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A new report from Libertarian publication Reason, "Millennials: The Politically Unclaimed Generation" (PDF) finds that a majority of young people it surveyed believe that government is "inefficient, abuses its power, and supports cronyism."
Earlier this week Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH) filed legislation that would prevent the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from attempting to regulate broadband Internet service as a public utility under Title II of the Telecommunications Act. While the legislation is more of a dramatic public show of support for the idea that the FCC should not have the power to regulate anything, it's also interesting because the Congressman is "bankrolled" by lobbyists for the telecommunications industry.
Conservative TV and radio host Glenn Beck criticized Ubisoft's recently released open-world hacking game Watch Dogs on his Internet TV show. During a recent episode of his show The Blaze, Beck called the game's protagonist Aiden Pearce an "anti-hero."
"Why must everyone be an anti-hero? Why must everyone break the law? Why can't we have a Superman? Why can't we have somebody who is doing the right thing, does the hard thing? Instead, everybody is an anti-hero," Beck said.
Connecticut state lawmaker DebraLee Hovey (R) has penned a lengthy editorial calling for warning labels on video games and for a sin tax to be levied against interactive entertainment products rated "M" by the ESRB. This is the second time Hovey has called for a sin tax on video games in the state, though her last effort failed to get passed by CT lawmakers.
If Republican California for Attorney General candidate Phil Wyman had his way State Senator Leland Yee (D) and two other lawmakers would be put to death if convicted of their crimes. He has put forward the idea that the best way to prevent government corruption is for those who put their constituents in harm's way with their dirty dealings should face the death penalty.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) will deliver an address to students at the University of California-Berkeley that paints a dark portrait of the intelligence community as power hungry and out of control, according to excerpts from the speech obtained by Politico.
Florida-based political group The National Liberty Foundation is catching some heat this morning for posting anti-immigration propaganda from Bioshock Infinite, a game that puts such forms of thinking under a microscope by focusing on an isolated society, its leader and the movement that wants to keep "America pure." The group describes itself as a conservative coalition made up of citizens that identify themselves as part of the Tea Party movement.
The plaintiff in the landmark gun rights Supreme Court decision that bears his name (Heller v. District of Columbia) warned that the effort to regulate violent video games in the U.S. Congress is "a backdoor attack on gun rights." The Supreme Court case, Heller v. District of Columbia, overturned D.C.'s handgun ban. In a report on conservative publication Human Events, Heller said that lawmakers are targeting video games as a way to get at the issue from behind.
Conservative college group Campus Reform's Caleb Bonham asks college students about the "virtual morality" (or lack thereof, from his perspective) in Grand Theft Auto V. In his video he interviews college students about whether it is acceptable to run over a prostitute and get your money back or kill policemen in the game. Most say that these are perfectly acceptable activities because the world is not real. Bonham does manage to stump a few people when he asks if allowing a player to rape someone is acceptable, just like the other things players can do in the game.
Continuing to show just how out of touch he is with reality, Joe Scarborough offered some silly comments about 20-somethings being lazy gamers on the Morning Joe show he co-hosts on MSNBC. His comments were his contribution to what could have been a serious conversation about how women are becoming the primary bread winners in American households and the shifting roles of gender. He did his best to derail the conversation, as usual.
Right Wing Watch (a web site that admittedly doesn't like the principals of conservatism or the people who push its agendas in print, online and on broadcast television) points out in this story that Glenn Beck blames the Sandy Hook School Shooting in Newton, Connecticut entirely on the shooter's consumption of violent video games. Beck made his comments on last night's show which airs on his web site.
You may recall the Space Invaders-inspired flash game Truth Invaders way back during the 2008 presidential campaign. Back then the game focused on the "lies" told by both Democrats and Republicans.
Well the game is back with a 2012 edition, but this time it focuses only on the "lies" of Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney and the Republican party.
The FAQ on the site tries to explain the change:
We alluded to this earlier but here's the full story on an amendment about abortion being offered to the Cybersecurity Act of 2012. Adding nonsensical or unrelated amendments to bills in committee is pretty normal, but Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) might win the booby prize for most unrelated issue ever attached to a bill. After a bill to ban abortions in D.C. after 20 weeks was defeated on Tuesday night because it failed to garner enough support (a two-thirds majority), Senator Mike Lee decided to offer it up as an amendment to the Cybersecurity Act of 2012.
Conservative-Tea Party-Libertarian activist and Ron Paul operative Jack Hunter tackles CISPA in the latest edition of his web show "The Deal with Jack Hunter" over on The Daily Caller. The show opens with a clip of a story about Congresswoman Jane Harman (D-California), who wrote a scathing letter to Attorney General Eric Holder because her phone had been wiretapped.
Fox News commentator Oliver North has been signed to help Activision sell its next big Call of Duty game, Call of Duty Black Ops 2. North appears on-screen in an infomercial for the game talking about war. We'll leave the characterizations to Fox News (from his bio there as a contributor to the network) and this Wikipedia entry on him, but the short story is that North's past is marked with scandal.
In March of last year the state of Illinois decided to pass a law that collected Internet sales tax from online companies like Amazon.com and eBay. Commonly referred to as an "affiliate nexus tax," the law passed by Illinois and other states including California, Connecticut, and New York, required online retailers who advertised on "affiliate sites" that had a physical presence in the same state to collect sales tax. The Illinois law had broad support among lawmakers and the state's governor, Gov. Pat Quinn (D).
According to a GamesIndustry International report, Electronic Arts has become the target of a letter writing campaign by family advocacy groups who are upset with same-sex relationships in several of its games including Mass Effect 3 and Star Wars: The Old Republic.
An odd story on the conservative political news site The Daily Caller corners EA at GDC to ask them about the new SimCity game and if it was inspired by the recent publicity related to former presidential candidate Herman Cain's 9-9-9 plan. EA announced this week that they would release a new game in the city-building game series in 2013.
If Grover Norquist isn't breaking up with SOPA, he's certainly taking some time to revealuate his relationship with the anti-piracy bill. The face of the conservative group Americans for Tax Reform is letting his underlings say the things he hasn't personally said about SOPA: he doesn't like it in its current form.
Alex Beltramo, the lead developer of the web-based online game Dungeoneers, says that he's been quietly working on his game for years, and planned to keep it under wraps until it was finished but something came up: the presidential campaign. Beltramo believes strongly in Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul - so much so that he has pledged to give the candidate money the first time a player slays a dragon in his game. The game, for the record - is currently free. Here's Beltramo, in his own words:
In yet another editorial masquerading as a news report (the last one being the whole Carole Lieberman "Games cause Rape" story), Fox News writer John Brandon takes another shot at stirring the pot about Epic Games' Bulletstorm. In his latest article, Brandon uses the censorship of the game in Germany as a jump-off point to attack Rock, Paper, Shotgun's dissection of his first article, to claim that "anyone" can buy the game online, and to throw some more quotes around. Of the censorship in Germany, Brandon opens by baiting gamers with the line: "It's too violent for Germany. But it's okay for America?"
Conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation has issued a report urging congress to review what it calls 20 "unnecessary and harmful regulations" - three of which have to do with the FCC.
"This regulatory tide must be reversed," Heritage's Dianne Katz said. "Policymakers should not just prevent harmful new regulations, but must repeal costly and unnecessary rules already on the books."
Ars Technica details the three items that Heritage Foundation is putting a bull's-eye on: net neutrality regulations, media ownership rules, and the FCC's merger review authority.
Arizona State Senator Linda Gray recently said that the Tucson shootings weren't caused by lax gun control laws, but a culture of violence.. and abortion. Yes, you have read that right, ABORTION. She later distanced herself slightly from her comments. How abortion factors into the equation I'm not sure, but politicians do so enjoy tying irrelevant things to tragedies to score political points..
"The problem is not the gun, but about respect for all human life, from the unborn, a 9 year old child, a senior citizen or a political leader," Gray told Raw Story, by e-mail. "The shooter had no respect for the value of any these innocent citizens who were injured or killed."
Rush Limbaugh recently defended videogames after a caller to his talk show brought up the subject of Schwarzenegger vs. EMA, but is Limbaugh someone that the game industry even wants on its side?
Limbaugh used the case to rail against an over abundance of government and liberalism, asking the caller to "Join me when the government gets involved in all these other behavioral and speech things that they try to tell you and control us we can't do." He added that he was "glad" that the case was taking place, as it would push these topics (over-governing and liberalism) into the mainstream, alerting people "to what's happening throughout society."
Believe it or not conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh recently came to the defense of videogames during a recent call to his radio show (thanks Kotaku!).
21-year old caller Cory from Waterville, Ohio posed the question to Limbaugh, asking if Schwarzenegger vs. EMA was a "relevant thing that the Supreme Court should ever be even considering."
Limbaugh, in answering said that since he was 21 years old, he has "been concerned about the infringements on free speech that come from Democrat regimes and courts because I'm in the free speech business."
Saying that he was "glad" that the case was happening, Limbaugh continued:
Could the Tea Party ultimately help to pass net neutrality legislation? While that might seem unlikely, and editorial on Nextgov tries to make the case, speaking to leaders on both sides of the issue. The Tea Party generally doesn't support net neutrality, because it see it as government intervention into a free market. But the real complaint the Tea Party has, according to experts, is the FCC's move to enact and enforce rules all on its own.
But groups that claim to have the ear of Tea party supporters say that, ultimately, members will support some sort of legislation put together by Congress. Why? Mainly because they do not want the FCC to be a lone sheriff making and enforcing rules.
Even though Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal had a few moments of shame after he was caught overstating his military service earlier in the year, he managed to stay well ahead of his Republican rival, but things are changing rapidly.
That's because, it seems, that Linda McMahon has the momentum, according to the latest polls so much so, in fact, that a Reuters story from Sunday has the political chattering classes in the state afraid to place any bets on who might win in Nov. Connecticut's primary is today, and while McMahon and Blumenthal will have a fairly easy time rolling over their party's challenges to incumbency (barring any surprises), their match-up this November won't be a cake-walk for either of them.
What's most interesting about this race is that both candidates have a history with videogames. For Blumenthal it has been against video games in general, and for McMahon it has been as a character in videogames based on the company she ran for a very long time.


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The judge assigned to hear the wrongful-death lawsuit by Junior Seau's family recently threw the book at Fresh & Easy but has been on the receiving end of some harsh attacks herself.
Superior Court Judge Randa Trapp scored poorly on a judge-rating site and inspired an impeachment petition and critical blog.
And Wesley Smith of Virginia included her in his online Hall of Shame, labeling Trapp a "black-robed child abuser."
But she was endorsed by U-T San Diego in her June 2006 race for Superior Court, saying she was rated well-qualified by the bar association after three years on the Family Court bench. (A letter reputedly from Family Court employees challenged this assertion.)
And her smartvoter.org profile in 2006 depicted her as an experienced judge, a deputy attorney general from 1985 to 1989 active in the community (serving on the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation's San Diego Board of Directors and as chairwoman of the Southeastern Economic Development Corp.)
"In 2004," the site said, "she was named the 79th Assembly District's Woman of the Year. She is also the winner of the YWCA Tribute to Women and Industry (TWIN) Award."
A San Diego Metro profile of Trapp in 2002, when she was legal counsel to Sempra Energy, said she was a member of Sen. Barbara Boxer's Judicial Advisory Committee and a director on the County Retirement and the San Diego Convention & Visitors Bureau boards.
"I think it's important to work in the African-American community and represent the community throughout the county," she was quoted as saying. "I have a very supportive employer. It helps the company to have employees out in the community."
A jury trial was demanded in the suit against the National Football League and the case was assigned to Trapp, 58, according to online records.
But an anonymous blog critical of Trapp said she "suffers from incompetence" and has the highest reversal rate in San Diego.
A judge-rating website called The Robing Room puts Trapp near the bottom.
One site started a petition to impeach Trapp but gained only nine signatures.
On Tuesday, Trapp ordered the owner of Fresh & Easy grocery stores to pay $833,136 to settle a consumer protection case brought by prosecutors in San Diego and Riverside counties, alleging the chain charged more for meat and seafood than prices posted on store shelves.
Her own money was subject of a U-T San Diego story last May.
"Campaign disclosure records show that the committee Trapp set up in 2006 has given $2,500 each to the campaigns of judges Robert C. Longstreth, Lantz Lewis, DeAnnn M. Salcido and Joel Wohlfeil," said the U-T.
And in February 2012, Trapp sided with the city of San Diego in a medical marijuana case, saying the city cannot be required to take actions that amount to an illegal act.
"Wisdom Organics of Lemon Grove is allowed to deliver medical marijuana under state law, but use and distribution of the drug remains illegal under federal law, Trapp wrote in the ruling Feb. 3," U-T San Diego reported.

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Under the direction of MGA senior systems designer Brian Roggow from the firm's satellite office in Springfield, MO, twin arrays, each comprised of 10 L-ACOUSTICS dV-DOSC cabinets plus three dV-SUBs, were flown above the left and right sides of the stage in the 1,500-seat main sanctuary. For low-frequency reinforcement, four SB218 subwoofers are positioned up in the room's center cavity, while two SB118s are located under the stage. Four additional coaxial MTD108a systems are further called upon to deliver front-fill, and all loudspeaker systems are powered by L-ACOUSTICS' own LA Series amplifiers.
"Our initial system design for Calvary Temple featured a more traditional trapezoidal type of enclosure that would have been concealed behind the soffit," recalls Roggow. "However, during the building construction phase, several people from the church visited Angelus Temple in L.A, which has a full dV-DOSC rig, and they decided that they wanted a similarly aggressive concert-style system to better accommodate their contemporary worship band."
"We were all really impressed with [L'ACOUSTICS] dV-DOSC's wave guide," says Roggow, "which is wide, accurate, and very pleasing to the ear. These speakers do everything that they're touted to do."
The system is flexible enough for the variety of acoustical elements in the church such as speeches and live musical performances. "After getting everything installed and angled correctly, we found the loudspeakers to be extremely precise in their directivity and remarkably consistent in terms of coverage throughout the sanctuary," Roggow continues. "The system also has very good gain-before-feedback and rear rejection of the stage, which is critical because the pastor often walks down the front of the sanctuary wearing a Countryman E6 microphone while the band is performing and he obviously needs his voice to be intelligible above the music. That was one of the biggest challenges we were tasked with, but this system handles it very well."
Kerry Jones, executive pastor at Calvary Church, is pleased with MGA's results. "The audio system MGA installed in our facility, in my opinion, is the best church sound system that I have personally experienced," exclaims Jones. "It is equally excellent for both speech and music reinforcement."
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Eureka! Grand Manan Tour
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Love the space and design of this tent. It's so versatile.
Source: bought it new
Price Paid: $399.90
Love the space and design of this tent. It's so versatile. The vestibule gives you added room for lounging outside of your tent with screen protection. It's sturdy and keeps the rain out.
- Quality
- Comfort
- Design
- Could use a velcro enclosure on the vestibule door bottom where it meets the floor
- Packed weight - 28lbs
Have only had this in the backyard for three days, but we love how big and versatile it is. Between the tent and the rain fly, you can do SO much!
It's easy to put up; haven't taken it down yet. It sets up really nice and taut while still allowing easy zipper use — the zippers glide like butter!
The tent is really convenient with its four storage pockets and numerous loops and velcro closures for lighting and cords. The vestibule is large enough for two camp chairs and a small table.
I love how you can vent the tent while still completely covered by the rain fly — and that it actually KEEPS RAIN OUT!! We had a long day and night of rain yesterday, when I checked the corners of the tent this morning, ALL DRY! It seems like it would withstand a hurricane, I'm impressed with the quality of this tent.
I also like how the walls are 18" high before they start to slant in so a double high air mattress fits easily. The middle of the tent is 6'6" so me, at 5'2", can stretch my arms overhead and not touch and my BF at 5'11" doesn't have to hunch over while inside. We will be traveling indefinitely and this is the perfect home for us!
The tent does pack up to be pretty big and heavy — 28lbs! But what can you expect from a tent that has over 100sf total room?
It's a good quality tent. Nice design, the vestibules…
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It's a good quality tent. Nice design, the vestibules give you a lot of extra room.
- Design
- Quality
- A little heavy
- A little hard for 1 person to set up.
We have had the tent for about 1-1/2 years now. We go camping every mo. with a cub scout pack from Oct. to May. Sometimes twice a mo. on family trips. We are in Fl. and don't go in the summer much.
We have had no problems with the tent. The zippers are good quality and that's good for as many time that they get used on scout trips. I like the front screened vestibule. It keeps the bugs out of the sleeping area. It's like a staging area to keep your shoes. We keep our camp chairs in there at night so they are dry in the morning. There is enough room for our cooler and 2 chairs. We have used the vestibule on the other end for our muddy boots.
Setup would be a little hard for one person but with my son's (7 yr old) help it's not too bad. Two adults it's easy. The poles are beefy and should last a long time if you use them correctly.
The rain fly has a lot of places to tie it down. We have camped on a few windy weekends and did not have any problems the tent.
We have had no problems it as far as water. We will get up in the morning and the inside is completely dry. I have had a older tent and did not like having a wet sleeping bag weather from a leak or just soaking thru the walls.
The rain fly can be rolled up on the side for good ventilation. You can leave the sides down and open the opposite side on each end of the vestibules and get nice air flow thru the tent.
It has a lot of headroom. On scout trips, we use two cots on each side and a queen air bed on the end and a tub for a table in the middle for drinks and stuff. I also like that there are 4 loops around the top of the tent. I run twine thru them and hang a light on one end and use the rest of the line to hang our towel on to dry. With the vestibules on both ends you have a lot of area for storage.
As far as packability, we use the tent bag that came with it the 1st few times. But went ahead and bought a larger tent bag. You seem to acquire more gear like extra tent stakes, tent poles, floor saver ect.
If you want to use the front vestibule flap for an awning you will need extra poles, stakes and twine.
All in all I like the design and the quality of the tent. While camping with the cub scouts I get to talk to a lot of people about their tents and I can say that some are not that good. We have been getting ready for this camping season. Our 1st trip camping starts this Friday.
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The Eureka Grand Manan Tour is a versatile family-sized all-weather tent incorporating unique vertical end-section poles which create more internal volume for greater livability than a typical 2 pole dome tent.
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A versatile family-sized all-weather tent incorporating unique vertical end-section poles which create more internal volume for greater livability than a typical 2 pole dome tent
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The Eureka Grand Manan Tour is a sturdy stable tent that will sleep 4-5 people. It features straight side walls to create more usable space inside the tent. The front room is either a screenroom or a vestibule depending on your needs. You can store stuff out of the way, leave your wet shoes, or just relax in the screened area. The full coverage fly completely envelops the tent and will keep you dry and snug. The front vestibule flap can be rigged as an awning with 2 additional poles (separate purchase). A small rear vestibule can be used to store shoes or whatever else needs stashing and the second door is a great convenience. And as a bonus multiple zippers on the front vestibule allow you to open and close it in many ways for improved ventilation or convenience. Well ventilated and easy to set up the Grand Manan Tour is a family tent with the ability to please all.Sleeps 4-5Roomy front screenroom or vestibule (no floor) with 6' height - great for lounging or storageAll main fly and floor seams are factory sealed with seam tape2 Doors - Sleeping area has front and back 'D' Style doorsFly covering the front door can be converted to an awning with optional polesFreestanding 2 +1 pole design is easy to set upThe floor is a 75D Polyester tensioned perimeter seam bathtub design.75D StormShield Polyester fly won't stretch when wetGood venting from the mesh roof and 2 large closable side vents4 interior Storage pockets help organization N!ergy System compatible (add the E! Power Pak and accessories) and includes a Power Port for an extension cordVestibule/Screenroom can be reconfigured into an awning in minutes with extra 7' aluminum pole (sold separately)Shockcorded durable fiberglass frameA combination of clips and sleeves make set up fast and easyPost and grommet pole to body connection is fast and simpleHi/Lo venting doors to keep condensation down and comfort upExternal guy points to keep the tent stable in storms and high windsThe tent is natural woodland colors that are unobtrusive and pleasingAll carry bags includedFire RetardantImport.
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President John Tyler still has two living grandchildren. Tyler was born in 1790!
We may be on to the 21st century, but John Tyler, a president born in the 18th century still has two grandchildren alive. These grandchildren are named Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Jr. and Harrison Ruffin Tyler.
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With his second wife, Julia Gardiner Tyler, John Tyler had 7 children. One of those 7 children was Lyon Gardiner Tyler. Unfortunately for John Tyler, though he was successful in fathering many children, he was less successful as a president.
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DALLAS — Dallas police are investigating two break-ins that happened while families were asleep in their homes.
A North Dallas couple fell asleep watching Hurricane Sandy coverage on TV, but at 3:30 a.m. Tuesday, the wife woke up.
"I just had a feeling and woke up, and my worst nightmare was standing there in front of me," said the woman, who did not wish to be identified.
A man was standing at her dresser and going through her jewelry. Their eyes locked.
"He turned around and pointed a gun towards me, and we had a stare-down for about 2 to 3 seconds," she recalled. "Then he ran out of the bedroom."
Frozen in fear, the woman said nothing until he ran out.
Then, waking up her husband, the two sprinted to their six-year-old son's room.
"He was still sleeping under the covers," the woman said. "I didn't see him at first, and that scared me... but he was fine and safe and never woke up."
The couple said the intruder ran out a side door, and they still don't know how he got in. They are pretty sure all their doors were locked.
A family a couple of blocks away also awoke to find their home had been burglarized.
"I started looking around and realized a couple of things were missing," the victim said, also wishing to remain anonymous.
Items including jewelry and small electronics were gone.
"I thought the door was locked; I can't be 100 percent sure," he said. "We were obviously asleep, and that's really kind of scary."
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Security, dogs, and signs of people inside weren't enough to keep the robber away.
The neighborhood association in the area has put out a warning to residents to set their alarms, double-check doors, and be on the look out for suspicious behavior.
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Sir Elton John celebrated his 60th birthday by topping his own record and performing his 60th sold out concert in Madison Square Garden in New York City. As with any of his normal touring dates, Elton called on Nocturne Productions to add HD video support for the extra special event.
Introduced by President Bill Clinton, and later joined by lyricist Bernie Taupin and guests Robin Williams and Whoopie Goldberg, Elton thanked the packed crowd for all their "loyalty, love, and support."
Paul Becher, Nocturne co-CEO took the reins as executive producer, coordinating several digital artists who created playback material for over 30 songs. Peter Moll directed the video support, using a 60x20ft HiDef V9 LED screen and a five camera Nocturne HD flypack.
"The show had a real party atmosphere, with lots of celebrities joining the fans to wish Elton their best. We created custom content especially for this show and the HiDef screen looked spectacular," says Becher. "Elton is one of our hardest working clients, he's already booking shows into 2008."
Madison Square Garden presented Elton with a banner commemorating his 60th sold-out show in the venue, roundly eclipsing the Grateful Dead's record of 52. The banner will be hung from the rafters of the Garden alongside championship banners for the Knicks and Rangers.
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Gays Join Women under Health Care Reform Bus
by psychodrew, Tue Feb 23, 2010 at 01:09:50 PM EST
Yesterday, President Obama introduced his plan to "fix" the Senate version of the health care reform bill so the two chambers can finally get a bill to his desk. The public option wasn't the only thing missing from the president's plan. He also left out a number of provisions important to the sexual minority community.
The House version of HCR contained a number of provisions important to the sexual minority community that were not included in the Senate version of the bill. One of them included eliminating a federal tax on health care benefits received by spouses/same-sex partners of gay and lesbian employees. From Metro Weekly:
Most LGBT and HIV activists had supported the House bill because it included key LGBT specific provisions, including provisions. In addition to the data collection, it prohibited discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in the provision of health care; enabled people with HIV and low incomes to obtain Medicare coverage earlier in the course of their illness; and eliminated the tax that gay employees must pay if their same-sex partners or spouses receive health coverage from their employers' plan. Straight employees don't pay that tax but, for gay couples, the coverage is characterized by the federal government as additional income for the gay employee.
The big problem here is that the base bill is the Senate version of the bill and the president's compromise. If the "fix" does not include these provisions, then they won't be part of the final bill, even though the House already passed them.
Tammy Baldwin hasn't given up:
Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.), the openly gay member of Congress who was a leader in adding pro-gay provisions to the House health reform bill, says she hasn't given up hope. She called President Obama's proposal Monday ''an important step forward'' that ''helps to regain our momentum'' on health care reform efforts.
But, she added, ''it is not the final word.''
Baldwin said Monday she would ''continue to fight for all of my priorities in the final health care reform bill, including those related to LGBT health."
But we all saw that conservative Democrats demanded a high price for their votes the first time around--and women's reproductive health care was sacraficed. There is no reason for me to believe that sexual minorities won't join women under the health care bus and once again find ourselves where we were on Inauguration Day--largely tolerated, but expendable at the altar of bipartisanship.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Tigres, Morelia and Santos Laguna improved to 14 points to share the Mexican first-division lead through seven rounds.
Tigres, which leads the other two on goal difference, drew 0-0 against Atlas. Morelia defeated Puebla 2-1, and Santos Laguna drew 1-1 against Monterrey.
Pachuca missed an opportunity to move into first place and lost its unbeaten record on Sunday, falling 1-0 against America to stay on 12 points.
Chivas' poor play continued with a 0-0 draw at home against San Luis. Chivas is one of Mexico's most popular clubs but has only two points in seven matches.
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A friend of mine was going through a divorce. There had been no infidelity or abuse, no mid-life crisis, no traumatic event in their marriage. My friend's marriage was over, because, as she said, "I'm just not happy."
Another friend surprised us all after church one Sunday, announcing she was no longer going to be teaching her Sunday School class or doing any thing else in our church, for she had decided she could no longer be part of our congregation. She had no idea where she was going to worship; she just knew it would not be with us. Her reason, she said was, "I'm just not happy."
Those events happened decades ago. But last week, a teenage friend of mine told me she was doing poorly in school because things were not going well for her. With tears flowing down her face, she said, "I'm just not happy."
I may not be the saltiest fry in the box, but I think I see a trend here.
Why is it that we are so fixated on being happy? Why do we think we should be happy all the time? Why is it that we are unhappy more often than we are happy? I am positive I don't have all the answers to such complex questions. After all, each person we meet is fighting a battle we know nothing about. I know all that.
But I also know that there are some simple answers to why we are not happy.
As a general rule, unhappy people are usually preoccupied by too many things. They are too ungrateful, never offering thanks to God for what He has provided. (Do any of us have anything that was not provided by God? Even the air we breathe is a gift from the Almighty!) Unhappy people are too critical. (Ever notice that an unhappy person never has anything good to say about anyone? Or anything?) Unhappy people are too prideful, never learning how to humbly depend on God's power, not their own, and never learning to say thank you to waiters, cashiers, or their spouses who put up with their unhappiness day after day!


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LOS ANGELES -- John Merrick was a young face in the crowd for so many years, dreaming of one day play at Riviera on the PGA Tour. On Sunday, he did better than that. He won it.
Merrick hit two clutch shots that led to par in a sudden-death playoff and won the Northern Trust Open on Sunday when Charlie Beljan missed a 5-foot par putt on the second extra hole. It was the first PGA Tour win for Merrick, who went to school at UCLA.
"I can't put this into words," he said off the 10th green, his eyes welling with tears. "Growing up as a kid, coming out here, I just wanted to play this tournament."
Merrick closed with a 69. Beljan, famous for his anxiety attack when he won at Disney last year, holed an 18-foot birdie on the 18th hole for a 67.
Along with his first win on tour, the 30-year-old Merrick earns a spot in the Masters.
Fredrik Jacobson missed a 4-foot par putt on the 18th hole that would have put the Swede in a playoff. He wound up with a 69 and tied for third with Charl Schwartzel (70) and Bill Haas (73), who also had chances to win at different stages in their rounds.
Haas made five bogeys in a seven-hole stretch in the middle of his round, and his birdie-birdie finish allowed him to tie for third.
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NAPLES, Fla. -- Bernhard Langer shot a final-round 72 and won his second ACE Group Classic title in three years by one stroke on Sunday.
Langer two-putted from 50 feet on the 18th for par to finish at 12-under 204, ahead of Jay Don Blake at TwinEagles Club's Talon Course.
Langer, who won this tournament in 2011 and was runner-up last year, survived three bogeys and a double bogey. It was his 17th victory on the Champions Tour, and the seventh year he has won at least one tournament.
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INTRODUCTION TO LOOP QUANTUM GRAVITY, everything you ever wanted to know...
In Loop Quantum Gravity, also referred to as LQG, the attempt is made to introduce the concept of quantum gravity. This is the unification of the General Theory of Relativity and the Quantummechanics. It is a very well established fact that gravitation and quantummechanics both have totally different foundations, which makes it very difficult to unify them at first sight. On the one hand position is uncertain in QM due to the Heisenberg-principle, while this is never the case in GTR. On the other hand, there is no metrical connection between space and time in QM, similar to the space-time-continuum of GTR. This leads to the fact that there is no curvature of space nor time in QM
In order to quantize the GTR we need gauge-fields, curved on a manifold just like in GTR. These gauge fields then need to be quantized just like other fermionic fields are quantized in QFT. When following this procedure, one needs to obey the following two laws at any point and time :
1) diffeomorfism invariance (this is the general covariance of GTR)
2) gauge invariance (like in QFT, invariance of gauge fields under local symmetries)
Basically these two laws ensure us that we have background independence so that we can choose any metric we want in order to describe the manifold. The different possible frames on that manifold must yield the same physical equations at any point on the manifold, that is the covariance (just like in GTR). These diffeomorfisms from one possible metric to another make sure that the physical laws remain the same when metrics are interchanged.
More specifically one needs to describe a manifold. Great mathematicians like Gauss and Riemann have taught us that this is done by the socalled connections. A metric describing a manifold is the most familiar example of a connection, i.e. the socalled metrical connection. There are other options though, like in GTR the connections are not metric-functions but they are gauge fields.
Next question is, how do we study some manifold ? What system can be followed in order to describe how objects behave on some chosen manifold ?
Well, we want background independence, so we must be able to chose any metric or connection we want in order to describe our manifold we are working on. In the early stages of LQG all possible metrics were used in order to implement this concept of back-ground-independence. A certain physical state was then represented as a probability-density containing all these metrics. This way of working was not very practical and in the mid-eighties it was even replaced by a description based upon the set of connections instead of all possible metrics.
Now, how does a connection work ? Well suppose you are on the manifold at a certain point A. Then you want to move in some direction on the manifold along a loop to that starts in A and comes back to A, like a circle. In order to describe this transition in mathematics, one uses the concept of parallel transport of tangent vectors. In order to be able to talk about such things as vectors, we need a reference frame that we can choose as we please because of the two laws mentioned above. Take a frame in A then make a very little step along the loop and look how this chosen frame has changed its position during the movement. Then complete the same procedure until you get back in A after completing the loop. Ofcourse it is not useful to look at the movement of the frame at every intermediate step along the loop. Actually one can integrate out the evolution of the frame over the entire trajectory that is followed from A to A.
When we start in A we actually take a tangent vector. This is an element of the tangent space of the manifold at point A. The transformation that is used to go from a point A on the manifold to the tangential space is called a projection. This tangent space can be turned into a socalled the Lie-Algebra, containing vectors written in terms of differentials, and provides the description for the movement from A to A along the loop. Now the operations that can be executed on the elements of a Lie-Algebra, like the identity or rotations, can be found in the Lie-Group.
As stated in the above paragraph it will be the intention to map elements from the Lie-Algebra to the Lie-Group. To be more specific : suppose we look at some vectors from the Lie-Algebra at A and we parallel transport them along the loop back to A. Now, we see for example that these vectors have rotated 45 degrees during their transport. This 45-degree-rotation is an element from the Lie-Group and the map between these two concepts gives us some idea on how vectors behave when replaced along some chosen loop on the manifold. Thus, yielding in a system to describe the manifold itself. It is proven that if you exponentiate Lie-Algebra-elements, you get the Lie-Group-elements.
More specifically, we take the frame around some loop and integrate all the differential motions of this frame during its transport. It is this integral that is exponentiated in order to get the corresponding group-element. In the Lie-Algebra, the group-element has a certain representation like a matrix. It is the trace if this matrix that is considered because the trace is a scalar and it will be the same for all reference frames. The map between the Lie-Algebra element and the Lie-Group element is called a Wilson Loop. Basically it tries to feel the metric by parallel transporting a Lie-Algebra element along a loop and measuring how this element changes its position with respect to the original position, after the loop is completed. Thus yielding a Lie-Group element.
The reason why we can ultimately speak about integrations and so on, is because initially everything is considered to be very very small. We work in terms of differential motions, which add up into the total motion between A and A. We use the Algebras in order to talk in terms of differentials d. As we move the frame along some "d(loop)" it experiences some "d(rotation)."
Now, once we have established such a relation, we can calculate the total movement by exponentiating the two differentials of the Lie-Algebra. The d(loop) ofcourse yields a transformation that describes the trajectory of the loop, while the d(rotation) yields the total rotation that has been undergone by the transported vector.
The main consequence of Loop Quantum Gravity is the fact that our space-time-continuum is no longer infinitely divisible. In LQG space has a granular structure that represents the fact that space is divided into elementary space-quanta of which the dimensions can be measured in LQG. The main problem of QFT is the fact that it relies on the existence of some physical background. As stated one of the main postulates of LQG is the fact that we need background independence. The diffeomorfisms give us the possibility to go from one metric to another and the physical laws must remain the same. Basically some physical state in LQG is a superposition over all possible backgrounds or in other words a physical state is a wavefunction over all geometries.
In String Theory, the main competitor when it comes to quantumgravity starts from the fact that there must be some kind of fictitious background space, thus actually undoing the aspects of general relativity. All calculations can then be made with respect to this background field and in the end the background independence must somehow be recovered. LQG starts from a totally different approach, though. We start from the knowledge we have from General Relativity, thus no background field, and we then try to rewrite the entire Quantum Field Theory in a certain way that no background-field is needed.
How to implement this nice background-independence in QFT has already shortly been introduced, i.e. The Wilson Loop and more generally the spin networks :
The map between the Lie-Algebra element and the Lie-Group element is called a Wilson Loop. Basically it tries to feel the metric by parallel transporting a Lie-Algebra element along a loop and measuring how this element changes its position with respect to the original position, after the loop is completed. Thus yielding a Lie-Group element.
The strategy is as follows : in stead of working with one specific metric like in ordinary QFT, just sum up over all possible metrics. So QFT should be redefined into somekind of pathintegral over all possible geometries. A wavefunction is then expressed in terms of all these geometries and one can calculate the probability of one specific metric over another. This special LQG-adapted wavefunction must obey the Wheeler-DeWitt equation, which can be viewed at as some kind of Schrödinger-equation for the gravitational field. So just like the dynamics of the EM-field is described by the Maxwell-equations, they dynamics of the gravitational-field are dedeterminedy the above mentioned equation. Now how can we describe the motion of some object or particle in this gravitational field. Or in other words, knowing the Maxwell equations, what will be the variant of the Lorentz-force ???
This is where the loops come in. First questions one must ask is :
Why exactly them loops ?
Well, lets steal some ideas from particle physics... In QFT we have fermionic matter-fields and bosonic force-fields. The quanta of these force-fields or the socalled force-carrier-particles that mediate forces between matter-particles. Sometimes force-carriers can also interact with eachother, like strong-force-mediating gluons for example. These force carriers also have wavelike properties and in this view they are looked as excitations of the bosonic-forcefields. For example some line in a field can start to vibrate (think of a guitar-string) and in QFT one then says that this vibration is a particle. This may sound strange but what is really meant is that the vibration has the properties of some particle with energy, speed, and so on, corresponding to that of the vibration. These lines are also known as Faradays lines of force. Photons are "generated" this way in QFT, where they are excitations of the EM-field. Normally these lines go from one matter-particle to another and in the absence of particles or charges they form closed lines, aka loops. Loop Quantum Gravity is the mathematical description of quantum gravity in terms of loops on a manifold. We have already shown how we can work with loops on a manifold and still be assured of background-independence and gauge-invariance for QFT. So we want to quantize the gravitational field by expressing it in terms of loops. These loops are quantum excitations of the Faraday-lines that live in the field and who represent the gravitational force. Gravitons or closed loops that arise as low-energy-excitations of the gravitational field and these particles mediate the gravitational force between objects.
It is important to realize that these loops do not live on some space-time-continuum, they are space-time !!! The loops arise as excitations of the gravitational field, which on itself constitutes space. Now the problem is how to incorporate the concept of space or to put it more accurately : how do we define all these different geometries in order to be able to work with a wave function ?
The Wheeler-DeWitt equation has solutions describing excitations of the gravitational field in terms of loops. A great step was taken when Abhay Ashtekar rewrote the General Theory of Relativity in a similar form as the Yang-Mills-Theory of QFT. The main gauge-field was not the gravitational field. No, the gravitational field was replaced by the socalled connection-field that will then be used to work with different metrics. In this model space must be regarded as some kind of fabric weaved together by loops. This fabric contains finite small space-parts that reflect the quantization of space. It is easy to see that there are no infinite small space regions, thus no space-continuum. Quantummechanics teaches us that in order to look at very small distance-scales, an very big amount of energy is needed. But since we also work in General Relativity we must take into account the fact that great amounts of energy concentrated at a very small scale gives rise to black holes that make the space-region disappear. By making the Schwardzschildradius equal to the Comptonradius we can get a number expressing the minimum size of such a space-region. The result is a number that is in the order of the Planck Length.
Now how is space constructed in LQG ? Well, the above mentioned minimal space-regions are denoted by spheres called the nodes. Nodes are connected to eachother by lines called the links.
By quantizing a physical theory, operators that calculate physical quantities will acquire a certain set of possible outcomes or values. It can be proven that in our case the area of the surface between two nodes is quantized and the corresponding quantumnumbers can be denoted along a link. These surfaces I am referring are drawn as purple triangles. In this way a three-dimensional space can be constructed.
One can also assign a quantumnumber which each node, that corresponds to the volume of the grain. Finally, a physical state is now represented as a superposition of such spin-networks.
marlon, thanks to marcus for the necessary information and corrections of this text
REFERENCE : maestro Carlo Rovelli Loop Quantum Gravity
Physics World, November 2003
Nov27-04, 09:24 AM
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PF Gold
congratulations on a great sticky thread!
though you are the primary author, I'm assuming it is OK
for others to contribute. So I would like to bring in some
bibliography----some more links to online reading, besides
the Rovelli article that you already have
I believe you plan on continuing your essay, when studies permit,
and hope that others' contributions don't interfere with
your writing future chapters.
best regards,
hi, I just saw your next message #3 that you posted. I will reply here to save space. That is a good point about keeping the level Introductory.
I will keep that in mind and concentrate on adding just a small amount of bibliography (unless you get around to it before I do) which is the
more accessible sort. Actually that makes sense for several reasons including the fact that more technical articles can have a shorter shelf life!
the technical methods can get old and be replaced while the basic intuitions
stay useful longer. hope your mainstream QFT studies are going well.
BTW this sticky is really nice to have. thanks again!
Nov27-04, 12:05 PM
Marcus, thanks for the reply...
It can only be a good thing that others contribute but i am convinced that we need to keep the level basic enough in this sense that i wanna move up the "difficulty-scale" gradually. It would be a bad thing if we were to discuss high-level papers because i think most of us (including myself) will not be able to follow this up and we would get discouraged and drop the subject. I will continue this matter and i would suggest that we follow the content of Rovelli's book which is online at his website.You have given the reference to it...
Nov28-04, 12:38 PM
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PF Gold
Introduction To Loop Quantum Gravity
I will restrain my tendency to talk too much, so as not to crowd.
BTW just yesterday in the mail was delivered the copy of Rovelli "Quantum Gravity" which I ordered from Amazon. I am very happy with the book and
have been reading it instead of being at computer.
I am only sad that it is so expensive----70 dollars. You have to be rich, or be willing to splurge. Or you have to be in graduate school and need it for a class, as textbook. In US the textbooks are all very expensive, so 70 dollars is fairly normal.
Anyway Rovelli is a good writer and Cambridge Press did a good job, with the editing and just the physical production----nice paper, nice binding, nice feel, and printing. So it is a pleasure to own: at least for me.
But to save money it certainly makes sense to print off the free draft copy at Rovelli site. Even just the first 3 or 4 chapters and some appendices---or whatever you find the most accessible parts and most relevant for you.
Marlon, why not give some online bibliography yourself? It would be a refreshing change (I am always doing the librarian work) and I would enjoy seeing your picks and how you organize it. (If you do not want to, I will not shirk the job, but maybe you would like to list intro-level links?)
Nov28-04, 01:28 PM
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1) That any correct quantum gravity theory must be able to calculate amplitudes for graviton-graviton scattering, and that he hopes that lqg will one day lead to a theory that can.
2) That he knows that GR must almost certainly be an effective field theory that is modified at higher energies so that lqg can't be correct. Thus he says he views lqg basically as a laboratory for investigating certain fundamental issues in quantum gravity.
As far as your sticky goes, would you be bothered if I corrected it?
Nov28-04, 03:06 PM
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PF Gold
At least I looked in the first part of the book, and used the index to search the rest, and could not find any statements of the kind.
It would be nice to have some page references, if you have any more would-be paraphrases from Rovelli----even sweller of you to provide actual quotes. Since a paraphrase can often mislead as to what was said in the original.
Thanks for your kind wish as to the book! Indeed it is surprising me. I was not expecting this much, since I had read much of the last year's draft version.
BTW if you pick up a copy either at library or store and can give me some actual page reference (whether or not in the first 50-or-so pages, anywhere in the book will do) where he says these things 1. and 2. that you state, that would be most helpful of you and I will be very interested to read the actual passages and think about it. If he does say something like that my eye somehow missed it.
Nov28-04, 04:41 PM
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In rovelli's dec 30 2003 draft, he says on page ix entitled "PREFACE"
"What we need is not just a technique for computing, say, graviton-graviton scattering amplitudes (although we certainly want to be able to do so, eventually)"
On page 5 of the same draft,
"The einstein-hilbert action might very well be a low energy approximation of something else. But the modification of the notions of space and time has to do with the diffeomorphism invariance and the background independence of the action, not with it's specific form."
Be this as it may, jim bjorken in the forward of carlo's book states quite plainly that effective field theory has taught us that GR must be viewed as just an effective field theory, and it's difficult to believe that carlo would've allowed such a statement if it fundamentally contradicted his position.
Btw, did you notice that carlo writes (probably in the preface) that thiemann is publishing a book on the more mathematical aspects of lqg?
Nov29-04, 02:48 PM
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PF Gold
Oh I see.
I thought you were talking about the actual book. that you said you were browsing in the bookstore.
but you apparently meant the draft, from 2003, which is available online.
there's been considerable up-dating and revision. so one should be specific which
Meanwhile, maybe readers of this thread would be interested in the Loop and String lineup of talks at the conference that just finished in Mexico (at the Quintana Roo beach resort in sight of the island of Cozumel)
A lot of the lectures were by top people both string and loop, and they were rather much introductory. The conference aimed at being a "school" to bring more people in. And to introduce stringies to loop research and viceversa.
I thought the lineup of who the organizers wanted to talk about the various hot topics was enlightening. So since it could be instructive, I will copy it here:
A. Ashtekar (PSU, USA): Quantum Geometry
A. P. Balachandran (Syracuse, USA): Quantum Physics with Time-Space Noncommutativity
P. T. Chrusciel (Tours, France): Selected Problems in Classical Gravity
R. Kallosh (Stanford, USA): De Sitter Vacua in String Theory and the String Landscape
A. Peet (Toronto, Canada): Black Holes in String Theory
C. Rovelli (Marseille, France): Loop Quantum Gravity and Spinfoams
Plenary talks:
J. D. Barrow (Cambridge, UK): Cosmological Constants and Variations
M. Bojowald (AEI, Germany): Loop Quantum Cosmology
A. Corichi (ICN-UNAM, Mexico): Black Holes and Quantum Gravity
A. Linde (Stanford, USA): Inflation and String Theory
O. Obregon (U. Guanajuato, Mexico): Noncommutativity in Gravity, Topological Gravity and Cosmology
A. Perez (PSU, USA): Selected Topics on Spin Foams
L. Smolin (PITP, Canada): Loops and Strings
R. Wald (U. Chicago, USA): Topics on Quantum Field Theory
Short talks:
E. Caceres (CINVESTAV, Mexico): Wrapped D-branes and confining gauge theories
A. Guijosa (ICN-UNAM, Mexico): Far-from-Extremal Black Holes from Branes and Antibranes
H. Morales (UAM, Mexico): Semiclassical Aspects and Phenomenology of Loop Quantum Gravity
D. Sudarsky (ICN-UNAM, Mexico): Spacetime Granularity and Lorentz Invariance
L. Urrutia (ICN-UNAM, Mexico): Synchrotron Radiation in Lorentz-Violating Effective Electrodynamics
Nov29-04, 02:53 PM
marlon...got any extra info on LQG???
great introduction btw...
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This is a project I've been working on, and I'd very much like to know what the participants on this thread think. Thanks, nc
Abstract and prospectus, Spacetime at the Planck Scale
This is an abstract and prospectus for additional research. The proposal would use computational techniques such as those described in Stephen Wolfram's New Kind of Science as an exploratory probe of events at the Planck scale. Authors are currently recruiting mathematicians and physicists to mentor and contribute to the work. We still need someone who can design the NKS experiments.
In this work in progress, we describe a mechanism by which four space-time dimensions are reduced to the classical view of three space-like dimensions arrayed in the customary orthagonal basis with one time-like dimension which can be thought of as permeating the space-like dimensions. The time-like dimension is shown to appear to be unique to a moving observer, and preserves the appearance of freedom of choice as one perspective in a structure which can also be viewed from other perspectives as competely deterministic.
The Einstein-Minkowski principle of space time equivalence taken in the strongest sense creates a powerful model for investigation of the relationship between general relitivity and quantum mechanics. We begin by defining the Planck Sphere (here named to be consistant with the Planck length and Planck time) as a three dimensional volume filled by a radient event at the speed of light in one Planck time. Thus the radius of the Planck Sphere is equal to one Planck length and is equal to one Planck time, making a three dimensional model which can be used in a perspective sense to portray events which occur at the Planck scale in four dimensions.
After describing the features of the model, we go on to propose that computational graphing techniques similar to those used by Stephan Wolfram in his book A New Kind Of Science be developed to explore the evolution of the Planck Sphere in Kepler dense packed space up to the scale of the fine structure constant, thereby showing the geometric origins of mass and charge. The first step in this process is to define a viable space-time lattice structure, which we believe we have done by defining the Planck Sphere as an element in a Kepler stack. The next step in this process is to develop a rational algorithem to simulate events on the Planck scale. This may be accomplished by applying what we know of cosmogeny and of physics near singularities. As a first approximation we advance the conjecture that expansion from the Planck scale will recapitulate cosmogeny. We carry through the first steps in this approximation to demonstrate a mechanism for early inflation in the burgeoning universe.
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Hello Marlon
i will thank you for the nice clear introduction on loop quantum gravity. I am planning to do my thesis on this subject and i would like to keep in touch with all the specialists here in order to get more info. I am just starting to know this field...
Dec8-04, 12:29 PM
The challenge for string theorists and LQG theorists is to explain why the vacuum energy exists at 10^120 J/m^3 ( there is no reason to think there is anything wrong with the QM calculation) but does not curve space-time.How can
quantum gravity be proved if gravity is not understood on its own yet?
Dec8-04, 01:17 PM
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PF Gold
maybe QFT can come up with a mechanism that cancels all or most of it out, or find some reason to say that it doesnt really exist----maybe QFT already has.
but that density of energy, not canceled out and real enough to cause gravity, is simply incredible (at least to me). commonsense persuades me that there must be something wrong with any theory that predicts it
And there is some reason to be hopeful, because QFT is still formulated in an unrealistic way: using a fixed spacetime framework. Reformulating it in a background independent version might possibly get rid of that huge vacuum energy.
BTW just to have a basis for comparision, the astronomers' dark energy estimate is currently around 0.6 joule per cubic km. In joules per cubic meter (the units you were using) that comes to:
0.6 x 10-9 joule per cubic meter.
Dec8-04, 02:41 PM
I am aware of the cosmological evidence.But the problem is this:
the energy that can be experimentally associated with the Casimir force
is greater than the cosmological observation (10^-6 Newtons/m^2 net force
at 10^-7 m plate separation - i think but i'm not sure,that this is at
least 10-7 J/m^3).So, the plates involved in
measurements of the Casimir force must somehow, switch on vacuum energy,locally.And what sort of effect would a galaxy have on the vacuum energy?
Dec9-04, 06:53 PM
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PF Gold
QFT calculation of a huge vacuum energy is correct.
what I think is true is that there is some normal vacuum energy density and that between two conducting plates it is LESS namely
[tex] \text{energy density betw. plates = usual vacuum energy density} -\frac{\hbar c \pi^2}{720 d^4}[/tex]
the QFT calculation of the usual vacuum energy density is bad or dubious, but the Casimir effect does not depend on this, it depends on the fact that the energy density between plates is LESS by the amount shown, which QFT does calculate successfully!, and which depends on the inverse fourth power of the separation distance.
So I say that I believe the QFT calculation of the Casimir effect and I like the Casimir effect, and this is consistent with not believing the huge vacuum energy which QFT calculates, which is roughly 120 OOM wrong---or actually different people try to fix it different ways and say different things, but anyway wrong.
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