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The Beauty of Branes [Cosmology & Lisa Randall]
Scientific American ^ | October 2005 issue | Marguerite Holloway

Posted on 09/30/2005 6:38:27 PM PDT by PatrickHenry

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To: PatrickHenry
Ask him here :)
41 posted on 10/01/2005 10:22:38 AM PDT by RightWingAtheist (Bring back Modernman!)
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To: RightWingAtheist
Too complicated. The link at post #1 has her email address. But she probably has too many stalkers as it is. I'll have to admire her from afar, until our paths cross. In such matters, it's better to let her be the pursuer.
42 posted on 10/01/2005 10:49:02 AM PDT by PatrickHenry (Disclaimer -- this information may be legally false in Kansas.)
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To: mcg1969
"210" might have some obscure property

210 factors into 2*3*5*7, the first 4 primes.... FWIW.

43 posted on 10/01/2005 10:52:43 AM PDT by longshadow
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To: longshadow; ml1954; PatrickHenry; spunkets

Aha! Longshadow, you da man. ml1954 and others, I submit Longshadow's post #43 as evidence of my suppostion in post #25 :)


44 posted on 10/01/2005 10:56:49 AM PDT by mcg1969
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To: PatrickHenry
But she probably has too many stalkers as it is. I'll have to admire her from afar, until our paths cross. In such matters, it's better to let her be the pursuer.

You could ask her to come back to your la-BOR-a-tory and pet "Plato" your pet Platypus.........

45 posted on 10/01/2005 10:58:40 AM PDT by longshadow
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To: mcg1969
Aha! Longshadow, you da man. ml1954 and others, I submit Longshadow's post #43 as evidence of my suppostion in post #25 :)

In fairness, my observation of the composition of "210" doesn't rule out the possibility that it was all she had in her checking account at the time she was writing the check.... which is certainly a viable is less intellectually satisfying explanation for the numerical value of her contribution.

;-)

46 posted on 10/01/2005 11:02:04 AM PDT by longshadow
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To: longshadow

210 is 666 x pi (rounded off a bit). I see that contribution as a glorious insult to Kerry.


47 posted on 10/01/2005 11:02:09 AM PDT by PatrickHenry (Disclaimer -- this information may be legally false in Kansas.)
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To: PatrickHenry
210 is 666 x pi (rounded off a bit).

Hmmmm ...... maybe after you divide by 10....

48 posted on 10/01/2005 11:08:01 AM PDT by longshadow
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To: longshadow
Yeah. Well ... you know what I mean. 666 divided by pi. Multiply ... divide ... I never could keep them straight in my mind.
49 posted on 10/01/2005 11:10:25 AM PDT by PatrickHenry (Disclaimer -- this information may be legally false in Kansas.)
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To: mcg1969; longshadow
Well, she gave essentially the minimum. I think she donated as the result of some institutional pressure. It's possible 210 was given simply, because it's a very familiar number to her, because of Longshadow's point. Patterns, women in science program...

The list of digits is a list of the names(3) of the spacial coordinates of this world, her cosmology. This could mean she thinks Kerry epitomizes the timeless spacehead and this is the real message she'd like to send.

50 posted on 10/01/2005 12:05:07 PM PDT by spunkets
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To: longshadow

I'd also like to curl up in her M-Branes.


51 posted on 10/01/2005 12:35:40 PM PDT by RightWingAtheist (Bring back Modernman!)
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To: spunkets; mcg1969; longshadow
I've solved the mystery of "210." It seems that a course she teaches, Physics 211 ("Our focus is the classical and quantum theory of black holes."), has Physics 210 as a prerequisite. That requirement is spelled out here:. Search on 211 to find the course requirements.

The meaning is clear: Kerry isn't up to her standards. He doesn't even qualify as a black hole.

52 posted on 10/01/2005 12:47:21 PM PDT by PatrickHenry (Disclaimer -- this information may be legally false in Kansas.)
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To: Perdogg
Me too, Perdogg. I thought we had a pair of typos in the title. Brains and cosmetology. LOL Oh well.
53 posted on 10/01/2005 12:55:07 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: PatrickHenry

Great article, great insight by a great mind. It's so simple: gravity is weak because it comes from another dimension. It's the first new idea I've read in physics since string theory. Now: what is a falsifiable experiment to show this?


54 posted on 10/01/2005 1:25:23 PM PDT by Forgiven_Sinner (God is offering you eternal life right now. Freep mail me if you want to know how to receive it.)
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To: Forgiven_Sinner
Now: what is a falsifiable experiment to show this?

This article (a PDF file) discusses some possibilities (but it's from the NY Times, so take it for what it's worth): Physicists Finally Find a Way to Test Superstring Theory. Excerpt:

Unlike many of physics' far-out theories, the idea of a large extra dimension may be possible to test indirectly. Since gravitons are not so tightly confined as the other particles, sometimes they will stray into the surrounding hyperspace, becoming heavier than the ordinary variety. According to the theorists' calculations, it just may be possible to create momentarily these denizens of the fourth dimension using the Tevatron accelerator at Fermilab, where protons are slammed into antiprotons to produce energies measured in trillions of electron-volts.

Physicists would not be able to detect heavy gravitons directly -- they would immediately fly off into the higher dimension -- but their existence might be inferred. Energy going into a particle collision must equal the energy coming out. If some is missing and all other possibilities are accounted for, physicists could surmise that the energy was spirited away by the heavy gravitons, carried off into hyperspace.


55 posted on 10/01/2005 1:58:01 PM PDT by PatrickHenry (Disclaimer -- this information may be legally false in Kansas.)
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But she probably has too many stalkers as it is.

I resemble that remark!

56 posted on 10/01/2005 3:13:12 PM PDT by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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To: PatrickHenry
If some is missing and all other possibilities are accounted for, physicists could surmise that the energy was spirited away by the heavy gravitons, carried off into hyperspace.

Something about the wording of that makes me imagine the Luddites cackling.

57 posted on 10/01/2005 3:16:10 PM PDT by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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To: PatrickHenry

Ohh she's lovely! Beauty and brains indeed :)


58 posted on 10/01/2005 3:18:49 PM PDT by Paul_Denton (Stom ta jora UN)
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To: longshadow
"210 might have some obscure property"
210 factors into 2*3*5*7, the first 4 primes.... FWIW.

Kewl! I figured something like that. Also note that those factors, when added, sum up to another prime!

2 + 3 + 5 + 7 = 17

59 posted on 10/01/2005 4:33:48 PM PDT by IonImplantGuru ("Me? You talking to me? You talkin' to me? Then [BLEEP]... Well, I'm the only one here.")
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To: IonImplantGuru

And, as long as we're at it, 210 is the *sum* of two primes (Goldbach's conjecture).


60 posted on 10/01/2005 4:39:51 PM PDT by NukeMan
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