Posted on 09/30/2005 6:38:27 PM PDT by PatrickHenry
Only $210? Bah, I can forgive that. :) Had she given to the limit, now that's a different story.
Well, one thing is for sure, if she ever wants to play "hide the eigen-vector," I'm game!
$210
The number is telling. So the decision is not just $200 or $250, but it's either $200 or I don't buy lunch today so I can give $210 instead of $200.
Agreed, on all points.
I just looked at the pictures.
Note to self: read the article tomorrow.
Given what I read in the article, I have a feeling that the number 210 has a particular significance for her that would frankly escape pretty much all of us. (And I say this as a Ph.D. holder in a mathematical field.)
So please enlighten me about this.
Oh, sorry, I guess I didn't make myself clear. I'm basically saying that, most likely, the woman is heads and shoulders above any of us, including me, on issues of number theory.
And thus, to her, the number "210" might have some obscure property or feature that we'd have to go to the library to look up---and then we'd still not understand it :)
But maybe I'm just dreaming :)
But maybe I'm just dreaming
LOL. I think you are. I don't think someone that smart would waste that much effort to make that kind of subtle statement to the world through a campaign contribution. And if it's because she's superstitious, my point still holds.
Oh, no, it's not because she's superstitous. It's just that to you and I, multiples of 10 or 100 are nice, round, convenient, obvious numbers, but to a number theory freak, others are.
$200 is the reportable quantity boundary. She wanted to make sure the donation was posted.
Thanks for the ping!
I hadn't been over to Seattle in a while, and when I was driving on I-5 over the ship canal recently I noticed a lot of new building construction over at the U. I wonder if the Physics building is still near Frosh pond. Better go check it out next week, say around noon or so. ;)
hrmn... maybe I ought to woo her with the WAGs I have developed concerning multiversal harmonics and skewed co-spatial planes.
I can cure her apparent dalliance with reflexive Leftism (she IS an intellectual from NYC, after all) by the simple expedient of taking her shooting one fine day.
The fed rule says >=$200 I'm pretty sure. $200 though, often doesn't appear. :)
Still, it's distressing that she gave anything at all. One of our goals in having all those evolution threads is to make it respectable for intellectuals to be conservatives. Then, Lisa can come out of the closet and announce that she's one of us, and has been freeping all along. (I have other fantasies ...)
CMB:
The Cosmic Microwave Background.
The Physics of Microwave Background Anisotropies.
The Cosmic Microwave Background.
Lyman alpha forest:
Lyman Alpha Forest.
Gravitational lensing:
Gravitational Lensing.
Boomerang data:
Boomerang Collaboration.
Boomerang Data, Analyzed at NERSC, Reveals Flat Universe.
Nuclear decay and half-life:
Radioactive Half-Life.
Phylogeny:
Phylogeny of Life.
The Tree of Life Web Project.
Geological column:
Geological Time Machine.
Hertzsprung-Russell diagram and stellar evolution:
Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram.
Gene Smith's Astronomy Tutorial.
Galactic formation:
Galaxy Formation and the Intergalactic Medium Research Group.
Stellar nurseries:
Introduction to Starbirth.
Earth/ Moon tides and lunar recession:
The Recession of the Moon and the Age of the Earth-Moon System.
Dating rocks:
Dating rocks by radioactive decay.
Continental drift:
Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics.
Galactic rotation:
Galactic Structure, Galactic Rotation Curve and Measurements on the M31 galaxy.
Colliding galaxies:
Colliding Galaxies.
Supernova and SN1987A:
The Distance to Supernova SN1987A and the Speed of Light.
Population I and Population II type stars:
Stellar Populations.
Stellar population (Answers.com).
Fine-structure constant:
Introduction to the constants for nonexperts.
Galaxy observations show no change in fundamental physical constant.
And lastly here is a good overall site:
Ned Wright's Cosmology Tutorial.
It figures that women like this weren't in school when I was. :(
Her office is right next to that of physics professor/conservative blogger Lubos Motl. Maybe his politics will eventually rub off on her, making her an absolutely perfect human specimen :-d
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