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Beware of Quantum Ducks – Quark Quark

As a borderline nerd, I found NOVA‘s “The Elegant Universe” website both intriguing and time consuming. If you’re the least bit nerdy, don’t do this at work, or it will suck you in . . . and there are some strings attached.

Warning! Scientific content!

An excerpt from the website:

A Theory of Everything? Some physicists believe string theory may unify the forces of nature by Brian Greene.

The fundamental particles of the universe that physicists have identified—electrons, neutrinos, quarks, and so on—are the “letters” of all matter. Just like their linguistic counterparts, they appear to have no further internal substructure. String theory proclaims otherwise. According to string theory, if we could examine these particles with even greater precision—a precision many orders of magnitude beyond our present technological capacity—we would find that each is not pointlike but instead consists of a tiny, one-dimensional loop. Like an infinitely thin rubber band, each particle contains a vibrating, oscillating, dancing filament that physicists have named a string.

Man, this is sooooo interesting! There are several interactive demonstrations that allow my three-dimensional brain visualize in some small way how there can be ten spatial and two temporal dimensions.

Mind boggling! Explore NOVA’s The Elegant Universe.

18 Oct 2005 by Science

Democratic Pathological Liars Explained

Ted Kennedy, Babs Boxer, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, The Clintons, Al Franken and many other Democrats’ habitual lying can be biologically explained: their brains are short of gray matter! The article “Liars’ brains make fibbing come naturally” from NewScientist.com discloses abnormalities within the brains of liars:

[T]he combination of extra white matter and less gray matter could be giving people exactly the right mix of traits to make them into good liars. These are the first biological differences to be discovered between pathological liars (ed. certain Democrats) and the general population (ed. the rest of us).

[P]athological liars are a distinct group who systematically manipulate others, lie or use aliases for financial gain or personal pleasure (ed. or political gain).

People who know that their fabricated stories may be challenged will sometimes practice telling their false tales. After a while, the made-up story may come to mind more readily than the true one.

Thus, we may now know why lying comes so easily to some Democrats and why they actually believe their own fabrications.

30 Sep 2005 by Congress Degenerates Medix Science Whacko Politics

Flat Earth, Hurricanes and Global Warming

Damsel knows why the earth is flat – at least around the Gulf and Southeastern U.S. “The hurricanes have kept it mowed flat for thousands if not hundreds of thousands of years!” she exclaims, “And ‘Global Warming’ hasn’t got anything to do with hurricanes! It’s obvious to me, and I’m not a science person.”

Image: St. Andrew Bay Entrance Channel to Perdido Pass, Florida Gulf Coast (USGS)

I agree with her; and I am a science person. When I was supporting a project in Florida, I learned that the highest elevation in the state was only 300 feet above sea level – the entire state. Similarly, low-elevation terrain is characteristic throughout the Caribbean, the Southeastern U.S. and the Gulf of Mexico – the precise area where hurricanes strike after they develop.

Some misguided scientists claim they can model global warming trends using tree ring evidence combined with only 20th century atmospheric evidence; this produces the leftist-touted ‘hockey-stick’ curve that seemingly proves the guilt of mankind in his reckless production of carbon dioxide. However, the errors of this analysis method are proven by David Legates in his article ‘Global warming smear targets’ in the Washington Times.

So if the ‘hockey stick’ hypothesis is incorrect, it must be discarded. Then, what actually caused global warming in the last few hundred years? The increase in so-called ‘greenhouse gasses’ in the atmosphere? No, apparently not; it seems to be our own SUN. And that makes sense too – the sun is the main driver for all Earth weather patterns. Arthur and Zachary Robinson prove this with real data in their article ‘Science Has Spoken: Global Warming Is a Myth‘ originally published in 1997 in the Wall Street Journal. They even go on to make a case that increased carbon dioxide is having a beneficial effect on the environment!

Unfortunately, moonbat celebridiots such as Barbra Streisand, and politically-driven, uninformed politicians like John McCain and Hillary Clinton continue to perpetuate the lies by vacuously making public statements about things they are obviously not qualified to evaluate. See GOP Bloggers article ‘John & Hill Show Take Global Warming Myth on the Road‘ for more about them.

Additional reading: ‘The Myth of Catastrophic Global Warming‘ by Steven Brockerman.

28 Sep 2005 by Environment Global Warming Science Whacko Politics

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