Very impressive, KP. This is my first post. It's not great, but anything with Taxi Driver in it is good enough for me. The reason I joined the sift was so I could post this, but someone did it a week before

Funny to see that my 4th published vid got to #1 in the top15. That's right, I've been a fan favourite from day 1

MRI Industry:
Reflecting the fundamental importance and applicability of MRI in the medical field, Paul Lauterbur of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Sir Peter Mansfield of the University of Nottingham were awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their "discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging".

Microwave Industry & Cellular Communication Industry:
Maxwell, Hertz, and nearly half of all microwave parts that I can think of were first introduced at NIST... These two I am not going post supporting evidence for.


Nuclear Energy Industry:
Err... Quantum Mechanics- Hello?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mechanics

Computer Industry(By way of the transistor, substrates, etc.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Edgar_Lilienfeld
He created it at the University of Leipzig. Funded by the German government.

Genetic Engineering Industry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction

Your claim is that without government incentives, these industries would not exist, or would have progressed slower? Can you prove that?

How can I prove something wouldn't exist if people hadn't invented it? The best I can say is it would not have been invented when it was. And scientist wouldn't research whatever they wanted without funding, which companies wouldn't and don't pay for because it is to financially risky. How do I know this? I am a scientist.

Another good example is your IPod and the colossal magnetoresistor in it's hard drive.

Ummm... close, but no. The Posse Comitatus Act is a law signed in the late 1800's and is not included in the Constitution. There are also no specific guidlines governing the use of the military in disaster scenarios in the Constitution. Here is the current wording:

"Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both."
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1385.html

Posse Comitatus means the power (or force) of the country. This refers to raising a militia. It was originally written to stop the government from grabbing able bodied citizens and forcing them into service, or a posse, for the purpose riot control, keeping the peace, arresting criminals, etc. This was part of English common law at the time. Prior to 1878 when the law was originally signed, it was a regular occurance to see the US Army enforcing law. The law was later amended to prohibit the US Army and Air Force from being used to execute law, but it's original purpose was to prevent local governments from forming a posse, or taking control of the military for purposes of law enforcement. Although it can be overridden in situations expressly authorized by the Constitution, or when authorized by Congress. This has happened many times before in the past in the case of disaster relief. For example, in the 1930's the Army Corp of Engineers performed disaster relief operations and aided communities in preventing and repairing flood damage.
http://www.lrp.usace.army.mil/pm/johnlfpp.htm

I'm still trying to find out more information on exactly how this whole dwell-time mission thing began and who is authorizing what. As of now, the article only references training in case they are called up for support. If it is approved by Congress, then they are legally allowed to deploy. Since this has happened in the past without incident, it is reasonable to assume it could happen again. Going on what I know from talking to the unit, they were ready to deploy for Ike, but were never called. I can only assume this means that since Congress didn't say they should go, they didn't go. It would be illegal if they just started deploying without approval since the changes were repealed from the Insurrection Act in January of 2008. I'm not exactly too happy with the idea myself, but I'm not seeing this as the doomsday scenario other people seem to be visualizing. It looks more like a response to continued reports and complaints about Federal shortcomings in aid during recent natural disasters.

http://www.history.navy.mil/library/online/posse%20comit.htm
http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/cc/baker1.html

>> ^MycroftHomlz:
>> ^charliem:
<insert mammoth rebuke here>


Foot-in-mouth syndrome n)
Characterized by incoherent rambling and spewing of thought stream without regards to the contents of the message.

By "they", I was referring to scientists working purely for exploration research purposes. None of those achievements could be possible without a basic understanding of the underlying principles of how the laws of physics, which govern their operation, work.

They didn't start out with an idea to create an imaging machine without a foundation of understanding field theory, maxwells equations, EM theory etc.

Somewhere down the line, it had taken an exploratory researcher the time and grant money to figure out those basic laws. Without which, we wouldn't have anywhere near the amount of amazing tech available to us today.

Any argument that says "bah, its only theoretical, it cant benefit us at all" and uses it as an excuse to cut/reduce funding, needs their heads examined.

If they find the Higgs I will post a naked video of myself on the Sift.

When they didn't find it with the last collider they 'tweaked' the equations to put it at a higher energy level.

Maxwell and Tesla were right.

Some people get inspired by great art, and if a football in the groin isn't art, I'd sure like to know what is. Good to hear I can inspire people

In reply to this comment by mizila:
Love ur Football+groin video.

Just wanna say, it IS what inspired me to post my first sift, boo-urns. And I've watched our videos fight for more votes, and am happy to see them settled, as of today, 9/10/08, tied, at 92 votes. Good taste sir.

Maxwell's Silver Hammer is epic.

Love ur Football+groin video.

Just wanna say, it IS what inspired me to post my first sift, boo-urns. And I've watched our videos fight for more votes, and am happy to see them settled, as of today, 9/10/08, tied, at 92 votes. Good taste sir.

Maxwell's Silver Hammer is epic.

No this is it, this is exactly right. Electromagnetism is matter, you can derive equations for matter, for particles, including DeBroglie waves that quantum physicists completely ignore, from Maxwells equations for electromagnetism.

It doesn't say that Einstein was fundamentally wrong, it says that the interpretation of relativity was wrong, and it was, unfortunately. Einstein said that the more predictions that quantum theory made the sillier it looked. This clip is exactly the line of thinking that Einstein was on, so was Tesla, so was Maxwell, so was Bohm.

You only need two forces for this to work, gravity and electromagnetism. And we have only ever detected those two forces. The mainstream view is that you need four forces, gravity, EM, and strong and weak nuclear forces. Guess what, no matter how big a particle accelerator we build we cannot find those nuclear forces. Every time we build a bigger one the equations are changed and they put the Higgs at a higher energy level. When you try to work them out on paper you need infinite energy to hold the protons together in the nucleus of every atom. They botch the infinities, they normalise them, it's a complete mess.

I'll tell you what's not convincing, dark matter, dark energy, and force carrying particles like the Higgs and the other Bosons. You can derive everything from gravity and EM, you can even derive relativity from the same EM wave equations.

If you want to study something that isn't convincing, you need look no further than the mess that is quantum mechanics and string theory. Many are abandoning the field. Relativity is safer in the hands of the plasma guys than it is with the charlatans of QM and String.

Those four equations were actually first written in that simplified form by Hertz. Who was one of the only people to understand what the hell Maxwell was talking about.

The fact of the matter is if it hadn't been for Hertz, we would never know about Maxwell. The physics would never had made the leaps and bounds it has in the 20th century. GR is great, don't get me wrong, but EM changed the world.

If black holes could be formed by random high energy collisions of particles on a micro scale you would expect black holes to randomly, accidentally, be formed at any time during the life of a star. According to the maxwell-boltzmann distribution, in the core of a red giant, with a temp of 100,000,000K, a few protons per million would be moving at half the speed of light.

It might be the case that black holes don't really exist. That would solve the conundrum of how the big bang could ever have happened without forming an event horizon and collapsing back in on itself.

http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn12089-do-black-holes-really-exist.html

It may remain slightly less dense than what is necessary to form an event horizon, by some quantum mechanical mechanism, but still cause enough gravitational redshift of outgoing light to render it almost undetectable.

see, now if i was really a rockstar, doc?

i wouldn't have missed this, as well. muchas gracias y felicitaciones!!

and, banky? please. i must finally ask you, in the relative privacy of a 3-week-old post, that which i'd hoped to never need to ask. why on earth would "ass gravy" (diarrhea?) be your reference of choice, in congratulating someone? why, why, why?

>> ^Fjnbk:
I think that Maxwell would be a spree killer instead of a serial killer, since his killings took place over a relatively uninterrupted and short period of time.
Andrew Cunanan was more of a spree killer than a serial killer, since he had one giant streak of murders. John Wayne Gacy, on the other hand, was a serial killer, killing periodically over many years.


Oh, you ninny! Can't I call a cute little psycho child a "serial killer" without you getting all pedantic on my ass?! I think if Maxwell were here he'd bash your head in before mine.

I think that Maxwell would be a spree killer instead of a serial killer, since his killings took place over a relatively uninterrupted and short period of time.

Andrew Cunanan was more of a spree killer than a serial killer, since he had one giant streak of murders. John Wayne Gacy, on the other hand, was a serial killer, killing periodically over many years.

If Steve Carrell can't pull off Maxwell Smart then no one can. I hope this is good.

BTW, was that Ken Davidian playing the bad guy that Agent 86 tries to throw the phone at? It might be hard for me to take him as a bad guy after he sat on Borat's face.

>> ^dag:
He's a good choice for Maxwell Smart.


Damn right, they couldn´t choose better!