[Vo]:Slicing Pi

[Jones Beene]

6 * (pi^5) = 1,836.11811

That is curious to some. This result is very close to
the ratio of the mass of the proton to the mass of
electron.... though that is 'probably' coincidental.

On the off-chance that it is not coincidental, it may
relate somehow to smallness and to dimensionality. The
fifth power has always seemed fascinating in that it
can arise from "smallness" ... and angstrom dimensions
are definitely small.

A classical calculation shows that the power radiated
by a blackbody is proportional to the inverse fourth
power of wavelength, which is following the same
geometrical constraints as the Casimir force... BUT...
Although this relationship does hold experimentally
for wavelengths of light up into the ultraviolet, it
fails for shorter wavelengths and was corrected by Max
Planck. At short wavelength we find a jump to a fifth
power law.

For those of us on the "Z-team" - the cadre of
pathological-science-freaks who are on a vision quest
to find and eventually tame ZPE - small is 'where it's
hap'ning.' It's a "forbidden-fruit" kind of thing...
you know, it even sounds enticing to muttersprachers:
that toungue-twister ZITTERBEWEGUNG - not to be
confused with the Turangalila jitterbug of
cosmogenesis, or the dutch-treat: Ik zag de zon zakken
in de Zuiderzee. 

In particularly the smallness of interest would be the
threshold level where the fourth power law jumps to
the fifth - or in Frank Grimer's aether parlance, the
beta aether turns to gamma.

And to add bit more detail which is now more easily
accessible (thanks for 'nothing,' Google)...
"Nothingness: The Science of Empty Space" By Henning
Genz is now available online from Google Books.
Starting on page 245 is a chapter named Zitterbewegung
and the Lamb Shift. I think this is precisely where
overunity will be found, if it has not been already,
and it is subnanometer and very much related to
protons, electrons, and fifth power law thresholds.

Nowadays, everywhere you turn it is nano-this and
nano-that, but in a few years, applied technology
(pushed ahead by the computer chip folks at Intel and
IBM) will give us control of picometer dimensions and
fifth power laws. 

Hope they don't wait too long to get there...

Jones

... and speaking of numbers-guys with short
horizons...

Three statisticians went hunting one day for wild
hares, as statisticians are wont to do ... 

While walking through the forest, oblivious to the
trees and other surroundings (as statisticians are
wont to do) they flushed a rabbit out of the brush,
and sent him hopping madly away. 

The first statistician raised his shotgun and fired,
and there was a puff of dust 1 meter behind the
rabbit. 

The second did likewise, and there was a puff of dust
one meter in front of the rabbit. 

The third one without firing, yelled triumphantly: "We
got it!"