Energy

Karen Stine: (5pi-2/pi)^3-(3/(4pi))(5pi-2/pi)^2. Amazing!

Faustina Mortal: If you say so, my dear child.

Faustina Mortal: Now come to breakfast. You must be famished.

Karen Stine: We must tell Faustus.

Faustina Mortal: That is quite impossible.

Faustina Mortal: This must be cleared with Octanus Diesel first.

Faustina Mortal: And it probably won't be nearly good enough.

Karen Stine: But it is! Look, the numbers all fit together.

Karen Stine: We have a sequence: (4pi-1/pi)^3-1/pi^2(4pi-1/pi)

Karen Stine: (2pi-1/pi)^3-1/(2pi)(2pi-1/pi)^2 and now

Karen Stine: (5pi-1/pi)^3-(1/(4pi))(15pi-4/pi)^2. The numbers jive.

Karen Stine: I will contact Faustus on the internet.

Faustina Mortal: You will do no such thing.

Faustina Mortal: You are sixteen; he resides in an adult section.

Faustina Mortal: You are forbidden entrance there.

Karen Stine: I will just tell them that I am eighteen.

Karen Stine: He must see this.

Faustina Mortal: I will not permit this. You will be confined.

Faustina Mortal: We cannot have our girls visiting some mature Internet.

Faustina Mortal: Besides, that number is probably wrong anyway.

Karen Stine: Just punch it into any calculator. The number is

Karen Stine: 3477.613236... Figures don't lie!

Faustina Mortal: Yes, but liars figure. This is an accident.

Faustina Mortal: You need to have this devil driven from you.

Faustina Mortal: It is a fond and vain thing, an evil spirit.

Faustina Mortal: Octanus Diesel already evaluated your works, remember?

Karen Stine: Yes, but he was biased and this is a new result.

Faustina Mortal: We must defer to his judgment.

~ 12 July 2007 ~

Surface

Faustus Mortal: What brings you from your ivory tower in Washington?

Phillip Buster: I am concerned about what people are saying.

Faustus Mortal: Since when did that matter to a congressman?

Phillip Buster: They vote as well. I fear the congregation of the faithful.

Faustus Mortal: Do tell.

Phillip Buster: Scuttlebutt has it that we are not doing all that we can...

Phillip Buster: That is to solve the energy problem.

Phillip Buster: There are those who maintain that you have a (how to say?)

Phillip Buster: "Philosophically correct" solution.

Faustus Mortal: My day has passed. I am no longer mentally keen on such things.

Faustus Mortal: Perhaps forty years ago? Or even twenty years ago? But not now!

Phillip Buster: I do not want it said that I have left stones unturned.

Faustus Mortal: hmm, interesting analogy.

Faustus Mortal: Years ago I was sharp on a paradigm, but no more.

Faustus Mortal: I can no longer even read my notes from the 90's!

Faustus Mortal: I only know that they are mine because I recognize the handwriting.

Faustus Mortal: Today my handwriting is that of an arthritic old creeper!

Phillip Buster: I have not sold out to the fossil fuel fellowship as some claim.

Faustus Mortal: But you deny it still the same. Eigentlich! [German]

Phillip Buster: You have some paradigm, some theory, some concept?

Faustus Mortal: I was given a formula to examine, yes.

Faustus Mortal: I knew some of the math (or "maths" if you are British).

Faustus Mortal: But that is ancient history now!

Faustus Mortal: I can only vaguely recollect the principles.

Phillip Buster: Let me to encourage you to continue!

Faustus Mortal: No longer possible. I am spent!

Faustus Mortal: I can still see the analytic surfaces and the open sets!

Faustus Mortal: I can still see the C-Infinity boundaries and their mesh.

Faustus Mortal: I can't even recall the most elementary proofs or theorems.

Phillip Buster: The consumers are angry.

Phillip Buster: They may express their anger at the election polls!

Phillip Buster: The unhappy voters have many ballots to cast.

Phillip Buster: The solution: "Conserve," "Do without," and "save"

Phillip Buster: isn't making it.

Faustus Mortal shrugs.

Faustus Mortal: My time has passed. You are late.

Faustus Mortal: Perhaps Octanus Diesel could have let me continue.

Faustus Mortal: I was sharp and in graduate school, but...

Faustus Mortal: The fossil fuel fellowship ushered me out.

Faustus Mortal: Then global warming was ridiculed and gas was cheap.

Faustus Mortal: Better to resurrect the dead than some rejected thesis!

Phillip Buster: For the sake of the populace, we need an energy source.

Faustus Mortal: More correctly stated: "To get votes we need to act like we are looking for an energy source. Nothing is what you have to show now. And nothing is a vacuum. "Nature abhors a vacuum," a vacuum sucks. So you need to convince your constituents that you are pursuing every lead. As said, you are leaving "no stone unturned." I can still see the minor perturbations in the theory. I can see the difference between the discontinuous jump at the boundary of a particle and a non-analytic C-Infinity function. But so what? Much more needs to be done to determine the factors of stability and instability. It is more than one man can do, more than even a young men---which I am not, btw!

Phillip Buster: But you have a voice in the congregation of the faithful.

Phillip Buster: They speak poorly of the fossil fuel fellowship.

Phillip Buster: The confidence in Congress is at an all time low!

Faustus Mortal shrugs.

Faustus Mortal: You are a day late and a dollar short with me.

Faustus Mortal: There is that young lady, Karen Stein.

Faustus Mortal: Maybe she can help. I haven't heard from her in some time.

Faustus Mortal: But, more likely than not, Octanus Diesel vetoed her ideas.

Faustus Mortal: After all, his thesis was "The Ultimate Source of Energy---Fossil Fuels."

Faustus Mortal: There is plenty of money for research, as long as it's fossil fuel research.

Faustus Mortal: Everyone knows that! It's common knowledge.

Phillip Buster: You could put forward some idea!

Phillip Buster: Something to show that we are searching every nook and cranny!

Faustus Mortal: I would be ridiculed and humiliated publicly!

Faustus Mortal: History may well show the truth, but what good does that do me?

Faustus Mortal: What did Martin Luther say before the Diet of Worms?

Faustus Mortal: "Here I stand, I can do nothing else?"

Faustus Mortal: I have no desire to become the butt of some sick joke.

Faustus Mortal: You have the support of the learned societies.

Phillip Buster: But they only say "use less," "conserve," "do without."

Faustus Mortal: You are paying them. Ask them for a solution!

Faustus Mortal: I am a cenobite, I have no voice.

Phillip Buster: You could be afflicted!

Phillip Buster: The populace wants results.

Faustus Mortal: Hope makes a fine breakfast but a poor supper.

Phillip Buster: How would you unleash that energy you mentioned?

Faustus Mortal: There are other solutions, eigenvalues, in some equations.

Faustus Mortal: There are intrinsic properties to be manipulated.

Faustus Mortal: But I am spent.

Phillip Buster: I guess you are hopeless!

Faustus Mortal pouts.

((OOC: Old King Coal was a dirty old soul and a dirty old soul was he. He called for his pipe(line) and he called for his bowl and he called for his lobbyists three."))

((OOC: How long before the "N" word surfaces? The "N" word is "Nuclear." Clearly the dumbest way in known history to boil water! It is the safe source, but the fossil fuel fellowship has made the public panic with propaganda of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.))

~ The End 28 Jul 2008 ~