A recent article proposed that superconducting sheets may be able to reflect gravitational waves, and furthermore might already be detected in the data returned by Gravity Probe B. Part of the article talks about how the mass supercurrents are enhanced by the Coulomb force in superconducting sheet, greatly increasing the effect. How much greater? ( Read more... )

Happy Pi Day!

this should remove it. All the network interface promises those cyberpunk novels made are finally coming to pass.

( Pictures of the snow-shrouded woods outside my bedroom window. )

It is snowing. In March. In Atlanta. Not just the occasional flake, but a deluge of big, wet, fluffy flakes.

It should be interesting driving the to director's meeting.

I just heard that Phillip Jose Farmer passed away this morning. I spent many happy hours reading his books. He will be missed.

Darkseid IS

A happy 303rd birthday to Benjamin Franklin, as of yesterday, the 17th.

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A happy birthday to brianblackberry!

Also, a happy birthday to Charles Darwin, 200 years today.