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The M.A.D gun

In memory of John Nash, may I share with you my M.A.D. gun - something I have been thinking about a lot, even today, before I learned of John Nash's death. My ideas come not directly from him but from Thomas Schelling—another economics game theory laureate, this time in the area of Cold War nuclear deterrents. I was at his lecture in 2005, the same year that paradoxically, the I.A.E.A. got the Nobel Peace Prize "for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to..." The M.A.D. gun. What if (just say) all firearms, all guns, had two barrels: one that shot your target - your adversary, and the other - at the same time - shot you. So, to use it would mean you both die (or at least you die trying).  The question is, would it ever be used?  No, but you could argue: yes, it would - to save the (your) group. Well then, make a bigger gun - scale it up - so you get the group, too. A cold war, nuclear standoff - as we still have (of sorts...

In memory of John Nash

A great mind died today, a Newton of our time. His idea 'the Nash Equilibrium' offers explanation to likes of why we do not need deities to explain why we’re good (or not) to each other; why in the 69 (soon 70) years of nuclear weapons - all the many thousands of them - they’ve only been used twice in anger (that is amazing!); and even why Sweden didn’t get invaded during WWII, its global monopoly on the ball bearing was so crucial to both sides, any conflict on its soils would be a lose-lose outcome for both sides – a Nash Equilibrium, fight your battle somewhere else, not Sweden. There are many more, and I love spotting them. It seems ironic that he died in a car: one of the simplest examples of a Nash equilibrium is the explanation for why we drive on one side of the road and not both.

Reinterpreting John Tyndall’s GHG Experiment Thermoelectric and Raman Spectroscopy

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Update 2020 I have a new paper:  Quantum Mechanics and Raman Spectroscopy Refute Greenhouse Theory Update May 2017 I am writing a new paper, bringing together everything I know in an improved format. I have had many discussions with professional scientists and am still optimistic about my hypothesis. Update 2016 04 23 While I have had the support of two professors, others have absolutely disliked my discoveries. I was in review with a retired professor of chemistry, a climate sceptic, for one month and forty-odd email exchanges, and he gave me every logical fallacy in the book, red herrings, and, in the end, suggested I made it all up.  I have yet to make this up. I have posted on a page a transcript of a dialogue I had with some scientists on Facebook. I want to post this to show the fallacies. If I am wrong, tell me where I am wrong, and if I see I am wrong, I will change my claim.    Reinterpreting and Augmenting John Tyndall’s 1859 Greenhouse Gas Exp...

Natural fractal lake, Arethusa Pool, the worlds only?

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Is Arethusa Pool (New Zealand) and its islands the world's only natural fractal lake? I was there with my family in January. It was a wonderful day and very exciting for me—mathematically speaking. Arethusa Pool (and its island) is on Mou Waho Island, Lake Wanaka, the South Island of New Zealand, and the South Pacific Ocean. Water (the South Pacific Ocean), land (South Island New Zealand), water (lake Wanaka), land (Mou Waho Island), water (Arethusa Pool), land (islands on Arethusa Pool); water in a puddle after rain (or when I filled it), land as small as a square centimetre inside the puddle, ..... water??   Arethusa Pool, and Lake Wanaka New Zealand 2015.