Author: Richard K Collins

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Space Wind: James Webb Telescope Just Announced Real Image Of The Universe

Space Wind: James Webb Telescope Just Announced Real Image Of The Universe at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KkvsyT7ZkE I think we will find the big bang is just one of many large quark gluon nova. And just one of many smaller ones that occur often as black hole and neutron star populations inside central black holes create regions that exceed
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Twitter: Magnetically Levitated Superconducting Microspheres

Physical Review Applied @PhysRevApplied May 21  Editor’s Suggestion: Superconducting Microsphere Magnetically Levitated in an Anharmonic Potential with Integrated Magnetic Readout #OpenAccess: https://go.aps.org/3MGR4hv Replying to @PhysRevApplied Whenever I see “superconducting” “levitation”, I immediately think of superconducting gravimeters. They are high cost, single axis but about 0.1 nm/s^2 at 1 sps. For gravitational imaging arrays, we need
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I get lots of unsolicited emails from people offering to help with websites, they show no website themselves

Ava Ramirez, Where are you located? Where is your Website? How long have you been in business? How many people and companies have you helped? Where are examples of your work online? Have you built any collaborative websites for groups larger than 100,000 members? I normally mark these kind of emails as spam, since a
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Many Quantum devices are likely potential gravitational sensors too

Snowmass Media: 23. Quantum Computing Simulation for Collective Neutrino Oscillations – Valentina Amitrano at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnkInU0hwHo Valentina Amitrano, Thank you, I was trying to understand neutrino oscillations. Your different perspective helped a lot. I got an update on qubits for free. I do not know if anyone reads these comments. There ought to be a better way.
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Principle of least action

Paul M Sutter: The Most Important Idea in Physics: The Principle of Least Action – Ask a Spaceman! at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuqpCBZoX3M You say mostly the right words, but mathematics is powerful when you share the equations and methods and diagrams and geometry. Physics and engineering are powerful when you share the diagrams, equations, data and real examples.
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Large airplanes can go global, electromagnetic and look ahead

The Unreal in Reality: Top 5 Largest Planes Ever Built In The World! at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92tTrLKWlHc Thanks, I was looking to see what the limits might be. I was looking at SpaceX (and competitors) who might want to offer global point to point freight and human cargo. As I watched your list, I was thinking that any
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Hamamatsu Corporation, Can you tell me? Globally accessible remote experiments for education and new industries

Hamamatsu Corporation, Can you tell me what kinds of experiments might use your soft x-ray sources? I am interested in teaching statistics and many people are interested in x-rays. This might be a good way to introduce them to the topic. A stable and reliable source with variations. And, presumably, various easy to use detectors
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Akira Kokado: Gravity in a warped 6D world with an extra 2D sphere – gravitational potential models

Akira Kokado, You came up with an expression for the gravitational potential.  Did you ever convert the earth’s geopotential into your form? [ My son and his small family live in Japan.  He decided to go to college there and never came back to the USA. ] I worked with Steve Klosko on the early NASA
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The EM vacuum fluctuations are likely fluctuations in the gravitational potential field, vibrational strong coupling zero point energy

Jyoti Lather   The “zero point EM fluctuations” are most likely gravitational energy density fluctuations. At the surface of the earth, the gravitational energy density is equivalent to a magnetic field of about 360 Tesla, the peak is about 1500 eV. The distribution is approximately black body and extends through soft x-ray and XUV down
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Note to Angstrom Engineering about Magnetron sputtering for space propulsion and applications

Magnetron Sputtering, E-Beam Evaporation, Thermal Evaporation, Ion Beam Processing at https://angstromengineering.com/tech/magnetron-sputtering/ I was encouraging groups to tackle improving the chemical only propulsion used in things like SpaceX Starship and related earth to orbit systems. Their specific impulse is limited because they do not understand how to generate ion electron and plasma flows with high specific energy.
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