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| Your personal background. | |
| I live in Melbourne, Australia. The south-east corner of a relatively unknown continent in the southern hemisphere of a blue-green planet third out from a main sequence star in a small group of similar mid age stars in the outer spiral arm of a particularly uninspiring Galaxy called (of all things) The Milky Way. Now while some Universal Beings might be impressed, I'm not. I would have opted for a home in a far more awe inspiring part of the Universe. As luck would have it this little corner of The Milky Way is pretty quiet. No big Galactic bangs have upset the status quo in quite a while. This is probably a good reason for why we're all still here. A decent Super Nova within 100 light years and we'd kiss our sorry asses goodbye. Oh - And about me. I run a small web hosting business http://www.revolutionhosting.net, I run a computer home-service business and also sub-contract as an electronics technician. Currently running an Intel Celeron 2.4GHz on a Gigabyte SIS661 chipset with 512Mb ram and Ubuntu Linux 5.02 processing WUs at around 14hrs each. Main work is done on an AMD Athlon 2000+ which runs Linux Fedora Core2 and processes at 13Hrs per WU. (also dual boots to Win2K which processes at about 8hrs per WU - A subject of some interesting discussion in the forum). I plan to build a new machine every month and have it processing WUs. Mwahahaha! | |
| Your opinions about Einstein@Home | |
| I've often wondered about gravity. Its a very weighty subject and one thats never been explored as much as I think it deserves. Much like electromagnetic forces, gravity as an attractor force between masses would by its very nature produce ripples in space and therefore time. The project, by using interferometry, nulls out local disturbances in space-time and gives us the "big picture". In many respects the leading edge of physics on terms that the layman can understand is useful science. If only to the human side of science. Even after reading the project science, are we measuring distance by measuring time? Surely Gravity waves effect space-time. So is it valid to measure space-time distortions with Distance/Time? | |
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