Posted on 02/16/2003 2:16:44 PM PST by vannrox
AnalogScience Fiction & Fact Magazine "The Alternate View" columns of John G. Cramer Subject Index |
The Alternate View Column Title |
Subject of Column | Analog Issue |
Column Code |
The Other 40 Dimensions | Klein-Kaluza compactification | 04/85 | AltVw06 |
Light in Reverse Gear I | Optical reversal with a 4-Wave mixer | 06/85 | AltVw07 |
Light in Reverse Gear II | Advanced radiation | 08/85 | AltVw08 |
Antimatter in a Trap | Penning ion trapping | 12/85 | AltVw10 |
Super Atoms and Super Fields | Positrons from Z>173 atoms | 13/86 | AltVw17 |
Warm Superconductors | Ceramic BaYCuO superconductors | 10/87 | AltVw22 |
Report on NanoCon 1 | NanoCon I - The 1st Nanotechnology Conference | 10/89 | AltVw35 |
Harnessing the Butterfly - The Steering of Chaos |
Using chaos for control | 03/92 | AltVw51 |
Bose-Einstein Condensation: A New Form of Matter |
Thousands of atoms in the same quantum state | 03/96 | AltVw77 |
The "Real World" and The Standard Model | Effect on the universe of varying force strengths and quark masses | 05/96 | AltVw78 |
Burn Up the Nuclear Waste | Particle accelerators for waste "burnup" | 07/96 | AltVw79 |
The Atom Laser | A laser that emits coherent atoms instead of coherent light | 07/97 | AltVw85 |
Planet of the Geezers | Telomeres and the reversal of human aging | 02/98 | AltVw88 |
What We Don't Understand | The major unsolved problems of contemporary physics. | 07-08/99 | AltVw96 |
A Century of Physics | Highlights of the Centennial Meeting of the American Physical Society | 10/99 | AltVw97 |
Our Millimeter-Size Universe | Superstring theory suggests that gravity is weak because its extra-dimensional loops are a millimeter in diameter. | 12/99 | AltVw98 |
"Interaction-Free" Quantum Measurements and Imaging |
Quantum measurements that can produce an image of an object without the interaction of a single photon. | 09/00 | AltVw101 |
The "Rare Earth" Hypothesis | A new book argues that complex life must be very rare in our galaxy. | 11/00 | AltVw102 |
Decoding the Ribosome | Nature's nanotechnology "assembler", the ribosome, has been decoded and its structure revealed. | 05/01 | AltVw106 |
Carbon Nanotubes, A Miracle Material | Carbon nanotubes can be conductors or semiconductors, super-strong materials, and could make possible a "skyhook". | 12/01 | AltVw109 |
The Alternate View Column Title |
Subject of Column | Analog Issue |
Column Code |
Other Universes II | Everett-Wheeler interpretation of QM | 11/84 | AltVw03 |
The Quantum Handshake | The Transactional Interpretation of QM | 11/86 | AltVw16 |
Watching The Quantum Jump | Exciting single atoms in a trap | 05/88 | AltVw26 |
Paradoxes and FTL Communication | The Calcutta QM Paradox | 09/88 | AltVw28 |
Einsteins' Spooks & Bell's Theorem | The EPR paradox & nonlocality | 01/90 | AltVw37 |
Quantum Time Travel | Time tricks with quantum mechanics | 04/91 | AltVw45 |
Quantum Telephones to Other Universes, to Times Past | Non-linear quantum mechanics and communication | 10/91 | AltVw48 |
The Quantum Physics of Teleportation | Transporting a complete quantum state | 12/93 | AltVw62 |
Tunneling through the Lightspeed Barrier | Quantum tunneling and transit time | 12/95 | AltVw75 |
Bose-Einstein Condensation: A New Form of Matter | Thousands of atoms in the same quantum state | 03/96 | AltVw77 |
Space Drives, Phased Arrays, and Interferometry | Amplitude and intensity interferometry | 01/97 | AltVw82 |
The Atom Laser | A laser that emits coherent atoms instead of coherent light | 07/97 | AltVw85 |
The Quantum Eraser | Erasing quantum interference retroactively | 06/98 | AltVw90 |
"Interaction-Free" Quantum Measurements and Imaging |
Quantum measurements that can "see in the dark", producing an image of an object without the interaction of a single photon. | 06/00 | AltVw101 |
Faster-than-Light Laser Pulses? | Superluminal laser pulses with negative velocities that get there before they start. | 03/01 | AltVw105 |
Supernova in a Bose-Einstein Bottle | Repulsion is changed to attraction in a Bose-Einstein condensate, with amazing and mysterious results. | 10/01 | AltVw108 |
Quantum Computing, 5 Qubits and Counting | Quantum computing has made a step forward, with a 5 qubit computer that factors 15 into primes. What's next? | 06/02 | AltVw112 |
The Alternate View Column Title |
Subject of Column | Analog Issue |
Column Code |
Neutrinos and WIMPs | The Solar Neutrino Problem | 05/86 | AltVw13 |
Heavy Neutrinos: Who Ordered That? | Reports of a 17 kilovolt neutrino | 12/91 | AltVw49 |
Neutrino Physics: Curiouser and Curiouser | SAGE neutrino detector results | 09/92 | AltVw54 |
Neutrinos, Ripples, and Time Loops | Tachyonic neutrinos, cosmic string effects | 02/93 | AltVw57 |
Massive Neutrinos | The Japanese Super-Kamiokande detector discovers that mu-neutrinos have mass. | 01/99 | AltVw93 |
The Alternate View Column Title |
Subject of Column | Analog Issue |
Column Code |
Antimatter in the Universe | The possibility of antimatter galaxies | 08/79 | Analog-1 |
Other Universes I | GUTs cosmology | 09/84 | AltVw02 |
In The Fullness of Time | The universe in the far future | 10/85 | AltVw09 |
Children of the Swan | Cygnus X-3 cosmic ray particles | 03/86 | AltVw12 |
SN1987A - Supernova Astrophysics Grows Up | Supernovae, neutrinos, and gravitational collapse | 12/87 | AltVw23 |
Supernova Duds and Toothpaste | Neutrinos and fluorine nucleosynthesis | 02/89 | AltVw31 |
The Mouse that Boomed | Fast object seen with radio-astronomy | 08/89 | AltVw34 |
Cosmic Voids and Great Walls | The large-scale structure of the universe | 08/91 | AltVw47 |
Searching for MACHOs (massive compact halo objects) | The gravitational lensing of brown dwarfs | 05/94 | AltVw65 |
Stretch Marks on the Universe - Quantized Redshift | Puzzle of clustered galactic red-shifts | 11/94 | AltVw68 |
GRS1915+105: The Fastest Fireball in the Galaxy | A quasar-like object in our galaxy | 04/95 | AltVw71 |
"Texas" in Munich, Part 1: The Constants of the Universe | Closing in on the universe's parameters | 08/95 | AltVw73 |
"Texas" in Munich, Part 2: Gamma Ray Bursts | The gamma ray burst puzzle | 10/95 | AltVw74 |
Ultra-Energetic Cosmic Rays and Gamma Ray Bursts | Correlation between cosmic rays and gamma bursts? | 01/96 | AltVw76 |
Using DNA to Search for WIMPs | Breaking DNA strands to detect weakly interacting particles | 09/98 | AltVw91 |
`The Music of the (Neutron) Spheres | Audio-modulated X-rays and neutron star masses | 11/98 | AltVw92 |
Before the Big Bang | Pre-Big-Bang cosmology from superstring theory | 03/99 | AltVw94 |
Our Runaway Universe and Einstein's Cosmological Constant | The discovery that the universe is accelerating in its expansion and that the vacuum has energy | 05/99 | AltVw95 |
Our Millimeter-Size Universe | Superstring theory suggests that gravity is weak because its extra-dimensional loops are a millimeter in diameter. | 12/99 | AltVw98 |
BOOMERanG and the Sound of the Big Bang | Measurements of small angle fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background pin down the Big Bang | 01/01 | AltVw104 |
Brane Bashing: An Alternative to the Big Bang? | Was the universe created by extradimensional "branes" clapping together, with no Big Bang? | 04/02 | AltVw111 |
The Alternate View Column Title |
Subject of Column | Analog Issue |
Column Code |
Antigravity I: Negative Mass | The gravitation of negative mass | 07/86 | AltVw14 |
Artificial Gravity: Which way is Up? | Centrifugal gravity on space stations | 02/87 | AltVw18 |
Spiral Galaxies and Antigravity Beams | Gravity waves from cosmic strings | 01/88 | AltVw24 |
The Rainbows of Gravity | Einstein's ring and gravitational lensing | 11/88 | AltVw29 |
Falling through to Pelucidar | Shadow matter and gravitation | 04/89 | AltVw32 |
The Twin Paradox Revisited | Special relativity and time dilation | 03/90 | AltVw38 |
Centrifugal Forces and Black Holes | Light-like orbits near a black hole | 11/92 | AltVw55 |
The Force of the Tide | Gravitational tidal forces | 01/94 | AltVw63 |
The Alcubierre Warp Drive | A warp-drive s olution to Einstein's equations | 11/96 | AltVw81 |
Antigravity Sightings | Woodward's Mach's Principle space drive | 03/97 | AltVw83 |
The Krasnikov Tube: A Subway to the Stars | A solution to Einstein's equations in the form of a time-shortcut tube | 09/97 | AltVw86 |
Gravity Waves and LIGO | The NSF's new gravity wave detectors | 04/98 | AltVw89 |
The Micro-Warp Drive | An improvement on the Alcubierre Drive that makes the warp-bubble large on the inside and microscopic on the outside | 02/00 | AltVw99 |
General Relativity without Black Holes |
The Yilmaz variant of General Relativity, which predicts that black holes do not exist. | 04/00 | AltVw100 |
The Alternate View Column Title |
Subject of Column | Analog Issue |
Column Code |
Wormholes and Time Machines | General relativity and FTL travel | 06/89 | AltVw33 |
Wormholes II: Getting There in No Time | Wormholes as starships | 05/90 | AltVw39 |
Natural Wormholes: Squeezing the Vacuum | Negative mass from squeezed vacuum | 07/92 | AltVw53 |
NASA Goes FTL - Part 1: Wormhole Physics | JPL relativity/quantum workshop report 1 | 13/94 | AltVw69 |
New Improved Wormholes | Making wormholes without negative mass | 11/00 | AltVw103 |
The Alternate View Column Title |
Subject of Column | Analog Issue |
Column Code |
The Coming of the SSC | The Superconducting Supercollider Project | 03/88 | AltVw25 |
Mega-Projects & -Problems; The Hubble in Trouble | NASA'a problems with the HST | 02/91 | AltVw44 |
RHIC: Big Bangs in the Lab | Heavy-ion collider project at Brookhaven | 06/91 | AltVw46 |
CERN and the LHC | The large hadronic collider project | 05/92 | AltVw52 |
DUMAND: Neutrinos from Beneath the Ocean | Large underwater neutrino detector | 06/93 | AltVw59 |
Beauty and the B-Factory | B mesons and matter: proposed accelerator to make B-mesons | 09/94 | AltVw67 |
CERN in Transition | The new 33 TeV lead beams | 06/95 | AltVw72 |
The Decline and Fall of the SSC | The killing of the DOE's Superconducting Super Collider Project | 05/97 | AltVw84 |
Gravity Waves and LIGO | The NSF's new gravity wave detector | 04/98 | AltVw89 |
The Next Big Accelerator | The "next linear collider" is being proposed by US, German, and Japanese groups as the next step in particle physics. | 02/02 | AltVw110 |
The Alternate View Column Title |
Subject of Column | Analog Issue |
Column Code |
The Dark Side of the Force of Gravity | The Dark Matter Problem | 02/85 | AltVw05 |
Strings and Things | Cosmic strings | 04/87 | AltVw19 |
Laser Propulsion and the Four P's | Laser-sustained propulsion | 08/87 | AltVw21 |
FTL Photons | The Casimir Effect and the speed of light | 13/90 | AltVw43 |
Nuke Your Way to the Stars | Continuously detonating nuclear rocket | 13/92 | AltVw56 |
The Tachyon Drive: Vex=¥and Eex= 0. | Using tachyons as reaction fuel | 10/93 | AltVw61 |
NASA Goes FTL - Part 2: Cracks in Nature's FTL Armor | JPL relativity/quantum workshop report 2 | 02/95 | AltVw70 |
The Alcubierre Warp Drive | A warp-drive solution to Einstein's equations | 11/96 | AltVw81 |
Space Drives, Phased Arrays, and Interferometry | Amplitude and intensity interferometry | 01/97 | AltVw82 |
Antigravity Sightings | Woodward's Mach's Principle space drive | 03/97 | AltVw83 |
The Krasnikov Tube: A Subway to the Stars | A solution to Einstein's equations in the form of a time-shortcut tube | 09/97 | AltVw86 |
The Micro-Warp Drive | An improvement on the Alcubierre Drive that makes the warp-bubble large on the inside and microscopic on the outside. | 02/00 | AltVw99 |
The Alternate View Column Title |
Subject of Column | Analog Issue |
Column Code |
The Pump of Evolution | The Fermi Paradox and catastrophes | 01/86 | AltVw11 |
Dinosaur Breath | Cretaceous air trapped in amber | 07/88 | AltVw27 |
Killer Asteroids and You | Earth-orbit-crossing asteroids | 01/92 | AltVw50 |
The "Rare Earth" Hypothesis | A new book by an astronomer and a geophysicist argues that complex life must be very rare in our galaxy and our universe. We may be alone. | 09/00 | AltVw102 |
The Alternate View Column Title |
Subject of Column | Analog Issue |
Column Code |
Telepresence: Reach Out and Grab Someone | Robotics and telepresence | 07/90 | AltVw40 |
A Visit to Virtual Seattle | Virtual reality | 11/90 | AltVw42 |
The Bandwidth Revolution: Internet and WorldWideWeb | The coming of the Web | 03/94 | AltVw64 |
News from CyberSpace: Virtual Reality and HyperText | Report on two conferences | 07/94 | AltVw66 |
The Alternate View Column Title |
Subject of Column | Analog Issue |
Column Code |
New Phenomena | Magnetic monopoles, "anomalons", free quarks? | 02/83 | Analog-3 |
Again Monopoles | Magnetic monopole detection at Stanford (?) | 09/83 | Analog-4 |
When Proton Meets Monopole | Monopole catalysis and proton decay | 07/84 | AltVw01 |
Antigravity II: A Fifth Force? | Hypercharge and hyperforce | 09/86 | AltVw15 |
Recent Results | Review of past AV columns | 06/87 | AltVw20 |
Cold Fusion, Pro-fusion, and Con-fusion | Pons & Fleischman and cold fusion? | 12/89 | AltVw36 |
The Rise and Fall of Gyro-Gravity | Spin-modification of gravity? | 09/90 | AltVw41 |
Inside the Quark | Preons and quark sub-structure | 09/96 | AltVw80 |
Breaking the Standard Model | Evidence from DESY for a new particle: the leptoquark | 11/97 | AltVw87 |
The Alternate View Column Title |
Subject of Column | Analog Issue |
Column Code |
The Territoriality of Space Exploration | Guest Editorial: Should the USA have claimed the Moon as territory? | 11/81 | Analog-2 |
The Alternate Who???? | 1st Alternate View column - Introduction of the author | 07/84 | AltVw00 |
The Retarding of Science | AARSE - American Association for the Retardation of Science and Engineering (satire) | 13/84 | AltVw04 |
Dyson on Space | Freeman Dyson's views on the space program | 13/88 | AltVw30 |
Science and SF in Japan | Report on a trip to Japan | 04/93 | AltVw58 |
Science Policy: The Parable of the King and the Grain | The politics of scientific decisions | 08/93 | AltVw60 |
CERN in Transition | The new 33 TeV lead beams | 06/95 | AltVw72 |
2001, Then and Now | How and why the year 2001 as depicted in the Stanley Kubrick film differs from the the reality of the year 2001? | 07/01 | AltVw107 |
Well, no, because then photons would have infinite mass, but they don't.
And if theorized faster-than-light particles called tachyons exist, why haven't we ever detected Cerenkov radiation in a vacuum?
Because tachyons do not have an electromagnetic charge. Similarly, many neutrinos pass through the air in your room every second at a speed faster than the local speed of light, yet they do no emit Cerenkov radiation.
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It's been decades since I was purported to be a physics major in college, but I can only guess that such a compendium would be invaluable to many, many current students of physics.
Bookmarked and bumped.
[As an aside, I certainly cannot prove it, but I remain convinced that we will eventually find ways to achieve FTL speeds and somehow keep Einstein's work intact. Don't ask me how.........just a gut feeling.:) ]
"Taking a thought excursion, if one could 'view' the spacetime continuum in which our world exists, from outside that realm, what would be 'observed' would be a volumetric/past-->future realm, in which exist linear, planar, and volumetric spatial phenomena ... so, why not past, present and future temporal phenomena, also, within the realm 'observed'?"
Beats me.
I think you should read Julian Barbour's The End of Time and explain it to me when you're done. I read it twice and it's blinking well baffling, mate.
BTW:
blasé
SYLLABICATION: bla·sé
PRONUNCIATION: blä-z
ADJECTIVE: 1. Uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence.
2. Unconcerned; nonchalant: had a blasé attitude about housecleaning.
3. Very sophisticated. ETYMOLOGY: French, from past participle of blaser, to cloy, from French dialectal, to be chronically hung over, probably from Middle Dutch blsen, to blow up, swell.
Comment 1: If the human race does not destroy itself or encounter a cosmic catastrophe such as an asteroid, we will have to pack our bags and relocate eventually anyhow (or our descendants will). The Sun cooks everything in about 8 billion years.
Comment 2: "If any of these schemes were feasible, intelligent ETs would have reduced them to practise millions of years ago. We do not observe their traffic; hence either there are no intelligent ETs or none of these schemes are feasible."
Comment 3: Robert Bussard, in Acta Astronautica, described a fusion ramjet operating using the interstellar medium as propellant (rare hydrogen atoms) which potentially can reach very high fractions of "C". Nobody knows how to build a fusion engine--yet.
Comment 4: Neglecting Einstein, a kilogram of mass at "c" has 4.89 times ten to the 17th power joules of kinetic energy. It turns out that one "gee" acceleration is 1.03 light years per square year. If one could accelerate at one "gee" for one year, one would be "near" light speed and 1/2 light year from earth. A year is about 3.15 times ten to the seventh seconds. Thus the kilogram would require about 1500 megawatts delivered continuously for one year at 100% efficiency and directed into propulsive power to reach near "c". To account for various inefficiencies, call it 2000 megawatts. Roughly the output of two large terrestrial generating plants--per kilogram.
If one plans to take the propulsion along for the ride, the problem is to reduce these power plants to a small fraction of a kilogram in mass and volume. (Otherwise there is no room for payload, crew, structure). Scale up as necessary until you hit "Enterprise". Something like compressing the Sun into a small space.
Human beings are not (yet) able to deal with these energies, powers, durations.
Comment 5: One question I have saved up for the Almighty is: "Why the heck did you put everything so bleeping far apart?" It is almost as if the Universe is designed to prevent travel/contact/exploration...
--Boris
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