How did he get his information?

2005-07-02 Thread Norman Samish
Dr. Raj Baldev has explained the history of over 1 trillion 250,000 billion years before the Big Bang. . . Read more at http://internationalreporter.com/news/read.php?id=641

Re: How did he get his information?

2005-07-02 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Norman, Who gave this guy a Doctorate? That webpage appears to be merely an advertisement for a book. I think that your question is more important that the ramblings of Dr. Raj! How does anyone get information? Does the acquisition of information always take some form of work?

RE: More is Better (was RE: another puzzle)

2005-07-02 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Lee Corbin writes: [quoting Stathis] I think that if it is given that either you or your duplicate must die, then you should willingly sacrifice yourself if it will enrich your duplicate. Either way, I think you wake up the next morning very satisfied with the outcome. How do you wake

To Eliminate Suffering

2005-07-02 Thread Lee Corbin
Stathis writes I have not undergone conscious sedation myself, but I have administered the anaesthetic (midazolam, diazepam, propofol, fentanyl) for hundreds of gastroscopies and colonoscopies... The dose of the anaesthetic agent in conscious sedation is titrated according to how the

RE: How did he get his information?

2005-07-02 Thread Lee Corbin
Stephen writes Hi Norman, Who gave this guy a Doctorate? That webpage appears to be merely an advertisement for a book. I think that your question is more important that the ramblings of Dr. Raj! I read the page and was pretty dubious myself, although I don't have the balls to

Re: More is Better (anesthetic)

2005-07-02 Thread Pete Carlton
The discussion about whether it would be okay to use anesthetic that worked only by removing memories is missing one important piece:  that the effects of pain are not just floating "experiences" perceived by the "mind", but have very real effects on the body - high stress levels, release of

RE: How did he get his information?

2005-07-02 Thread Jonathan Colvin
After about 9 months from the release of the book of Dr. Raj Baldev, Stephen Hawking, one of the noted authorities on Black Hole changed his idea about the Black Hole. Hawking was of the firm opinion that nothing could escape from the Black Hole, not even light and

Re: How did he get his information?

2005-07-02 Thread Norman Samish
Lee, Stephen, Stathis, Jonathan, Thanks for your illuminating responses. I went to http://internationalreporter.com/news/read.php?id=641 and left a message telling them that I objected to the slur on Hawking, and that I thought Dr. Baldev was a charlatan. I also rated the article as Bad, the

Re: How did he get his information?

2005-07-02 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Norman, On a lark I Googled and found: http://www.igcar.ernet.in/igc2004/balbio.htm His specializations include materials characterization, testing and evaluation using nondestructive evaluation methodologies, materials development and performance assessment and technology management.

Re: How did he get his information?

2005-07-02 Thread Norman Samish
Thanks for the interesting detective work. He seems to have had a very distinguished career - one that is not that of a charlatan. But how could somebody with such a distinguished record suddenly promote all these weird ideas? Is he becoming unbalanced? Is my information incorrect? If the