pentaquark

>>if the quantum phys boys (& grrlies)
>> can get away with addin' a lil _flavour_ and _colour_ to
>>their _quarks_ , _charms_ and general _strangeness_ , we
>>already do much more so than they!
>>HiphipHuRRaH!
>
>That's the spirit. And (off topic) I, an avid reader of Scientific
>American, had to wait 6 months for that freakin' rag Discover to
>come out with their recap-of-2003 issue before I found out about
>the pentaquark:
>
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3034754.stm

Yeah, Discover blowz. I felt like it used to be better before
they went over to the LIFE-like format. But I was just a children
back then and probably more easily impressed.

Meanwhile Smolin has a nice review of Loop Quantum Gravity in
SciAm currently. As a spectator, I like a lot of things about
this approach.

-Carl

--- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, "Carl Lumma" <clumma@y...> wrote:
> >>if the quantum phys boys (& grrlies)
> >> can get away with addin' a lil _flavour_ and _colour_ to
> >>their _quarks_ , _charms_ and general _strangeness_ , we
> >>already do much more so than they!
> >>HiphipHuRRaH!
> >
> >That's the spirit. And (off topic) I, an avid reader of Scientific
> >American, had to wait 6 months for that freakin' rag Discover to
> >come out with their recap-of-2003 issue before I found out about
> >the pentaquark:
> >
> >http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3034754.stm
>
> Yeah, Discover blowz.

Not in this case!!!!
>
> Meanwhile Smolin has a nice review of Loop Quantum Gravity in
> SciAm currently. As a spectator, I like a lot of things about
> this approach.

Yes, this article wasn't much more than a quickie version of his
book, "Three Roads to Quantum Gravity." Have you read it?

> Yes, this article wasn't much more than a quickie version of his
> book, "Three Roads to Quantum Gravity." Have you read it?

In fact I have.

-Carl

In a message dated 2004:01:08 09:30:25 PM, clumma@... writes:

>Yeah, Discover blowz. I felt like it used to be better before
>they went over to the LIFE-like format. But I was just a children
>back then and probably more easily impressed.

I _like_ Discover.

Reasons:

a} I am makin' up for lost time - I skipped lotsa classes in school.
"Model Asian honor student" NOT! Sacre merde, I even attacked hall
monitors and counselors...glee-club-fully... In fact a few classes (chemistry,
metal shop, auto shop, locksmithing lab, home economics, etc.) were forbidden
to me and 35 other suspects when a redneck, KKKcard-carryin' coach's pickup
blew up in wonderful blue-ish flames and glorious shriekin colours... yeah we
shoulda sued the district (and still could) for violating "students' rights"...

b} the breezy LIFE-style writing format makes it easy for me to get a
grasp on the subject at hand, sorta like appetizers...

c} the websites list rocks. this where I go if I got a grasp on the
subject or am still in Curious George Mode and hungry for more...
.
they take that away and I WILL BE REAAAALLY PISSED OFF. Their office
better be fortified and local SWAT ready... cuz mad ruthless Mad Scientists are
not easy marks to stop ... and they juuust love challenges, they live for them
*mw'HaHa!*

4} _Discover_ has better artwork than _SciAmer_ AND it's cheaper,
too...
which is important when ya recycle via collage art ;) and my lil sis likes
the paper for origami

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Hanuman Zhang, heeding the Call(ing) to Divine Chaos & Creation

_NADA BRAHMA_ < Sanskrit > "sound = Godhead"

"You breathe redemption, motive, power, You're elemental, super-collider
yeah tenn0!, You are air and earth, fire and ocean, You are Word, You are
tenn0 tenn0!" --- mortal - "tenn0"

_LILA_ < Sanskrit >
1. the universe is what happens when God wants to play -
Divine Play - the play of the Divine in its Cosmic Dance, whimsy - like a
child playing alone God the Cosmic Dancer - whose routine is all creatures and
all worlds - the Cosmos flows - a world from the tireless unending resistless
stream of God's energy that _is_ Lila
2. joyous exercise of spontaneity involved in the art of creation this is
Lila

"A constellation is basially a conical chunk of stars with the apex at Earth

with an arbitrary space angle." - Andreas Johansson

"...divine chaos ...rumors of chaos have been known to enhance the
...vision.... for the godhead manifests no more of its reality than the limited
grammar of each person's imagination and conceptual system can handle. A second
advantage is suggested by William James in _Varieties of Religious Experience_.
James affirms the possibilty of many gods, mostly because he takes seriously
his multiverse theory of personal monads, each one of us experiencing a
unique... revelation. An orderly monistic and monotheistic system, he fears, might
succumb to a craving for logical coherence, and trim away some of the mystery,
rich indeterminancy, and tragic ambiguity in a complete numinous experience.
For some temperaments, the ambivalent gentleness and savagery of fate can be
imagined effectively in a godhead split into personified attributes, sometimes
at war, sometimes in shifting alliance." - Vernon Ruland, _Eight Sacred
Horizons: The Religious Imagination East and West_

"We bow to the _satvika_ Shiva
Whose _angika_ is the body
Whose _vachika_ is the entire language
Whose _aharya_ is the moon and the stars"

> b} the breezy LIFE-style writing format makes it easy
>for me to get a grasp on the subject at hand, sorta like
>appetizers...

How to write a Discover article...

1. Do lunch with a scientist.
2. Describe their appearance.
3. Make up something about how they're rejected in their field.
4. Google them and print the first three results at the end of
the article.

"Jim Handleblower's well-worn cowboy boots belie the clear,
focused glint in his steel-grey eyes. He hands me a napkin.
"You've got some ketchup on the side of your mouth," he says,
a little too matter-of-factly. "Thanks," I say, while
furiously taking notes on his appearance.

For 10 years now, Jim has been working in a field virtually
ignored by his peers. In fact, had you been a grad student 10
years ago, merely mentioning his work might have cost you your
career. But... what if he's on to something?* Brian Greene
told us on the phone that he actually might be.

* For more info about something, visit www.something.org.

The End."

...Not that Scientific American is much better.

-Carl

In a message dated 2004:01:09 11:16:11 AM, Lumma1 writes:

>How to write a Discover article...
>
>1. Do lunch with a scientist.
>
>2. Describe their appearance.
>
>3. Make up something about how they're rejected in their field.
>
>4. Google them and print the first three results at the end of
>the article.

[unfortunate cut of fine funny parody_Discover_ article]

Yeah I know. But at least there are the websites and _their_ links_...

If I want the most up-to-date data and whatnot, like say, on synaethesia
I wouldn't even trust _Discover_ to do a good job on it... I'd just websurf
all the latest papers instead and even email researchers and synaethetes online
(& since I have such rascally charm and _chutzpah_*, I tend to end up with a
new friend or two... and an emailbox crammed to the gills).

* I have been a music journalist, cultural studies researcher and even a
private investigator (probationary license)... all good jobs to gain certain
_specialized_ social skills in ... in fields notorious for their extreme
"prick-liness" on multiple levels ;)

-|-|--|---|-----|--------|-------------|---------------------|
Hanuman Zhang, heeding the Call(ing) to Divine Chaos & Creation

_NADA BRAHMA_ < Sanskrit > "sound = Godhead"

"You breathe redemption, motive, power, You're elemental, super-collider
yeah tenn0!, You are air and earth, fire and ocean, You are Word, You are
tenn0 tenn0!" --- mortal - "tenn0"

_LILA_ < Sanskrit >
1. the universe is what happens when God wants to play -
Divine Play - the play of the Divine in its Cosmic Dance, whimsy - like a
child playing alone God the Cosmic Dancer - whose routine is all creatures and
all worlds - the Cosmos flows - a world from the tireless unending resistless
stream of God's energy that _is_ Lila
2. joyous exercise of spontaneity involved in the art of creation this is
Lila

"A constellation is basially a conical chunk of stars with the apex at Earth

with an arbitrary space angle." - Andreas Johansson

"...divine chaos ...rumors of chaos have been known to enhance the
...vision.... for the godhead manifests no more of its reality than the limited
grammar of each person's imagination and conceptual system can handle. A second
advantage is suggested by William James in _Varieties of Religious Experience_.
James affirms the possibilty of many gods, mostly because he takes seriously
his multiverse theory of personal monads, each one of us experiencing a
unique... revelation. An orderly monistic and monotheistic system, he fears, might
succumb to a craving for logical coherence, and trim away some of the mystery,
rich indeterminancy, and tragic ambiguity in a complete numinous experience.
For some temperaments, the ambivalent gentleness and savagery of fate can be
imagined effectively in a godhead split into personified attributes, sometimes
at war, sometimes in shifting alliance." - Vernon Ruland, _Eight Sacred
Horizons: The Religious Imagination East and West_

"We bow to the _satvika_ Shiva
Whose _angika_ is the body
Whose _vachika_ is the entire language
Whose _aharya_ is the moon and the stars"