The radio waves fool the water into thinking the catalyst platinum is nearby.

[ckilmer]

even without “unity” or surplus energy — if you could replace platinum in hydrogen fuel cells — with radio waves —the cost of hydrogen fuel cells would come down considerably.

[SunkenCiv]

Can Water fuel world - [Water Burns! (Energy Crisis solved?)]
WorldNetDaily.com | May 30, 2007 | By Joe Kovacs
Posted on 05/30/2007 6:11:55 PM EDT by freemike
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1842151/posts

Saltwater into Fire (Cancer Experiment Turns Salt water in to Fuel Energy)
Glumbert.com & Philadelphia CH 3 News (via www.AntiMullah.com) | 6/15/07 | CH 3 News
Posted on 06/15/2007 4:18:56 PM EDT by FARS
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1850959/posts

Vectra - Car runs by sea water (Video)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1745165/posts

The car that ran on water
Columbus Dispatch | 7/8/2007 | Dean Narciso
Posted on 07/08/2007 10:03:43 AM EDT by gotribe
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1862549/posts

Cell splits water via sunlight to produce hydrogen
Washington University | May 1, 2007 | Tony Fitzpatrick
Posted on 05/04/2007 9:06:28 AM EDT by ovrtaxt
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1828313/posts

[RightWhale]

That is interesting, although what the radio frequency of platinum might be I haven’t a clue.

[ckilmer]

My guess would be 13.56 mhz. since that’s the number posted on the patents.