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[maxdurden]

what they won't tell you in therapy is that coming up with new, needlessly complicated and meticulous ways of annotating is actually the only way to survive

[pupyzu]

ଘ(੭ˊ꒳​ˋ)੭✧* ੈ✩‧₊˚ fruit themed names + pronouns !!

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names !! ⊹ ⁺

peach[ie]

clement[ine]

berr[y/ie]

quince

crispin

mirabell[e]

cerise

avalon

linn[ea/ia]

frais[e]

fig

pomme[line]

citron

syca[more]

zetta

pronouns !! ⊹ ⁺

app/apple/apples/apples/appleself

apri/cot/apris/cots/apriself, cotself, or apricotself

av/avo/avs/avs/avself

ban/bana/bans/bans/banself

ber/berr/bers/bers/berryself

black/berry/berr/berrs/blackself, berrself, or berryself

blue/berry/berr/berrs/blueself, berrself, or berryself

boy/sen/boys/sens/boysenself

canta/loupe/loupes/loupes/cantaself, loupeself, or canataloupeself

cherr/cherr/cherrs/cherrs/cherryself

ci/cit/citru/citrus/citruself

clemen/tine/tines/tines/tineself, clemenself, clementself, or clementineself

coco/cocos/cocoself

cot/cot/cots/cots/cotself

crai/sin/crais/sins/craiself or craisinself

cran/berry/berr/berrs/cranself, berrself, or berryself

cur/rant/curr/currs/currself or currantself

date/dates/dateself

dra/gon/fruits/fruits/dragonself

du/rian/dus/rians/durianself

fig/fig/figs/figs/figself

go/ji/jis/jis/gojiself

grape/grape/grapes/grapes/grapeself

gua/va/guas/vas/guaself, guavself or guavaself

honey/dew/dews/dews/honeyself, dewself, or honeydewself

jack/fruit/fruits/fruits/jackfruitself

ki/kir/kirs/kirs/kirself

ki/kiwi/kiwis/kiwis/kiwiself

kum/quat/quats/quats/quatself or kumquatself

lem/lem/lems/lems/lemself

lem/lemon/lemons/lemons/lemonself

lim/lime/limes/limes/limeself

lon/gan/lons/gans/lonself or longanself

ly/chee/lys/chees/lyself, cheeself, or lycheeself

manda/rine/rines/rines/rineself, mandaself, mandarself, or mandarineself

mang/mango/mangs/mangs/mangself/mangoself

mango/steen/steens/steens/steenself or mangosteenself

mel/melon/melo/melons/melonself

mul/berry/berr/berrs/mulself, berrself, or berryself

musc/musc/muscas/muscas/muscaself

necta/rine/nectar/nectars/nectarself

o/live/lives/lives/oliveself

oran/orange/orans/orans/orangeself

pa/paya/pas/payas/payaself, papaself, or papayaself

pass/sion/sions/sions/sionself or passionself

peach/peach/peaches/peaches/peachself

pear/pear/pears/pears/pearself

per/simm/per/pers/persimself or persimmonself

pine/apple/pines/apples/pineself or pineappleself

plan/tain/plans/tains/planself or plantainself

plum/plum/plums/plums/plumself

pom/pom/poms/poms/pomself

pom/pome/pomes/pomes/pomself or pomeself

prickly/pear/pear/pears/pricklyself or pricklypearself

pum/pum/pums/pums/pumself

pump/pumpkin/pumpkins/pumpkins/pumpkinself

quin/quince/quinces/quinces/quinceself

rai/sin/rais/sins/raiself or raisinself

ram/butan/rams/buts/rambutanself

rasp/berry/berr/berrs/raspself, berrself, or berryself

rasp/rasp/rasps/rasps/raspself

sour/sop/sours/sops/sourself, sopself, or soursopself

star/fruit/fruits/fruits/starfruitself or starself

stawb/strawb/strawbs/strawbs/strawbself

tama/rind/tamar/tamars/tamaself, tamarself, or tamarindself

tange/rine/rines/rines/rineself, tangeself, tangerself, or tangerineself

toma/tom/toms/toms/tomself

winter/melon/melons/melons/melonself or winterself

[drnikolatesla]

Motion Through the Ether

Using a novel interferometer, the author claims to have demonstrated the existence of the ether and to have disproved the principle of Relativity.

Electronics and Wireless World, May 1989.

Conducted by American physicist E.W. SILVERTOOTH

The famous Michelson-Morley experiment failed to detect our translational motion through the ether. It did not establish that the speed of light was referred to the observer moving with the apparatus. What it did was to prove that the average velocity of light for a round trip between a beam splitter and a mirror was independent of motion through space. The author supposed that the one-way speed of light, or more specifically its wavelength, did depend upon that motion, but in away that satisfied the exact null condition of the Michelson-Morley result.

However, the Sagnac experiment, as embodied in the ring laser gyros now used in navigational applications, showed that if a light ray travels one way around a circuit, and its travel time is compared with that of a light ray going the other way around the circuit, the rotation of the apparatus is detectable by optical interferometry. Here the result is just as if there is an ether and the speed of light is referred to that ether.

Readers will have great difficulty finding a book on Relativity that even discusses the Sagnac experiment or the later experiment by Michelson and Gale that detected the Earth's rotation.

In the modern version of the Sagnac experiment a single laser divides its light rays and sends them around a loop in opposite directions, but the resulting standing waves are not locked to the mirror surfaces as they are in the Michelson-Morley experiment.

It was my assumption that the different wavelengths presented by rays moving in opposite directions along that path would allow a detector to sense a modulation or displacement of the standing wave system along the common ray path. The secret was to move the detector or the optical system along a linear path, rather than rotate the optical apparatus, as in the Sagnac experiment. A little analysis showed that such effects would exhibit a linear first-order dependence on v/c and that the detector would need to scan through a distance that was inversely proportional to v/c in order to cycle through a sequence of that standing wave pattern.

This was exactly what I found when the experimentwas performed.

THE STANDING-WAVE SENSOR

The one-beam interferometer or standing wave sensor consists of a photomultiplier tube conlprising two optically flat windows, with a semitransparent photocathode of 50nm thickness deposited on the inner surface of one window. The tube also con- tains a six-stage annular dynode assembly such that a collimated laser beam can pass through the tube.

In the application described in reference 1 the beam was reflected back on itself by a mirror to set up standing waves. The performance of the wave sensor was tested by incorporating a tiltable phase-shifter between the sensor and the mirror. This provided an adjustable displacement of the standing wave relative to the sensor. The object of the test was to measure the effective thickness of the photosensitive surface, to estimate the precision available from the sensor for making measurements on standing waves. Signal-to-noise ratio for the photocathode when positioned at an antinode compared with that at a node was measured as approximately 20,000 to 1. This was shown to correspond to detection of photoelectrons in the 50nm thickness of the photocathode, which assured us that position measurement within a standing wave could be made to within 1% of the laser wavelength.

Three such wave sensors were fabricated at Syracuse, New York, by the General Electric Company of the USA from standard parts of image orthicons. For this experiment, the sensorwas connected asshown in the arrangement of Fig.1.

If we write the wavelength of light moving one way as λ1 and the wavelength of light moving the oppositeway as λ2, then

(λ1 - λ2)/λ=λ/Δ

where λ is the nominal wavelength of the laser output and Δ is the displacement distance that was measured as corresponding to a phase reversal in the standing wave oscillations. In a typical measurement Δ as defined in the equation above was 0.025cm at its minimum; and since the nominal laser wavelength λ was 0.63μm, and the wavelengths depending upon the spatial orientation were λ1 = λ(1+v/c) and λ2=λ(1-v/c), it is clear that the maximum value of v is given by 2v/c = (0.000063)/(0.025) = 0.00252.

Since c is 300,000 km/s this gives v as 378km/s on the day when this particular test was performed. The axis of the photodetector making the linear scan through the standing wave was directed towards the constellation Leo when this maximum value of v was registered. Six hours before and after this event the displacement of the detector revealed 110 phase changes, meaning that the photodetector was then being displaced perpendicular to its motion relative to the ether.

The experiment has been repeated in a variety of configurations over the past several years. Values of Δ measured have all ranged within ±5% of the cited value. The micrometer is graduated in increments of 0.0025 millimetres. However, a micrometer drive is too coarse to set the interferometer on a fringe peak. This is accomplished by means of a third piezo actuator supplied from a DC source through a ten-turn potentiometer which provides conveniently the finesse forsetting on afringe peak.

Since the author first disclosed this discovery there has been a great deal of effort by a number of individuals in different countries, including USA, West Germany, UK, Italy, France and Austria, all aimed at theorizing as to why the experiment works, or why it should not work.

The author, however, declines in this article to go into the mathematical argument that underlies the theory involved, simply because that itself becomes a topic of debate and it tends to detract from the basic experimental fact that appears in the measurement.

Further reading:

1. E.W. Silvertooth and S.F. Jacobs, Applied Optics. vol.22, 1274, 1983.

2. E.W. Silvertooth, Nature, vol. 322,590, 1986.

3. E.W. Silvertooth, Speculations in Science and Technology, vol. 10, 3, 1987.

4. B.A. Manning, Physics Essays vol. 1N04, 1988.

5. E.W. Silvertooth, Letters, Electronics. Wireless World, June 1988 p.542.

6. L. Essen, Electronics and Wireless World, February 1988, p.126.

7. L. Essen, Wireless World, October 1978, p.44.

[tlatollotl]

The painted block bears a column of 10 hieroglyphs (Fig. 4). The text appears to be the end of a longer sequence of signs that con- tinued above. All are painted in a thick black line on white plaster, apparently along a subtle pinkish-orange stripe that served as a guideline for the scribe. As with later examples of Maya writing discovered at San Bartolo, its decipher- ment remains a challenge (4). Later texts from the Room 1 murals are only partially readable, because sign forms appear considerably differ- ent from the familiar elements of later Maya script. The San Bartolo Room 1 paintings date centuries before the first fully legible Maya writing from around 250 to 300 A.D., and the signs of the Sub-V block are older still, con- taining archaic forms.

The one fully recognizable glyph (pA7) is an early version of the sign that reads AJAW, a ubiquitous title in Maya texts that means Blord,[ Bnoble,[ or Bruler.[ It evidently formed part of a more extended title phase in reference to some person, either historical or mythical. Some signs have qualities that might be vaguely pictorial, such as pA2 with its suggestion of a hand holding a brush or alternatively a sharp bloodletter. Other signs are more abstract-looking forms, probably ancestral to components of later Maya script. In their overall appearance, the text bears some resemblance to the so-called Epi-Olmec script used by neighboring peoples to the west during the Late Preclassic and Early Classic periods (5, 6). All examples of that script postdate the San Bartolo block, how- ever, raising the question of the direction in which any influence may have flowed. Preclassic writing from the Maya area is scarce and has been difficult to date accurately. Most other examples are known from stone monuments found in surface or near-surface contexts or from illicitly excavated portable objects. One notable early inscription from El Mirador probably dates to no earlier than 100 BC on the basis of stylistic comparisons (7). Another carved monument with glyphs from El PortFn, Guatemala, may date to the first two or thee centuries B.C., on the basis of a single radiocarbon date not in direct associ- ation with the stone (8). The newly discov- ered San Bartolo text can now be firmly dated to the same general period, and its fine pres- ervation offers an unusual look at the form that Maya script assumed in its early history.

The San Bartolo text raises the question of the relation between Maya writing and other early script traditions in Mesoamerica. In the Preclassic era, writing systems were firmly established by about 400 B.C. among complex cultures in what is now Oaxaca and perhaps in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (9–12), although the dating of evidence for this remains contro- versial (13–15). It now appears that the Maya also participated in the Preclassic cultures of literacy, and at a much earlier date than pre- viously believed.