Early last year a tentative hypothesis was proposed to unify quantum mechanics and general relativity, at the cost of Lorentz invariance. Much research was done over the following months and the interest in this framework appears to have changed since then. In this discussion, if there are any physicists out there I would be interested in your thoughts on this framework. Some material related:

http://arxiv.org/abs/0904.1334v4

http://arxiv.org/abs/0905.2579

http://arxiv4.library.cornell.edu/abs/1002.3101v1

Or just search horava:

http://arxiv.org/find/all/1/all:+horava/0/1/0/all/0/1

As a layman I'm interested in following the discussions of those more educated on the subject than I am.

True true.

It was a toss up. The World Toilet College or Japan's Public Toilet Maintenance Institute. I went with the world class clean-up crew at World Toilet College.  Now, I am among the physically fit toilet cleaners who have earned the title: Restroom Specialist.

I truly yearn to help promote the world-class leading culture of toilets. My fervid, nay fetid dream is to some day soon be able to attend a World Toilet Summit & Expo.

World Toilet Summit 2001, Singapore
The official launch of World Toilet Organization.
Theme: "Our Toilets - The Past, The Present and The Future".

World Toilet Summit 2002, Korea
Hosted by the Suwon City Toilet Association and Korean Clean Toilet Association.
Theme: "New Beginning for the 21st Century Toilet".

World Toilet Summit 2003, Taiwan
Taiwan Toilet Association and Japan Toilet Association
Theme: Tourist and Mountain Toilets

And so on.

At the very least, I can help observe the World Toilet Day next November 19th. How does one celebrate World Toilet Day?

How about "The Big Squat"?

At exactly noon on November 19th, gather your family, friends, classmates, colleagues and everyone you know to squat in public for 1 minute in support of World Toilet Day.

This drives home the point "where would you go?" and how people without toilets are forced to go in public places.

Students and teachers enjoy World Toilet Day by:
* Viewing of The Adventures of Super Toilet, a fun and important online comic.
* Viewing of funny video about public urination. It's Pee-larious!
* Demonstration by teachers on proper use and cleaning of toilet.

How to help:
* Download and attach the World Toilet Day bubble to your Facebook profile photo. (Check out this bubble too!)
* Join the World Toilet Day Facebook fan page.

Learn these fun facts.
* In 2003, rural Vietnamese rated a TV and a karaoke set as more important than a toilet!

OK, that's all I learned.

But hey. Restroom Specialist! WhooHooo!

I'm curious to know what people believe, i personally have always wondered whether or not there was other sentient life in the universe, now i want your opinion

I'm curious to know what people believe, i personally have always wondered whether or not there was other sentient life in the universe, now i want your opinion

“There are many who still do not believe that global warming is a problem at all. And it's no wonder: because they are the targets of a massive and well-organized campaign of disinformation lavishly funded by polluters who are who are determined to prevent any action to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming out of a fear that their profits might be affected if they had to stop dumping so much pollution into the atmosphere." -Al Gore

Do you agree on what Al Gore said or not?

All across the world, in every kind of environment and region known to man, increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster.

-Barack Obama

The whole (global warming) thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability. 

-Jerry Falwell

I have been hearing differently on the existence of global warming and this is the final debate. Reply with what your stance is and why.

Some of the scientists, I believe, haven't they been changing their opinion a little bit on global warming? There's a lot of differing opinions and before we react I think it's bast to have the full accounting, full understanding of what's taking place.

-George W. Bush

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Global warming is good or bad?????

Anyone who believes that the world will end in 2012 should be executed at midnight on December 31, 2011.

Just to make them happy, you know, that the prediction, for them at least, was right.

Get your SUV bumper stickers here folks: "Global Warming: it only kills people who were about to die anyways".

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From an article in Forbes by Myron Ebell, Director, Energy and Global Warming Policy, Competitive Enterprise Institute.

When talk turns to global warming, there are only three socially acceptable opinions that may be expressed. It's going to be bad, terrible or catastrophic. As our leading alarmist, former Vice President Al Gore, makes clear in his book and movie, An Inconvenient Truth, '"the negative impact of climate change vastly outweighs any local benefits."

I'd like to suggest that the debate about climate change include, for once, a fair assessment of the benefits alongside the declamations of harm.

For example, cold winter storms kill a lot of people. More people die from blizzards and cold spells than from heat waves. Increased death rates usually persist for weeks after the unusually cold temperatures have passed, which suggests that the cold is killing people who would otherwise live into another season at least. Mortality rates during heat waves are just the reverse. The increase ends and often the rate drops below normal as soon as temperatures cool, which suggests that the higher temperatures are killing people who are likely to die soon anyway.

"I don't like global warming," says Alyssa, her eyes huge and serious behind her glasses, a stardust of freckles across her nose, "because it kills animals, and I like animals."

She dreams of solar-powered cars and has put a recycling basket for mail, office and school paper in the corner of her family's dining room. She made another recycling box for her third-grade English teacher's classroom at Key Elementary School and has persuaded her mother to start composting. At Key, she also organized an effort among her classmates to pick up playground trash at recess.

Marvel at any of her efforts, though, and she looks confused: Everyone should be doing all this -- and more -- to save the environment.

"I worry about it," says this girl who has yet to lose all her baby teeth, "because I don't want to die."

we simply must do everyting we can in our power to slow down global warming before its to late. the science is clear.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, governor of Californina

do you agree or disagree with this quote? please reply back!!!

we simply must do everything we can in our power to slow dowm global warming before it is too late. the science is clear.

the global warming drbate is over.

Arnold schwarzenegger, governor of california. 

do you agree with him or not????

Mentation - the process of thinking (especially thinking carefully) - is problematic for many. People often do not wish their active lives to be hindered by prolonged periods of pondering ideas.

Soon we will view mentation as just another lifestyle choice. Drug manufacturers have already tinkered with our flow of ideas; Berlex's Yaz and Warner Chilcott's Loestrin shorten periods of thoughtfulness to three days or less per month, and Duramed's Seasonique, and the older Seasonale, reduce periods of thinking to just three or four times a year. But Lybrel, made by Wyeth, would stop us from thinking altogether.

Young people especially come at life with an eager mind full of raw intellect and intense passion -- all terribly inconvenient for the rest of us content in the grey fog of our satiated stupor, our calm, complacent lives.

Socrates, a noted thinker, frequently compared ideas with children, and said that ideas are the produce of the intercourse that men have with their beloved disciples (Symp. 209ae). In a related analogy, Socrates compares himself to a midwife to men and boys who are "pregnant with thought" (Theaetetus). Well, we know what happened to Socrates. He died because of his ideas.

Thanks to Wyeth and the FDA, we are now able to prevent ourselves and others from even conceiving of ideas. Soon we will all be allowed to revert to our natural state - the pursuit of mindless fucking.

" There are many who still do not believe that global warming is a problem at all. And it's no wonder: because they are the targets of a massive and well-organized campaign of disinformation lavishly funded by polluters who are who are determined to prevent any action to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming out of a fear that their profits might be affected if they had to stop dumping so much pollution into the atmosphere."    -Al Gore

"Some of the scientists, I believe, haven't  really changed their opinion a little bit on global warming, there's a lot of differing opinions and before we react I think it's best to have the full accounting, full understanding of whats taken place."  - George W. Bush 

Now its your turn to make your voice heard, comment your opinion and maybe you can be the person the world is looking for to terminate the issue of Global Warming.

Questions to Answer: 

Is Global Warming Real?  

Is there action being done today to help slow down Global Warming?

Is our President doing Anything?

Who will be most affected? 

What will the Human Race become?

Is this the reason for the 2012 theory?   

Will killing a large amount of people help? (Legal Abortions, Death pentalty enforced,) 

Is Global Warming a story made up by our government to make money?

All across the world, in every  kind of environment  and region  known to man, increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting  an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it’s here, and its effects ate giving rise to a frighteningly new  global  phenomenon: the man made natural disaster

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            Barack Obama….  

Global Warming causing lots of problems in the world

Now that we've done it, it was clearly the right choice. THAT, sir, is a scientific FACT! Why, even monkeys and 4 year olds would agree with you.

Create Debate has announced a merger with the genetic social networking site GeneTree.com. At GeneTree.com, people use DNA test results to connect with others sharing a common ancestry.

Soon, we will now longer have allies in Create Debate. We will have instead Helpful Dads, Loving Moms, Protective Big Brothers or Kindly Big Sisters. And instead of enemies, we will have Pervy Uncles, Evil Step-Moms, Pesky Kid Brothers, and Crack Whore Sisters.

Before all the DNA testing is done, take a guess. With whom in Create Debate do you think you share a common ancestry -- and what kind of relations will they be here?

I've changed 1 word in the debate title (**Evolutionists** to **people**) to hopefully discourage discussions about the meaning of words and help people focus on the topic. 

Basically extinction is as natural to existence as death is to life.  That being the case, shouldn't we just let endangered species die out instead of trying to save them?  I mean there's a good reason why they're endangered right?

If people descended from apes, then why are there still apes? The truth is, apes descended from people!

Remember when you were a kid and you'd make a funny face and your mom would say, "Don't make that face or it might get stuck like that"? Well that's what happened. An ancient tribe of mimes liked to pretend that they were apes, and then couldn't stop!

Also, the 13th Tribe of Israel is not lost; they are just all stuck out in the desert somewhere in an imaginary box.

A piece of food drops to the ground. You pick it up and make one of life's most difficult decisions. Is the 5 second rule valid or not?

The five-second rule is that if you pick up a dropped piece of food before you can count to five, it’s O.K. to eat it. Suprisingly, a federal judge has decided that a 30 second rule in fast food resturants is both reasonable and fair.

"Food gets dropped", said Fast Food industry spokesperson Eton Moore. "Lots of it would go to waste without the 5 second rule. If we had to throw away every food item that hit the floor, that would slow down our service and drive up our costs. However, more than 5 seconds would also slow down service and it would put our customer's health at risk"

Friends of the Handicapped has a different view. "Not all of the people working at a fast food restaurant can retrieve a fallen food item in just 5 seconds", says FOH spokesperson Floe Down. "Some people need more time".

FOH brought suit in federal court to force the fast food industry to allow workers more time to pick up fallen food.

Judge Ima Judge ruled in favor of FOH. She cited the testimony of Anne Bernhard, an assistant professor of biology at Connecticut College who put the 5 second rule to the test.  Bernhard's research team dropped apple slices, a wet food, and Skittles, a dry food, on the cafeteria floor and measured the results. The research results showed that 30 seconds was probably safe for moist food and up to a minute could be safe for dry food. Berhard concluded that it would be safe for a burger to be on the floor for 30 seconds and a bun for 60 seconds.

Citing the need for reasonable accommodation for handicapped workers while still protecting public health, Judge Judge ruled that 30 seconds for retrieving fallen food was a standard the industry should follow. FFI spokesperson Moore says they plan to appeal the decision.