This is an extended essay by Alex (my publisher). It is included in his book of selected works that is published under the publishers mark that he founded himself - Citizens House Publishers. It does not concern prisons in America, but instead the constraining aspects of society and culture in America - he writes as a passionate ex-patriot.

Drawings can be made that are scaled and sparse compared to reality, but proper tensor rank makes easy the undoing of the scale and unit conversions. Then predictions made from the drawings can be shown to be not grossly wrong; this is one of the important meanings of general covariance. Tensor rank is not relative, although this is so emphatically contrary to academic convention.

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Michael J. Burns

Professor Wiggins, an author, lectured in Grand Rapids this year. In answer to a question, he opined that evidence regarding the Higgs boson would be announced by now. But there was data announced which instead weighed against a variant of string theory.

What am I going to do with myself now that my backlog is caught up ? The fifth edition of my musings is delivered to the publisher, http://www.citizenshouse.com/.

I could put out a shingle for tutorials And actually I do have a couple of leads for new study.

- The opposing horizons in a Kaluza-Klein charge likely touch in spite of their opposite headings - many pretty implications.

Lets allow to individuals a flat business tax rate for income that is devoted to savings, investments, education, and seeding of a family business, and also a sufficient business deductible. But tax breaks on capital gains, inheritance and consumer loans are not justified.

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Michael J. Burns

Tachyonic observers would need to see themselves as made of particles with dilation horizons, right? So would we rather discuss tachyonic observers that agree with us on their horizons, or ones that agree on divergence and convergence?

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Michael J. Burns

This book represents a high state of art in academic physics. But I am still capable of alarm at the lack of insight into curved spacetime that is prevailing there. Why is three sets of field lines considered sufficient to represent a gravitational field? That breaks compliance with the principle of general covariance. Four sets are needed, and they must be orthogonal partitions that are second order and covariant, not contravariant lines.

Else the Higgs boson could not vanish in a collision with another. This charge must be considered as geometric in the classical context. How else could it be related to mass?

But the nonconservation is an exception to geometric existence - some nonlocal correlation of the tabs that I think of as representing spacetime failure on the small scale.

Professor Michio Kaku wrote long ago a little fantasy about the possible, as he thought, rips in spacetime allowing a New York pedestrian to face the muzzle of a T. Rex. But the standard of the metric does not actually allow for this encounter; worm holes such as Michio Kaku describes are disallowed.

I took two days of exploration and finesse at the keyboard to manage an upgrade of my 12" Toshiba from Fedora 13 to Fedora 14.

The time was filled with the temporary removal of problem packages - I remember lyx, mdadm, and openoffice - together with repeated exercise of the various upgrade commands until they registered success.

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Michael J. Burns

The Einstein-Davis and Kaluza-Klein system inherently excludes any use of the constant. There is no place for it in the behavior determined by the Bianchi identities of the system. Boundary conditions on the metric, taken together with these identities, imply the value of the metric in the interior.