Sep 01 2008
Kansas
In October 1976 the musical group Kansas came out with its fourth album, called Leftoverture. At social gatherings and on the radio that autumn of my freshman year at the University of Wisconsin it was not uncommon to hear the song “Carry On Wayward Son”. Around the time I was finishing up three semesters of calculus and two of physics as a sophomore, still living in the lakeshore dorms, the group had given us “Point Of Know Return” and “Dust In The Wind” from a fifth album.
Two years ago near the end of this month, I took a circuit drive with copies of my physics paper. Kansas State University was one of the places I stopped. It was a fruitful visit because on Ocotober 3, 2006 I received an analysis of the paper from KSU Physics, – only the second one offered independent of the journals. Something in the KSU analysis prompted me to look for a way to clean up the Rotational Energy section of my paper, which I then did. That section however, does not have anything to do with the calculation of the frequency of a graviton, but rather is there only to show that there is enough energy in the electron to do the job.
If you see Kerry Livgren, Steve Walsh, Robby Steinhardt or the others of Kansas the band please tell them the ‘point of know return’ in physics has come. “How long?” does not have to be asked anymore, – it took 28 years.