It is extremely difficult to induce penguins to drink warm water. John Coleman Subject: Joan Sola, The cosmological constant and entropy problems, arXiv:1505.05863v1 [gr-qc], p. 2: "Truly bewildering, if formulated on these grounds!" Date: Sun, 24 May 2015 18:03:36 +0300 Message-ID: <CAM7Ekxn6i7YfV_Kq1TUKJVGOop5Vxo5b778DVeTHPFRgcShCEA@mail.gmail.com> From: Dimi Chakalov <[email protected]> To: Joan <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected], Norbert Straumann <[email protected]>, Ruth Durrer <[email protected]>, Mike <[email protected]>, George F Smoot III <[email protected]>, Anthony Leggett <[email protected]>, Anthony Zee <[email protected]>, George Efstathiou <[email protected]>, Jeremiah P Ostriker <[email protected]>, Don Page <[email protected]>, Frank Tipler <[email protected]>, George <[email protected]>, Robert van den Hoogen <[email protected]>, Craig Copi <[email protected]>, Klaas Landsman <[email protected]>, Hans Ohanian <[email protected]>, Naresh Dadhich <[email protected]>, Paddy <[email protected]>, Tejinder Singh <[email protected]>, Peter Jenni <[email protected]>, Pankaj S Joshi <[email protected]>, David J Miller <[email protected]>, Henk van Elst <[email protected]>, Chris Van Den Broeck <[email protected]> As Ivo van Vulpen remarked, "Why is the universe larger than a football?" Check out pp. 24-25 in http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/horizon.pdf The solution is from Plato, some twenty-five centuries ago. No need to invent the wheel. D. Chakalov ======================================================================================== Subject: Quentin G. Bailey, What do we know about Lorentz Symmetry? arXiv:1505.05975v1 [gr-qc], Sec. 2. Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 13:45:07 +0000 Message-ID: <CAM7EkxnCb9XdwZnBJPBkPjwqRx9H3ErnLtv23+[email protected]> From: Dimi Chakalov <[email protected]> To: Quentin G Bailey <[email protected]> Cc: John Moffat <[email protected]>, Florian Beyer <[email protected]>, Leon Escobar <[email protected]>, Yuri Bonder <[email protected]>, Jörg Frauendiener <[email protected]>, Laszlo Szabados <[email protected]>, Paul Tod <[email protected]>, Adam Helfer <[email protected]> Dear Dr. Bailey: Thank you for your very valuable paper. Perhaps you will be interested to see pp. 24-25 in http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/horizon.pdf There is no violation of Lorentz Symmetry. There is no need for "asymptotically de Sitter space-times" (L. Szabados and P. Tod, in preparation) and other parapsychology either. Kind regards, D. Chakalov chakalov.net ======================================================================================== Subject: Re: Red herrings by Jorge Pullin, arXiv:1505.02089v1 [gr-qc] Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 11:24:35 +0300 Message-ID: <CAM7Ekxk2A-nbopZ+[email protected]> From: Dimi Chakalov <[email protected]> To: Feldwebel Hans Georg Schultz <[email protected]>, Karel V Kuchar <[email protected]>, Chris Isham <[email protected]>, Charles Torre <[email protected]>, Stanley Deser <[email protected]>, Robert M Wald <[email protected]>, Robert Geroch <[email protected]>, Charles W Misner <[email protected]>, Jim Isenberg <[email protected]>, Malcolm MacCallum <[email protected]>, Abhay Ashtekar <[email protected]>, Rodolfo Gambini <[email protected]>, Ulrich Sperhake <[email protected]>, Javier Olmedo <[email protected]>, Jose M M Senovilla <[email protected]>, Alan Rendall <[email protected]>, Helmut Friedrich <[email protected]>, Lars Andersson <[email protected]>, Richard Woodard <[email protected]>, Andrew Waldron <[email protected]>, Steven Carlip <[email protected]>, John Baez <[email protected]>, Bahram Mashhoon <[email protected]>, Matt Visser <[email protected]>, Paul Davies <[email protected]>, Kip <[email protected]>, Dorje Brody <[email protected]>, Andreas <[email protected]>, Cecilia Flori <[email protected]>, Laszlo Szabados <[email protected]>, Adam Helfer <[email protected]>, Jörg Frauendiener <[email protected]>, Greg Galloway <[email protected]>, Xiao Zhang <[email protected]>, David Albert <[email protected]>, IGUS Jim <[email protected]>, Daniel Kennefick <[email protected]>, Jirí Bicák <[email protected]>, Warren Johnson <[email protected]>, Gabriela González <[email protected]>, Alessandra Buonanno <[email protected]>, Hermann Nicolai <[email protected]>, Sean Carroll <[email protected]>, Carlo Rovelli <[email protected]>, Alejandro Perez <[email protected]>, Daniele Oriti <[email protected]>, Claus Kiefer <[email protected]>, Domenico Giulini <[email protected]>, Baron Rees of Ludlow <[email protected]>, Luciano Rezzolla <[email protected]>, Templeton Foundation <[email protected]> Cc: Sean Hayward <[email protected]>, Hans Ringström <[email protected]>, Gary Horowitz <[email protected]>, Gabor Etesi <[email protected]>, Robert E Gompf <[email protected]>, András <[email protected]>, Ed Witten <[email protected]>, Steven Weinberg <[email protected]>, Sergiu Klainerman <[email protected]>, Demetrios Christodoulou <[email protected]>, Merced Montesinos Velásquez <[email protected]>, Jean-Pierre Derendinger <[email protected]>, Michael Eichmair <[email protected]>, Wei-Tou Ni <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], JoAnne Hewett <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], Kerstin Borras <[email protected]>, Halina Abramowicz <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], Fabiola Gianotti <[email protected]>, [email protected], Ignatios Antoniadis <[email protected]>, Peter Jenni <[email protected]>, John Ellis <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], Susanne Reffert <[email protected]>, [email protected], Georgi Dvali <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected], James Gillies <[email protected]>, Carla Cederbaum <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], Yongge Ma <[email protected]>, Sijie Gao <[email protected]>, Eduardo Guendelman <[email protected]> P.S. Check out the note on p. 24 (attached) in http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/horizon.pdf (May 12, 2015, 10:36 GMT) D.C. On Mon, 11 May 2015 15:12:41 +0300, Dimi Chakalov <[email protected]> wrote: [snip] ======================================================================================== Subject: Statistics of red herring radiance and the red herring area spectrum Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 11:56:12 +0300 Message-ID: <CAM7EkxmuJTNV4NOQW2pguakqoiASKi6M5tSHKt0tzma_hDxLzQ@mail.gmail.com> From: Dimi Chakalov <[email protected]> To: Jacob Bekenstein <[email protected]> Cc: Grisha Volovik <[email protected]>, Matt Visser <[email protected]>, William G Unruh <[email protected]>, Jeff Steinhauer <[email protected]>, Gil Jannes <[email protected]>, Sean Weinberg <[email protected]>, Peng Wang <[email protected]>, Gerardus <[email protected]>, John Ellis <[email protected]>, John M Lee <[email protected]>, Steven Weinberg <[email protected]> Jacob D. Bekenstein, arXiv:1505.03253v1 [gr-qc] , p. 2: "The question we focus on is whether any insight into quantum gravity can be had from such investigation." -- Of course not, http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/horizon.pdf D. Chakalov ======================================================================================== Subject: The "goddamn particle" Date: Sun, 17 May 2015 03:38:58 +0300 Message-ID: <CAM7EkxmR9ntwhp7z7Kmjf56HB1ODEih-zihXwkdYzU+[email protected]> From: Dimi Chakalov <[email protected]> To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Dear colleagues, Check out pp. 24-25 in http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/horizon.pdf The fun is just around the corner! Sincerely, D. Chakalov ======================================================================================== Subject: Re: The proof of the (Higgs) pudding Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 15:40:23 +0300 Message-ID: <CAM7Ekx=rOa86uwqDYd90K5mwu1PtrMzs5KkbfN015Ab8yFhRbg@mail.gmail.com> From: Dimi Chakalov <[email protected]> To: David J Miller <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected],