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by gblaze42
Fri Aug 28, 2009 2:21 am
Forum: General
Topic: Healthcare & rationing
Replies: 604
Views: 192102

Yeah, so say your son gets a heart attack at age 33 (because of simply bad luck as I was told) and can therefore not afford health insurance anymore. You are going to tell him just that? Well my son who should have a career for himself at 33 should be able to take care of himself and his family. If...
by gblaze42
Thu Aug 27, 2009 9:09 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Healthcare & rationing
Replies: 604
Views: 192102

Gblaze, I know that some (not all, as it depends on the size) companies do offer rather cheap medicare, but I am self employed. I would not benefit from the bulk insurance contracts that big companies can offer. Also smaller companies can not offer such benefits and then employees end up paying muc...
by gblaze42
Thu Aug 27, 2009 7:45 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Healthcare & rationing
Replies: 604
Views: 192102

To put another dent into that theory: I am sure you will agree that infants are hardly affected by badly chosen diets or the lack of vacations. Yet the US has a signifficantly higher infant and child mortality rate than Austria. 6.3 (inf) and 7.8 (<5y) in the US versus 4.4 and 5.4... I think this h...
by gblaze42
Thu Aug 27, 2009 6:59 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Healthcare & rationing
Replies: 604
Views: 192102

Austrians have a higher life expectancy than US citizens, btw. 79.5 in Austria versus 78.11 in the US. That is according to your CIA factbook btw... This has no connection to the state of medical care. Many individuals diets affect this as well as stress related, which is most likely higher in the ...
by gblaze42
Thu Aug 27, 2009 3:45 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Healthcare & rationing
Replies: 604
Views: 192102

socliized medicine doesn't work..

I know I'm not the most liked person on the board but I can live with that. But if you listen to anything, please listen to this. My mother who lived in Canada died from cancer this year at the age of 82 due to the fact that she was to old, and the doctors pretty much said so. Even though they had c...
by gblaze42
Wed Aug 26, 2009 6:43 pm
Forum: General
Topic: electron g-factor
Replies: 11
Views: 6641

Re: electron g-factor

I've never really understood particle spin. Everything I read seems to be ambiguous. Macroscopic evidence of particle spin can be seen in the Einstein-de Hass effect , which is quite cool. Particles with spin have angular momentum, yet particles are dimensionless according to QM, which is a paradox...
by gblaze42
Sun Aug 02, 2009 4:28 pm
Forum: General
Topic: New Fundamental Particles?
Replies: 15
Views: 5973

djolds1 wrote:
gblaze42 wrote:Woe to the victors?
"Woe to the conquered"
I was just posing a question., in regards to your signature.
by gblaze42
Sat Aug 01, 2009 11:22 pm
Forum: General
Topic: New Fundamental Particles?
Replies: 15
Views: 5973

Who ever that was, is correct. I've seen this described using the wave function of an electron as well.



Woe to the victors?
by gblaze42
Mon Jul 27, 2009 4:02 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Gravity repels
Replies: 38
Views: 16225

Re: Gravity repels

you would basically see a clump of dense +g matter and -g matter moving away from each other. Why this doesn't seem to be is that the cosmic background noise should show this disparity and it doesn't. Cool. I was hoping for something definitive to close down this line of thinking. I get a lot of in...
by gblaze42
Thu Jul 23, 2009 1:51 am
Forum: General
Topic: unrelated, but fascinating
Replies: 4
Views: 2647

TallDave wrote:Another small step in the process of moving our consciousnesses from their current frail platforms to something more robust.
Gasp! Trans-humanist. Burn him! :D
by gblaze42
Thu Jul 23, 2009 1:49 am
Forum: General
Topic: Gravity repels
Replies: 38
Views: 16225

Re: Gravity repels

That is for GRAVITATION: Similar g-charged particles attract. Dissimilar g-charged particles repel. Comparing the above in a table shows nice symmetry. I haven't come across this exact scenario before - probably its not true - but anyway... Are there any obvious falsifying experiments or data? Does...
by gblaze42
Thu Jul 23, 2009 12:08 am
Forum: News
Topic: Fission Org Mentions Polywell.
Replies: 6
Views: 3229

MSimon wrote:
KitemanSA wrote:Been reading it for years. Twas I who egged them into finally referencing Polywell. :D

I wish there were a "preening" emoticon!
I already used all of them up.

So thats there they went! Thanks for sharing. :roll: :lol:
by gblaze42
Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:57 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Let them eat... Ham and Cheese!
Replies: 5
Views: 2658

I mean seriously who put's Mozzarella on a Ham and Cheese sandwich??



(and who isn't surprised by this?)
by gblaze42
Tue Jul 07, 2009 12:55 am
Forum: General
Topic: A Question For Physicists
Replies: 5
Views: 2304

Re: A Question For Physicists

MSimon wrote:I'm slightly familiar with quantum entanglement.

If the Big Bang theory is true why aren't all particles in existence entangled?
Personally I would think it's a matter of de-coherence. It's rather hard to keep entanglement more than a millisecond.
by gblaze42
Wed Jun 10, 2009 1:32 am
Forum: News
Topic: Sci Am Covers ITER Commenter Covers Polywell
Replies: 3
Views: 2841

Heh is right the blogger actually thinks it's easier to fuse hydrogen.