tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5088364834485740535.post1017912818122272148..comments2023-11-02T00:58:31.021-07:00Comments on Rocket Song: Lil' Dan RevolverMark Horninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09079931981472939913noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5088364834485740535.post-75102010284330797432012-09-06T13:44:55.314-07:002012-09-06T13:44:55.314-07:00I have a little dan for sale As new in box with al...I have a little dan for sale As new in box with all accessories. May have had 12 rounds through it and cleaned and put away. Bought new nad have receiptAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5088364834485740535.post-52966526586875255282009-08-23T19:15:24.961-07:002009-08-23T19:15:24.961-07:00I am a current owner of this piece of equipment an...I am a current owner of this piece of equipment and was drawn to it by the +P in the name. I have been trying to find an larger grip for it and extra barrels. Mine only came with the single barrel and that tiny grip. It's great for a CCW but is a real beast to fire due to the small grip; my hands are so big I have to rest the bottom of the grip on my pinky. If you have any suggestions where I can start looking I would appreciate it. Any information you may have can be e-mailed to MrDwolf@hotmail.com. And I would be more than happy to send you some good quality 360 photos you could use for your data base.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5088364834485740535.post-22420044858156145232009-01-06T17:49:00.000-07:002009-01-06T17:49:00.000-07:00NOVA had a 6 part special on string theory a while...NOVA had a 6 part special on string theory a while back that was actually fairly approachable. But at this point I think that string theory is as much philosophy as physics. <BR/><BR/>In the past 30 years or so the real advancements in physics have all been in solid state, i.e. at the border between materials science and physics. Nanoscience is real (though terribly overhyped). We know a lot more about electron transport in meterials for example, and can make solid state devices that would have seemed impossible just a few years ago.<BR/><BR/>The big things are still as much a mystery as ever though.<BR/><BR/>No one can explain gravity, or consolidate relativity with quantum mechanics, or tell me where the magnetic monopoles are hiding.Mark Horninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09079931981472939913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5088364834485740535.post-68723506356570534632009-01-05T23:13:00.000-07:002009-01-05T23:13:00.000-07:00Hello:Well, they say that all legends have some ba...Hello:<BR/><BR/>Well, they say that all legends have some basis in fact. So that's what the little rascal looks like. Thanks for the link. I worry a bit about our incoming president; but perhaps he will not be able to do much damage - people are pretty wary. Sorry your guy didn't win; but part of the nature of the democratic process, is that you can't always predict what will happen. <BR/><BR/>Of course, we are constantly being told that this is a representative republic, rather than a true democracy; but sometimes it seems to have the worst features of a true democracy, mixed with the worst features of an oligarchy. Grumble, grumble. It seems that, in thousands of years of recorded history, whatever safeguards and types of organization are put in place, by decent clever men to make a good government, unprincipled scoundrels always find a way to defeat them. No nation, no matter how organized, seems able to survive the baser elements of its own population, which always seem able to bring themselves into power. Oh well, maybe the next great nation to rise will find a better way, and last a bit longer.<BR/><BR/>Your blog site, says you are a physicist. Good for you! One of my favorite books, in my early teens, was One Two Three Infinity, by George Gamow, and it sort of started me off on a lifelong interest. I got distracted, and ended up getting into computers, along with nearly everyone else in the seventies/eighties. Still, it is fascinating stuff, and during childhood, I always though I would grow up to be a "scientist", by which I pretty much meant a physicist. <BR/><BR/>I am almost afraid to tell you; but I put together a little section on nuclear physics at http://www.notpurfect.com/travel/nuke/nuke.html The links at the top of the page lead to some pages about how I think nuclear physics works, while those further down link to pages about nuclear sites I have visited. Fascinating stuff! I hope to get out to Arco Idaho this year, and perhaps visit the Nautilus. You will doubtless find many holes and mistakes; but the pages are written as well as my present knowledge of physics permits. I am actually boning up right now, on calculus, and attempting to learn topology, so that I can catch up with what has been going on in physics. <BR/><BR/>What started this off, was two things. First, my rekindled interest in nuclear physics, growing from some visits over the last couple of years, to various nuclear sites; second is a book, called, The Trouble With Physics, by Lee Smolin. The basic theme of the book seems to be that no real breakthroughs have occurred in physics for the last thirty years or so. Certainly, work has been done, and research continues to generate volumes of data; but he laments that there have been no new intuitive leaps, new theories, or new understandings. <BR/><BR/>He is not a believer in String Theory, and seems to consider it a sort of a desperate effort to come up with something new. One of the misfortunes of the Twentieth Century, to his way of thinking, is the loss of the old time intuitive, visionary physicists, and their replacement with the methodical, logical types of today. The visionaries are great at conceptualizing; but are not necessarily so good at a methodical follow through. I recall reading that Einstein would sometimes need help with the mathematics that his theories generated. So to this way of thinking, both types are needed; but today, one type predominates. <BR/><BR/>Sadly, I too am not up to the math of following many of the arguments for (or against) string theory, so can not say for certain, if I buy into the idea or not. I suppose, until I bring myself up to par, I will just have to satisfy myself with the idea of waves, particles, and fields. Oh well. <BR/><BR/> NealAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com