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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">This is an older version of my paper which included a derivation of G, but I am backing off that part of the analysis for now.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">A Peculiar
Cosmology from Supernovae Type 1a <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The Derivation
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Berry Cottrell
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A revised Hubble-type relationship is presented based on
v/(c-v) = H<sub>0</sub>D +<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I<sub><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">0</span></sub>D<sup>2</sup>. The analysis was
initially performed using the SCP Union1 dataset (307 SN1a), and repeated with
the Union2 dataset (557 SN1a) and the Union2.1 dataset (580 SN1a).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The estimated equation from Union2.1 is:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>v/(c-v) = 0.069789D - 0.00020310D<sup>2</sup>,
with units in Gly and Gyr.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
conventional units, estimated H<sub>0</sub> is 68.24 km/sec per Mpc, very close
to the value 67.80 (0.77) km/sec per Mpc published in the Planck satellite CMB
studies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Universal scale is postulated as derived from v/(c-v). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A universe in a state of accelerated
contraction is inferred.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The maximum
expanded state is estimated to have been 185.6 Gly in radius, 171.8 Gyr ago,
and the current radius is estimated at 26.53 Gly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A big bounce scenario appears consistent with
the parabolic path of the past expansion and current contraction eras, with a
full cycling period of about 371 Gyr.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The end of the current contraction era is estimated to occur 13.777 Gyr
in the future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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value for G in the present is 5.860 m<sup>3</sup>kg<sup>-1</sup>s<sup>-2</sup>,
which is about 12% less than the consensus value of 6.674 m<sup>3</sup>kg<sup>-1</sup>s<sup>-2</sup>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This relative error is considered remarkable
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Berry Iveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18021913738419339078noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723435967020724599.post-34831416551251398092014-07-18T00:31:00.000-06:002014-07-18T00:31:39.235-06:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Click on image for a good view of Sully, who just turned two. I've had him for almost 1 1/2 yrs. Here he is in the Ojito Wilderness, NM.</div>
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Berry Iveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18021913738419339078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723435967020724599.post-61533927650763961382014-07-18T00:18:00.001-06:002014-07-18T00:18:56.399-06:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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There was a man who would not like to think that he is old</div>
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who road his bicycle several miles to the Alameda bridge</div>
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the old one that is now just for peds and horses and bikes,</div>
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and then he would ride across the bridge, 90% of the way</div>
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to where he always stopped, parked his bike</div>
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walked around and took a few slugs from his water thermos.</div>
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One day, when he was coming to a stop there</div>
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he saw a dark object, perhaps a hat, maybe 15' away.</div>
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After parking the bike he walked over and looked more closely.</div>
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It was a black knitted thing, a rasta hat came to mind.</div>
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He picked it up to feel it and no surprises,</div>
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so he dropped it on the elevated concrete surface </div>
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near the railing on the bridge.</div>
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He heard a clank.</div>
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He walked back to his bike and then wondered about</div>
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the contents of that mysterious "hat"…what was the clank?</div>
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Then he went back to the hat and opened it up</div>
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and he found a glass bong…without stash…unbroken by the fall.</div>
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Upon examination</div>
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the hat was acrylic and made in China</div>
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in a very loose knit</div>
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with an elastic lower edge.</div>
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Cheap hat: great bong storage.</div>
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The bong was a rather beautiful thing</div>
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about 6" long through the stem</div>
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and 3" high through the bowl and tank</div>
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with multicolored glass and good form.</div>
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he googgled "how to clean a water pipe"</div>
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and found several consistent methods</div>
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to do so with salt and rubbing alcohol </div>
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and he did.</div>
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It was a perfect present out of nowhere</div>
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because he had been thinking how</div>
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lousy it was to smoke out of an aluminum can.</div>
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He had seen an injured coyote earlier, </div>
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favoring its right rear leg,</div>
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but it was nowhere to be seen.</div>
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Berry Iveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18021913738419339078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723435967020724599.post-82343797308040631342012-09-24T21:30:00.000-06:002012-09-24T21:30:02.997-06:00Cosmological Precepts<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<!--StartFragment--><span style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"><span style="font-size: 12.0px;"><b>1. Something cannot be created out of nothing.</b> That is prima facie illogical. One must be very careful when they hear people speak about the "void" or the "vacuum" of "empty space" and the like. They are talking about areas between identifiable objects or particles that we are able to detect. One hears terms like "dark energy" and "quintessence" and in the old days the "aether". There is no basis now for thinking that there are any truly empty spaces. It may be reasonable to think that there are not any such empty spaces.<br />
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<b>3. The universe is defined to be all that there is</b>, everything that exists, everything. It encompasses the largest and the smallest scales. If there is anything like multiverses, they would be subsets of the universe.<br />
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<b>4. Existence is conserved. </b>Things may be transformed, but never completely annihilated. Mass and energy may be different views of stuff that is out there, and there are interchanges between them, and perhaps other metrics as yet unimagined, metrics that measure what is out there. But it is always a case of transformation, and never results in something going into nothingness. Nothing cannot become something, and something cannot become nothing. If something appears to become nothing, then we must be missing something, and vice versa.<br />
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So at best, the big bang theory is a partial theory, one that tries to look at a portion of the universe within a limited range of distance, and has nothing to offer regarding what preceded the BB. And if the universe had no real beginning, and the BB theorists say it is expanding at an accelerating rate with no end in site, isn't it likely that it WOULD ALREADY HAVE DONE SO since it's been around forever? And if it had done that, how is that we can still perceive portions of the universe that are finite. Wouldn't they have already have expanded into oblivion?</span></span>
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Berry Iveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18021913738419339078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723435967020724599.post-5192043123280660802012-09-17T08:18:00.001-06:002014-07-24T23:22:58.024-06:00The Rotten Egg Problem<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Here is a deceptively complex logic problem that I solved in 2003:</div>
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1. You have a dozen eggs.</div>
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2. One of them is rotten, but they all look alike.</div>
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4. You have a balance scale, and you are permitted to use the scale only 3 times. </div>
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Puzzle: Which is the rotten egg?<br />
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I'm sure a lot of math heads out there have seen and maybe solved some version of this problem. I confess that I probably put a good 3 hrs into it, usually sitting out in my front yard in the afternoon or evening, the shady side of the house...with a beer or wine or whatever...doodling and thinking about it for half an hour to at most one hour at a time. That worked for me.</div>
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Berry Iveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18021913738419339078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723435967020724599.post-4108330239450850752012-08-29T22:17:00.002-06:002012-08-29T22:17:37.179-06:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Shot taken in Jeep on way home after day out in the Ojito Wildnerness in August 2012.</div>
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<b><i>America's plutocrats should keep this in mind.</i></b></h2>
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Berry Iveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18021913738419339078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723435967020724599.post-33835919787443346852012-05-09T16:08:00.003-06:002012-05-09T16:08:50.928-06:00Petition to get U.S. out of Afghanistan in 2012<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"><span style="font-size: 12.0px;">I started this petition through moveon. Please sign it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"><span style="font-size: 12.0px;"><span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://signon.org/sign/get-out-of-afghanistan-1">http://signon.org/sign/get-out-of-afghanistan-1</a></u></span></span></span><br />
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<i>And then there's the fact that the use of the Social Security tax ("payroll" tax is preferred especially by those who like to disconnect it from its purpose) as an instrument of fiscal policy and redistribution undermines the integrity of the SS system. It is, in my opinion, an extremely bad precedent to use the SS tax rate in this way. The next thing coming down the pike will be turning the SS system into essentially a welfare program with means testing and all-out politicizing of the program. It is playing right into the hands of the rightwing that would like to destroy the program anyway. Pure shortsightedness on the part of progressives to support payroll tax cuts. Sure, it's out of desperation that they support these tax cuts, but it is the wrong way to help the lower and middle class, and it threatens their longer term security.</i></span></span> <!--EndFragment-->Berry Iveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18021913738419339078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723435967020724599.post-90188099722673494782011-12-23T20:40:00.001-07:002011-12-23T20:41:48.159-07:00"Job creators"<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Every time I hear a Republican say "job creators", I think "job exporters". The R's are like a puppet show out of Alice in Wonderland, constantly and with perfect consistency, spouting their bromides and never getting seriously challenged by the MSM. Even when challenged, they keep to their script. They started a class war, and if it continues for long it could easily get ugly on the streets and ports. Then they will be the creators of jobs...for riot cops.</p>Berry Iveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18021913738419339078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723435967020724599.post-43091269341752553012010-02-21T08:35:00.001-07:002010-02-21T08:37:57.851-07:00Obama's Health Insurance Reform<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; white-space: pre-wrap; ">The president's proposals for health care reform do not do nearly enough to control premium increases for those with insurance. I fully expect my premiums to continue to go up under an Obama-type plan. It seems very likely that they would go up even more rapidly for many folks with insurance because now higher-risk people will be added into the risk pool. In addition, it is odd to me that the President's plan continues with allowing age discrimination in premium rates (although it does put some limits on that age differential). I am overall very disappointed. I also feel that the emphasis on a bipartisan bill, with Republicans marching in lockstep opposition, is in reality a shrewd scheme to provide cover that will allow the Democrats to pass more conservative legislation. I don't buy it. We have 57 Democrats in the Senate, and if we use reconciliation we only need 51 of them for a better plan. I think LBJ would have done that, and many other things as well.</span>Berry Iveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18021913738419339078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723435967020724599.post-39608119516994749552010-01-28T10:07:00.002-07:002010-01-28T10:09:39.613-07:00Howard Zinn<span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">It was very sad to learn that Howard Zinn has just died. On the good side, he accomplished a tremendous amount. I just bought his People’s History book a few weeks ago and have been reading it in spells. I really admired Zinn very much, and I’ve thought of him as a voice of sanity and sorely needed balance in a culture of nationalistic propaganda supporting militarism and elitism. It's good to know that his People's History of the United States has so far sold over a million copies.</span></span></span>Berry Iveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18021913738419339078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723435967020724599.post-61883359300829332232010-01-04T08:12:00.001-07:002010-01-04T08:15:12.730-07:00Nobel Peace Prize<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Monaco">What do you think about Obama getting the Nobel prize? I didn't care for it. I think the Afghan war is a disaster, and I don't think our effort there will improve the outcome. I would rather the prize had gone to someone like Howard Zinn, a famous American historian and anti-war activist among other things, to which he has dedicated his life. He is also brilliant and fun to listen to. I am currently reading his A People's History of the United States.</p>Berry Iveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18021913738419339078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723435967020724599.post-75457762481247174442009-11-11T21:26:00.002-07:002009-11-11T21:30:16.229-07:00Rethink Afghanistan<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjigN9hq91W8dcDA7TKXfKtWyHyEFbdCXOayuk9DX1AXmROYfwRfR97ALHQ6Hfi-WNuoWgjjuwAWmrzPsWnzjvUVNBOAIjtb3GBd8asogLqI97tAFvObhFlMUbV9_7gNZ7iqe_Nxa6iY60/s1600-h/dvdcovernew.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 283px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjigN9hq91W8dcDA7TKXfKtWyHyEFbdCXOayuk9DX1AXmROYfwRfR97ALHQ6Hfi-WNuoWgjjuwAWmrzPsWnzjvUVNBOAIjtb3GBd8asogLqI97tAFvObhFlMUbV9_7gNZ7iqe_Nxa6iY60/s400/dvdcovernew.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403069125576038898" /></a>Berry Iveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18021913738419339078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723435967020724599.post-79499545859570047412009-09-04T08:46:00.003-06:002009-09-20T11:39:53.797-06:00Health Care Reform Hijacked<div style="text-align: center;">
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Berry Iveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18021913738419339078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723435967020724599.post-49200547061829943452009-05-12T13:05:00.004-06:002009-05-12T13:09:29.310-06:00U.S. Health Care Costs<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX_UE6MUl-UT-9-ANMLemzrE8EI3t0ZWS_a8iBEypNKw1_a9useX1U2AUO1BUqB8gYmkRjX73WGGprIzr_Zda_6g1SPYMRNEl8AWR1SgjJcpYW8uWv5sEHWJ3r7Jx_YFzR7e-cbMTxj-s/s1600-h/U.S.+Health+Care+Costs.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 324px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX_UE6MUl-UT-9-ANMLemzrE8EI3t0ZWS_a8iBEypNKw1_a9useX1U2AUO1BUqB8gYmkRjX73WGGprIzr_Zda_6g1SPYMRNEl8AWR1SgjJcpYW8uWv5sEHWJ3r7Jx_YFzR7e-cbMTxj-s/s400/U.S.+Health+Care+Costs.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335016651780678866" /></a>Berry Iveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18021913738419339078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723435967020724599.post-5793547920921837232009-05-08T09:54:00.004-06:002009-05-08T10:07:32.316-06:00The Baucus Eight<div>
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Click on title for a moving demonstration of the sorry state of our democracy. This is an example of the kind of democracy we live in, controlled by large corporations. Gee, sound a lot like fascism.Berry Iveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18021913738419339078noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723435967020724599.post-13807301441713487352009-04-24T09:58:00.002-06:002009-04-24T10:04:52.890-06:00The Alibi's Rediculously Short Fiction Contest<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBl7V9tyOoSCUULGE3hBQMCJkPYoBvX_eokF5muxV1g1NlGD3yD0Qzg0ceWfweAWeWNgdHvLaKOjVrnAErxAFFcH_k8q9TUVaZ7hmdOZbNaRYZQHpVl54Nl36NaiaaqOkt1HmflmRGX3g/s1600-h/Ives-Rediculously+Short+Story.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
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