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What are the various approaches to fault tolerant quantum computation ? Two examples are 1. topological quantum computation which uses topological phases in quantum states (2-Dimensional for non-abelian statistics of anyons) and 2. spin-half BEC form (refer http://jqi.umd.edu/news/new-state-fifth-state (Dr. Victor Galitski's research at UMD) ) . Can you guide me to the references mentioning various approaches and the challenges associated with them ?
There are many good introductory textbooks and surveys on quantum error correction and fault tolerance out there. If you have never taken a course on quantum information I would suggest
Nielsen and Chuang is a very complete textbook but it will not introduce you to the most recent protocols and discoveries. Also, its section about fault tolerant quantum computing is rather brief. If the book does not suffice for your purposes then I would recommend you to take a look at:
The first reference for Topological quantum computation is Kitaev's Fault Tolerant Quantum Computation with Anyons. This is also where the Toric code model is first laid out. Around the same time John Preskill wrote a chapter on Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation which is more general but also includes a section based upon Kitaev's ideas.
An excellent review article for TQC is Nayak et. al's Non-Abelian anyons and topological quantum computation. I found that this really covers the lay of the land from a broad perspective ranging from the mathematical underpinnings to the possible experimental realizations. It certainly covers the challenges which exist in constructing a topological quantum computer. There is also FKLW, The Lecture notes of Jiannis Pachos, as well as those of John Preskill for a course on Quantum computing that includes notes on error correcting codes and TQC.
Book wise, there are two that I know of. Zhenghan Wang's Topological Quantum Computation is geared primarily towards mathematicians or mathematically minded physicists, but does an excellent job of providing an over view for the mathematics underlying TQC. I use this book a lot because it contains a treasure trove of information that's relatively well cited for getting further into other details. It is by no means complete, but it definitely serves as a map for the literature that was available at the time. The last chapter is also lists of open problems at the time the book was written, many if not most of which remain open.
The second is Pachos' Introduction to Topological Quantum Computation. I found this very readable but when I was going through it I'd already been through Wang's book as well as Nayak and several of the other references above. In hindsight I felt that it would have been a great introductory text to the subject.


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My daughter wants and needs to learn to cook. As a single father that doesn't know how himself, I wish I could cook and want my 12-year-old daughter to learn about cooking. I'm sure there are other life skills children also need that their parent or parents don't always really know how to do either. How do you go about figuring out how to teach such skills to your kids when you don't have the skills yourself?
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Since neither of you knows how to cook you may wish to have a look at CBeebies Cooking Game. The game essentially consists of interactive, visual, step by step instructions of a number of different recipes. The instruction of the recipes used in the game are child friendly and easy to understand.
I made tomato spirals last week with a 4 year old. I let her play the game before we started cooking so she understood what we needed to do. She's still a little bit young so it got a bit messy (there was flour everywhere :) but we did manage to successfully make the dish together.
If you don't like the recipe ideas used in the CBeebies cooking game the BBC has another cooking recipes resource for kids here.


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I'm interested in one specific brain ability. I'll try to describe it.
Imagine that you are learning to play the guitar. You bought an instrument, self-teaching book and started to learn playing guitar. You do it regularly, but at one time you have no time/ability to play the guitar and you stop your training for month or two.
But when you start playing again, you notice that your technique is little bit worse but some things that you didn't understand or didn't do well earlier you can now do better. Why? Is there any brain background education? I heard that some successful people take a rest from their main occupation for some time. Where I can read about this thing?


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In our climate, it rains pretty steadily for 3 seasons. Would a leather saddle (like a Brooks) be appropriate for my bike, or should I look for a different material?
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I've used a Brooks saddle in a similar climate (Vancouver, BC) without any major issues. Treat the topside with Proofide every 6-12 months and keep the underside dry (fenders, wedge bag, etc). Store the bike in a dry place between rides so that the leather can dry out naturally. A saddle cover would probably help but I've never used one.
I have a Brooks, properly treated with Proofide, and I use full fenders, but major rides while raining make the saddle so soft that it bends all the way down.
That is a problem that can be partially avoided with rain covers, but you cannot forget yours never!
Also, if the saddle keeps wet when you arrive, you can pull it to original shape and wait for it to dry again. It becomes even more comfortable after that.
The only problem is the case where you need to keep riding (for example, on a holiday tour) and the saddle is STILL wet from yesterday. I don't know what to do then...
Amazingly, though, even all the way down it is still comfortable and pretty rideable.
Once, a dutch guy was crossing my town on a long tour, with his brooks fully stretched down, and he only complained from sore hands, not from sore bum. It was incredible!
So, I would say: "Yes, go for it, but you have been warned!" ;o)
In your case I would say that you can use a Brooks-style leather saddle with two recommendations:
If you have used a leather saddle before and want to make it work in your climate, I would give it a try with those two changes. If you are just considering switching, I would probably stick to a modern style saddle like the Specialized Body Geometry series.
i have been using proofide on my champion flyer for about four years now. it works great. it absorbs better in warm weather, not really in cold winter months. i would not use any thing else, period!
I ride my B-17 in the rain, on the trail, through the mud, rivers, and streams.
I don't apply Proofide and it stays in great shape.
It was worn in about a 2 years ago and I tightened the spanner bolt about 1 full turn and it hasn't moved since. I even branded the leather with my initials and it hasn't changed the way it feels on my bum.
I cant imagine a better saddle to ride. With not having any trouble out of mine in all weather/all mountain riding, I say go for it, just keep an eye on it to make sure its not doing something crazy.
I've ridden mine in the rain (and after being parked in the rain), and everything has worked out. I treat with proofide regularly, and the water beads up and slides off, even after 8 hours in light rain. I recently bought a Team Pro, and they seem to come with rain covers now. So if you get a new Brooks and have fenders, your saddle won't even be exposed to water while riding in the rain.
I still suggest proofide after each ride for a week after getting a new saddle, and then at least monthly. The stuff is cheap: just use it.
Not everyone thinks that a leather saddle, i.e. 'Brooks', is necessarily suited to year round riding. Hence there is an aftermarket saddle cover specifically designed for 'Brooks' saddles:
If you are concerned about your 'Brooks' seat holding up over winter then you might want to get one. I got a cover for my girlfriend, its well constructed and seems like it should hold up very well.


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My question looks rhetorical but it isn't. I am forcing myself to write to-do lists and tracking what I've done, but I found it difficult. I get bored to write lists longer than 10 tasks, so I set general tasks that never get done, and my list is becoming cluttered and ineffective. In this period I have a lot of overdue work, that's the reason of my cluttered list and of my need of organization. Is there any established method which requires minimal logging? GTD does not look as the right method for me, unless I can find a "perfect" tool
The reason you don't like GTD is because you are not even trying to do GTD:
Don't force yourself to get a whole to-do list at once, but re-iteratively improve it.
Here are some tips that match your points above:
Looking for less logging and tracking is definitely not the way to go, it defeats the purpose of trying not to use your mind to keep track of tasks you should not forget about. Write the tasks down until you are bored then split them up (in multiple tasks, contexts [using tags] and projects), then you should be able to progress through them with ease.
Still not OK?
If you set tasks that never get done, this could mean that these are things that you don't really care about (and you maybe don't need to do them) or are poorly defined: I once stumbled over some really old tasks and wondered why these were so hard to do: They were not a proper instruction what to do, but rather something like "think about $complex_project". After I split them up in several subtasks and defined a proper next step it worked better.
You may have noticed, that I used some GTD terminology/methods there: This is because I use a subset of GTD tools and omit some which I don't find useful for me: I use the concept of one central place to store tasks (for me it is Taskwarrior, a command line tool) and I try to make sure that ever project is split in manageable subtasks. Reviewing the task list on a regular basis also does not hurt.
When I have problems similar to what you describe, I step back to look at my GTD system. I almost always discover the problem is caused by one of two things:
In GTD terms, a Next Action is a very carefully defined thing, that must result in a concrete deliverable. A good NA (to piggyback on one of the other answers here) will be "draft project plan outline for $complex_project" or "draft candidate design for $complex_project" rather than the general "think about".
And staying with GTD terms, you don't need every possible action for a Project in your list(s). Just the next action you need to take to move the project forward. When you have completed that action, it is your choice whether to proceed with the next thing to do with that Project, or to move to something else on your lists, or to process an inbox.


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Bug: Illustrator now refuses to draw lines with stroke weight below 1 pt
On my Illustrator CS5.5 I have the strange behaviour that when I make a perfect horizontal line, the stroke weight has a minimal value of 1pt. I can set it to 0.5pt, but it will jump back.
If I make a non-horizontal line and set its stroke weight to a value <1pt, everything is OK. The moment I make that line horizontal the weight jumps back to 1pt. It is possible though to set the weight to 0pt, however this renders the line invisible.
Is there a setting I can change to avoid this behaviour or is there some special reason for this?


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I have been trying to encourage my students to use TeX in writing up homework, especially in early math major courses, like intro to proofs, where the typesetting is not too arduous. I have had very limited success with students taking it up. Does anyone else encourage/require assignments to be typeset? What strategies have worked best for you?
As a Mathematics/Engineering student approaching the end of my undergraduate career, I can say that typesetting my Homework was a pain until I had a nice refined template to use. Based on my experiences, I would suggest the following:
I get reasonably good results with the following strategy:
All of my reports were typeset in LaTeX in university. Only once I've tried to typeset math homework using LaTeX and it was a pain. It was much quicker to write up the answers on paper than to do context switching between typing up LaTeX, thinking & waiting/viewing the results.
One way would be to have an interactive web2.0 website to submit LaTeX typeset answer with automatic rendering. Gradually making the students love LaTeX syntax.
I've started out with LaTeX with a small "LaTeXiT" app on macos which would render equations into pngs and allow me to drag and drop them.
Later on you can introduce ready-made templates for question answers.
(this is from student perspective what might have made me take up latex earlier on.)
And be nice and release your document. All of my professors refuse to give me latex sources citing that sources are theirs. Make these sources licensed under creative commons and put them on something like http://docs.latexlab.org/ to allow students "fix" lecture notes =)
I tried this in my real analysis class this past spring with limited success. I required my students to type at least one of their solutions using LaTeX for the first several homework assignments and then bumped it up to two solutions later in the semester. A few students fell in love and were turning in their entire homework set in LaTeX by the third week while others conveniently ignored the requirement most weeks and then turned in several LaTeXed problems every few weeks to make up for their lack. Since they were all required to turn in a LaTeXed paper for the end-of-semester project, they knew they had to learn it at some point.
To get them started, I had them install TeXnicCenter and did a 10-minute introduction to LaTeX during the first week of class. I also posted a .tex file with comments on my website for them and posted the homework assignment each week as a .tex file so that they could just fill in their solutions without worrying about document setup.
Since each of my students had a college-issued laptop, if they were having problems that seemed machine-specific, they could just bring the laptop to me and we could troubleshoot together. I also started having them submit their .tex files so that I could see what their code looked like and comment on it.
I am very interested in how other people approach this (I think you're correct that starting in an intro to proofs class or an early class is the best way to go) since I think I only convinced about half my students to really learn LaTeX and see it as the only way to type mathematics. It doesn't help that they were all given extra credit in calculus for typing their homework in Word.
Here's a document that I wrote for this coming semester in hopes of encouraging my students to use TeX. I'm going to give them templates for their first few homework assignments as well.
Introduce LyX to your students. First impression of LaTeX is scary after years with word processors. But both GUI approach and good tutorial of LyX may attract your students. It has almost all the benefits of LaTeX, for starters, and easier to learn compared to LaTeX.
One university that I know of designated 5 out of 25 marks for "clarity and style". Since writing clearly is a recognisable skill and one that mathematicians really ought to learn, this is easily justifiable in a mark scheme.
However, I would be a little disturbed to find someone awarding credit only for LaTeX'ing documents. Although I agree that TeX and its derivatives are by far the best system for writing mathematics, it can be a little overwhelming to start with and so actually requiring it (other than for a TeX-specific course) would seem to me to be on dubious pedagogical grounds. I would rather go down the route of encouragement rather than requirement.
It has just occurred to me that students learning LaTeX might actually be a side-benefit of something I'm planning on next semester. I'm thinking of running a maths-enabled forum for my students to ask and answer questions. They'll be able to use a LaTeX-like system for entering their mathematics to get it converted in to MathML. That might get them introduced to (La)TeX equation markup without needing to know all the extra stuff (like what to put in a preamble). Hopefully, once they see how easy and intuitive that part is, they'll recognise that it's worth learning how to do it properly.
Put the source code for a sample answer on your course website. Better yet, don't worry about it. It's really not fun grading assignments that have errors that, if written by hand would imply complete lack of understanding, but if typeset imply only a trivial typo. (For example, it is easy to forget a
I bet that most people reading this site love tex and latex. But if students are not using these things of their own free will, then that indicates that these things are not useful to them (yet).
I use latex for all my course materials, which are quite mathematical. The results are manifestly more beautiful than they would have been, had I used word or openoffice. Guess what? A lot of students notice this, and start using latex, without my asking.
Tex and Latex can argue for themselves.
A few of my undergraduate physics classes required LaTeX in one way or another. Our reports for each experiment in the laboratory course had to be in two-column APS classic, for example. In our third term of quantum mechanics, we each did a term paper on some subject drawn from the literature (general instructions, LaTeX templates and a sample paper are available here). In some circumstances, having one or two big LaTeX projects over the course of the, ah, course might be preferable to lots of shorter LaTeXnical assignments.
Edit to add: For example, if the structure of the class is such that a longer writing project like a term paper is possible, then the students can gain familiarity with LaTeX features beyond equations and text formatting, such as building a bibliography and adding figures. These would be beyond the requirements of an ordinary problem set; the student who uses BibTeX for a weekly homework assignment is not a student who needs help being enthused about typesetting. But this might be a bit much to spring on people who've just encountered the TeXniverse for the first time.
Here's one idea: you could create a one-page cheat sheet listing some basic LaTeX commands, including the notation that will come up in the class. You could send them the source and make compiling it an assignment.


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6 Eerily Specific World Events Predicted by Comics
#3. The Death of Lady Di
We've already told you about the time Marvel tried to bring back Princess Diana as a mutant superhero, but DC did something even worse: They killed her.
Every superhero worth something has to die and come back from the dead at some point -- it's like their own little hazing ritual. In 1997 it was Wonder Woman's turn, so DC did a story line in which she falls into a mystical coma, dies and eventually ascends to become a goddess on Olympus. The cover of Wonder Woman #126 was a fake newspaper headline announcing the imminent death of Princess Diana of Themyscira (she'd actually die in the next issue).
Now, unless you spend a lot of time on message boards, in comic shops or really nerdy gay bars, you probably don't hear people referring to Wonder Woman as "Princess Diana" too often, but that's what the cover of that issue called her. And this was really unfortunate, because three freaking days after the comic came out, Princess Diana of Wales was killed in a car accident.
"Oh no! Wait, wait ... which one?"
The next issue (finished months earlier) actually includes the phrase "Princess Diana is dead," but at least that one ends on an uplifting note, with Wonder Woman reassuring everyone that she's OK. This issue, on the other hand, ends with her friends and family feeling miserable as she suffers a slow, painful death. So, on the one week every newspaper in the world looked like this:
...DC beat everyone to the punch by printing a cover that looked like this:
It Gets Creepier:
Careful observers may have noticed a disturbing detail in the cover above:
Yep, this comic was made by the same guy from the previous two entries, 20 years after the NYC blackout and 11 after the Challenger. He also predicted an earthquake in Japan in an issue of X-Men.
Byrne (who's still working in comics today) hasn't predicted any disasters lately, which we're guessing means he has learned to harness these powers and use them in more subtle and productive ways.
#2. The End of the Cold War
In 1976, DC published a special comic that imagined what would happen if Superman arrived on Earth in that year and grew up to become an adult in the distant future of 2001 (which is pretty much the time line current Superman comics follow, if you stop to think about it).
Whatever happened to those strato-jets you used to hear so much about in 2001?
The comic seems especially concerned with politics -- it starts with the Russian and American armies competing to reach the UFO carrying baby Superman. After the U.S. manages to secure the spaceship, they begin experimenting on it by shooting lasers at the baby's face.
"Why would that be your first test?!"
While the story's attempts to bring more realism to the Superman mythos are pretty clumsy and laughable, that only makes it more impressive that they got one thing right: The comic predicted the Cold War would end around 1990.
Some of the details are a little off, though.
Bear in mind that this story was written in 1976, when relations between the U.S. and the USSR were still very tense -- the Vietnam War had ended only one year earlier, and the Soviet war in Afghanistan was still to come. At the time it seemed plausible that the conflict would either stretch for many more decades or end in an armed confrontation. Most pieces of speculative fiction published during this period (including Watchmen) involved nuclear attacks -- this is one of the few pieces of fiction created during the Cold War where the war ends thanks to diplomacy.
And a flying boy in underpants.
It Gets Creepier:
Later, in 2001, America's new enemies (from an unspecified nation) send a deadly weapon to the heart of New York City. The flying terror came in the shape of ...
... a four-armed android called Moka. Moka hopes to fool humankind into submission, but Superman exposes him as a phony and punches him to death. The grateful New Yorkers erect a monument in Superman's honor.
Something tasteful.
It's like the writers got a real vision of the future but were highly intoxicated at the time, so all the details were warped almost beyond recognition. So, OK, they didn't get anywhere near predicting 9/11, which would have been pretty creepy ...
#1. The 9/11 Attacks
That Superman comic from the mid-'70s may not have anticipated the 9/11 attacks ... but this one from September 12, 2001, did.
The issue showed the aftermath of an alien invasion on Metropolis, and it included the following panel:
That's right, that image appeared in a Superman comic that came out on the day after the attacks. That's actually supposed to be Lex Luthor's LexCorp building, which is a single tower with a top floor shaped like a giant L.
So not only did they choose the worst possible angle to depict the damage ... they did it in a comic that came out on 9/12. Obviously there was nothing DC could do to pull the comic out of circulation by then (not to mention that their offices are in downtown NY, so they probably had other things on their mind at the moment). They did make the comic returnable, but few if any were actually returned, because people understood that this was nothing but an unfortunate coincidence and not DC's fault. Also, so they could do this:
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Other parts of the comic showed the impact of the alien invasion on different parts of the world, like Australia ...
Washington, D.C. ...
And holy fucking shit the actual Twin Towers
The WTC actually appears three times across the issue (not counting the accidental image). Take a closer look at that image:
We'd check to see if those match with the actual impact points, but to be honest we're afraid to. We'll just tell you they didn't, though, mainly so you can sleep tonight.
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ST. CLAIRSVILLE - The Belmont County Fair opened Wednesday with a celebration and showcase of the area's rich agricultural resources.
County Prosecutor Chris Berhalter served as keynote speaker and talked of the importance of the fair and the 4-H program in instilling values in the youngest members of the community. He added that he comes by his knowledge firsthand, since his three children are active 4-H members.
"When you're given this gift of children it can be an overwhelming task at times, because they don't come with an instruction book," he said, adding that a system of support is important in imparting virtue and the value of hard work. "There are times in the world we live in today, that when you hold true to those values or still believe in those values, you can feel like you're alone, or on an island."
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He quoted the founding principles of 4-H, which emphasizes the importance of hard work in building character and creating lifelong learners.
"Those are not just words or talk. We've actually seen that in action," Berhalter said, pointing out the sportsmanship and fair play that holds even in the fiercest competitions. "When you look at this organization and the children who participate and even their families that belong as well, you realize you're not alone on this island."
Ohio Department of Agriculture Director David Daniels spoke about Ohio's history of intimate connection with agriculture, dating from the first farming settlers. He noted the $105 billion generated economic activity and one in seven jobs in the state generated by agriculture.
Recognition went to the Martins and Theaker farm families who have operated their respective farms for 200 years. He advised any farming family with generations invested in their property to contact the department of agriculture.
"This year we will designate 64 bicentennial farms in the state of Ohio. We hope that we've got more, because these families are an extremely important part of Ohio's agrarian history," he said, adding that the fair was a fitting place to honor them. "No place does agriculture shine like the county fair. We wanted to recognize these families in front of the peers, in front of the people that stand alongside them and work the land everyday."
Daniels also thanked Belco Works for providing preparatory work for the fair.
Extension Officer Jane Keyser recognized the fair royalty for this year, noting that they represent the 600 young people involved in 4-H in the county. She introduced new County Ag Educator Dan Lima. She commented on the long partnership between the Extension Office and Fair Board.
Representatives from the lieutenant governor's office, the state auditor's office, US Rep. Bill Johnson, US Sen. Rob Portman, and the secretary of state recognized the importance of the fair, its community and educational role in promoting the state's important field of agriculture, and the work that has gone into making it a reality.
Also present were Ohio Sen. Lou Gentile and Rep. Jack Cera, the county commissioners, and local officials.
The VFW and American Legion participated in the opening ceremonies.
A moment of silence was held for Marvelyn Saffell and Shirley Shumaker, late board members.
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I understand that the redness of the moon during the total lunar eclipse last night/this morning (April 14-15 2014) is a reflection of the red light caused in earth's atmosphere due to Rayleigh scattering (basically, a reflection of all the sunsets and sunrises happening around the earth). Because of this, it seems to me that the moon will appear red during every total lunar eclipse that happens. Is this the case, or are there some lunar eclipses where the moon does not turn red? If it is the case that all total lunar eclipses produce a red moon, why was the media so hyped up about last night's eclipse producing a red moon? Was it especially red?
No, not all total lunar eclipses will turn the Moon deep red. Most of them do, but not all.
If you were standing on the Moon during the eclipse, you'd see the Earth passing in front of, and obscuring, the Sun. But the Earth will never become fully dark, even when the Sun is fully covered. A bright ring will always surround the Earth. Why?
That ring is sunlight refracted by the atmosphere. It's there because the Earth has an atmosphere. You could say it's all the sunrises and sunsets of the Earth, all seen at once. It's this light that continues to illumine the Moon during the eclipse.
But why is the Moon red, instead of some other color? This is because the blue end of the spectrum is scattered more easily in all directions (same mechanism that explains why the sky is blue on Earth), whereas the red part of the spectrum is scattered less easily and moves on a straighter path along the refraction lines. The bright ring around the Earth, as seen from the Moon, is probably red, because most of the blue in it has been scattered away.
Now, if the Earth's atmosphere is full of dust particles from huge volcanic eruptions, the bright ring is a lot weaker. That makes the Moon during the eclipse a much darker shade of red. Sometimes the Moon is a very dark, dull grey during the eclipse, no red hue at all - so dark in fact that it's hard to see in the sky while the eclipse is full. This has happened some decades ago after the Pinatubo eruption.
A measure of the brightness and color of a lunar eclipse is the Danjon scale. Eclipses are rated between 0 (almost invisible, black or very dark grey) and 4 (bright orange with bluish rim).
My estimate is that the last eclipse was a 3.
I can't find a list of recent eclipses rated on a Danjon scale, but here's a list of 20th century eclipses, with a measure of the magnitude of the umbra.
As you can see, the magnitude varies quite a bit.
Bottom line: each eclipse is a bit different. A majority would have some kind of orange, copper or red tint. A minority are too dark to see any color. Unusual colors (outside of the red-yellow interval) are very rarely possible. Brightness and hue varies from one instance to another, since it depends on Earth's atmosphere, which is a system that changes greatly over time.
Pretty most all lunar eclipses will turn the moon red like that. The amount of redness does vary, and sometimes so little light gets to the sun it is almost completely dark. However the redness is so typical of a lunar eclipse that NASA describes it as a "characteristic orange-red color". That link has a neat table with a categorization of the colour ranges.
Probably what triggered the media's "do a story on that!" bells was lots of chatter they noticed online, mostly from the loony fringe making more of it than it deserves.
The reason for the extra attention was probably because this lunar eclipse (I can't bring myself to write 'blood moon' ick I've done it) is coincident with the Jewish Passover - not a surprising event, as Passover is always when the moon is full after the spring equinox. It happens that the Passover that was celebrated the evening before the day Jesus was executed was followed by a lunar eclipse, and the Bible makes mention of 'the moon being turned to blood.' Simple and straightforward, but then some people start going off on their own weird supposes and imagining that Jesus' second coming will occur on another lunar eclipse, as if a lunar eclipse after the spring equinox was the only time it is possible for him to visit. So you get lots of internet chatter, the media notices what is trending on twitter and does a half-baked story.
Lunar eclipse will occur in other months too, but without this association, people don't seem to care as much.
The redness of the moon is due to Earth's atmosphere refraction of Sun rays and pollution - dust particles etc. The intensity of the colouring will depend on the path the moon takes through the Earth's corona. If it goes right through the middle then we will see a darker moon, while if it travels close to the edges then the influence of refraction and pollution will be greater and thus a redder moon.


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The 5 Most Implausible Old School Rap Songs
#2. "Boyz-n-the Hood" and "Nobody Move" - Eazy-E
Before Ice Cube was starring in family comedies and Dr. Dre was doing Dr Pepper commercials, they were in a rap group called N.W.A. with a tiny man named Eazy-E. And before Boyz N the Hood was a critically acclaimed 1991 gangster movie starring Ice Cube, it was a 1987 song by Eazy-E.
Eazy sadly passed away in 1995, but in his prime he went on an imaginary crime spree that shocked the nation.
On an encounter with a friend who tried to steal his stereo:
Chased him up the street to call a truce
The silly motherfucker pull out a deuce-deuce
Little did he know I had a loaded 12-gauge
One sucker dead, L.A. Times first page
It seems unlikely that the shooting of a single man over a stereo would make the front page of the newspaper in a city that averaged two or three homicides a day at the time.
Only if that sucker was famous or young and pretty.
But anyway. Maybe the guy stealing his stereo was the mayor or something. Then Eazy meets his girlfriend:
Went to her house to get her out of the pad
Dumb ho says something stupid that made me mad
She started talkin' shit, wouldn't you know?
Reached back like a pimp and slapped the ho
And here we were under the impression that real mothafuckin' G's used bats.
Here we're introduced to a theme that is going to be repeated throughout nearly all of Eazy-E's tales: his penchant for solving problems by slapping people. Which brings us to our second example from the Eazy-E catalog, "Nobody Move," detailing an armed robbery by Eazy and his crew.
This is a stick-up, everybody get face-down
Ren, gag their mouths so they can't make a sound
Take out the security guard with a slap of my hand
Yeah, he's wearin' a badge, but he's a old-ass man
Here Eazy takes out the guard with his superhuman slapping abilities. Again, in real life, Eazy-E was about the size of a middle school cheerleader.
Now it's time to deal with the closed-circuit security system:
Cover the lens on the TV screen
you know, so me and my gang just can't be seen
Eazy covers "the lens on the TV screen." Now, we're not the most tech-savvy people in the world, but even we know that that's not the way security cameras work. The "TV screen" part is what displays what's on the camera. The actual camera is somewhere else. Covering the screen will prevent Eazy and his gang from seeing themselves on the closed-circuit security system, but the cameras will continue to record. Nearly all problems in human society can be traced back to this "if we can't see it, it is no longer a problem" fallacy.
"How much you wanna bet this whole 'Hitler' thing just blows over?"
So the guys are robbing the bank and slapping random people when Eazy notices a woman he'd like to rape. During the robbery.
Peepin' at a bitch cause my dick's on hard
and then untie the ho, so I can start creepin'
I said: "Lay down, and unbutton your bra!"
She had the biggest titties that a nigga ever saw
But then the plan runs into a complication:
The suspense was makin' me sick
She took her panties down and the bitch had a dick!
I said: "Damn," dropped the gat from my hand
What I thought was a bitch, ain't nothing but a man
Underwear conceals so much.
Yes, the exact same scenario as played itself out in "Funky Cold Medina." Of all the problems to plague the inner city in the late 1980s, apparently having an attempted rape go south due to the victim being transsexual was at the very top of the list. It comes up a lot. We could start getting into the implications of this, but it really should be the subject of its own book.
Eventually the police surround the bank, and Eazy demands a helicopter "so we can get away clean, and take some pussy along if you know what I mean."
It doesn't work. Police shoot tear gas into the bank, and the guys get arrested, but only because Eazy's gun jams. We're not sure why he didn't just slap his way out.
#1. "Paul Revere" - Beastie Boys
Just like Will Smith, the Beastie Boys were in their 20s when their first hit album, License to Ill, came out in 1987, but played the part of teenagers in some of their songs. But then you have the Beastie Boys origin story "Paul Revere," which is not in fact about Paul Revere but instead tells of how the group became friends in the course of a crime spree:
The song begins with Ad-Rock (Adam Horovitz) riding through the desert on his horse:
Had a little horsey named Paul Revere
Just me and my horsey and a quart of beer
Riding across the land, kicking up sand
Sheriff's posse on my tail cause I'm in demand
Sure you are.
Why is he on a horse? Wait, is this an Old West tale? That would at least make it transparently fictional, and thus more honest than the other examples on this list.
The sun is beating down on my baseball hat
The air is gettin' hot, the beer is getting flat
I was lookin' for a girl
Hmmm ... no, he's wearing a "baseball hat." So that eliminates two explanations as to why he's on a horse -- he's neither a cowboy nor Amish.
So he's clopping through the desert, drinking a beer and looking for a girl to party with. Now, it's suspect enough that he should be looking for someone to have sex with in the middle of the desert, but he also has the cops on his tail. They couldn't catch him on horseback? Are the cops on foot?
The horse seems important to the story, since the song is named after him, but they never mention him again. Already this raises doubts in our mind.
Beastie Boys and their "horse."
Out of the blue, MCA (Adam Yauch) appears. MCA asks for a drink of Ad-Rock's beer, which Ad-Rock denies him. MCA replies by pulling his gun, introducing himself and demanding -- at gunpoint -- that Ad-Rock become his friend and get drunk with him:
He put the gun to my head and this is what he said,
Now, "I got the gun, you got the brew
You got two choices of what you can do
It's not a tough decision as you can see
I can blow you away or you can ride with me."
A guy with hair that silver might waste a dude for coke, but not beer.
Ad-Rock agrees, and we learn why he came to be riding through the desert on horseback:
I'll ride with you if you can get me to the border
The Sheriff's after me for what I did to his daughter
I did it like this, I did it like that
I did it with a wiffleball bat
This tale of rape is an anomaly in the rap universe in that the victim does not turn out to have both male and female genitalia. But still it raises more questions than we can cover here. Ad-Rock tells MCA he knows of a club that serves champagne, which will satisfy MCA's need for something to drink and will get Ad-Rock across "the border" and out of the sheriff's jurisdiction:
We rode for six hours then we hit the spot
To you aspiring criminals, this is why horses do not make good getaway vehicles. To get out of a sheriff's jurisdiction in America, you only need to get out of the county, an area just 20 or 30 miles wide at most. This trip takes them six hours.
They'd have gotten there faster by Segway.
Then again, the sheriff is still not able to catch them. Maybe the deputies are all confined to wheelchairs?
They reach the bar, and once inside, they see a guy who apparently knows MCA. They sit next to him, and he immediately stands up, announces that he's robbing the place and shoots two random customers:
The kid said, "Get ready cause this ain't funny
My name's Mike D. and I'm about to get money."
Pulled out the jammy, aimed it at the sky
He yelled, "Stick 'em up!" and let two fly
Hands went up and people hit the floor
He wasted two kids that ran for the door
Yeah, that we can believe.
Then he does something that really makes us doubt that he or any member of this group has ever successfully committed a crime: He tells everyone in the bar his name.
"I'm Mike D. and I get respect
Your cash and your jewelry is what I expect"
Then we are introduced to the unsung hero of this story:
... I grabbed the piano player and I punched him in the face
The piano player's out, the music stopped
We're talking about the club's piano player. Apparently, the pianist is so dedicated that during the entire robbery, multiple gunshots and two murders, he just kept on going. The music didn't stop until Ad-Rock punched him in the face.
"He's deaf and blind! This guy is Ray Charles squared."
At this point, the three gather up all of their loot, Ad-Rock abducts two women, and they leave (if you're keeping count, that's five people who had to pile onto the back of poor Paul Revere).
Presumably they chose to form a rap group shortly thereafter.
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WEIRTON - Five years after launching the municipal home rule pilot program in four West Virginia communities, the state is ready to expand it.
The new legislation, passed by the Legislature and signed by the governor, allows 14 cities across the state to adopt home rule in addition to the four original test sites - Wheeling, Bridgeport, Charleston and Huntington - where it's been in place since 2007.
Those 14 new openings, however, may not be nearly enough to accommodate the communities interested in the program. Initial reports suggest interest is widespread, though how many will actually follow through and apply remains to be seen.
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PROGRAM GROWING — The success of Wheeling's vacant building registration program prompted state Legislators to allow other communities to implement its program, which forces property owners to register vacant buildings and pay a fee based on how long a particular building has been empty. Wheeling has registered 155 vacant properties, collected $15,800 in fees and demolished 19 dilapidated structures similar to this one in Weirton, targeted by the city for demolition Monday. -- Linda Harris
"This round is going to be very different than the first round," said Weirton native Chris Fletcher, a member of the home rule board since its inception. He points out that last time around, there were four openings and only four communities that applied.
"Time will tell ... just how many communities expressing interest locally will actually move in that direction (now)."
Fletcher, though, sees it as a no-brainer: the four communities that piloted home rule were able to address needs specific to their community and achieve measurable results.
Wheeling, for instance, needed a vehicle to encourage landlords to fill properties rather than allow them to sit vacant and fall into disrepair. Through home rule, the city was able to assess a fee against owners of vacant buildings - the longer the building remains unused, the higher the fee.
An audit done by the West Virginia Legislative Auditor in November found that since the ordinance was implemented in Wheeling, 155 vacant properties had been registered, 19 others were demolished and $15,800 in fees had been generated, though more than twice that amount remains outstanding.
"Home rule enabled us to step up and say we'll no longer allow (dilapidated structures) in our community, we'll no longer allow the few to dictate policy to the majority," said Wheeling Mayor Andy McKenzie. "Home rule forces that minority to clean up their property, tear it down or sell it to someone who cares. Home rule doesn't force landowners to sell, so it's not unconstitutional; we're just saying this is the minimum standard in our community."
Home rule also allowed Wheeling to consolidate its permitting process. Before home rule, the city had 77 different business license classifications - now there are just three. Likewise, rather than three different building permits the city now has only one. Council also was able to eliminate the fire service fee on personal property.
Both of those ideas have since been implemented statewide.
"I think home rule's worked extremely well," McKenzie said. "What home rule really does is it move the ability to govern from the legislature to the local community, which ultimately empowers local communities to do what's best for them."
McKenzie said when you get right down to it, those who know a community best are the people who live there rather than lawmakers in Charleston.
"That's a key point," Fletcher agreed. "One size does not fit all. That's been one of the biggest challenges across the state for decades - all our economies, all our markets, all our challenges and opportunities are very different. There are very different and challenging (issues) within each community, and the purpose of home rule is to allow flexibility, to allow communities to identify the challenges they face and develop solutions.
Hancock County Delegate Ron Jones, D-Weirton, says communities throughout the Northern Panhandle are seriously interested in joining the program, including Weirton.
"It's a good opportunity," said Jones, who also serves as Weirton's Ward 1 councilman. "I think it would be great for us. We can adapt it to fit our needs."
Weirton, in fact, had toyed with the idea of applying for the original pilot project in 2008, but backed away after opposition surfaced within the business community.
"It was portrayed as council trying to put in higher taxes," Jones recalled. "It's my belief, if the presentation had been clearer, the business community would have embraced it. It was just poorly presented to the business community."
Former state Sen. Ed Bowman, who authored the original legislation, said he thinks home rule is "a good thing for the community, a lot of positive benefits come out of it."
"I've always been a real believer in home rule," he said. "Local lawmakers are so much more accessible to people in the community than state legislators are. Nobody in Weirton is more than 10 minutes from the city building. If council were to do something tomorrow that the people of the community feel strongly about, all they'd have to do is go down to the city building and tell them. It's not very difficult."
It's no slam dunk, either. Every home rule change must pass the required readings before council, and the West Virginia Home Rule Board also reviews every proposal. Bowman said that means there's plenty of opportunity for citizen input.
"Every city is different, just like one glove doesn't fit all sizes," Bowman said. Weirton, for instance, "is the only city in the country bordered by two other states. When I was in the Senate and we would discuss issues like the tobacco tax, I'd point out that all my people had to do was drive to Paris or Steubenville to buy those things. They had to understand the decisions they make affect people in the middle of West Virginia and people in the Charleston area much differently than they affect us up here."
The legislative auditor's report, done prior to past Legislative session, "... gave it very, very high marks," Bowman said, pointing out "that doesn't happen to often."
"Home rule did exactly what it was intended to do, and that was to try and provide some flexibility for municipal governments across the state to develop programs and projects that otherwise they would not be able to do," Fletcher added. "I think Charleston, Huntington, Wheeling and Bridgeport have made some great strides in addressing some of the challenges they've been experiencing; obviously, the legislators agreed and extended the program, they broadened the opportunity for participation to include more municipalities."
For most communities, the discussions are still in the preliminary stages.
"Nobody really knows enough about it to make a decision (yet)," Follansbee City Manager John DiSteffano said. "There were some good things that came out of (the pilot program). There were some things the Legislature said other cities could adopt, which is a good thing - unsightly, dilapidated properties, for instance. And Wheeling and Huntington did some things with the sales taxes and B&O taxes. They're both going for some form of sales tax. I'm not sure how that would affect a city like us, we rely more on the B&O than a sales tax. We'd like to look at it, there are probably some things that might make sense but from an administrative standpoint, it would be more on our plate."
McKenzie, meanwhile, said communities uncertain about what home rule can do for them need only look to what the four pilot cities have been able to accomplish with it. In Wheeling's case, he said home rule gave the city the tools it needed to deal with a problem that had been dogging it for decades and townspeople responded.
"We've had nothing but positives and support from the community. They're seeing the program fixing and cleaning up their neighborhoods," he said. "The only people opposed to it are the people who aren't obeying the law and don't care about the community. The general population gets it. If anybody thinks it's political, they don't understand it - if anything, it's the opposite. f you're a responsible landowner you're complying with the rules already. The only people who would object are people who don't want to comply or simply aren't complying."
Much of the time, he points out, the owners of dilapidated properties are people who've moved away from the community and allowed their properties to fall into disrepair. Home rule forced those individuals who'd to bring those properties to standard, sell them or tear them down.
"It's a black-and-white issue, it's very clear-cut," he said. "You can enforce the rules and make your community a better community, or you can continue doing it the old way and allowing communities to deteriorate."
He also said home rule's greatest strength may well be that it allows local government "to reduce or eliminate tax burden on citizens, as well as reduce bureaucracy."
"That enables development and empowers communities," he said. "It's not been a home run for us, I'd have to say it's been a double home run in enabling us to do things."


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I have another exterior differential system for one forms $U^i$, where the $\theta^i$ are a cotangent basis on $SO(3)$, i.e. they satisfy $d \theta^i = \epsilon_{ijk} \theta^j \wedge \theta^k$ for the antisymmetric tensor $\epsilon$. This is related to a previous question here.
\begin{array}{c} \text{dU}^1+\sqrt{3} \theta^1 \wedge U^3+\sqrt{3} \theta^2\wedge U^4 =0\\\\ \text{dU}^2+\theta^1 \wedge U^3-\theta^2 \wedge U^4+2 \cosh(\rho) \theta^3 \wedge U^5 =0\\\\ \text{dU}^3+\sinh(\rho)\theta^2\wedge U^5+\theta^3 \wedge U^4 =0\\\\ \text{dU}^4-\sinh(\rho)\theta^1\wedge U^5-\theta^3\wedge U^3 =0\\\\ -\sinh(\rho) \text{dU}^5 -\cosh(\rho) \text{d$\rho $}\wedge U^5-\theta^1\wedge U^4+\theta^2\wedge U^3 =0\\\\ \cosh(\rho) \text{dU}^5+\sinh(\rho) \text{d$\rho $}\wedge U^5+\theta^1\wedge U^4+\theta^2 \wedge U^3-2 \theta^3 \wedge U^2 =0\\\\ -\text{dU}^4+\cosh(\rho) \theta^1\wedge U^5+\sqrt{3} \theta^2\wedge U^1-\theta^2 \wedge U^2+\theta^3\wedge U^3 =0\\\\ -\text{dU}^3+\sqrt{3} \theta^1\wedge U^1+\theta^1\wedge U^2+\cosh(\rho) \theta^2\wedge U^5-\theta^3\wedge U^4=0 \end{array}
FYI: this problem is related to my work on asymptotic symmetries of certain noncompact homogeneous spaces, i.e. I want to find diffeomorphisms which preserve a certain metric tensor asymptotically.
It seems like it should be possible to solve systems like this (semi-) automatically with a computer algebra package. After all, the system reduces to an overdetermined system of first order partial differential equations, for which such tools already exist... but the EDS form is so much more convenient that I would hate to rewrite everything as 1st order PDEs!
EDIT: As R.B. suggested in the comments, I forgot to mention that as in the other question, there is also a coordinate $\rho$ (of course), i.e. the one forms can be expanded as $\alpha = \alpha_a \theta^a + \alpha_\rho d\rho$ etc. Also, the summation convention is not implied in the expression for $d \theta^i$.
EDIT2: Of course a good start would be to add the third and last equations to get rid of $dU^3$ and similarly for $dU^4$ and $dU^5$. The number of unknowns will then be reduced from 20 to 7, but the system still seems quite difficult to solve... I've been hacking away at it with Mathematica and some exterior differential and wedge product functions, but it's still a mess!


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At least two people suffered major injuries from the collision that happened at 12:40 p.m. when a Ford F-150 truck collided with a sedan.
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A big-rig collided with three sedans and blocked one lane, according to the CHP. A helicopter flew at least one victim to a Bay Area hospital to be treated for unknown injuries.


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I'm planning on getting M series as soon as I can sell my early version of the NN3. I used the NN3 with a Nikon D200 and D300, with a Nikon 24mm f/2.8 D lens. I now have a D600 with the following Nikon lenses:
24mm f/2.8D
50mm f/1.4G
105mm f/2.8D
70-200 f/2.8G VRII
300mm f/4D
I need to get a better pano head so that I can use the 70-200mm and possibly the 300mm. Which system, the M1-L or the M2, would be better for my current equipment. I plan to add a wide angel lens and the 85mm 1.4G lens sometime in the future.
If I go with the M1-L should I get the optional 210mm rail? I know I will need to get the QRC-40B to be able to use the Kirk replacement foot on the 70-200.
P.S.: I want to take advantage of the trade-in program for the NN3 but I cannot find the original invoice. Fanotec support is also having trouble finding the invoice. If I need to sell the NN3 (pre-Feb 2008 version), what can I expect to get for it on the used market?


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I'm trying to understand the topology behind a certain group which fits into a truncated crossed complex, so I've been trying to understand Brown's construction of the classifying space of a crossed complex. I asked a similar question here and the answer cleared up some of my misunderstanding.
What I'm looking for now is an explicit construction of such a space. I've not found any papers that give explicit examples of such a construction, but hopefully there is one somewhere. I'm looking for something along the lines of the easy to follow of the construction of the classifying space of cyclic groups.


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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - A Manhattan man says backlash has him withdrawing his objection to Barack Obama's candidacy.
Joe Montgomery told 13 News he informed the Secretary of State's Office on Friday of his decision.
At a State Objections Board hearing Thursday, Montgomery detailed how he believes Obama isn't eligible to be President because his father was a Kenyan citizen. He also questioned whether Obama had a valid birth certificate.
The Board, comprised of of Secretary of State Kris Kobach, Attorney General Derek Schmidt and Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer, said it would request further documentation and meet again Monday.
Since the hearing, Montgomery says vindictive actions have been directed not just toward him, but also toward his personal and professional associates. He says there haven't been any direct physical threats, but he doesn't want to burden those around him any further because of his personal political views.
"The response to the objection that I filed has been for people to try to contact not only me through email and phone but people that I work with and people in the community around me. This is kind of a small community and I don't think I should make it a burden for everybody else to try to answer or be on the receiving end of criticism for something that I did as a private citizen and a registered Kansas voter. I'm doing this all on my own. I'm not representing anybody else in the objection that I filed," he told WIBW during an interview Friday.
Montgomery works as communications coordinator for K-State's College of Veterinary Medicine.
Montgomery says he still believes in the issues he raised. He says the Board's decision to gather more information before making a decision shows they believed he had a compelling argument. He says he hopes his actions have started a dialogue for people to learn more about the issues and research candidates.
"The important thing here is to look at the rule of law and I think I made a strong enough case. It's valid point. The Secretary of State affirms that be saying it wasn't a frivolous objection but the problem is, the response has been so strong that it's put other people of the receiving end of criticism that shouldn't be directed at them," he added.
Montgomery asked for people to respect his privacy and the privacy of those around him.
Kay Curtis of the Secretary of State's Office says the State Objections Board has set its follow-up meeting for 10 am Monday. The agenda contains two items - first to review the objection, second to review Montgomery's withdrawal of the objection.
Curtis says nothing in elections standards addresses the withdrawal of an objection. She cited a section that states the board "possesses broad powers to investigate facts, weigh evidence and draw conclusions as a basis for official action."
Joe Montgomery's email to the KS Secretary of State:
To Secretary of State Kobach;
I'm hereby formally retracting my objection to the eligibility of President Barack Obama to appear on the Kansas ballot. There has been a great deal of animosity and intimidation directed not only at me, but at people around me, who are both personal and professional associations. I'm don't wish to burden anyone with more of this negative reaction, so please immediately withdraw any action on this objection. Please let me know if there is anything I must sign or if there are any other final business I must attend to.
Joe Montgomery


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I have two particular questions regarding the inflationary scenario. They are:
1.) What is the physical origin of the inflaton field? 2.) Why has the potential of the inflation field its particular form?
I have two particular questions regarding the inflationary scenario. They are:
1.) What is the physical origin of the inflaton field? 2.) Why has the potential of the inflation field its particular form?
As @Rennie states, no-one knows what the inflaton is. The current state of affairs is that it is generally accepted that a period of exponential expansion took place during the early universe. This explains many of the features of the observable universe that are otherwise extremely hard to explain. One of the big industries in cosmology is to try to build a sensible and well motivated model of inflation that agrees with the experimental data. To date there are hundreds of such models, but many of them share a common feature which is that the inflation is produced by the potential of a scalar field. When this is the case, the particular scalar field in the model is known as the inflaton. Examples of models include:
There are many many more models, all have various pros and cons. The important point is whether the scalar field in the model has a potential that could produce inflation and how the predictions from the specific model agree with experiment. As CMB data gets more refined, some models will be ruled out but unambiguously identifying which scalar field in nature is the inflaton is a long long way off.
The potential of the inflaton field has to have a particular form to produce inflation. Inflation requires a negative-pressure vacuum energy density. This is generically produced by a scalar field as long as $\dot\phi^2 < V(\phi)$. So the requirement boils down to having the scalar field sit at a point where the potential takes a large value and is not too steep. This can either be a local minimum (false vacuum) and the field eventually tunnels out, thus ending inflation or a flat potential where the field slowly rolls down the potential. Slow roll inflation is now generally preferred since false vacuum inflation has problems with reheating.
Remember, at the moment, producing models of inflation is very much in the realm of model building and there are still models that do not even invoke an inflaton field.
The source of inflation is the inflaton, but no-one knows what the inflaton is!
The inflaton potential is calculated by looking at the universe and fiddling with the potential to get something that fits observations.
In other words, there are no fundamental theories that predict the inflaton properties. At the moment the theory is purely phenomenological. However this does not mean it lacks predictive power, as we get more information out of the theory than we have to put in as parameters. Hopefully the Planck satellite will give us more information about the theory.
There no need of 'inflaton/inflationary scenario' at all.
The theory is fully derived in this paper at vixra: A self-similar model of the Universe unveils the nature of dark energy , and it matches all the fundamental measures of the universe. The dark energy, inflation, cosmological constant, etc.. are necessary artifacts of a bad model (BBT).
Nothing in physics says that the atom is an invariant. We work in loop: define units of measure with an atom (and c) and then we calculate the size of anything. In conclusion : the size/mass of any object is some fraction/multiple of an atom, and we are blinded to any variation of the unit of measure. (see Poincaré sphere-world )
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The 58th Detroit AutoramaWritten by Eric Geisert on July 1, 2010 1,000 Cars Invade Motor City
Everywhere you look, history is all around Detroit. Dozens of statues are sprinkled around the city commemorating soldiers and sailors, politicians, and warriors from throughout the past century. When it comes to the automobile, you really can't get a more historic town than Detroit, as nearly every major (and minor) car manufacturer you can think of was either based in the city or at least nearby (one impressive list compiled 183 Michigan-based car manufacturers since the turn of the last century).
Even the Detroit Autorama, itself a facet of the city's automotive history by the simple fact it turned 58 years old in 2010, celebrated some history in the making at this year's show, proving there are still some surprises left in the indoor car show genre.
The Detroit Autorama (or, simply "Detroit" to those who attend regularly) is, all at once, a spectacle, a sensory-inducing event, and a little bit of circus thrown in for good measure.
The very best builders in the country plan for years to either enter vehicles they own themselves, or at least one of their customer's cars, in the hopes of not just winning a First Place trophy for their particular class, but perhaps be picked as one of the eight contenders (collectively known as the Pirelli Great 8) for the show's top prize: the Don Ridler Memorial Award.
Given to a car owner whose first-time-shown car exhibits creativity along with a masterful attention to detail, the award is a little different from any other "Best of Show" type of award found elsewhere. Butch Patrico, Autorama's head and the person who oversees the exclusive team who judges the contenders, commented on the Ridler this way: "I think the Ridler differs from other Best in Show awards because we not only judge a vehicle on how well it is done but also by its form, function, and the beauty of the overall design. Yes, we all look at the individual parts, pieces, and groups, meaning interior, engine, body, etc., but also the vehicle as a total package, a sum of all the parts, areas, or groups. I think if you look at a Ridler contender in that fashion you start to develop an insight as to what the owner/builder was trying to accomplish. I always look at the total product first. I like to stand back and just look at the entire vehicle and study it before I dive in and start looking at the workmanship, detail, and quality. We also interview the owner and builder. It really helps the judging because you learn a little more about the car from concept to build." This year saw 33 entries compete just for the Pirelli Great 8 and, after being announced, the eight finalists have to wait three days before knowing the results of the judging.
For the spectator, there were nearly 1,000 other vehicles on display at the show, with entries coming from 22 states and two Canadian provinces. Being Detroit based, the show leans a little more toward the performance side when speaking about the show cars, so you'll find more show 'n' go vehicles featured than you'd find on a West Coast-based event. But that makes sense as the Detroit Autorama began nearly six decades ago when a group of car clubs formed the Michigan Hot Rod Association and organized a car show to help fund a local dragstrip, so racing is obviously in the founder's blood.
In fact, a special area at this year's event was set aside for the Drag City USA Vintage Dragster Display, which featured a group of "Big Daddy" Don Garlits' Swap Rat dragsters from the early '60s as well as Connie Kalitta's Bounty Hunter from 1967. Plus, as a bonus, Kalitta was on hand to sign autographs.
In another area of the show a 70th anniversary exhibit of the '40 Ford showcased many examples of venerable vehicles, from truck to coupe. Also found in the center of the massive Cobo Center was a 28-foot-long Batmobile, a handmade and street-worthy creation from sculptors Bob Dullam and Bob Causey, who worked from 1:1-scale clay models in making the life-size vehicle. In contrast, a '60s-era Batmobile (like the one from the TV show) was also on display elsewhere in the hall.
Another facet of the show is the Detroit Autorama Extreme, a show-within-a-show located in the 100,000-square-foot basement of Cobo Center. Now in its sixth year, the Extreme features more traditional hot rods along with a good helping of the outrageous rat rod type of car. It's a well-received part of the Autorama, and it seems to grow in size each year. The attendees have their own award presentation and entertainment (rockabilly bands play each day), and it is a fun contrast to the gloss and chrome found upstairs in the "regular" show.
By the end of the weekend even more history was recorded when it was announced Tammy Ray, of Dahlonega, Georgia, was this year's recipient of the Don Ridler Memorial Award-the first woman to do so. (She was also, in 2006, the first woman to make the Great 8 with a different car).
Though some have wondered, with the nation's economy the way that it is, if attendance fell or the quality of the cars suffered at one of the country's premiere indoor car shows, but STREET RODDER saw no evidence of either, and everyone is looking forward as the Detroit Autorama marches on toward its 60th anniversary in 2012.
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Jim Linton, from Woodway, WA, travelled across country with his "Absolute Madness" '34 three-window: an original steel Ford that was fitted with a fuel-injected, blown, aluminum head 426 Hemi engine backed to a Richmond five-speed.Painted Montana Mint, Rich and Paige Udell's '32 Ford was modified in more ways than you could imagine. Former Great 8 finalists (2004), the Udell's Timeless roadster had a unique independent front suspension (that looked like a dropped tube setup) and a '57 Chrysler 392 Hemi.Owners (plus spouses) who were picked for the Pirelli Great 8 were on hand Saturday morning at the Circle of Champions brunch where a video presentation of their cars was presented. Each received $1,000, a special commemorative jacket, a nice trophy, and the satisfaction of being a contender in one of hot rodding's highest honors.Sue and Bill Keck from Debuque, IA, rolled in with their '37 Chevy Master DeLuxe. Merle Berg did the bodywork and Duehr Auto Body in Balltown, IA, did paint.About as different as you can get, Fran Roxas' '34 Packard body was created by Scott and David Knight. Underhood is an impressive Packard V-12 engine (brought up to 500 cubes). In from Hinsdale, IL, Roxas is a well-known restorer of Packards and Duesenbergs.A local guy, Bob Walrich from South Lyon, MI, didn't have far to travel to end up in the Pirelli Great 8. Terry Wayne did the build for Walrich, and stuffed the customized '34 sedan with a 650-horse 572 big-block motor.That's Tammy Ray, from Dahlonega, GA, holding her Ridler award, for her Gold Digger hot rod. A former Ridler contender (in 2006), Ray struck gold this year with her '33 Ford, which started life as a fiberglass SpeedStar phaeton.Alloway's Hot Rod Shop built the chassis with a Heidt's IFS and Winter's quick-change rear, and Ted Thomas of T&T Hot Rods in Canton, GA, built the rest of the car with a LS7 engine, TH350 trans, plus the headlights and taillights from Greening Auto Company. Chip Foose designed the 18- and 20-inch wheels while Mike Curtis Speed Shop cut them down from billet (the center caps feature the car's name in 24-karat gold leaf).
One of the four Model 40s in contention, Scott Burton's three-window was built through Smitty's Custom Automotive in Tiffin, OH. Steve Flat built the impressive Hilborn-injected 547 Hemi, and the car was designed at Salt Lake City's Kindig-It Design.Steve Frisbee, who owns Steve's Auto Restoration in Portland, OR, has built many custom cars for customers over the years, but he actually owns this '33 Dodge pickup. Nicknamed "Ramrod," the pickup used only 3 percent of the original body as almost everything else was handmade. It also had an all-Mopar drivetrain.Since it was the 70th anniversary of the '40 Ford, a special display was set up to highlight the vehicle, which included everything from a 1/2-ton truck to convertibles and all were hopped up and looking good!"Big Daddy" Don Garlits' Swamp Rat III was the first car in the 7-second bracket (7.88 e.t.), and it got its power from a 392 Hemi. This was one of a handful of Garlits' dragsters that was on display at the show.Wouldn't you love to see this run? Todd Schmidt, from Ypsilanti, MI, brought his recreation of the Hollish Brothers A/Comp coupe (with its original motor) to the event along with some vintage photos of the rail from when it was campaigned in 1959 and set a national record at 10.14 at 142.85. Sweet!Now with all the different types of cars they could have chosen, isn't it great Roseville High School in Roseville, MI, decided to build this '51 Ford custom as an Auto Class project? Owned by Roy O'Brien Ford in St. Clair Shores, MI, the custom features a 302 V-8, a RideTech 'bag suspension, Wilwood disc brakes, and an Art Morrison chassis.
Up front is a unique 286-inch Flattie outfitted with a M39 McCullough blower and a custom intake for the twin YH carbs.Over in the Ford display this repro steel '34 three-window owned by Kurt Kurtenbach featured a twin-turbo EcoBoost V-6 motor out of a '10 Ford Taurus SHO backed to Tremec five-speed trans. Normally a front-drive application, the engine uses an adapter from Technosports in Livonia, MI, to convert the powerplant to rear drive.The Cavalcade of Kustoms display is an annual affair at the Autorama, and this year saw Roger Winchel's '50 Ford slide in from Taylor, MI, with its stylized cove trim treatment.Lots of great cars come out of Canada and attend the Detroit Autorama. Jim and Diane Barrette, from Belle River, Ontario, showed up with their '61 Chevy Impala, which was dressed to the nines with Coys C5 20- and 22-inch wheels and powered by a 330-horse, 350 ci crate motor.Influenced by the design elements found in an 810 Cord convertible, Tom Melia, from Portland, CT, got his project started with a 'glass '36 Ford cabriolet body from Unique Motorcars in Gadsden, AL. Painted by Alan Weaver and with a Paul Atkins interior, the 'vert also boasts a supercharged Flathead built by Tony Baron.Speedway Motors' "Speedy" Bill Smith was on hand during the Circle of Champions brunch, and he also delivered a speech laced with memories of the early days of dirt track racing and speed shops.Converted to a two-door (and suicide at that!), Bob Petruska's '48 Ford woodie also had a 2-inch chop and slanted B-pillars. A 4.6L DOHC Ford motor resides in the engine bay.Another vehicle in the Cavalcade of Kustoms was Bob Fryz's '58 Chrysler from nearby Dearborn, MI. Nicknamed the "Golden Sunrise," the hardtop was chopped and features shaved doors, hood, and trunk, plus extended fenders and '72 Olds headlights.For years the Detroit Autorama has been the site for a Panel Jam where the proceeds benefit a charity. This year the Motor City Auto Art Pinstripers and Sign Painters (www.motorcityautoart.com) gathered some of the best 'stripers in the country to create artwork that was auctioned off regularly throughout the show. With 100 percent of the proceeds going to Leader Dogs for the Blind (last year's jam raised $70,000), we applaud the group's efforts.


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What actually happens when an anti-matter projectile collides with matter?
Suppose 1 kg of a stray meteorite anti-matter moves to the earth.
- What would happen after the collision matter and the anti-matter?
- Is there a way to produce antimatter here on earth?
- Why antimatter bombs more powerful than the atomic bomb?