Thanks, Steve, Rog. Sadly, I had one of those yesterday.

Steve, how did you fare the floods? I check in occasionally at Jubilee and Chris has kept us up to date on it, but didn't know anything from you.

Read the comments.

The one comment I took notice of was the comment about the heat loss during switching time.Another was concerned with the truth of the statement that silicon has topped out in efficiency to around 90%. The commenter disagreed, and I tend to disagree also. What is missing here is no talk shows up about efficiency vs operating range. Converters are at their best when running near max output, and so many users of power supplies think bigger is better (in output power) without considering that fact. A 600W supply running at 500W will be, all other things equal, more efficient than a 1000W supply running at 500W.

Here is Fermilabs recording of the earthquake:

http://www.quantumdiaries.org/author/fermilab/

FermiLab noted that article not long ago.

Nice idea. New physics and all that! Makes me want to go back for a PhD and get into the mix.

In the meantime, take a look at this:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928055.400-quantum-trickery-co uld-lead-to-stealth-radar.html

If you want to see what the problem entails see if you can find a discussion of the Elitzur-Vaidman bomb testing problem. Don't actually have to test bimbos, but it makes for a bit of edge of your seat reading! It deals with quantum entanglement.

If not on line, find a copy of Penrose: "Shadows of the Mind" starting on p239 ; Sect.5.2

There is also a section titled "Puzzling Election" sect 8.5. de ja vu all over again, and this book was published 1994!

Actually, no. But that is the outcome. Answers from the "Science Genie" is almost always conditional. The answers are not complete and unassailable. They are more like "Yes but..." and when you investigate the but, well hopefully, you don't become the butt of a joke! (See Cold Fusion)

Most answers come with additional paths that would not have been visible had the question not been formally investigated. Witness FermiLab and the LHC. FermiLab was not likely to answer all the "paths" and a larger more powerful machine is needed. Later, then a larger and more powerful...will be needed.

Eventually the size of the machine needed will be as large as the universe with an equivalent energy in the order of magnitude which existed at the moment of the "Big Bang"( if that is actually what happened!). Did that actually happen? Well, we need a machine larger than the universe and more powerful...YIKES!

Nonplussed about nuclear reactors.

http://vimeo.com/22865967

The weather this year and it's causes...Global weirding!

http://www.sacbee.com/2011/06/04/3676297/researcher-says-climate-chang e.html

He was an Oregonian, AFAIK.

From CERN:

http://press.web.cern.ch/press/pressreleases/Releases2011/PR19.11E.htm l

Nutrinos clocked faster than the speed of light.

I completely missed the shutdown of that machine. It was broadcast Friday afternoon, but the job from hell I recently picked up gave me particular fits that day.