You’ve heard of Schrodinger’s Cat…

Now, apparently, there is also Witten’s Dog!

I found this one at a couple of different places on the internet, and I just love it for obvious reasons.

As for other things, I am bored out of my mind because the doctor is keeping me out of work for a week.  I had some health problems that need to be tested, so I am out until next Tuesday.  I did get to meet with Dr. Kryemadhi last Thursday, and we are seriously considering a project to develop a balloon platform for outreach experiments.  We have to test whether the use of a GPS-enabled cell phone will be plausible, and we have enlisted help from Nokia’s technical department for that.  Otherwise, I am just struggling to develop a CKM matrix from my Modified Rishon Model which I developed from Rishon Theory; so far, I have been able to reproduce V_ud pretty well, but the others are a bit more complex.  So, that’s this week in a nutshell.

A Moderate Showing at AAPT-CPS

So, it wasn’t the greatest showing I’ve had at a conference, but it was decent.  My physics research on Rishon Theory was not understood by many, and not accepted well by those who seemed to understand.  Those who did not understand it well seemed to think it was interesting, but I fear that if I measure by that yardstick it would be a bit superficial.  I get the impression that my modified Rishon model is not very acceptable, nor did I have the knowledge to explain it very well in any case.  Overall, I think I have a failure on my hands.

Going to AAPT-CPS 2009

Well, I submitted my abstract on my research into Rishon Theory and my own modified Rishon model, and it has been accepted for presentation at the AAPT-CPS 2009 Spring Meeting at Penn State Mont Alto on March 27th and 28th.  I am looking forward to presenting my physics research again this year.  This is my third year in a row presenting, and my fourth year in total.  I have been preparing feverishly in just the last four weeks, when I decided I would seriously attempt this.  My wife new this is what was in my heart, and when I had days that I felt like giving up, she really helped to inspire me to push for it.  I have less than a week left to finish the PowerPoint presentation, but I am close enough that I am confident I can finish it.

I haven’t talked to Abaz Kryemadhi in a while, and it has been even longer since I talked to Abul Hasan.  I ought to get back in touch with them soon.  I talked to Bob McCarthy more recently, and heard from him about how the library in Columbia is doing since I was there last.

Well, time to go again.  I must get ready for my day job…