October 2008

It matters! ( Well, at least to the universe it does. )

Yet another article plumbing the depths of time for finding out a universal truth was seen by me today...

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/10/underground-lab.html

Yet for all the hubbub, it seems to me another group of college kids have just found a way to milk the people for more grant money. ( Ever hear about the frenchies who had a particle detector requiring thousands of gallons of cognac? My LANL friend and me agree it would have been much more worthwhile if they used single malt scotch! )

Here's my 3 simple ideas on why matter won out, and none of them are really testable, but they make allot of sense.

1. God. Yes, it's a cop-out, but if you cant accept anyone's theory, it's what you are stuck with. Lump it. I am most comfortable with this one as it makes the universe allot safer than I think it is. Comfort does not equal satisfaction though.

2. Matter didn't win. There was an "un-eveness" to the matter and antimatter cloud in the expanding universe, and clusters of galaxies we see today, are actually made of antimatter. Some people say the difference could be detected, but I have yet to see honestly HOW. This is the most uncomfortable theory, as in E.T. Could vanish in a multimegaton blast should his ship try to land here. ( Tunguska anybody? ). Conversely, it could make space travel for us slightly buggery, if we should develop intergalactic drive.

3. Matter and Antimatter are known to annihilate and make 2 energetic gammas. Energy can be converted to mass (matter mass mind you, not anti-matter). So quite possibly M + aM = 2y = 2M (Translated... Matter + Antimatter became 2 Gammas, which were then converted back into 2 units of matter.) I find this both comfortable, and satisfactory, as the early universe was so hot that much energy had to become matter, or everything would have just boiled away as photons (Gammas are photons too). Also it follows known conventions of E=mc^2... nowhere in that equation does it allow for antimatter, does it? But allot of E was made by the annihilations in the early universe. Seems like a one-way trip to matter to me.

What's your thoughts? Please comment below.

Columbo Still Scratching His Head (But some things aren't public record.)

Perhaps you have seen the article from: http://www.nabble.com/Politics:--Columbo...Still-Scratching-His-Head-td19610231.html regarding the fictional, but lovable detective Columbo asking Barack Obama where certain records of his past are. However, some of these records (not all of them) aren't public information. Let me break down the list.

1. Occidental College records -- Not released
Private Institution. Only public record would be his degree, if any.

2. Columbia College records -- Not released
Private Institution. Only public record would be his degree, if any.

3. Columbia Thesis paper -- 'not available'
Must be published for peer review.

4. Harvard College records -- Not released
Private Institution. Only public record would be his degree, if any.

5. Selective Service Registration -- Not released
PUBLIC RECORD! MUST BE RELEASED UNDER F.O.I.A.!

6. Medical records -- Not released
Private Record: Doctor - Patient Confidentiality.

7. Illinois State Senate schedule -- 'not available'
Odd, but not unbelievable in a state that lets dead people vote. (Rotten Record Keeping) Also odd that none of his peers on the other side of the aisle could dredge this one up.

8. Law practice client list -- Not released
Only those clients who moved to trial and did not settle out of court would have public record of being attached to him.

9. Certified Copy of original Birth certificate -- Not released
PUBLIC RECORD! MUST BE RELEASED UNDER F.O.I.A.!

10. Embossed, signed paper Certification of Live Birth -- Not released
PUBLIC RECORD! MUST BE RELEASED UNDER F.O.I.A.!

11. Harvard Law Review articles published -- None
Ne'er-do-wells are usually ne'er-do-anything.

12. University of Chicago scholarly articles -- None
Ne'er-do-wells are usually ne'er-do-anything.

13. Your Record of baptism-- Not released or 'not available'
Private under Separation of Church and State (1st Amendment).

14. Your Illinois State Senate records--'not available'
See number 7 above.

Now the big questions are...

1. WHY are the public records that should be available under FOIA being withheld This is federally criminal.

2. HOW are these records being hidden? (F.O.I.A. is a pretty straight forward law. It would seem like if Obama doesn't get into office, allot of cooperating bureaucrats are going to go to prison.)

3. WHAT reasons would he have to hide the other records listed here? (Form your own opinions!)

4. WHO in his past would he not want to be associated with? (Thesis and Law Practice)

5. WHERE was he actually born? (Birth Records)

Too many damn questions for me to even THINK of voting for Barack...

Oh wait... Democrats/Leftists are emotional thinkers, so to them, it doesn't matter what reality is, but only that it feels good.

fear thy neighbor...