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Many thanks to all - for the courtesy of your replies.

I have a question regarding the process of publishing. Is the preferred method to first submit to a pre-press (such as arxiv) or to directly send into a journal for review. If submitting to arxiv, how does one find a suitable endorser? Apparently one can find endorsers by reviewing topical...

Just take a quick gander at this url...right under Table 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_units

That is an imaginative and fascinating thought...and I mean that in a very positive way. If it weren't late and I have to work in the AM, I would kick that can around for awhile. I might want to get back to you on that.

You have just derived Planck units. If we set hbar=1, c=1, and G=1 then by definition length (space), time, and mass had to be unity (i.e. 1). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_units However, we still are pretty much rooted in anthropocentric units (kg, m, s) when performing...

I'm not sure. I was interested in Planck's derivation of his radiation law so I had delved into the Lummer and Pringsheim experiment. Although, I am certain that more recent experiments have refined h, I'm not acquainted with them and so I have no knowledge on their perceived variation. I say...

Yes. Planck's constant is ubiquitous. It pops up all over the place.

Planck's constant is a constant of nature. Historically (circa 1900), it was empirically derived by Max Plancks's examination of the emissive power of a black body. Planck originally fit the curve of black body radiation based on data obtained from the experiments of Lummer and Pringsheim. In...

Thank you for the post. I do understand the statistical basis of the second law, and to some extent, what Boltzman postulated regarding fluctuations. I also understand that there is no inconsistency between TD and Poincare Recurrences. The original topic was framed to aid me in...

Thanks! We basically agree. Incidentally, if you were wondering about my box of gravitationally challenged peas...I was thinking of a bare hypothesis once put forth by P. M. Dirac. He conjectured that the Gravitational Constant might, somehow, weaken with time. I don't believe it survived...

I know I read somewhere (I can't remember quite where but I suspect i could locate it if need be) that Bohr went off at Heisenberg when the latter espoused the idea that the act of measuring caused uncertainty. In otherwords, there is an objective reality but we are just too clumsy to precisely...

Civilized: Thanks for the reply. You have clarified my topic perfectly. Firstoff, let me preface by stating that I like decoherence. Its explanative...something you can sink your teeth into. The only problem would seem to be the possibility that a macro object could recohere. That...

A model of the Universe that could describe the causality of non-locality (among other things) would be very "wild" indeed. Some basic requirements would seem to have to be: 1) It would have to be Relativistic. 2) It would have to be Indeterministic. 3) It would have to be expanding at...

In deference to the author that originated the post...might we agree that the intention of the Aspect experiment was to test Bell's Theorem and that within the parameters of that test and at that time, it was accepted that Bell's Inequality was violated. Hence it is the preavailing belief (at...