Re: FTL: a device

From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Tue May 14 2002 - 00:41:53 MDT


I don't have much to add, only a few small comments:

  "Hal Finney" <hal@finney.org>:
>Scerir forwards:
>> 'A Bell Telegraph'
>> Daniel O. Badagnani
>> 4 pages, 2 figures
> > http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph?0204108

>It's a cute title, but come on, there is no way this device can work.
>The author doesn't even offer any reasons in the paper why it should work!
>There are no equations at all - that should be a tip-off.

Depending on the paper and context, it's not necessarily bad when a
paper has no equations. I look forward to the day when non-English
(which is where I suspect most of this author's work resides)
scientific abstracts and papers are easily available on the Web.

(Until that day arrives, I will ask Serafino, he's many times more
years of graduate theoretical quantum physics than I have)

>
>At first I thought the author was just a quack, but according to
>http://cabtep5.cnea.gov.ar/particulas/daniel/pag-db.html he is actually
>a physicist working on string theory and such. So now I think it is
>a joke, maybe a late April Fool's effort (do they celebrate April 1 in
>Argentina?)

I don't think so.

April Fools is many places (I think its origin was in France
with poisson d'avril in the Middle Ages), but today, I don't think
Argentinians have an April's Fool Day. At least this web note leads
me to think that:

http://jazzido.freezope.org/jazzido/1017694365
Fish (!!) Translation, In English:
"The Americans have the 1 of April like the equivalent one of our 28
of December."

Amara

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