From javilk at mall-net.com Tue Jan 20 04:17:40 2009 From: javilk at mall-net.com (javilk at mall-net.com) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:17:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Mad-Scientists] A Silent Key... Message-ID: <20090120111740.49594.qmail@mall-net.com> WD4DUG, Mike H. Best, MBest at triad.rr.com of North Carolina has gone silent... The world has lost a great genius of a man, a great inventor who's quiet works in textile chemistry and other fields have touched the majority of people in the USA, even though they don't know it. Mike was a textile chemist, and later, an electronics engineer and inventor working on beyond state-of-the-art measurement equipment. More than that, he was the most curious person I'd ever met. I ran in to him on a health mailing list in 1993. I saw early on that this guy had a Brain and was not afraid to Really Use it! We soon became best friends, discussing the latest scientific discoveries, wondering about the future, trying to invent that future by the work of our minds and our hands. God, It hurts! God, it Hurts losing a great mind like his! Ideas half formed, projects half done, a future unfulfilled. I need a mind like his to work with, to exercise my mind with! No one I ever met had the breadth of curiosity Mike had, nor the breadth of knowledge. I know some on our various mailing lists lists said he was very opinionated. Not so! He could back every opinion with facts and solid logic; yet changed his mind quickly when the facts (as we know them) changed. That too, is incredibly rare! It is a high honor to be able to work with a genius of such high level, especially one who is as humble and gentle to others such as myself. We'd never met in person, just corresponded for over a decade and a half, and spoke often on the phone. We started talking about my moving to North Carolina from California late in 2008 or 2009 just to be able to work together on some of our mad scientist type ideas. I was just looking to buy a car that would let me haul my surviving books and equipment (I'd lost most of my library and laboratory in The Summit Fire) from California to Greensboro, North Carolina, when I stopped getting email from him... When I tried calling him at work, I found out he'd died. His father said Mike died in his sleep, cause is believed to be Sleep Apnea. He was going to see about getting a CPAP machine first thing in 2009. Too late. He was my best friend! God, it hurts!!! A gaping hole has been torn in my life, and even more, in this World for the Ideas and things he would have created, things we were planning to work on. I feel so alone now... http://www.w4gso.org/ http://obituaries.news-record.com/News-Record/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonID=122127454 --javilk at mall-net.com---------------------------------- Life is to be LIVED regardless of what is out there. Fear destroys life. Destroy your fear and live. ------------------------------------------------------- Not to be construed as psychological advice. Void where prohibited by law. Not available in all mental states. ------------------------------------------------------- Another Javilk (tm) brand post. Copyright (C) 2007, Javilk at mall-net.com Copyright retained. All rights reserved. From maggie.klappauf at gmail.com Tue Jan 20 20:19:11 2009 From: maggie.klappauf at gmail.com (Maggie Klappauf) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:19:11 -0700 Subject: [Mad-Scientists] Mad-Scientists Digest, Vol 41, Issue 1 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I'm so sorry..... Perhaps God needed a really smart guy to hang out with. (BTW, thanks for finding me at my new address) Maggie On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:00 PM, wrote: > Send Mad-Scientists mailing list submissions to > mad-scientists at Mad-Scientists.ORG > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://www.mad-scientists.org/mailman/listinfo/mad-scientists > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > mad-scientists-request at Mad-Scientists.ORG > > You can reach the person managing the list at > mad-scientists-owner at Mad-Scientists.ORG > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Mad-Scientists digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. A Silent Key... (javilk at mall-net.com) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:17:40 +0000 (GMT) > From: javilk at mall-net.com > Subject: [Mad-Scientists] A Silent Key... > To: mad-scientists at mad-scientists.org > Message-ID: <20090120111740.49594.qmail at mall-net.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > WD4DUG, Mike H. Best, MBest at triad.rr.com of North Carolina has > gone silent... > > The world has lost a great genius of a man, a great inventor who's > quiet works in textile chemistry and other fields have touched the > majority of people in the USA, even though they don't know it. Mike was > a textile chemist, and later, an electronics engineer and inventor > working on beyond state-of-the-art measurement equipment. > > More than that, he was the most curious person I'd ever met. I ran > in to him on a health mailing list in 1993. I saw early on that this guy > had a Brain and was not afraid to Really Use it! > > We soon became best friends, discussing the latest scientific > discoveries, wondering about the future, trying to invent that future by > the work of our minds and our hands. > > God, It hurts! God, it Hurts losing a great mind like his! Ideas > half formed, projects half done, a future unfulfilled. > > I need a mind like his to work with, to exercise my mind with! No > one I ever met had the breadth of curiosity Mike had, nor the breadth of > knowledge. > > I know some on our various mailing lists lists said he was very > opinionated. Not so! He could back every opinion with facts and solid > logic; yet changed his mind quickly when the facts (as we know them) > changed. That too, is incredibly rare! > > It is a high honor to be able to work with a genius of such high > level, especially one who is as humble and gentle to others such as > myself. > > We'd never met in person, just corresponded for over a decade and a > half, and spoke often on the phone. We started talking about my moving > to North Carolina from California late in 2008 or 2009 just to be able > to work together on some of our mad scientist type ideas. > > I was just looking to buy a car that would let me haul my surviving > books and equipment (I'd lost most of my library and laboratory in The > Summit Fire) from California to Greensboro, North Carolina, when I > stopped getting email from him... When I tried calling him at work, > I found out he'd died. > > His father said Mike died in his sleep, cause is believed to be > Sleep Apnea. He was going to see about getting a CPAP machine first > thing in 2009. Too late. > > He was my best friend! God, it hurts!!! A gaping hole has been torn > in my life, and even more, in this World for the Ideas and things he > would have created, things we were planning to work on. > > I feel so alone now... > > http://www.w4gso.org/ > > > http://obituaries.news-record.com/News-Record/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonID=122127454 > > --javilk at mall-net.com---------------------------------- > Life is to be LIVED regardless of what is out there. > Fear destroys life. Destroy your fear and live. > ------------------------------------------------------- > Not to be construed as psychological advice. Void where > prohibited by law. Not available in all mental states. > ------------------------------------------------------- > Another Javilk (tm) brand post. > Copyright (C) 2007, Javilk at mall-net.com > Copyright retained. All rights reserved. > > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Mad-Scientists mailing list > Mad-Scientists at Mad-Scientists.ORG > http://www.mad-scientists.org/mailman/listinfo/mad-scientists > > > End of Mad-Scientists Digest, Vol 41, Issue 1 > ********************************************* > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.mad-scientists.org/pipermail/mad-scientists/attachments/20090120/45203948/attachment.html From javilk at mall-net.com Sun Jan 25 16:20:04 2009 From: javilk at mall-net.com (javilk at mall-net.com) Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:20:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Mad-Scientists] Darwin's Tree of Life fogged by viruses Message-ID: <20090125232004.84883.qmail@mall-net.com> Interesting article on how viral transfer of DNA significantly alters the lineal tree of life idea. Seems retroviruses lug substantial quantities of DNA between species over the millenia. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126921.600-why-darwin-was-wrong-about-the-tree-of-life.html?full=true What do you think? --javilk at mall-net.com---------------------------------- Life is to be LIVED regardless of what is out there. Fear destroys life. Destroy your fear and live. ------------------------------------------------------- Not to be construed as psychological advice. Void where prohibited by law. Not available in all mental states. ------------------------------------------------------- Another Javilk (tm) brand post. Copyright (C) 2007, Javilk at mall-net.com Copyright retained. All rights reserved. From javilk at mall-net.com Sat Jan 31 15:57:38 2009 From: javilk at mall-net.com (javilk at mall-net.com) Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:57:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Mad-Scientists] Universe as hologram theory... Message-ID: <20090131225738.29277.qmail@mall-net.com> http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126911.300-our-world-may-be-a-giant-hologram.html They say that some of the gravity wave detector noise and other things suggest a level of granularity in the universe... and that in turn suggests that what we observe as reality may be the effects of a hologram-like outer ege of the universe. If that is the case, then we may return to the old philosophical question of whether our actions are sponteous, based upon what we percieve and understand here and now; or are pre-ordaned by some "rules" or whatever laid out beforehand elsewhere. I would argue the idea is not valid... A projection can not interact with another projection element at the destination of the projection. Thus, the interactions must be taking place elsewhere, using rules ('physics") which are quite different from the rules we see and understand here. (If we can be said to understand.) The nature of caustics (the light patterns created by waves on the surface of a pool of water, projected to the bottom of the pool) suggests the rules and physics at the hologram level would have to be quite different in order for the light patterns to seem to make more sense than what we see. For one thing, if the hologram spans much of the outer edge of the universe, then the interactions there have to communicate with speeds much faster than light, that they appear to interact at that speed here. I would argue that the geometry of projection from the outer edge toward the center would suggest physics would not be constant across the universe; the speed of light would appear to change, faster closer to the edge of the universe, and slower toward the center. Yet we seem to see that physics is constant across the universe. Thus, the hologram idea does not seem valid to me... What do you think??? http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126911.300-our-world-may-be-a-giant-hologram.html --javilk at mall-net.com---------------------------------- Life is to be LIVED regardless of what is out there. Fear destroys life. Destroy your fear and live. ------------------------------------------------------- Not to be construed as psychological advice. Void where prohibited by law. Not available in all mental states. ------------------------------------------------------- Another Javilk (tm) brand post. Copyright (C) 2007, Javilk at mall-net.com Copyright retained. All rights reserved.