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<\/p>\nTuesday, August 11, 2016<\/p>\n
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At Oh Dark Thirty Larry, Michelle, Alex, and our friend Michael Donahue are supposed to meet here and shortly after a limousine capable of taking all of us and our luggage to the airport will appear. We will get there in time to get past the alert crackerjack team of TSA agents, and have breakfast in the Crown Room of Delta Airline. This is supposed to happen without incident.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m about to go to bed with my hearing aids on because I don\u2019t know if I will hear the alarm clock without them.<\/p>\n
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I\u2019m nominated for a Hugo, but I don\u2019t expect to win it. It\u2019s for Best Editor, based on There Will Be War Volume 10<\/a>, which came out last year new along with reissue of four of the original There Will Be War<\/a> volumes. Those I should have won a Hugo for; they were that good. It wasn\u2019t the practice to nominate anthology editors, and anyway, There Will Be War was not a popular title back then; Harry Harrison hated it so much that he rushed out an anthology called There Won\u2019t Be War, but I think the first volume of that was the last. The series was published when we did not know what outcome would end the Cold War; but the stories were good, some timeless, and all hold up well. The essays were about principles, not tactics, and while most relevant to the Cold War are all important today \u2013 and their lessons are not being learned as widely as they should be.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Volume Ten contains some very good stories, essays relevant to modern problems, and continues the series nicely. May I did deserve a Hugo for it. It had two Hugo=nominated stories in it, one about as serious as you can get, and all very readable.<\/p>\n Anyway, I\u2019m off. They have me on many panels, so I doubt I\u2019ll get much work done, but I am taking a ZenBook with copies of my current projects, just in case.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I\u2019ll be back next week. Perhaps I\u2019ll have something during the week, but no promises.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fifth Force in the Universe <\/p>\n This is exciting: <\/p>\n <.> <\/p>\n Recent findings indicating the possible discovery of a previously unknown subatomic particle may be evidence of a fifth fundamental force of nature, according to a paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters by theoretical physicists at the University of California, Irvine. <\/p>\n “If true, it’s revolutionary,” said Jonathan Feng, professor of physics & astronomy. “For decades, we’ve known of four fundamental <\/p>\n forces: gravitation, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces. If confirmed by further experiments, this discovery of a possible fifth force would completely change our understanding of the universe, with consequences for the unification of forces and dark matter.” <\/p>\n <\/> <\/p>\n http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-08-physicists-discovery-nature.html#jCp<\/a> <\/p>\n If you want the original paper: https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1608.03591<\/a> \u25ca \u25ca \u25ca \u25ca \u25ca Most Respectfully, <\/p>\n Joshua Jordan, KSC <\/p>\n Percussa Resurgo<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Tuesday, August 11, 2016 At Oh Dark Thirty Larry, Michelle, Alex, and our friend Michael Donahue are supposed to meet here and shortly after a limousine capable of taking all of us and our luggage to the airport will appear. We will get there in time to get past the \u2026 Continue reading ![\"There](\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51W5UahnsqL.jpg?tag=chaosmanor-20\")
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