So you'd fire your coldon particle emitter, and you'd instantly gain heat as the coldon particles left. Then when the coldons hit their target, the target would lose heat energy as the coldons were absorbed.

And we'd be able to use it to explain multiplication of negatives by negatives!

a shield of absolute zero matter

I've always thought absolute zero would be like ice-nine. Don't you think?

Ever since T-day I've had an absolutely ravenous appetite. It's 10:45 and I'm starving. I'm trying to hold out until noon.

Tom, I've been the same way. Good luck to you. This week I'm feeling a tad desperate (formal holiday outfit to fit into on Saturday) so I'll be drinking as much hot tea as necessary to keep me away from the vast amounts of holiday junk food in the office.

The cool thing is that a coldon particle would behave exactly like a regular photon of heat energy that was traveling backwards in time.

Very interesting , tommy.

Don't you think?

I don't think of it as contagious.

Now I have to go to my happy place of the Alias episode where Vaughn is a naughty priest.

Bless.

The cool thing is that a coldon particle would behave exactly like a regular photon of heat energy that was traveling backwards in time.

So, we can have time travel, but only if we bundle up really warm?

Well, a coldon particle emitter would in essense be a time machine that could reach in to the future, grab radiant heat energy and pull it back into the present. So, just a very narrow, specific time machine.

I love my board full of geeks.

Rick, will that be the Internet, or will it be another global network?

I called and asked because, ok, I was drinking at the time I had this discussion. The original idea was a separate network, but there was some concern that the innovations paid for by the government should benefit everyone. So at this point there is a separate research-based backbone, codenamed Abilene, that is being developed out of my university, and a broader Internet 2 initiative that is supposed to interface with, and influence, the existing internet. It's run out of U. Michigan.

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The simplest example I can think about regarding that mix comes from the ingredients available. Where my mom grew up, they practically never tasted any dairy products, and of course never used them for cooking.

That had to simplify keeping kosher considerably.

Ever since T-day I've had an absolutely ravenous appetite. It's 10:45 and I'm starving. I'm trying to hold out until noon.

My Atkins senses are tingling. I bet if you cut down on the cheap white carbs for a couple of days (bread, rice, potatoes) you will start to even out. And when you do snack go for protien or veggies.

the parts of my work that have to do with genetic epidemiology and cognitive science sometimes border on your systems stuff

Oh, so both neural networks and graph theory. Interesting.

that's where things are going, so I suppose I will have to.

Or, we could collaborate, and then be all embarrassed when we have to explain that we first got to know each other through a "Buffy" message board.

BTW, you've read Linked, right?

Lush. [er, to Rick]

Aha. And thanks. Internet 2 I'd heard of. I'm not sure what it all means, but there you go. So far it sounds a bit like Tad William's Otherland. I suppose I could read up more.