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Here is a possible explanation for the Pioneer Anomaly.
The anomaly may be caused by the relativistic time dilation factor that should not be used with a coherent transponder link.
I have written a complete explanation on this site,
http://cafe.rapidus.net/remsimar/pioneeranomaly.doc
Your comments are welcome.
THanks, Remy
In the past I have pretty vehemently stated that I don't believe time is relative. That matter is relative, time is stable, and sometimes we mix up our perceptions or our lack of understanding of matter with our understanding of time, and as such get erroneous results when we perceive time to be relative.
Dissecting sloppy word usage and fundamentals in theoretical physics: Blog available here: http://badphysics.wordpress.com/
-S.C. Kavassalis
'WHO' AM ‘I’?
2 Persons Talking: 1 is Person One, and 2 is Person 2.
Ayad Gharbawi
1: What is your problem?
2: I don’t know ‘who’ I am?
1: ‘Who’ do you want to be?
2: I don’t know. I just don’t know what is ‘best’ for me’. Do you understand me?
Yesterday saw the release of the paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine containing the hotly awaited data concerning the RV144 HIV vaccine trial that took place in Thailand. There was already some discussion of the initial results, which were reported in September and discussed by Colin and Martin. As has already been discussed, there is a very cautious consensus due to the statistical analysis of the trial only *just* falling on the side of significant. Click here to read this post in its native environment, on Blue-Genes.net.
Vienna, 20. October 2009: AFFiRiS AG today announced that the primary endpoints have been met for the Phase I clinical studies of its two Alzheimer's vaccines AD01 and AD02, which demonstrated favourable safety and tolerability profiles. These results trigger a 10 million EUR milestone payment from licensee GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals.
An interest in puns has led me to start reading the literature on homophones. Interestingly, in appears that in the scientific literature "homophone" and "homograph" mean the same thing, which explains why there are so many papers about mispronouncing homophones.
For the first time, the capacity of soya plants to absorb nitrogen from the air has been precisely determined in dry areas of Eastern Austria. The primary aim of this project, backed by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, is to compare methods for determining nitrogen fixation levels and their application under conditions of drought stress.
CONSTITUENTS OF THE MIND (CoM)
Ayad Gharbawi
September 22, 2009
We now present the basic Constituents of the Mind (CoM):
Event/s (E)
Sound/s (Sn)
Scenery (Sc)
Thought (t)
Odour (Od)
Memory (?)
Emotion/s (Em)
Nothingness (o)
THE UNITY OF THE MIND – OR NOT?
Ayad Gharbawi
July, 2009
VOIDS OF VISION AND MIND = CONSTITUENTS OF FINAL PHYSICAL MATTER
October 3, 2009
Ayad Gharbawi
Recently, I have been on a conference of young scientists in Warsaw. These were great three days of meeting people, eating, drinking, sightseeing, and, occasionally, watching some presentations. I didn't prepare anything myself, but it was still a good opportunity to see what other PhD students work on, and how they handle all the difficulties caused by the imperfect system of higher education in Poland (mainly related to money). One of the precious observations I have made during the conference is that engineers are not as fond of the finite element method as I had imagined. This is a great news for me because I want to put a lot of effort to improve the FEM by making it easier to use, and, this way, available for more people. Let me share with you some of my thoughts.
STUDIES IN ‘REALITY’: CHANGING FACES IN ONE FACE
Ayad Gharbawi
October 16, 2009
A new review published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN) shows how stem cell based therapies in mice can slow down the progression of kidney disease in Alport Syndrome: “Stem Cell Therapies Benefit Alport Syndrome” LeBleu V et al, 2009.
DOES INTELLIGENCE EXIST WITHIN THE LAWS OF PHYSICS?
Ayad Gharbawi
October 2, 2009
Can it be possible that the atoms simply ‘know’ what to do as they interact with other atoms and molecules? Do they have any degree of consciousness or self-awareness like animals do?
