[lit-ideas] Re: Fwd: [ANTHRO-L] Fwd: [NOVA] "Absolute Zero"
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:48:52 -0600
Thank you, John. It's always nice to know that others share your concerns. It
so happens that I've been working on a country song about coldness. I'll share
it with you for your Xmas gift.
There are those among us who don't care who they hurt,
Who'll take what they want and leave you in the dirt,
I hope you won't count me among them when I say:
I just can't go on living this way.
All my friends will take me aside and scold,
They think you're so funny and clever and bold,
How lucky I am, I've often been told,
But then they've never had to suffer your cold.
Open the doors of hell and let me in.
I'll do anything to feel warmth again.
A billionth of a degree above absolute cold
Is like a May breeze compared to your heart and soul.
There's a little poem that debates the end,
By fire or by ice? I don't mean to offend,
But I'm tired of burning with desire for you,
Whilst you frostily demand I be somebody new.
All my molecules have slowed to a virtual stop.
You've killed my desire to live, I should call a cop.
But there is no law against being cold hearted,
So, darling, I think it best that we be parted
* * * * *
It's a work in progress. : )
Merry Capitalismus to you too, and a Happy New Year.
Mike Geary
If the shoes hits, bear it.
Memphis
----- Original Message -----
From: John McCreery
To: Lit-Ideas
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 5:44 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Fwd: [ANTHRO-L] Fwd: [NOVA] "Absolute Zero"
A Merry Christmas to Mike Geary.
John
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From: Mike Pavlik <anthropmor@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 6:21 AM
Subject: [ANTHRO-L] Fwd: [NOVA] "Absolute Zero"
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Subject: [NOVA] "Absolute Zero"
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Next on NOVA: "Absolute Zero"
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/zero/
Tuesday, December 23 at 8 p.m.
(Check your local listings as dates and times may vary.
Broadcast in high definition where available.)
Air-conditioning, refrigeration, and superconductivity are just some
of the ways technology has put cold to use. But what is cold, how do
you achieve it, and how cold can it get? NOVA explores these and
other facets of the frigid in the two-hour program "Absolute Zero."
Follow the quest for cold from the unlikely father of
air-conditioning, the court magician of King James I of England in
the 17th century, to today's scientists pioneering superfast
computing in the quantum chill near absolute zero--the ultimate
extreme of cold at minus 273.15 C (minus 460 F).
Here's what you'll find on the companion website:
Absolute Hot
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/zero/hot.html
Is there an opposite to absolute zero?
A Sense of Scale
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/zero/scale.html
Travel from absolute zero to what may be the highest temperature of all.
Milestones In Cold Research
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/zero/research.html
From Galileo's thermoscope to a recent experiment that reached less
than a billionth of a degree above absolute zero
The Conquest of Cold
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/zero/conquest.html
In the U.S., refrigeration played a key role in the rise of
cities--and the final subjugation of native cultures in the West.
Ultracold Atoms
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/zero/atoms.html
Physicist Luis Orozco on enigmatic substances called BECs that form
just above absolute zero
How Low Can You Go?
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/zero/howlow.html
In our virtual lab, use the "cascade" process to achieve
dramatically lower temperatures.
States of Matter
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/zero/matter.html
Adjust temperature and pressure, and watch as gases become liquids,
liquids harden into solids, and more.
A Matter of Degrees
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/zero/degrees.html
Create your own temperature scale, then see how it compares to those
of Fahrenheit and Celsius.
Anatomy of a Refrigerator
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/zero/refrigerator.html
You likely have one, but do you know how it works?
The Ice Trade
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/zero/trade.html
In this game, dispatch 10 ships loaded with natural ice to Florida,
Brazil, or India. Can you make a profit?
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