While Planck time is usually regarded as the shortest unit of time, isn't the shortest unit of time that can exist is the time it took to go from absolute time, the big bang, to everything after that i.e. local time? Did local time exist at the instant of the Big Bang?
No--I do not have a reference for that idea. Yes---that is what I meant about the third dimension being time. I was not familiar with the work of Professor Steven Carlip and can only speculate that these dimensions may even be shorter than the Planck length.
Shortly after the Big Bang was there an extremely brief period of time when the universe consisted of an xy plane with z as time, the third dimension? In other words did a three dimensional universe predate a four dimensional universe?
The major problem with Inertial Confinement Fusion is that physicists think it is a physics problem. It is an engineering problem. Getting fusion is 1% of the job. 99% is the supporting engineering. I don't see anyone defending the farcical cartoon on Charlie Gibson showing an ICF reactor firing...
50% of all the EU money going into energy research is scheduled go to hot fusion (ITER funding included)---the other 50% to all other types of energy research combined.
I am geologist; I'd love to spend billions of dollars to install geothermal energy in every single family residence with...
When DOE first started funding the hot fusion program, did they require MIT before one dime flowed to prove that even IF they achieved hot fusion that the engineering considerations had a realistic chance of converting extremely energetic particles into electricity at 10cents/kWh, or was that...
MIT hot fusion scientists will do whatever it takes to shut down the competition. To suggest, somehow, that Senator Kerry would not help out his constituents if they stood to lose billions of dollars in reseach grants, seems unlikely.
Here is a brief history of LENR research: When the first...
It has been alleged that Senator John Kerry was against hot fusion at MIT. The following statement was made by Kerry in the following venue, "Bush and Kerry Offer Their Views" from Scienxpress.
Kerry stated, "Our energy plan will tap America's initiative and ingenuity to stengthen our...
Still, Senator Kerry was the one who shut down the IFR. If you plot our dependence on foreign oil over the past 35 years and plot on the same graph the amount of money spent on the hot fusion program at MIT, I'll bet you'll see a striking correlation. You can thank the multigenerational failure...
Surprise, surprise---Two Senators from Massachusetts are intensely anti-nuclear. And who are their constituents? Hot fusion scientists at MIT. Do you really believe that these two Senators, non-scientists, when they are told by a bunch of PhD's that nuclear power is dangerous, they would...
Much as I would like to believe that Senator Kerry's motivations are pure, I feel constrained to point out: Big tobacco told you that nicotine was not addictive. Big coal told you that CO^2 does not cause global warming. Big physics told you that the IFR was a threat to non-proliferation...
Let me meet you 80% of the way. How about a combination of just enough IFR's to breed plutonium for the cheapest, safest power plants and enough of them to burn up all other special nuclear material? Clearly, there is not enough uranium to meet the needs of 3,000 gigawatts of installed...
Here is a program idea I sent to every member of the Senate and 300 members of Congress. We can bridge to the Integral Fast Reactor with the new Westinghouse reactor. Here is how you make the IFR cost effective:
1)Site the reactor complex on the Hudson Bay,
2)Form the Canadian-American...