Recent content by selfAdjoint

Magic? Power of the Most High? Fakery? Phoney story? Any or all seems more plausible than time travel. After all, soimeone who could do a fair selection of those things, and really do them, over and over again to prove it, would be treated as a wonder-worker even today. And so your sources...

By chance Jennifer Ouelette has a post on this topic today. She quotes some interesting research. http://twistedphysics.typepad.com/cocktail_party_physics/2006/12/party_girl.html

Dr. Greenman, you are properly indignant at the Clinton Administration's behavior, and so am I. They had at that time what they considered a powerful client; the green anti-nuclear movement. Just like some other social fads that have faded with time, it's hard to appreciate today just how...

I don't see any resonse from Zoobyshoe on this thread; he is the one who has researched these phenomena. He has often posted about minor seizures (epileptic type) which result in phenomena like vocalization or disturbaces of any other perception, depending on what brain cells were affected.

Now THAT'a scary! Does Bush know? On second thought, let's be careful not to tell him!

I have no particular animus against action at a distance, recalling that Newton was right and Descartes was wrong in their day, and we are all, after all, in "a day", and not at the asymptotic end of time. But if I was going out on a risky limb for the sake of local action, I'd go by way of...

Hey microwaves, as in A microwave in your kitchen, sure affect water; they heat it up. So I suppose you could build a maser (microwave laser) to boil water from a distance. Take THAT! Aquaman!

If you're my age it doesn't. I went to a u/r doc last year about my prostate and he said it wasn't that, but rather "mucus in the urethra". He offered no help. Not all the guys who leave spots and puddles in the men's room are doing it deliberately. Would you believe sideways? Yep, a real...

The Acephalous blog is running an experiment to see how fast a meme can propagate across the blogosphere. To participate, copy this link http://acephalous.typepad.com/acephalous/2006/11/measuring_the_s.html#trackback into your blog. It's for science!

Have you learned how to use Euler's merthod for second order systems with constant coefficients yet?

I deeply recommend that you lose the "look-like" meme when dealing with more than 3 dimensions and learn to satisfy yourself with "Well, it's analogous to a surface in three space". This is apparently harder for some people to do than for others, but you'll just be spinnng your wheels until you...

A good way is to start the new thread with a post that indicates the old one with a link, so those who remember, or want to research, can do so, but the forum ins't clutted with old threads. BTW I was thinking this morning. Is the WWW and the link philosophy the first time we have given...

The experienced and loving heart finds no problem with this. The morning can and should be a time of affection, not clinical inspecdtion!:approve:

I think the great name, among the "great unwashed" is fading. I dread the day when Woit is called to testify before a Congressional committee.

Yeah; back when I was even more ignorant than I am now I used to say that the photon is like a beautiful woman of a certain age. We don't know, and it's not important, what she looks like at home, it only matters what she looks like when she comes to visit us.:cool: