Re: [FRIAM] synthetic black holes

2009-10-15 Thread Steve Smith
You wait until you get to the future to see if your hypothesis was correct.  If it wasn't, you go back and change it.  It can be an iterative process before you get a positive result. Every time I try that I get *really* confused.    Even my lab notes seem to get all jumbled up and self-contr

Re: [FRIAM] synthetic black holes

2009-10-15 Thread Douglas Roberts
You wait until you get to the future to see if your hypothesis was correct. If it wasn't, you go back and change it. It can be an iterative process before you get a positive result. --Doug On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > So how do you test a hypothesis that the futur

Re: [FRIAM] synthetic black holes

2009-10-15 Thread Roger Critchlow
So how do you test a hypothesis that the future is interfering with the present? -- rec -- On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Douglas Roberts wrote: > Fairly far out there. Here's one I stumbled across yesterday that is way > far out there: > > The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate =

Re: [FRIAM] synthetic black holes

2009-10-15 Thread Douglas Roberts
Fairly far out there. Here's one I stumbled across yesterday that is way far out there: The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/science/space/13lhc.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1 On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > So yesterday I'm rea

[FRIAM] synthetic black holes

2009-10-15 Thread Roger Critchlow
So yesterday I'm reading about solar energy and thinking -- blah, blah, blah -- of all the known solutions. Today Slashdot gives me a blurb about synthetic black holes, which I follow to new scientist and on to http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.2159v1 The abstract: Traditionally, a black hole is a reg