Bacteriophage

A Bacteriophage is a virus that injects its genomic material into a bacterium. Since we have lots of bacteria in our bodies (in the soil, water, etc.), it can alter that bacterium's genetic structure. This can be helpful in an evolutionary sense by helping transfer mutations between individuals and species.

Polar wandering or Polar shift has been happening since 2007. It is about 55-60 KM per year. This messes up the Van Allen Radiation belt protecting earth. A few large coronal mass ejections Could render this phone obsolete. A complete pole reversal would Be very "interesting". Match this up with the planetary alignment Happening in Dec. 2012 and maybe the Mayan's were right.

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Alcubbiere on the HIGGs field

Need to rework the Alcubbiere drive on the Higgs field and compare to work done on EFE. Need a metric for Higgs field.

Planetary alignments- conjunction

Planetary alignments occurred in 1962, 1982 and 2000. The term alignment needs to be used lightly. There is a lot of space in three dimensions. It would be cool to just see the majority of planets in a "cluster", however. Bear in mind, a cluster would not really exist as the planets are at different distances.

Internet addiction or Evolution

In the news today is the topic of Internet addiction. Are they just now catching on? I have seen this for years. Not just Internet but Video Game addiction. Denial and Withdrawal is just like alcohol or other drugs.
However, isn't this just part of evolution of the human species. Not just cultural evolution or societal but "Darwinian". Those that can adapt and not be addicted will be more likely to to have functional relationships, reproduce and pass on the 'moderation' genes.

Fiscal Cliff and Vector Calculus

I think I'll have my vector calculus students model and calculate the gradient (Del f) and slope of the now looming fiscal cliff. I'm afraid few of us will be able to travel orthogonal to Del f and avoid it. We'll just have to find a unit vector as far off from Del f and travel that path.

Higgs field and Gravitational field

Could the Higgs field (HF) be equated with the gravitational field (GF)? This seems plausible since the Einstein Field Equations (EFE) Describe the curvature of space time an object with mass (given by The Higgs Boson) causes. Mass tells space how to curve, and the curvature tells mass how to move. If they can be equated (HF:=:GF), then the HF could be put in the form of f(x,y,z,t) and solved as EFE, a nonlinear system of partial differential equations, hard but possibly doable.

Black holes and the Higgs field

If the Higgs field breaks down in a black hole, then the oscillations
could not form Higgs Bosons and objects that enter the black hole
would lose their mass. They would then hover in what I will call
the NH-zone (No Higgs). This would keep the singularity from
forming and keep the problematic infinities out of General Relativity
calculations.

Entanglement and Black holes

We should entangle two photons, send one into a black hole, and then take a measurement in a lab of the other. This might give some information about the black hole or its action, or it might break the entanglement.

Speed of light and HIGGS field

The electromagnetic field gives rise to photons through its oscillations and the higgs Boson comes from oscillations in the higgs field. Do the two fields interact? Could the interaction give rise to the speed of light or is the speed of light dtermined by the electromagnetic field only?

Moving towards full time teaching

After 21 years of running my own business, I have been trying to move towards a full-time teaching position. I've been teaching as Adjunct Faculty since I was an undergraduate in college but for the last 3 years or so have been more consistent about it and teaching Single variable Calculus, Vector Calculus as well as statistics and other courses. Full-time positions are not readily available do to the economy but after looking into a seminar I might attent in May, an almost perfect full time faculty position presented itself. It would require relocating but it is worth looking into and possibly applying for. The key is I would want to retain some of my business clients and maintain the applications I have built for them.

Keeping Fresh-Percolation Theory

I'm able to keep fresh in my fields of math and physics by attending seminars and colloquia. A good friend just told me about a 3-day seminar in Advanced Percolation theory. I'm interested to see if there have been any advances in the use of Quantum Gravity and Quantum field theory in this area. Hope I can find time to go!

Cultural Evolution helps solve Protien Folding?

Evolution comes in many forms. The classic biological mutation and survivial of the fittist but also cultural/societal. Today's generation of kids are producing Gamers. Now whether they will procreate to produce more and better gamers or whether gaming skills will remain a learned process is unknown. However, gamers are employed to help countries hack computer systems, the military to work with UAV's but also science.

Here gamers solved in weeks what scientists had worked on for a decade.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2393200,00.asp

http://fold.it/portal/

Ah. The digital world finds me

http://books.google.com/books/about/Differentiability_of_Lipschitz_continuou.html?id=-jyHNwAACAAJ

Are you sure? or for science nerds only

Two Hydrogen atoms walk into a bar and order drinks. One of them see's a pretty Oxygen atom and saunters over. Ms. Oxygen suggests they invite the other Hydrogen atom over and make some water (if you know what I mean). Just then an Iron atom comes in and see's his girl, Ms. Oxygen, with the two Hydrogen atoms. Furious, he pulls out a gun and starts shooting. When the smoke clears, one hydrogen atom is on the floor. His buddy, unhurt, kneels down and asks what happened. "He hit me and knocked off my electron, but I'll be okay", he said. Are you sure? asked his buddy. Yes, I'm Positive.

Joy of passing on knowledge

I love passing on knowledge. Calculus level II this summer is wonderful. Integration is much tougher than differentiation and learning Integration techniques, their beauty and showing how to generalize is elating. Especially when it is something you have figured out and it's not just something out of the book. Passing on your own discoveries.
The more abstract technique of evening determining if an Integral exists (convergence/divergence) is wonderful in its pureness so you don't waste time trying to find an Integeration technique when the Integral is not going to exist anyway.

Vector calculus in the fall. Can't wait!

Smooth and Non-Smooth-Quantum Gravity

Numbers are non-smooth, many functions are; The Quantum world is non-smooth, General Relativity is. A correlative concept in the making. A start for Quantum Gravity?

Study why non-smooth numbers can lead to smooth functions and maybe we'll have a path to how non-smooth Quantum Mechanics can lead to smooth General Relativity.

Chaotic functions and Deterministic function interaction

Using the movie Sliding Doors as an example we see sensitivity to initial conditions, Chaos. In each trajectory of life, the Chaotic conditions cause different interactions with the world around the person. Now consider everything as a function (everybody) with a trajectory. In one situation the initial function may interact with another function's trajectory or not. If it does, it changes the trajectory of that other function (person.) In other words, one trajectory of the Chaotic function with one set of intial conditions may cause it "bump" into the another function's trajectory (an interaction with a person) and cause it to change from it's "normal"or deterministic behavior. The question in my mind is this. Given the function space of deterministic functions, if we include in this space a Chaotic function and build a rule for the interaction of the Chaotic function with a deterministic function, what happens after x amountof time to the function space and the functions in that space?

Particle Smashing

When we smash particles together in an accelerator their local time is slowed down by an extreme amount right before the smash. When they hit they return to our local time. The particle has not aged much but in it's reference frame, we have aged. How are the resulting particles we see affected by this?

Advice for men of a certain age

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.-Ghandi