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Robert
Jan 1, 2012, 7:47:51 PM1/1/12
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Now that the New Year is here, it is time to look ahead in science,
primarily in the fields of physics and cosmology.
Just a few years ago, had anyone predicted that the universe would be
discovered to be expanding at an accelerating rate, he would have been
ridiculed and scorned, the modern day substitute for being burned at
the stake.
Now it's your turn to risk all in the name of science.
What do you predict will be the top new discovery (or other
advancement of knowledge) in the year 2012? No fair predicting that
the Higgs Boson will be proved, unless you can specify something
remarkable about it that no one else is predicting.
Also, what new technology do you predict will emerge in 2012? How
will it change our lives?
While this is just for fun, try to keep it at least a little bit
realistic.
Thanks to anyone who takes a stab at this.
.
primarily in the fields of physics and cosmology.
Just a few years ago, had anyone predicted that the universe would be
discovered to be expanding at an accelerating rate, he would have been
ridiculed and scorned, the modern day substitute for being burned at
the stake.
Now it's your turn to risk all in the name of science.
What do you predict will be the top new discovery (or other
advancement of knowledge) in the year 2012? No fair predicting that
the Higgs Boson will be proved, unless you can specify something
remarkable about it that no one else is predicting.
Also, what new technology do you predict will emerge in 2012? How
will it change our lives?
While this is just for fun, try to keep it at least a little bit
realistic.
Thanks to anyone who takes a stab at this.
.
mpc755
Jan 1, 2012, 9:00:54 PM1/1/12
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The ripple created when galaxy clusters collide will be correctly
described as an aether displacement wave.
The offset between light propagating through the space neighboring
moving galaxy clusters and the galaxy clusters themselves will be
correctly described as the offset between the light lensing through
the aether displaced by the moving galaxy clusters and the center of
the galaxy clusters themselves.
The Milky Way's halo will be correctly described as the state of
displacement of the aether connected to and neighboring the Milky Way.
The state of the aether as determined by its connections with the
matter and the state of the aether in neighboring places, as described
by Einstein, will be correctly understood as the state of displacement
of the aether.
Gravity will be correctly described as the pushing back and pressure
exerted toward matter by the aether displaced by the matter, which
Voyager found evidence of.
The wave of pilot-wave theory will be correctly described as an aether
displacement wave. Aether physically occupies three dimensional space.
Aether is physically displaced by matter. A moving particle has an
associated aether displacement wave. In a double slit experiment the
moving particle has a well defined trajectory which takes it through
one slit while the associated aether wave passes through both.
The nonsense associated with the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum
mechanics will be replaced by the interpretation which correct
describes what occurs physically in nature; pilot-wave theory.
Bradley K. Sherman
Jan 1, 2012, 10:07:33 PM1/1/12
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Synthetic biologists will discover something about the nature
of Van der Waals forces that will shake the foundations of
physical chemistry.
--bks
FrediFizzx
Jan 1, 2012, 10:31:51 PM1/1/12
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For non-discovery, the LHC will continue to rule out SUSY. The Standard
Model will have to be patched another way.
Happy New Year to all!
Best,
Fred Diether
Model will have to be patched another way.
Happy New Year to all!
Best,
Fred Diether
ben6993
Jan 2, 2012, 9:58:22 AM1/2/12
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Higgs mass will be found to be 128.98 GeV/c^2.
Inflation's jerk will be found to be negative. Ie although inflation
effect is accelerating, it will diminish.
Dark matter influence will be found to be increasing.
Schrodinger's cat's diary discovered in 2012. It shows that it had
independently invented QM and had reasoned that the people outside his
cell were all in physically superimposed states where they were both
dead and alive simultaneously. On the last page it reasoned that it
was not thinking straight and must have been locked up for its own
protection.
Inflation's jerk will be found to be negative. Ie although inflation
effect is accelerating, it will diminish.
Dark matter influence will be found to be increasing.
Schrodinger's cat's diary discovered in 2012. It shows that it had
independently invented QM and had reasoned that the people outside his
cell were all in physically superimposed states where they were both
dead and alive simultaneously. On the last page it reasoned that it
was not thinking straight and must have been locked up for its own
protection.
Robert
Jan 2, 2012, 12:57:56 PM1/2/12
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BKS, this is interesting.
Do you have anything specific in mind?
PS: I am not well versed in chemistry, but if you keep it simple, I
think I can follow it.
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Do you have anything specific in mind?
PS: I am not well versed in chemistry, but if you keep it simple, I
think I can follow it.
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Bradley K. Sherman
Jan 2, 2012, 5:26:25 PM1/2/12
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In article <b1e2f5b7-c2d3-4395...@q17g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>,
Sorry Robert, just a gut feeling after spending the past four
years in the Berkeley biosciences library (I'm a retired
bioinformatician). I just don't understand how proteins
orient and find each other in the cytoplasmic syrup. Probably
a shortcoming in my training. At one point I left the biosciences
library to read about Water in the physics library but my brain
froze and now I'm back reading "The Cell Biology of Bacteria."
|
| My own scientific career was a descent from higher to lower
| dimension, led by the desire to understand life. I went
| from animals to cells, from cells to bacteria, from bacteria
| to molecules, from molecules to electrons. The story had
| its irony, for molecules and electrons have no life at all.
| On my way life ran out between my fingers.
|
<Nobel Laureate Albert Szent-Gyorgi, _The Living State, With
Observations on Cancer_>
--bks
years in the Berkeley biosciences library (I'm a retired
bioinformatician). I just don't understand how proteins
orient and find each other in the cytoplasmic syrup. Probably
a shortcoming in my training. At one point I left the biosciences
library to read about Water in the physics library but my brain
froze and now I'm back reading "The Cell Biology of Bacteria."
|
| My own scientific career was a descent from higher to lower
| dimension, led by the desire to understand life. I went
| from animals to cells, from cells to bacteria, from bacteria
| to molecules, from molecules to electrons. The story had
| its irony, for molecules and electrons have no life at all.
| On my way life ran out between my fingers.
|
<Nobel Laureate Albert Szent-Gyorgi, _The Living State, With
Observations on Cancer_>
--bks
Robert
Jan 3, 2012, 9:29:21 PM1/3/12
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Bks, that quote from Albert Szent-Gyorgi really set me thinking about
making a prediction for this year.
My original love in science was biology.
At a young age, I marvelled at life, that is, the question of just
what life really is.
Somehow, I always had a problem with the mechanistic view of life.
There was always this disconnect, this impossible leap from nonliving
atoms to living assemblages of atoms.
My prediction is that this year (or in some future year), science will
try to bridge that disconnect.
I feel intuitively that life is not an accidental byproduct of
particle physics, but rather, that there is a fundamental principle in
physics that makes life as inevitable as gravity.
I admit that that intuition is not well formulated into any
falsifiable theory.
But Szent-Gyorgi seems to have noticed that same disconnection that
has always gnawed at me.
And intuitions are sometimes the launching pad for research that leads
to new insights in physics.
Maybe this is the year.
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On Jan 2, 5:26 pm, b...@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) wrote:
> In article <b1e2f5b7-c2d3-4395-a583-c5f42e4f5...@q17g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>,
making a prediction for this year.
My original love in science was biology.
At a young age, I marvelled at life, that is, the question of just
what life really is.
Somehow, I always had a problem with the mechanistic view of life.
There was always this disconnect, this impossible leap from nonliving
atoms to living assemblages of atoms.
My prediction is that this year (or in some future year), science will
try to bridge that disconnect.
I feel intuitively that life is not an accidental byproduct of
particle physics, but rather, that there is a fundamental principle in
physics that makes life as inevitable as gravity.
I admit that that intuition is not well formulated into any
falsifiable theory.
But Szent-Gyorgi seems to have noticed that same disconnection that
has always gnawed at me.
And intuitions are sometimes the launching pad for research that leads
to new insights in physics.
Maybe this is the year.
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On Jan 2, 5:26 pm, b...@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) wrote:
> In article <b1e2f5b7-c2d3-4395-a583-c5f42e4f5...@q17g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>,
Richard D. Saam
Jan 24, 2012, 8:13:38 PM1/24/12
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nanokelvin to femtokelvin baryonic matter
in the form of dense ~1 g/cc chunks
of metallic, BEC and/or BCS hydrogen.
Richard D. Saam
Ken S. Tucker
Feb 1, 2012, 2:39:41 AM2/1/12
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On Jan 1, 4:47 pm, Robert <RobertAr...@msn.com> wrote:
> Now that the New Year is here, it is time to look ahead in science,
> primarily in the fields of physics and cosmology.
>
> Just a few years ago, had anyone predicted that the universe would be
> discovered to be expanding at an accelerating rate, he would have been
> ridiculed and scorned, the modern day substitute for being burned at
> the stake.
I predict more 'not even wrong' theory's by people.
> Now that the New Year is here, it is time to look ahead in science,
> primarily in the fields of physics and cosmology.
>
> Just a few years ago, had anyone predicted that the universe would be
> discovered to be expanding at an accelerating rate, he would have been
> ridiculed and scorned, the modern day substitute for being burned at
> the stake.
It's a business,
For me (us), we've switched to electronic GR, let me explain.
Some where back around 2000 classical GRist's implied a
'new and improved' means to do astronomy via g-waves, by
using tools like LIGO. As it turns out, the LIGO experiment
became far more important than we first thought, because it
didn't work as planned.
It forced us to reconsider the bland classical General Theory
of Relativity, (GToR), as LIGO remains unexpectedly silent.
The General Principles of Relativity (GPoR), specifically
' the relavity of acceleration ' is fundamental to our understanding
of the universe. For that reason I subdivide GToR from GPoR as
GToR is our application of mathematics to the GPoR.
Currently our GToR is 'bland classical', upon with LIGO theory is
based, but I find classic GToR over simplifies GPoR.
To be clear, going forward, a LIGO null output does not threaten
the GPoR, but it will compel a paradigm shift in GToR.
Regards
Ken S. Tucker
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