Sunday’s a travel day for me, as I take a tiny little prop plane to the exotic land of Canada, for the Science in the 21st Century workshop. After an hour and a half bent double in a goddamn Cessna, I’ll probably be too sore to type, so don’t expect much blogging from me.
If you’re looking for something to fill the blog-shaped hole in your day, though, you could enter the Millionth Comment Contest ScienceBlogs is running. The lucky winner will get an all-expenses-paid trip to New York to do see cool science-y stuff, and have dinner with a blogger of their choice.
All you need to do is give them an email address, and make a comment. Friday’s poll post would be an excellent place for the comment, if you haven’t already responded.
Hey, I won a mug last time around, maybe I am blessed!
have dinner with a blogger of their choice.
Oh no. Your Seed overlords are somehow rigging this so people like Uncle Al can’t win, I hope?
Uncle Al’s mother lives in Brooklyn, NY. Not interested unless it includes an Environemntal Impact Report then a witch burning.
Don’t be smug. You don’t know if chemically identical, opposite parity mass distributions validate or falsify the Equivalence Principle. Here’s a good reason to look:
What keeps reality inflated? Solids stay inflated by Fermi exclusion (odd-parity wavefunctions) of adjacent atoms. Atoms stay inflated by electron-elecron Fermi exclusion. Squeeze that down to neutron stars that stay inflated by nucleon-nucleon Fermi exclusion. Squeeze past that and space itself collapses into a black hole.
What keeps the vacuum inflated? Not zero point fluctuation bosons! Perhaps the vacuum contains a trace of odd-parity wavefunction like a chiral pseudoscalar background in the massed sector. It would show as an Equivalence Principle parity violation.
If you think string theory or SUSY is better than that, propose an experiment to detect string theory or SUSY in existing apparatus.
Do I win!?
No? Damn.