The title of a book by two German scientists, Gunter Nimtz & Astrid Haibel.
Basically, about quantum mechanics & some very weird (well QM is weird - weird is normal in QM!) stuff about superluminal velocity (i.e. faster-than-light speed) stuff.
Doesn't (can't) happen in free space but you get things like quantum tunneling (i think i've got that right), which has been exploited in the semi-conductor tunnel-diode for decades (invented in 1957!, by Leo Esaki
when he was working for what is now Sony), which behaves a bit like a Gunn diode in that it has a "negative differential resistance" section in its Voltage-Current characteristic curve..
The authors go thru some very strange behaviour of light, and they also mention the Casimir effect.
However, sci-fi & sci-fan fans, prepare to be disappointed!
Cause still has to precede Effect & you can't travel back in time (& kill Adolf Hitler or whatever).
And while it is technically possible to traverse a worm-hole,
the amount of energy needed is absolutely gargantuan!!
Never mind, i'm not worried, the Universe is quite strange enough for me.
People sometimes ask me if i get lonely or bored (i live on my own)..
Nope. Not at all.
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Schlepping around, Soccer World Cup, Bye-bye Carisbrook..
I think "schlepping" is Yiddish - a linguistic cross between Hebrew & German.
At a guess, i'd say the name is a 'corruption' of 'Judisch' or something similar (I know a few words of German, just..).
Anyway, i think it's a wonderfully expressive word - i like it, so i use it; means (AFAIK) what we might call 'traipsing around', poking into this & that (i Hope that's what it means!)..
So, i've been poking into other blogs using Google blogs, just picking up on anything i think looks interesting: class-mates' blogs, links from there, you can go to some surprising & interesting places..
..& of course i suffer from 'Insatiable Curtiosity' as Rudyard Kipling (poems here) said in one of his "Just So" stories (or here) entitled "The Elephant's Child". We read these when we were kids, & i still like them a lot, but i can't find all of them in the Dunedin Public Library; i suspect some have fallen victim to PC, like "The Butterfly That Stamped" or "How the Alphabet Was Made". Nonetheless, there are still delightful stories available like "The Cat Who Walked By Himself", "The Beginning of the Armadillos", & "The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo"..
..& they're all online, even if the DPL hasn't the original dead-tree version.
AND - i Have To Rave On about the soccer World Cup: the All Whites holding World Champions Italy to a 1-all draw; Absolutely Fabulous!!
Are we going to get to Round 2? Who knows..
Poor old Carisbrook. Rolled, bowled & ****-holed out of existence. If i say any more i'll prob'ly get sued (Great-Big-Long-Siiiiiiiiighh!)..
I suspect Lack of Imagination, Vested Interest, & possibly even a certain amount of good old-fashioned Snobbery. The new stadium itself may be ok (tho Global Warming - & Yes! There IS such a thing, despite the ostrich stance of people worrying about How Much It's All Going To Cost - arrrgghh! - may yet have the last laugh); may be, may be, but the long-term cost? I dunno, & i don't think anyone else does either..
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At a guess, i'd say the name is a 'corruption' of 'Judisch' or something similar (I know a few words of German, just..).
Anyway, i think it's a wonderfully expressive word - i like it, so i use it; means (AFAIK) what we might call 'traipsing around', poking into this & that (i Hope that's what it means!)..
So, i've been poking into other blogs using Google blogs, just picking up on anything i think looks interesting: class-mates' blogs, links from there, you can go to some surprising & interesting places..
..& of course i suffer from 'Insatiable Curtiosity' as Rudyard Kipling (poems here) said in one of his "Just So" stories (or here) entitled "The Elephant's Child". We read these when we were kids, & i still like them a lot, but i can't find all of them in the Dunedin Public Library; i suspect some have fallen victim to PC, like "The Butterfly That Stamped" or "How the Alphabet Was Made". Nonetheless, there are still delightful stories available like "The Cat Who Walked By Himself", "The Beginning of the Armadillos", & "The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo"..
..& they're all online, even if the DPL hasn't the original dead-tree version.
AND - i Have To Rave On about the soccer World Cup: the All Whites holding World Champions Italy to a 1-all draw; Absolutely Fabulous!!
Are we going to get to Round 2? Who knows..
Poor old Carisbrook. Rolled, bowled & ****-holed out of existence. If i say any more i'll prob'ly get sued (Great-Big-Long-Siiiiiiiiighh!)..
I suspect Lack of Imagination, Vested Interest, & possibly even a certain amount of good old-fashioned Snobbery. The new stadium itself may be ok (tho Global Warming - & Yes! There IS such a thing, despite the ostrich stance of people worrying about How Much It's All Going To Cost - arrrgghh! - may yet have the last laugh); may be, may be, but the long-term cost? I dunno, & i don't think anyone else does either..
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