User talk:Lumidek

Well I'm happy enough with it now. My problem with it in the beginning was just the fact that it simply accepted the definition... Evercat 00:30, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Do you know another Czech scientist, Peter Beckman? He wrote The Health Hazards of NOT Going Nuclear at a time when nuclear power was as big a public controversy as global warming is now. --user:Ed Poor (deep or sour) 15:13, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)

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Loop quantum gravity: POV tag

I think tactical use of the POV marking only weakens your case. Escalating disputes here only leads in the end to page protection (not by me - I am forbidden to do this since I'm involved in editing - so this is only for your information). Charles Matthews 14:12, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Sam Loyd

Sam Loyd is spelled Sam Loyd, so it's correct that the redirect "Sam Lloyd" points there rather than the other way around. - Nunh-huh 02:05, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Request: Talk:Big_Bang#Cons_of_energy_/_JimJast

(William M. Connolley 19:46, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)) I wonder if you'd care to look at Talk:Big_Bang#Cons_of_energy_/_JimJast where cons of energy in GR has come up. I (naively?) assumed that GR conserves energy as a given; JJ asserts that it is a commonplace that it isn't. I'm confused.

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

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Soros

Hello!

I noticed your new article on Soros Fund Management. Howvere, I am not sure whether

• The reference to lies was intended as a taunt in expectation somebody would change it or
• You really believe that it is true that Soros fund management is based on lies.

Surely you must be aware that that claim is not universally held view; it is arguably not a neutral position.

My purpose in writing this note isn't to change your belief. That edit would be fine if you were submitting something to LGF; but this isn't LGF. WP is a cooperative venture with people who may not share many beliefs in politics, economics, sociology etc.

I would hope that in writing something on WP you display some collegiality and cooperative spirit. If your are going to say a company strategy is based on lies, you should at least prove your point or qualify it.CSTAR

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Hi CDAGGER! As far as I know, it is a generally accepted view that Soros et al. earns most of his money by speculating and manipulating with the market and with lies. There's a famous story how he played with the British pound ten years ago. If you think that the page is not correct, you may try to change it.

earns most of his money by speculating and manipulating with the market and with lies

Of course, nobody disputes Soros is a speculator. However, whether it is a generally accepted view that he is a liar is another matter. Is this a judgement on speculators that they are all liars? You have to be much more specific about a claim like that. CSTAR 17:09, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Lies - probably yes. Soros has doubtless told a couple of lies in his life. I am a British Citizen, whose government lost a fortune defending the pound to maintain the ERM, and I believe the biggest lie was told by the British Chancellor when he said we would not devalue our currency. Soros ably exposed that lie. I admire him for that, even if it made him richer and me poorer. --Dilaudid 22:40, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

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Hello.

I modified the article. Please have a look. Thanks. CSTAR 22:48, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Jacques Chirac's photo with Saddam Hussein

Hi,

I'm not totally hostile to adding Chirac's photo with Hussein, but I'm worried about the POV aspect and the impression that it may give. The photo dates from 1976; the events we're describing date from 2002; and Chirac probably hasn't met Hussein for 15+ years now. David.Monniaux 18:54, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Afshar's Experiment

Hi there! I just wanted to say I enjoyed your comments over on the Double-slit experiment Talk page. I am still unsure how Afshar's results would invalidate the Many Worlds Interpretation, however, even if his results were correct. I will have to do some reading and thinking on that. Do you have a preference for any particular quantum theory yourself? Cheers! --Culix 00:31, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Hi Lumidek!

Thanks for the response. No, unfortunately I do not speak Czech :P. Though I am thinking I may want to learn some so that I can translate some information on Richta. Do you by chance hire yourself out for translations? ;)

I am still trying to understand what the Consistent Histories theory means. I'm afraid it is very confusing for me. As for my 'favourite views', I am currently reading through the book "Fabric of Reality" by David Deutsch, where he hypothesizes that the interference observed in the Double Slit experiment is caused by "shadow photons" from parallel universes that interact with their corresponding photon in our universe. It is a very interesting read, and I must admit that when I first read the book I was quite convinced. I am attempting to do some reading on other quantum theories, however, to see if anyone has a better explanation.

Wouldn't it just be very nice if someone could solve why the Double Slit experiment produces wave-like results once and for all? ;) --Culix 03:41, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Ownership society

Hello Lumidek.

I take exception to the content of the mentioned article for the following reasons:

• I'm not sure of the origin of the term Ownership society but let's concede that it is due to Bush. Is your definition really what the Bush team has in mind? Wouldn't it be more informative to say something like

The "ownership society" is a term introduced by the Bush administration (or whoever) in the Bush administration's efforts to promote various plans to privatize socialprograms? The term is intended to convey a certain idea about the structure of society that the Bush administration claims to promote.

Note that this is much more neutral than what you wrote. You could also do some research on what various individuals wrote about this (pro or con I don't care).

• I particularly take exception to the tone of this article which is unnecessarilly partisan and is arguably not NPOV. To produce a more balanced article, you would need to address other related efforts (such as health care and retirement privatization in Chile for instance.

To make WP succeed you have to be aware that there is a wide range of opinion in WP. Could I ask you to please start your article stubs in a way that leaves options for other individuals with possibly divergent opinions to add to them in constructive ways?

Thanks! CSTAR 03:23, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

• I would just like to say it's an excellent article. Nice to hear from you. - Jerryseinfeld 22:28, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Please see Talk:Ownership society; the article may be a copyright violation.CSTAR 03:53, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Hello Lumidek!

I responded to your note on Talk:Ownership_society.

Thanks!

CSTAR 16:03, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I agree

I agree that Afshar linking to his user page here from the Afshar experiment page was a little unusual. User pages should not be linked to in this way. Samboy 15:22, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Afshar illustration

I made some illustrations for Afshar's experiment which will I add shortly to theAfshar experiment page. It is based on the New Scientist articles. Please have a look. If you or anybody else feels it should anything else, I will behappy to put it in (within reason).

I still need to put in illustrations for the photon detection images. I'm not quite sure yet how I'm going to do that. CSTAR 22:12, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Yes of course I am aware of those pictures, except the license may be a problem. That's why it's better to redraw them. Anyway they don't think they look too bad, mine that is :) CSTAR 22:22, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Unverified images

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Hey Lubos

Chill out! Anda diviértete un poco! Com'n what does Al Gore giving a speech on the coldest day of the year or ever prove? You're a scientist! And Newton? OK so maybe he hated Hookes' guts and maybe he wanted to be sarcastic and use the word giant? But why are you going around and putting this stuff in? Go to Inman square and get yourself a nice dinner. Try Jay's. Who knows, we may end up sitting next to each other? C'est moi avec mon épouse, la chinoise :) CSTAR 03:29, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)

PS Anyway have an enjoyable Christmas! CSTAR 03:57, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Hello!

I didn't "accuse" you of anything! If you carefully look at what I actually wrote, I didn't say the claim that Al Gore gave a speech on the coldest day of the year wasn't true! I specifically asked you "what does it prove?". My point was that the fact is an anecdote, and if you're going to put it in the article, you should say something to specifically say it is irony.

And the comment "why are you going around and putting this stuff in?" was meant specifically to engage you in a conversation about finding a better way to formulate these claims for insertion in WP articles. For instance, it is well known that Hooke and Newton had an academic rivalry, that Hooke was ugly and of small stature and that Newton intensely disliked Hooke. As a result, it has often been suggested (and I concede credibly so) that Newton's remarks about "sitting on shoulders of giants" in his letter to Hooke may have been ironic, as you point out. But the key word is "may". And even if there was an element of irony in that remark, it is also reasonable to surmise that Newton also intended to say and convey to future generations the more straightforward meaning of the text.

OK?

Enjoy your holiday! CSTAR 16:09, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Well, you may have a point, CDAGGER. ;-) But I'm not sure whether you have one. Newton's remarks about the giants were directly written in a letter to Hooke whom he disliked a lot. Because Newton was not an idiot, he could certainly figure out that there can be some relation and interference between Hooke's height and the word "giant" used in Newton's letter. It's not quite clear whether he just want to insult Hooke or something more - and I am not speculating about it. But there was certainly a link, and the word "may" is a speculation. By the way, I only added the comment to 1 or 2 pages, but the same explanation already exists on many other wikipages, written by other people.

Gore. Oh, sorry, I read your previous comment incorrectly. I thought that you were asking me whether I could prove that it was the coldest day. Sorry, now I see that you ask "what does it prove". OK, let me answer: it proves that Al Gore does not have a terribly good intuition in politics, if he's ready to humiliate himself for free, and that he does not care about the actual observations too much - or not at all - when he talks about scientific questions. Happy Christmas, I'm gonna celebrate around. --Lumidek 18:09, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)

POV

Please review NPOV. Neutrality^talk 06:22, Dec 28, 2004 (UTC)

Well, who-hoo for you. All I can say is that you should quit trying to impose an extremist minority point of view (global warming is all made up, conspiracy theory nonsense) on articles at the expense of extablished scientific consensus. 17:52, Dec 28, 2004 (UTC)

P.S. - By the way, do you have any actual training or expertise in the area of climate change? Or do you just pretend to be an "expert"? Neutrality^talk 17:52, Dec 28, 2004 (UTC)

OK. Your latest message on my talk page definitely proved that you're a kook and crackpot. And as far as me being a "Nazi"—see Godwin's law. Neutrality^talk 18:20, Dec 28, 2004 (UTC)

Time evolution

Time evolution and evolution operator should be merged perhaps? CSTAR 14:21, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

"The evolution operator short comments should be incorporated into time evolution, and evolution operator should be redirected, right? Happy New Year"

Yeah something like that. Do you want to do this or should I?

Happy New Year CSTAR 14:30, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Unverified image

Thanks for uploading the image

• Image:CharlesRiverIce.JPG

I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the image and I'll tag it for you. Thanks, Kbh3rd 16:25, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Also: Image:RobbertDijkgraaf1.JPG, Duk 08:44, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Fun czar etc...

Are you sure "fun czar" deserves a separate article? Does anyone besides Harvard people use the name? Also, is Zac Corker notable enough to deserve a separate article? Looks like Harvard trivia to me. Are you planning to expand Zac Corker a bit to establish his notability/add info? I would do it myself, but I don't know much about him (and honestly I don't care).

I dislike putting articles on VfD when their authors are known users, but I suspect either one (if not both) would get trashed if I posted them for deletion. Just wanted to give you notice before doing anything that could upset you. Phils 21:38, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Wally Gilbert - no copyright information

Thanks for uploading Image:WallyGilbert.jpg. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much, mike40033 03:25, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Talk:Fictitious force

(William M. Connolley 12:54, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)) Hi. I have got in above my head again at Talk:Fictitious force over the interpretation of GR and the absoluteness of rotation and the Sagnac effect and stuff. You might take a look.

(William M. Connolley 19:31, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)) Thanks for looking. BTW, you mentioned climate model... did you mean that? Yes I edit and watch it, but you haven't (not under Lumidek). So I'm confused...

Hi Lumidek. I think you should take another look at the Fictitious force article. I had proposed a new article on the discussion page, hoping to attract attention of people who care about the subject. William M. Connolley said some of the things I wrote appeared wrong to him, so I offered explanation. To avoid clutter, I removed the proposal from the discussion page, awaiting developments. My guess is you read the existing article. I have now replaced the article. Cleon Teunissen 21:41, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Hi Lumidek, you wrote

This apparent contradiction is not a real contradiction in physics: physics is about making predictions [...] --Lumidek

I agree with you, doing physics is about getting the numbers to fit. If something doesn't impede progress, it does not matter for doing physics. However, I'm involved in teaching phyisics, and I need to present a consistent picture. The Sagnac effect is genuine physics, the Sagnac effect doesn't contradict relativistic physics; relativistic physics predicts it.

External link: Reflections on Relativity, Section 2.7 The Sagnac effect.

On the matter of fictitious forces, newtonian dynamics and relativistic dynamics are in agreement with each other. In the teaching of physics that information needs to be conveyed. Cleon Teunissen 08:53, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Consensus Science

You may be interested in the consensus science article, and its associated VfD. — Cortonin | Talk 09:27, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Bell's theorem

In extensively editing this article, I may have deleted some edits you made to it, particularly in the section "Implications of violation of Bell's inequality". I have no objection to anything you wrote (your statements were true), but the tone of the section still remained anti QM. Thus, I got rid of the whole kit'n kaboodle. Please reinsert somewhere if you still think it is necessary. I am still working on the article getting rid of the anti-QM POV.CSTAR 17:54, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)

MM05

(William M. Connolley 10:29, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)) Hi. I first moved down, then removed entirly, the MM05 bit you added. Sorry, but the reason for removal was that this isn't even published yet. Rutherford, Mann et al have a piece rubbishing M&M in press (available from http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=10) but I haven't put that into wiki as I don't think its right to put in unpublished stuff. I don't think wiki is for breaking news, in the science area.

Votes for deletion: Hagen Kleinert

Hi! I noticed you are a scientist in the field of physics. I'd like to inform you that there is a discussion over at Votes for Deletion that might interest you. It concerns an article on Hagen Kleinert, a German colleague of yours. Apparently some people have a big problem with the fact that it seems like he started the article himself. While I can understand and respect that opinion, personally, I think that isn't that big a deal, since the article contains verifiable facts only, and to me (who know very little about the field) he seems like a really notable scholar. However, in the discussion, some people have also taken to claiming that having written 8 books and "only" 350+ articles in peer-reviewed publications is not notable, since writing is what professors are supposed to do, and that "a lot of mediocre academics have acheived this and more". Regardless of how you feel about accepting autobiographies in Wikipedia, I think your thoughts on the "notability threshold" for professors could be very valuable for both this and future VfD debates. On the other hand, if you should feel this is not a debate you want to get into, I would very much understand that. / Alarm 19:25, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thermodynamics of greenhouses

Hi. You're the only other physicist I'm aware of who has been posting on climate articles, so I thought I might be able to draw your attention to greenhouse effect (see the recent history) and the corresponding discussion Talk:Greenhouse effect#Origin of Name (or in fact, 90% of the talk page which is on the same topic). In short summary, WMC seems to continually reinserting material stating that convection always provides a cooling action, and that suppression of convection produces a warming effect, which of course horribly violates the laws of thermodynamics. In reality, of course, heating requires that work be done, namely by a radiative imbalance. I would appreciate if you could take a look and give some assistance. — Cortonin | Talk 18:21, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Section 2.2 of the Gravity article

--Cleon Teunissen 11:32, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Hi Lumidek,

some time ago William M Connolley asked you to look at something in the wikipedia article on gravity and you were able to help. I have the same sort of question now. It is about section 2.2 of the current article. "How is there conservation of energy if gravity is not categorized as a force."

In the case of an electrostatic field it is possible to define a potential. Increasing the distance r between two test-charges requires a force, hence it is possible to assign a potential energy to every distance r between the two test-charges. The magnitude of the force of attraction is proportional to the first derivative of the function that describes the potential between the two test-particles as a function of their relative distance.

In the case of electrostatic attraction the force (described by Coulomb's Law) is always present, whether the two test-charges are moving towards each other or not. In the case of gravity it is less clear. Increasing the distance r between two test-masses requires a force, so in that way a function for a potential energy can be defined. On the other hand, when two test-masses are free-falling towards each other then they are in inertial motion, so there is no force.

Section 2.2 of the gravity article attempts to show that there is conservation, just not conservation of the sum of the newtonian expressions of kinetic and potential energy. Gravity alters the rate of time, so the newtonian expression for kinetic energy doesn't hold, that is clear. But it seems to me that the current section 2.2 doesn't succeed in clarifying what it intends to clarify. I wrote about these issues on William's Talk page: internal link: Repositories of potential energy --Cleon Teunissen 11:32, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Miloš Zeman photo

I just listed Image:Zeman zofin.jpg on Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion because it didn't have a copyright tag. I have uploaded Image:Milos Zeman.jpg to replace it on Miloš Zeman. Let me know if you have any questions, or voice your opinion on IfD if you don't think it should be deleted. Foobaz·o< 21:12, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Plzeňská synagoga

Hello! Where is the source of this picture? Can I upload to Japanese Wikipedia? --Sheynhertz-Unbayg 16:29, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

New physics stubs

Hi Lumidek,

You've been doing some great work creating new physics stub articles. To help other physics experts find them, you might consider using the more specific {{physics-stub}} stub template, rather than the generic {{stub}} template. Happy editing, TenOfAllTrades (talk/contrib) 02:47, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

Re Afshar

I would be very surprised if Afshar faked his results, that is gave an incorrect report on what he actually did and what he actually observed, either intentionally or because he used or read his instruments incorrectly. In fact as far as I can tell the criticisms levelled against him don't concern reproducibility of the results. If indeed this were true then it should be prominently noted. Regardless of whether or not someone is a crank, I have been very careful to avoid using that term becuase it is rarely helpful, and in Afshar's case, this fact would be harder to justify, since he does have a faculty appointment somewhere . I think it is better to stick to the widely known facts of the case. See Talk:Bell's theorem. This incident by the way motivated Crackpot index. Regards--CSTAR 16:38, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

Why are you telling me this, since it is obviously true!

The whole problem is only philosophy - he incorrectly interprets the experiment

Of course, that's what I said, on the talk page on Afshar and interpretation etc.; specifically I said "However, I (and many others) do question his interpretation of these results." And this is what I also I tried to add to the article on Afshar experiment. Afshar incidentally has reverted me twice.

but if you really believe that Afshar has done something important, then you are the kind of dumb people

Lubos, if you bother to read what I wrote, you should immediately realize that the previous comment is pointless.

Regards. --CSTAR 12:24, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

Image:Bush-country.jpg

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2005 Kashmir earthquake

Thank you for your contribution at 2005 Kashmir earthquake. Please keep it up!!!Pradeepsomani (talk)

GR project

Hi Lumidek.

I see that you have editted (and created) some general relativity (GR) articles. Some of us have attempted to make a conscious effort at revising the GR articles by forming a project called Wikiproject GTR. Currently, we have 3 members and are looking for more. I feel that your contributions would be very much appreciated. Would you be interested in joining ? ---Mpatel (talk) 10:34, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

hi! are you, by chance, Lubos Motl?

just curious. if you are, i am suprized you haven't been involved in Bogdanov Affair. i'm sure the B brothers would have liked that since, if you are Dr. Motl, it seems from other web pages that you had been somewhat supportive of them. in any case, your input would have been welcome. best regards r b-j 12:34, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Hi Rbj, thanks for your message. I've written a couple of words on the talk page of the affair. I can't spend half of my time with it right now. Let me hope they will be doing fine. Some of the ideas are interesting. All the best, Lubos --Lumidek 12:42, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

well, i'm pleased to meet you. i have to confess (and you probably could tell, just looking at my talk page) that it appears to me, a non-physicist and electrical engineer, that the greater physics community has utterly rejected the Bogdanov's publications. there appears to be about 4 physicists that i can find on the web that have written a reasonably detailed refutation of the Bogdanovs' work product from a mathematical POV. if there is a kernel of real physics in what they write, someone who actually can deal with it rigorously should pick it up and develop it. that would be good for both the Bogdanovs and the physics community. perhaps you have the vision to behold The emperor's new clothes (and i mean that non-fecitiously) but, to the rest of us, he appears naked. best, r b-j 13:03, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

WMC broke his parole can you help me?

WMC is up to his old tricks. Can you help me to get justice. William M. Connolley reverted the article of the lomborg whitout any explanation or any note in the talk pages[1]. This constitutes a violation of his parole[2]. How can I instigate that the appropriate action is taken.--MichaelSirks 19:10, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks! I think you started the ball rolling. If wikipedia doesn't wants to enforce their own verdicts, I think we should think again about contributing to wikipedia. --MichaelSirks 18:31, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

Enforcement

You might try Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration/Admin enforcement requested. (SEWilco 15:46, 29 October 2005 (UTC))

Interesting so far. Good luck. (SEWilco 05:59, 30 October 2005 (UTC))

And what about when a message was erased after replying in a way that a third party didn't notice? (SEWilco 05:56, 30 October 2005 (UTC))

I have continued the quest to get enforcement on WMC's parole at[3]--MichaelSirks 20:03, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

Statement of Charles Matthews concerning the WMC violations of his parole (title by Lumidek)

As an old friend of WMC - I don't like the way this is going. Escalation will not help. I appreciate that there is plenty of friction around, but, as they say, it will make more heat than light. Can we keep it cool, and try not to be tribal? Charles Matthews 18:08, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Image:GerardThooft.JPG

The description of this image is Gerard 't Hooft at Harvard University. Are you sure this image was taken at Harvard, as the cupboard in the background looks very similar to the one at Utrecht University? --R.Koot 06:11, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

blocking

Yes, it is possible for admins to block users and IPs. I will watch the Rajavi pages. mikka (t) 16:37, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

CfD

There is a vote going on at Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2005 November 7#Category:Soviet spies to Category:Aed Soviet spies. This is a challenge to the sourcing of Venona project materials & direct related article series. I'd appreciate it if you could take a look. Thank you. nobs 03:26, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Z6

No problem, and thanks for your post-thanksgiving wish, although technically we don't celebrate it. I didn't even know it was thanksgiving until someone told me yesterday...! -- Francs2000 21:49, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

ATLAS

Hi Lubos,

Thank you very much for your kind words. I put a lot of work into getting the ATLAS experiment article into shape, and it means a lot to hear you think it turned out well.

SCZenz 16:07, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Sources for Complex representation

Hello, sometime ago you added a fair bit of content to Complex representation. As you may be aware, we are currently trying to improve Wikipedia's accuracy and reliability by making sure articles cite the sources used to created them. Do you remember what websites, books, or other places you learnt the information that you added to Complex representation? Would it be possible for you to mention them in the article? Thank you very much. - SimonP 15:20, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Climate change dispute 2

Just making sure you are aware of Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Climate change dispute 2. (SEWilco 21:39, 6 December 2005 (UTC))

Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics

Hi, I occasionally see you make edits to various physics articles, but never see you make comments on discussions over at Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics. If you are not aware of this project, or no one has ever invited you before, well ... consider yourself now invited. All the discussion happens on the talk page. linas 23:18, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

I second that, Wikipedia needs more physicists! Karol 08:44, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

I saw your reply on my talk page; you may also reply here, as I am "watching" this page. Let me clarify the invitation, then: its not that I urgently want you to take part in some improvement drive; rather, the talk page (Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Physics) is where people have general discussions about wikipedia-related physics topics. Some ask for advice or help, some discuss physics-related topics in general. Its a place where general notices may be posted about activity and wikipedia-related physics news. All I'm asking is that you add the talk page to your "watchlist", and look at it from time to time, and join any conversation you might be interested in. There are no duties or obligations. linas 03:26, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Second Temporal Dimension

Hi Lubos! Care to tip the scales for Second Temporal Dimension by either improving or suggesting to delete the article? --Pjacobi 17:58, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

CF

Thanks for your contribution at cold fusion. Its nice to have someone who knows about nuclear physics around... William M. Connolley 16:51, 8 January 2006 (UTC).

I'd like to add my thanks to William's. They can't really claim you don't know what you're talking about, now can they? ;-) -- SCZenz 16:55, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

"Finite QFT"

May I abuse you once more for judging the mainstream-ness of research in QFT (relates to an article in the German Wikipedia, not surfaced here, yet).

The subject is the the so called "Finite QFT" of Günter Scharf (Zürich) and co-workers. See:

• http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/www?rawcmd=ea+Scharf,+G
• e.g. http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9612091

They seem to be cited mostly be themselves (but get the occasional cite from Bert Schroer or Fredenhagen, so it would be fine with me). So what? I assume the German article claiming, that it is a superior way of doing QED is somewhat skewed? And as a serious contender for a theory of quantum gravity?

Pjacobi 17:25, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Where's the German article? I read the first few pages of arxiv article, and it seems legit to me; the author clearly knows field theory. Finite QFT is a holy grail; as far as I know, there's no such thing as finite QED. linas 20:15, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi Lubos, Its always best to answer here, since I suspect that Pjacobi won't think of looking at my talk page for your reply. Anyway, I have not yet seen anything which is claiming that "QED is finite". As to whether someone invented "a better way of doing QED", I suppose that is arguable, but I haven't seen that claim being made either. A quick skim of one of the papers didn't provoke my "allergy reaction", which is quite unlike the outrageous claims being made at Stochastic Electrodynamics, which I tried to label as "crackpot", but failed. linas 20:46, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

I've written it on his talk page, too. ;-) It's amazing how many things like that exist. Every crackpot who has ever written a paper tries to promote it into a book, Wikipedia article, and possibly a Nobel prize. I did not have allergic reactions from the finite QFT either; the stochastic QED would probably be worse. Best, Lubos --Lumidek 21:04, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Fine-tuning

Hi Lumidek. Can you look at the article fine-tuning that you created a while back? There's stuff on there about intelligent design and the anthropic principle and things. Is that right? Doesn't seem right to me, maybe someone just assumed because of the "fine-tuned" in fine-tuned universe? Someone is even suggesting merging it to fine-tuned universe. --Ben 10:02, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Then again, the guy who put that in there, Nurban, says he is a physicist too :P. Maybe you could make it a little clearer though if it's supposed to be there. I certainly don't understand. The merge to FTU was also suggested recently, so maybe you can help on the talk page there Talk:fine-tuned universe.--Ben 10:07, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

On LQG

Please review my proposal for resolving the LQG POV dispute. It is on the LQG talk page. Thankyou --Hfarmer 06:55, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

top quark condensate

I am having difficulty understanding this. Do you suppose you could clarify it a little, or perhaps expand it some? For example, I haven't ever heard of a "left-handed" quark (or antiquark in this case). Some of the rest of it makes sense. I have appreciated your expansion of other articles (especially your explanations on LQG), and I think you could probably help here if you have time. Thanks, Avriette 23:54, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Hello, I've taken the liberty of rewording the article, with your clarifications. Can you verify that it is still correct? Also, when you say,

The equivalence is exact in the limit of the large number of colors but even for a finite number of colors, it has been shown that no new predictions can be derived from the top quark condensate.

Do you mean infinite number of colors? The previous fragment says that The equivalence is exact in the limit..., whereas the second seems to indicate a lack of exact limit. Thank you again, Avriette 04:55, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Fields Medal

The rest of us have to wait to the ICM. You have an inside source?

Charles Matthews 22:56, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

I dropped by for another reason, but whuzzis? I'm curious to know too! ---CH 23:47, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Composite gravity

Hi, can you please provide a citation for that article? Maybe an arXiv eprint? ---CH 23:47, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, CH, I am almost never writing something that is found in the same form in some article. These basic definitions are a part of common knowledge. Papers about composite gravity e.g. here [4]. --Lumidek 03:35, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Well, my point was that in an encyclopedia, ideally some citation should be offered in every article, so I hope that in future you will try to come up with one or two citations which seem closest to whatever you are discussing. OK, nuff said.---CH 06:10, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Scientific peer review

You might be interested in WP:SPR, I think. Karol 19:10, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Rotation operator

Hello! I wonder if you have come across an operator which looks something like this?

$\exp \left(\sum _{ij}{\hat {i}}^{\dagger }{\hat {j}}-{\hat {j}}^{\dagger }{\hat {i}}\right)$

--HappyCamper 00:27, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

A Video

check it out http://www.youtube.com/v/aIPcqlMTQHs 70.48.250.138 06:06, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

"Alternative" QG theory

Hi there Lumidek. I know you are interested in, hm, let's diplomatically call it "alternative theories" of quantum gravity. Here's a new one recently added, called the Scale Expanding Cosmos. Maybe you'd like to have a look at it... I have not been able to muster the energy to actually read the papers about it, but I've seen you take care of other theories before, like McCutcheon ;-) This one is being sneaked into articles here and there. Cheers, --RE 01:53, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Yeah he takes care of theories all right. Maffia style!

This will seem terribly ignorant but I can tell from the title that "Scale Expanding Cosmos" is garbage. Take the iniiative and delete it for him where you saw it. --Hfarmer 23:04, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Caron

Survey etiquette

If you are posting on talk pages, asking experienced editors to give their opinion on an issue, make sure not to use language that may suggest bias.

Good: "Hey, Bob, could you tell me what you think about this discussion? I think your input could help"

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Czech translation needed ...

For meta:http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Election_candidates_2006/En. My statement's translation into various languages relies on volunteers, and time is quite late now. If you could possibly help ...

Charles Matthews 11:06, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

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I've removed the PROD tag, as I'm not of the opinion that accomplished theoretical physicists are non-notable. Obviously expansion of the article would be helpful. -- SCZenz 23:13, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

hola lubos

My life and times in LQG. Hope all's well! Sdedeo (tips) 17:28, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Any comment on today's Nature news piece mentioning you?

I see that you admit above to being Luboš Motl. herefore it my be interestg to you that you are mntioned by today Nature in a news piece titled "Theorists snap over string pieces" (Nature, 2006, 443, 491).

Not Even Wrong was published in June and The Trouble with Physics came out in September; shortly after they appeared on the Amazon books website, string theorist Luboš Motl of Harvard University posted reviews furiously entitled “Bitter emotions and obsolete understanding of high-energy physics” and “Another postmodern diatribe against modern physics and scientific method”. As Nature went to press, the reviews had been removed. Few in the community are, at least publicly, as vitriolic as Motl.

Your comment would be interesting to me because - contrary to what you seem to believe about me (two words added later to avoid misunderstanding) - I believe string theory is a much better candidate for theory of everything than loop quantum gravity. Therefore I would like to hear your opinion on the books before I decide whether to order any of them. Regards, Friendly Neighbour 08:26, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Haha, you've got it backwards. Lubos would agree strongly that string theory is the better candidate for a ToE; he negatively reviewed both Woit's and Smolin's books and would presumably still urge you not to buy either one. You can see more of his opinions on his blog; his current top entry is one that discusses the books in question and the comment on them in Nature. I'd like to throw in personally that the conflict epitomized by these books is not really between string theory and LQG—(almost?) nobody would characterize LQG as a "better ToE candidate" than string theory—but what it is about exactly depends on who you ask. -- SCZenz 08:48, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

SCZenz, no, I didn't take it backward. I know that Luboš thinks anyone propagating other candidates for the theory of everything than the string theory must be a crank. He told me so (more or less) while deleting my comments here believing I am a proponent of loop quantum gravity.

Luboš, I've found that you know about the news piece from your blog. And I found both your reviews on the blog: "Bitter emotions and obsolete understanding of high-energy physics" and "Another postmodern diatribe against modern physics and scientific method" so I know now what you think about the books. Reading your reviews has certainly helped me decide about buying them: don't buy in the case of the book by Peter Woit, be careful in the case of the book by Lee Smolin because Smolin - right or wrong about the string theory - still seems to be an interesting physicist to me. Therefore feel free to delete also these comments by myself - if you feel like that. Friendly Neighbour 08:56, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

't Hooft picture at Harvard

Hi, do you know when this picture was taken? I'd like to add that information to 't Hooft's page. Thanks, AxelBoldt 17:01, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

What is your religion?

Are you a Christian or an atheist? Or are you both. I remember seeing a review on Amazon about Fallachi's book you have written. You called yourself a "Christian atheist" just like Fallachi. LinkinPark 15:14, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

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Check this out

I have written an article about a generally unknown mathematical structure, Mischner's Room, redirected to Misner Space, and I need someone to confirm its validity. Please, check it out and send me any comments. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Orthologist (talk • contribs) 23:33, 11 January 2007 (UTC).

David Gross (Brazilian joke)

It was not a joke. I'm sorry for the reference, I didn't realize a password was needed, because I am a subscriber and I have free access to that content.

But in the biggest Brazilian newspaper, "Folha de São Paulo", 09/27/2006, we had an interview with David Gross. Check it:

Newspaper - At Wikipedia, you are described as physicist "and" string theorist. Don't people believe that one category embodies the other? Gross - That's a nonsense. In the first part of my career I was with the particle physics and the nuclear physics. After, as many others, I began working at strings. It's all the same thing.

If you insist, Lumidek, I can send you the whole page of the newspaper. Don't doubt it, because it's Brazil's most important newspaper. If you really think that line shouldn't be in the article, at least don't say it was a Brazilian joke, because it wasn't. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 200.147.91.34 (talk) 14:58, 17 January 2007 (UTC).

twin paradox

I've added reference to the actual paper; maybe you'd like to put this into context? dab (𒁳) 15:58, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

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Bogoliubov transformation

Hello! If you have a moment, I wonder if you could take a look at bogoliubov transformation? There is a note in the article which mentions that the transformed ground state is different from the original ground state, but what does its form look like? --HappyCamper 00:58, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

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Sylvester James Gates

Hey Lumidek. I noticed you created the article on Jim Gates and identified him as an African American physicist. Was there any reason to mention his race (maybe first to write thesis on supersymmetry, or an advocate of diversity in science)? If so I could add that in, or I'm just going to take the race reference out. Jussen 02:36, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Hartle-Hawking state

All of the comments on this page you created are asking for a simpler explanation of it. Any chance? DewiMorgan 03:39, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

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Hi Lubos, thanks so much for adding the date of Sidney Coleman's death to his article. I am confident that the sad email from Harvard will soon be confirmed by "reliable" obituaries in newspapers, so any violation of official policy that occurred here won't last long. Hard to believe that not even the Harvard Crimson has an obituary today (Tuesday, November 20.) Hope all is well with you. betsythedevine (talk) 10:00, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

And here's the first published source of (I hope) many: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-hed_coleman_20nov20,0,7943823.story betsythedevine (talk) 20:52, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

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Re:

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Black hole electron

Hi Lumidek: In the Black hole electron article, the electron Compton wavelength is shown to be either equal to or very close to 4 pi (3 pi hG/c) exponent 1/4. Do you see any flaw in the logic sequence leading to this specific value? -- DonJStevens (talk) 17:32, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi Lumidek: I have your reply. Thank you for taking a look at this.--DonJStevens (talk) 22:30, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi Lumidek: I would like to request your help to present the following equation so that readers will know the intended units. L1/L2 = L2/L3 Where: L1 = 2 pi (Planck length) (3/2)exp 1/2

L2 = 1/2 (electron Compton wavelength) = Le/2

L3 = photon wavelength that has energy value h/(2 pi) squared

L3 = (2 pi) squared, times light velocity, times one second

L3 = 1.183533185x10 exp 10 meters

L1 = (L2)exp 2,divided by (L3)

L1 = 1.243518403x10 exp -34 meter

Planck length = (L1/2 pi) (2/3) exp 1/2 = 1.615946x10 exp -35 meters

Planck length = (hG/2 pi c cubed) exp 1/2

With the G value 6.6717456x10 exp -11, the Planck length is 1.615946x10 exp -35 and the following equations will be correct:

3Gm/c squared = (Le/4 pi) (Le/2L3) squared

electron mass = (c squared/3G) (Le/4 pi) (Le/2L3) squared

I would appreciate your help but I will understand if you would prefer not to be involved with this.--DonJStevens (talk) 22:09, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

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If you have time...

Dear friend,

I presume you are still a busy man, but I would appreciate to discuss with you about your recent literary activity. Please let me know if you have some time for this, preferably by answering by email (I think you will understand why). Regards, Alain r (talk) 02:06, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Dear friend,

this is a short reminder of my above request. It deals about your recent book (as you probably had guessed). I would understand that you are not interested in giving any reply to this message, but at least I would appreciate that you state it explicitely, so that I do not expect anything. Regards, Alain r (talk) 13:19, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

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light cone gauge and light front quantization

Thanks for creating these articles, but you didn't cite any sources. Could you at least try to add one to each? Best, shoy 15:54, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi! Thanks but there are too many and none of them is canonical. For example, a book by Green, Schwarz, Witten: Superstring theory - contains all definitions and descriptions of light cone gauge and similar terms. Field theory books probably do contain it, too, but I can't figure out which of them. --Lumidek (talk) 10:56, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

There are too many sources? Just one on each article would be fine, I'm sure. shoy 12:49, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Please feel free to erase the stubs. I won't be adding sources because the facts written in the articles are parts of elementary particle physicists' knowledge. There are no sources in the article defining the "electron" or any other topic and I don't know why there should be sources in the definition of light cone gauge etc. --Lumidek (talk) 15:10, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

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October 2008

Please stop. If you continue to use talk pages such as Talk:Barack Obama for inappropriate discussion, you may be blocked. --GoodDamon 13:41, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

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Double scaling limit

Thank you for creating Double scaling limit! Happy editing, Kingturtle (talk) 15:58, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

WP:PHYS

Hi, I notice that you had some interest in physics. Might I interest you in joining WikiProject Physics?Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 07:00, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Wolfram Alpha

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After comments from two other individuals asking me to reinstate this page, I've investigated more thoroughly and find that there may be some substance to the subject of this article that would make it one of the very rare exceptions to Wikipedia's policy about things that don't yet exist. However, my examination of the article revealed that all the citations were of the sort that doesn't really meet Wikipedia's reliable sources policy. What I've done, and I hope this will meet with your approval, is moved the deleted content to a "sandbox" page found at User:Lumidek/Sandbox, where you can work on it and add the kind of citation that will allow the article to stay around. (Alternatively, you might want to simply hang on until May, when apparently the software will be released and thereby gain the kind of citation that will be "bullet-proof"; it will be much more difficult to keep the article mounted until that point, but it's up to you.) I'll create the sandbox page and then see what I can do to help you with citations. Accounting4Taste:talk 14:56, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

I found some very useful references on Dr. Wolfram's page, sufficient to make me think that the article will survive examination upon recreation as a new page. I have therefore added those references to the sandbox page and copied the material to the location of the deleted page. If the new page gets deleted, you will still have the sandbox page available to work on; I'll keep an eye on this and see if anything further needs to be done. I wanted to add that I am glad to rescue this material; this is the one case in a thousand where I have found deleted material to actually provide a useful and interesting article to Wikipedia, and I'm pleased to be able to help you restore it to utility. If you have any further questions or problems, I'm at your service. Accounting4Taste:talk 15:03, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

It looks like the article will now remain so I have deleted the sandbox page. If you require it again, just leave me a note. Accounting4Taste:talk 15:25, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Regarding your edits to Kumo and Bing

I just wanted to remind you that the appropriate course of action, instead of copying the content of Kumo (search engine) to Bing (search engine), would have been to use the built in 'move' functionality, so that the edit history of the article would be maintained. Please remember this for the future. Happy editing! 138.89.40.87 (talk) 20:47, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

A study on how to cover scientific uncertainties/controversies

Hi. I would like to ask whether you would agree to participate in a short survey on how to cover scientific uncertainties/controversies in articles pertaining to global warming and climate change. If interested, please get in touch via my talkpage or email me Encyclopaedia21 (talk) 17:40, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

ECRG map

Good work on the ECRG map! Orthorhombic (talk) 12:15, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Actually, if you still have it downloaded, would you be willing to update it to include Lithuania? Otherwise, once again, well done. Orthorhombic (talk) 17:02, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Yes, it's a Wikipedia Embassy thing. It links directly from the main page, but generates precious little traffic. I agree about the Lithuanian MEP for ultimately, the wider the caucus the better. There is a genuine, unaffected harmony between Poles, Czechs and Brits on the limits of the Euro-federalist project, and it is good that there will now be a political grouping in which mainstream parties from these countries can take the lead. Should counterbalance a few abuses. Orthorhombic (talk) 19:08, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Just a small point, but if it is neither here nor neither, I would suggest that your original colour scheme for this map was actually stronger. It was clearer that the 1 & 1+ ECR member countries were contiguous. Just a thought. Orthorhombic (talk) 12:05, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

EU colours

I thought the two were relatively easy to differentiate. Whatever it is, it has to be a pretty neutral colour that doesn't clash with the blue. So either the grey, or a pale yellow or green, à la the national maps. Bastin 19:04, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Satellite temperature measurements

I would welcome your input to the discussion related to the new public domain image of RSS and UAH global temperature anomaly data here: Satellite Temperature Measurements -- Update the Graphic. Thank you. SunSw0rd (talk) 19:31, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs

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Keith Briffa

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Proposed deletion of Konstantin Novoselov

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I would like to propose that you NOT delete the new article for Novoselov, considering that he just won a 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics this morning. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2010/announcement.html I am sure some references will soon be available. betsythedevine (talk) 09:56, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

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Discretionary sanctions on climate change topic, and your recent edit to Keith Briffa

Hi, I notice that you have edited articles in the climate change topic area before so you are probably aware that it has been under community probation. This is to let you know about recent changes.

In June an arbitration case started over this topic area and just over a week ago, after carefully deliberating over this complex case all summer and autumn, the Committee released its final decision which is binding on all Wikipedia editors and administrators active in the area.

In particular I draw your attention to the notice at the top of Talk:Keith Briffa, the article to which you recently made a controversial edit. This notice directs editors to Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change#Climate_change:_discretionary_sanctions, which sets out the requirements that all editors must comply with in editing in this topic area. "Editors are also urged to read and follow the principles applicable to this case. Any editor unable or unwilling to follow this advice should restrict their editing to other topics, to avoid sanctions." One of those principles applies to biographies of living persons:

Biographies of living people must be written conservatively, responsibly, cautiously, and in a dispassionate and neutral tone, avoiding both understatement and overstatement. They should be written using reliable sources, avoiding self-published sources. Poorly sourced or unsourced controversial material should be removed immediately, and should not be reinserted without appropriate sourcing. Biographical articles should not be used as coatracks to describe events or circumstances in which the subject is peripherally or slightly involved, nor to give undue weight to events or circumstances to matters relevant to the subject. Failure to adhere to the policy on biographical information of living people may result in deletion of material, editing restrictions, blocks or even bans.

Please ensure that you fully comply with the sanctions. --TS 12:23, 23 October 2010 (UTC)