At 07:46 am 13/01/2006 -0800, Jones wrote: > No topic generates greater 'prurient' interest among scientists > (i.e lascivious to nerds) than "dark energy," unless it is ZPE and > unless the two are not related (but which is the superset?) > > In 1999 the mysterious force (dark energy) was theorized to be > causing the universe to expand at an ever-accelerating rate. > Immediately many of us (well at least one = moi) on vortex > identified this force as a version of ZPE, probably the crossover > effect of Dirac's sea in 3-space. Not surprising to see anyone > 'jump the gun' here - as few of us have tenure to defend.
I imagined the whole point of tenure was that you didn't need to defend it - but then I was never an academic so what do I know. Fortunately, in my day British Civil Servants were so bullet proof that short of assaulting the Director they were virtually impossible to "release" to use hohlraum's terminology. ;-) We even had one chap in a relatively junior position who failed to come into work for weeks at a time (3 months in one case) and it took 7 years before he was moved on. # Those were the days, my friend. We thought....# but it's all ended now. A few years after I retired they privatised the place. My colleague, Nigel Clayton, told me that the final months were spent rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Frank
