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In regards to cultural diversity: Well that is somewhat idiotic. How would cultural diversity affect this? If you take the entirety of Europe we do have quite some cultural diversity, btw, I would tend to say. Heck here in my hometown I see more black people than in San Antonio Texas. Races of peop...

What I mean by "positron capture" is that it will convert the neutron to a proton through a weak interaction.

The nuclear forces are kinda funny. With the nuclei at close distances, the strong force overcomes magnetic repulsion and of course results in fusion. With the positron and nuclei, would the 'spin' nuclear force overcome magnetic repulsion and result in the nuclei capturing the positron in the elec...

This place has some interesting people reading it! Mr. March, If I wanted to answer the question "Are you measuring what you think you are measuring?", what would be the best thing to read? Have you submitted a publication somewhere? (I'm a physicist btw, so a technical publication would be great.)

Stuff like this just makes me mad. They are trying to get people on step 12 when they are on step 2. Every competent car salesman knows you sell the benefit, not the feature. They don't sell "this sports car has 250Hp, will corner at 0.6G, accelerate 0-60 in 4.2 seconds" they sell "it'll get you la...

Stuff like this just makes me mad. They are trying to get people on step 12 when they are on step 2. Establishing the existence measurable mass fluctuations doesn't sound very expensive and is interesting all by itself. They should focus on that.

Actually, it was the university that forced the press conference. The researchers wanted to wait and get confirmation before a public release and really didn't want a big public display. The university overrode their judgement and called the big press conference. I didn't realize that, but that doe...

Anyone know anything about the credibility of Rowan University? Universities don't review the scientific work of their employees (except when they hire them I guess). The University of Utah is a good enough school, but that's where the Cold Fusion guys came from. This needs peer review and further ...

Have I asked this question before? Can't remember. Anyway, the question is: has anyone ever successfully initiated a p-b11 fusion reaction? I don't know how the fusion cross sections for P-B11 was determined. Theory, experiments? Dan Tibbets The data in the EXFOR database on the NNDC site lead me t...

Here's a pre-print of what he is apparently talking about :

http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.0399

That may be true but i wonder how many hurdles the research money has to jump through before it gets to where it is needed. doesn`t matter if the research budget is twice the GDP when compared to res. grants of other nations, when you have the same amount of money being lost in red tape. The gov`t ...

I should add that US science tries to be all things to all people. While there are certain synergies that creates, it needs someone to make sure there is focus in areas of vital national interest.

Uhh, the research budget of the US is huge. Twice as large, as a percentage of GDP, than the next country. All the research I've done has been funded by either DoE, NSF or DoD. The Stimulus package had $20 billion dollars of challenge grants through NIH. Most politicians love research because it all...

To count neutrons, you generally use an inorganic scintillator in front of the PMT. Every student of nuclear physics needs to memorize that reference you link, though.

it also decreases the likely hood of a scientist going "bugger this, i'm moving to new zealand" It also increases the number of post-docs from the PRC and India making less than $20k for doing the research of tenured faculty. And they wonder why Americans are going into technology fields in lower n...