That's certainly an unorthodox view. As far as I can make out from that post and the rest of your blog, you seem to reject Newtonian gravitation in favor of Kepler's laws of planetary orbits. How does your model account for the perturbations that are observed in three-body and more complex systems?
For instance, right now there is a satellite called SOHO at the Sun-Earth L_1 Lagrangian point. Why do you say that Newtonian gravity is a myth, when the existence of such an orbit violates Kepler's third law but is in perfect agreement with calculations according to the Newtonian model?
"We postulate the density continuum defined by the rule R03/T02 = R3/T2"
T is in seconds, R is in meters. So R3/T2 is in cubic meters per square seconds. A density is something per cubic meters. How exactly do 'square seconds' form a density in any meaningful way? Don't worry, I won't be holding my breath.
Postulating is al good fun but are you actually planning to do some physics with it? You're just saying Newton is evil and wrong but are not giving any reasons why his laws don't sufficicently confirm to reality. Neither are you explaining why your alternative fits reality better.
Calling relativity an offshoot of Newtonian gravity is also not quite correct.
On the Verlinde article, I haven't read it. While it sounds interesting, it hinges on the definition of entropy. IMO, it might be a big circular argument.
- Feynman got involved in the belief that the Americans needed to build this before Germany did. Which Germany certainly had the talent, motivation, and resources to do. In short if the bomb was going to be used, he didn't want it used against his country.
- Once the nuclear bomb was exploded, and Feynman realized what he had helped do, he fell into a significant period of depression.
- In later years he publicly criticized himself for getting caught up in the project and continuing it after Germany surrendered and it was clear that there was no race.
- Feynman died believing that his work on the nuclear bomb is what caused the leukemia that killed him.
It is easy to paint a picture of black and white and make people out to be pure villains. But reality is seldom so simple.
Nuclear weapons are perhaps mankinds most terrible invention - but it is fairly clear that political leaders on both sides of the Cold War were utterly terrified of using them. If they hadn't been invented then I suspect there probably would have been direct armed conflict between the Soviets and/or China and/or the West at some point after WW2, so we were probably saved from another horrific conflict by scaring ourselves rigid with these weapons.
Sorry I don't remember the source on that. I'm going off of memories of what I read some 20 years ago. As my misremembering the the type of cancer shows, my memory is imperfect.
It's also expensive to go through records of people who submitted both online and mail-in forms with slightly different entries and determine what is and isn't a duplicate.
My proposal is for online form only.
The Census doesn't get to assume that everyone uses a Google account that's tied directly to their real-life identity, and they need assurance that their software is extremely secure.
Again, can this be solved with asking social security number of people submitting their forms?
I think an online form would be nice if there were a way to ensure we weren't getting duplicate applications. Unfortunately, there is no unique identifier, so we would need to go by heuristics, which complicates things enormously.
If you do online-only and only 75% of people are online, you have to hand-count 25% of the population, which means you'd need about a 70% response rate with the people online to match what you have with paper forms. That's not realistic, I don't think. Plus, the people who aren't online tend to be in remote areas, which are much more expensive to hand-count.
The Census is inefficient in a whole lot of ways, but one thing that makes it really efficient is standardization. Every one of the ~700k enumerators gets the same exact kit, every manager gets the same boxes, and everything is basically made so an idiot can do it. There are two reasons for this: the first is that it's cheaper, but the second, more important reason is that the data is consistent from place to place. If people in NY respond online and people in North Dakota respond by mail, you'll get lots of little statistical differences that make the data less easy to work with. This the big reason they need to homogenize everything.
As the other commenter said, the social security number only works for people who are citizens, but the intent of the census is to count everyone who is regularly living in the area at the time. It's a tricky thing to define, and I think a silly one, but it's what the constitution says to do so we do it.
Not everyone that lives in the US has a social security number. I'm not well educated on this, but I believe the census intends to count all residents, including those that are here illegally.
""The freshman aren't really using facebook [to find parties] anymore.""
I built this app to learn Google App Engine http://hello-1-world.appspot.com/about and it will be good for people to find hot spots where people at. But I've been unable to find an initial user who would seed the network. The fact that it has no branding and there is no activity and the purpose is not clear are facts against it.
"The usual way theoretical physics was done since the time of Newton was to begin by writing down some equations and then to work hard calculating solutions of the equations"
At this point, I only have my own links; but if other people submit their own python links; and I figure how to sort by relevance, ting may be a good resource for search results without spam.
"Modern physics has begun to think of the bit—this binary choice—as the ultimate fundamental particle. John Wheeler summarized the idea as “it-from-bit.” By that he meant that the basis of the physical universe—the “it” of an atom or subatomic particle—is not matter, nor energy, but a bit of information."
