Profile: jim

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I'm an amateur scientist from my single digit years, currently employed as a broadcast engineer. My hobbies include building models of medieval siege engines, making obscure and antique scientific instruments like Wimshurst machines and Marx generators, blacksmithing, acapella singing, and many many more. I was a physics major at Colorado State University, but dropped out in my junior year after learning that physics was much more about getting funding than it was about basic science. I still follow the advances in science with avid interest, particularly in nanotechnology, quantum oddness, and cosmogenesis.
Participation in this project is quite satisfying.
Your opinions about Einstein@Home
I run this because the unused processor cycles in 'net connected machines represent a vast wasted resource that can easily be applied to the common good of scientific endeavor.

LIGO and the space based interferometry project are the best type of science projects- simple, elegant, and deeply meaningful. (I can hardly wait for the results of the Gravity Probe B experiment).
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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant NSF-0200852 and by the Max Planck Gesellschaft (MPG). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the investigators and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF or the MPG.

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