Shameless Request

[Pyrotex]

I encourage every one to read Uncle Al's proposal.
It is an awesome idea that the Universe may have odd-parity, and yet in a bizarre way, makes perfect sense. His proposal is written in a fashion that is terse, exact, but perhaps a bit "denser" than it needed to be. Don't let that stop you from reading it. Just call up WikiDictionary in a separate window and have at it.

After Uncle Al wins the Nobel Prize and goes on to use his theory to build the first Quantum Gravitational Discontinuity (QGD) generator (built entirely out of polymerized left-handed chiralized heavy-metal doped Fullerenes), we can only hope that he continues to remember us, the "little folk", who gave him so much encouragement and support.



Yeaaaaaaa, Al !!!!!

[UncleAl]

Aw gee... Let's start with doing the experiment. Vote a 10 to push it! Failure is an orphan, success takes care of itself. Know the fear and do it anyway.

All fullerenes in point groups T (not Th or Td), O (not Oh), and I (not Ih) are maximally parity divergent. Those would be point group T isomers of C44, C52, C92, and C100; point group I isomers of C140 and C160. However, atom positions in the macroscopic crystal not in its formula unit must be calculated. CHI = 1 for perfect parity divergence. Log(1 - CHI) versus radius calculated for quartz and benzil,

http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/qzdense.png
to 4.44x10^17 atoms contained
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/bzdense.png

The scatter is not noise. As the radius of the ball of calculated atoms is progressively incremented its moments of inertia jiggle from total contained atoms and their positions. That jiggles CHI, J. Math. Phys. 40(9) 4587 (1999). The line fit is

log(1 - CHI) = -2[log(radius)] + [(180 - alpha)(pi)/60] - pi

where "alpha" is the largest three consecutive atom helix angle in the crystal and pi is 3.1415.... This rigorous stuff is in the paper accepted to be published first quarter 2010, not in the essay. Gravitation theorists are outraged! The vacuum must surely be isotropic as postulated.

"It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong." Richard Feynman. Do the experiment.

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Uncle Al
UNDER SATAN'S LEFT FOOT
Vote a 10 for the experiments!

[TheBigDog]

How goes the campaign, Al?

[UncleAl]

I've been invited to give a 50 minute talk at the Greater Los Angeles Mensa Regional Gathering, 12-15 February 2010. I'll have a couple of hands-on demos, slides, and bring along Horace (an 800 gram single crystal space group P3(2)21 z-plate of cultured quartz).

The essay contest is stalled. Friends, neighbors, family, coworkers... every 10 is a good 10! Domestic, foreign, or outworlder - an e-mail address unlocks the voting booth. Link below for further information and a music video.

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Uncle Al
UNDER SATAN'S LEFT FOOT
Vote a 10 for doing the experiments!

[TheBigDog]

Originally Posted by UncleAl

I've been invited to give a 50 minute talk at the Greater Los Angeles Mensa Regional Gathering, 12-15 February 2010. I'll have a couple of hands-on demos, slides, and bring along Horace (an 800 gram single crystal space group P3(2)21 z-plate of cultured quartz).

The essay contest is stalled. Friends, neighbors, family, coworkers... every 10 is a good 10! Domestic, foreign, or outworlder - an e-mail address unlocks the voting booth. Link below for further information and a music video.

--
Uncle Al
UNDER SATAN'S LEFT FOOT
Vote a 10 for doing the experiments!

You going to post the talk online?

Bill

[UncleAl]

Post online? Nah. I'm not going to say anything that isn't in a pdf. The formal paperwill be published around January 2010 and I'll have a PDF of that text. It also says the same thing - but more forcefully, with model equations and software outputs.

Fullerene Diffraction
http://www.julianvossandreae.com/Wor...c60article.pdf

New game: C60 has been diffracted. A series of homochiral identical molecules arrive at a double slit, split their wavefunctons as hey pas through, are diffracted, and are collected in bins on the other side. Are the collected molecules racemized? Is double slit diffraction parity-even or mirror-image (mirror plane normal to the plane of the grating and parallel to the length of the slits)?

What happens to chirality if a supersonically expanded, cryogenic molecular beam of resolved sec-butyl methyl ether, alpha-pinene, camphor, FHC=C=CFH, or twistane were diffracted? Would chirality in a rigid polycyclic system be more robust?

At low pressure and temperature this also probes Hund's paradox, e.g., Charles Day, Physics Today 62(9), 16 (2009) "Month-long calculation resolves 82-year old quantum paradox."

They did not resolve anything. In vitro veritas!

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Uncle Al
UNDER SATAN'S LEFT FOOT
Vote a 10 for doing the experiments!