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To: koan who wrote (249644)	4/26/2014 10:17:11 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543067

Jon Stewart Calls Out CNN For Ignoring Climate Change Report The Huffington Post \| by Catherine Taibi Posted: 04/25/2014 11:59 am EDT Updated: 04/25/2014 12:59 pm EDT Jon Stewart had some advice for CNN Thursday on how the network can use its advanced and obsessive reporting on the missing Malaysian Airlines flight to talk about anything other than the missing Malaysian Airlines flight. Stewart noted that while CNN is focusing almost entirely on the search for Flight 370, there is other important and "meaningful" news happening in the world that they could be covering -- like, perhaps, "the UN report that stated that we're all gonna die." The "Daily Show" host cited a recent Media Matters study saying that CNN devoted less than two minutes of coverage to the UN's latest climate change report the day it was released. "CNN, don't you think this is kind of actual meaningful news and could fit very well into your unnecessary over-dramatic hologram rooms, virtual reality rides and random street yelling?" Stewart asked. "You can't use your hologram green screen room to talk about global warming?" Stewart has been ripping CNN for more than a month for its nonstop coverage of the missing Malaysian Airlines flight, once declaring that the only place the network hasn't looked for the plane is " up their own assholes." "I guess CNN's only interested in the fate of what's floating in the world's ocean," Stewart said Thursday. But at least other cable news networks are doing a better job of shining a light on climate change, right? "Fox and MSNBC devoted around 22 minutes of coverage to [the report]," Stewart said. "Fox mostly to debunk it, and MSNBC to see how it affected Hillary's chance of becoming president." huffingtonpost.com

To: koan who wrote (249644)	4/26/2014 12:50:22 PM
From: Stock Puppy	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 543067

You may well be right, but I also always understood time runs back and forth the same. I am correct - let me provide you with a reference. The subject is "CPT" conservation Charge, Parity and when they found a violation in those, albeit a rare one, they added time. Most things are time invariant - except for probability on the macro scale, going forward or backward in time everything works the same. The rare event - a particle called the Kaon, sometimes does not follow this seemingly commonsense principle. The reference is from 1995 from Stanford linear accelerator lab: slac.stanford.edu Here are pertinent excerpts (from third page labeled page 30): In addition to having a strong theoretical basis, it [the CPT theorem] has also been tested experimentally to great accuracy. Conservation of CPT, but violation of CP, means that T alone cannot be an exact symmetry of the weak interaction. Thus, even on the most microscopic scale possible—the interactions of elementary particles—there is a difference between going forward and backward in time. CP violation is now recognized as an important ingredient in the evolution of the universe. Immediately after the Big Bang the universe must have consisted of equal quantities of matter and antimatter. Over time it evolved toward the situation we see today, namely an overwhelming excess of matter over antimatter. Andrei Sakharov pointed out in 1967 that CP violation was necessary for the matter dominance of the universe to come about. This is one of many instances where particle physics has cosmological implications. Indeed, many theoretical physicists believe that the amount of CP violation we know about so far is insufficient to account fully for the matter dominance in the universe. Clearly, understanding the origin of CP violation is one of the most basic and far-reaching problems in particle physics. I wish I was smarter and could have studied particle physics. Therein lie the answers to many mysteries; and the edge of knowledge. Learning about particle physics: Feynman. Easy to read, but read slowly and think about it. Talk about expanding your mind - reading these lectures will make your head twice as big as it is now without the headache. feynmanlectures.caltech.edu