An unusual lay physics background

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Google search on test results anticipated by Smolin in 2006
I’m reading Lee Smolin’s 2006 book ‘The Trouble with Physics’ and wanted to check on the empirical results on double special relativity from tests in progress, Auger and GLAST IIRC.

Curiously the two individuals in a quality deep dialogue talked about this very book and the exact section I was reading, and they were seeking the page number.

Unfortunately, replies were closed. That’s a shame on a significant part of physics studies, if minor and still not verified. It would be better if random interaction still occurred and replies were not closed. In my case there’s certainly no harm done and I’m very happy to find your site.

As to my background. I am not physics trained, but was significantly affected young by two prominent physics trained individuals. The first was my father, DARPA from 1958-96. After my parents divorce and our relocation from Southern California to Eugene Oregon I was very fortunate to have as mentor the second. The connection was over whitewater slalom racing and I also spent a high school semester training with him as he was starting his career at the Oakridge National Labs in Tennessee.

My interest in physics is recent, but I did develop some applicable skills through a non-typical study of economics, complex relational database design, and Geographic Information Systems. GIS is a complex relational database combining a three dimensional spatial system relating to large amount of data in various point, line, and two dimensional form - all in a potentially unlimited relation grounded on a classic fixed space time.

Top two things more directly and recently have Alfred North Whitehead and an extreme amount of time in nature living out of a pickup truck following a 2010 foreclosure.

I’ve been living in Telluride for ten years now, on minimal disability.

Oh yeah, page 235 in the paperback TWP is where Smolin starts talking in most detail of DSR, his own theory.
 
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