[Peace-discuss] Emergency Preparedness - Part 1 - Essentials List

Sun Jan 4 12:35:31 CST 2009

Perhaps my skepticism was ill placed; she could well have gotten a  
PhD degree on physics.

I'm one of little faith on that which you seem to have much.

  I believe it would be best if we were not peachy on religious  
matters on this list serve. As you are now aware, I find it  
irritating, if not presumptuous.  --mkb

On Jan 4, 2009, at 1:18 AM, E. Wayne Johnson wrote:

> I am not sure which laws of physics are violated in the halls of  
> the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
> I thought it was something to do with optics but it's all done with  
> smoke and mirrors.
> She told me her field was Quantum Physics, and that's really "as  
> much as" I know about it.
> I told my grandfather once that I was "taking physics" when I was  
> in college and he wondered if I was eating right.
>
>> The two Chinese names are listed ("Little Faith" presumably being  
>> one of them) as Academic Hourlies in that department, rather low  
>> rank positions for a PhD in physics.  Is that because they are  
>> Chinese and willing to work for a relative pittance on part time?
> Now, that IS pertinent to a listserv on anti-racism!
>
>
>
> Morton K. Brussel wrote:
>>
>> FYI:
>>
>> The people cited in the articles seem associated with the  
>> Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, not physics.
>> The two Chinese names are listed ("Little Faith" presumably being  
>> one of them) as Academic Hourlies in that department, rather low  
>> rank positions for a PhD in physics.  Is that because they are  
>> Chinese and willing to work for a relative pittance on part time?
>>
>> J.G. Eden is a Research Professor in that department, and is  
>> presumably their boss. --mkb
>>
>> On Jan 3, 2009, at 10:42 PM, E. Wayne Johnson wrote:
>>
>>> I think it is called optical and physics engineering  or  
>>> something like that,
>>> but I think that she considers her field to be quantum physics.   
>>> She did
>>> some time at Harvard too but I dont know the specifics.
>>>
>>> Here are some of her papers that I found through some Physics  
>>> search.
>>> I dont read these papers much past the title.  I am pretty sure that
>>> I wouldn't find the Volkov States on a map of Eastern Europe, but  
>>> would suppose
>>> that if the generation is harmonic despite the intensity of a  
>>> field examination, I would not
>>> understand why anyone would call in a Quantum Physician to treat  
>>> them with electrodynamics.
>>>
>>> http://arxiv.org/ftp/physics/papers/0601/0601199.pdf
>>> http://arxiv.org/ftp/quant-ph/papers/0702/0702105.pdf
>>> J. Gao, F. Shen, and J.G. Eden, Phys. Rev. A 61, 043406 (2000). "  
>>> Resonant above-threshold ionization at quantized laser intensities"
>>> J. Gao,  F. Shen, J.G. Eden,  Phys. Rev. A 61( 4), p  
>>> 438121-4381221, (2000). " Interpretation of high-order harmonic  
>>> generation in terms of transitions between quantum Volkov states"
>>> J. Gao, F. Shen and J.G. Eden, J. Phys. B 32, 4153 (1999).
>>> J. Gao, F. Shen, and J.G. Eden, Phys. Rev. Lett.  81, 1833  
>>> (1998). " Quantum Electrodynamic Treatment of Harmonic Generation  
>>> in Intense Optical Fields"
>>>
>>> At your request I will send your note to her, I will, and let her  
>>> respond to your questions, but I am observing that you sent it to  
>>> me.
>>> *
>>> I think she is quite sane actually, but some would say who am I  
>>> to judge something like that  :-\ .
>>>
>>> I did provide a caveat in posting her writing that some would  
>>> think it "different".
>>> Considering the new adventures of our military and the rate of  
>>> change of M-zero that the FED tells us about,
>>> her advice to lay in a few extra cans of tuna and pinto beans in  
>>> the odd chance that the prophets of gloom are correct.
>>> If you rotate your food at the intervals she is suggesting, the  
>>> risk of a negative impact from the extra precaution
>>> is rather low.   Some my colleagues in animal nutrition who  
>>> professors at the university keep a jar of Potassium Iodide tablets
>>> in case of a nuclear attack, so it is not all as far-fetched as  
>>> one might imagine it to be.
>>>
>>> Little Faith writes with an openness about her faith and her  
>>> relationship with the Lord
>>> that is reminiscent of Jeanne Guyon, and it may be a bit  
>>> different or even uncomfortable
>>> or hard to understand or follow for some.
>>>
>>> "God talks to us...Will they ever understand?
>>> ...all that that matters, is that you want to live
>>> ...and the Greatness to be had is the Greatness that You give"  - 
>>> Aimee Allen
>>>
>>>
>>> Ron Szoke wrote:
>>>>
>>>> This is a very strange piece, Wayne.  It makes her seem semi- 
>>>> literate & possibly
>>>> schizophrenic.  I would like to know (a lot) more about her  
>>>> supposed Ph.D. in
>>>> quantum physics.
>>>>
>>>> As far as I know, there is a department of physics, but none of  
>>>> quantum physics, at
>>>> UIUC.  Could you please fill us in on her dissertation  
>>>> supervisor &  the date & topic
>>>> of her dissertation?  That might help assure some of us that she  
>>>> is not, or has not
>>>> become, a wacko apocalyptist.
>>>>
>>>> Best wishes,
>>>>
>>>> -- Ron
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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