| Your personal background. |
Native Angeleno (Los Angeles; there are some), I'm 12 (body's 62); non-degreed EE/SuperTech, ham since '59, love to figure out multi-purpose "funiture".
Physics buff since forever; always had a dream of finding a way to cheat gravity and get us off this dirtball before it's too late... The "World War IV will be fought with clubs" quote from 'Uncle Albert' always stuck with me. I am a bit comforted by Harlan Ellison's observation on Hour25 that (paraphrasing; quote?)-'We haven't done it yet in the years since 1945, so maybe we'll grow up enough to not blow ourselves up.'
There's something we're still missing in our thinking about gravity; all the other forces we can measure are dual, bipolar; North and South, Plus and Minus, Up and Down, In and Out. The more we find out, the more questions we have, the better they get, and the more we can find out.
Perennial Heinlein fan; now reading the belated Variable Star finished by Spider Robinson. A Spider book, no doubt, but from RAH's notes/outline.
Spider's comments on the book
The official Heinlein site
Ham radio bio at QRZ (with photo, taken in JPL's EMC lab with 'Jaws', our big APN-106 log periodic test antenna.) How reading the ARRL Handbook to learn electronics for my Novice license changed my whole world and military career.
I signed up for Physics because Metaphysics wasn't in the catalog; and for Electronics to keep myself fed until it was.
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| Your opinions about Einstein@Home |
1. I run Einstein@Home (well, hope to, when there's some work ready) because it's eminently worth doing, and needs doing. Basic research always pays off, just in ways that managers of "directed research" with specific product goals can't predict and explain to politicians easily. Just as NASA, for instance, has an annual book called Spinoffs (a well-hidden secret) that chronicles the benefits to our culture and industry that come out of the Space Program. Stuff that takes off and makes our world a little bit better.
2. The project is one of many, teasing out the threads at the edge of the Great Unknown, and as long as we can all talk to each other about the colors we are finding (that means we can't keep it a secret), we will continue to find out more than any one team could individually.
3. Suggestions:
A. Find someone (an intern?) to spend full time on keeping the news current about the project, servers, and plans. That will keep the frustrated from flaking off and leaving.
B. Put together a Website somewhere (volunteers, hosts?) that lets elementary school kids find out about The Open Questions facing Science. Enough to whet the appetite of, say, a fourth-grader, and what kind of tools (math, physics, etc.) s/he'll need to work on finding answers. |
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