Well, as as at the time of Thomson's 1900 address, there remain a few dangling threads left to explain ---

For example, those waves that Einstein predicted in his Theory of General Relativity they are, quite specifically, waves in what he called "spacetime." Spacetime, in this theory, consists of the three space dimensions and time.

There is only one problem: no one, and I mean no one (including Stephen Hawking, who wrote a whole book about it), knows what Time is.

Although it's used everywhere in theories and laws, none of them explains what it is. All of us have some kind of intuitive sense of time, but none of us can explain it. Describe, yes; explain, no.

Now there's a Nobel Prize waiting for some bright grad student, and a guaranteed revolution in how all of us think about physics and the world when it's done.

Why would technologists care? Time plays a central part in every aspect of today's technology. The limiting characteristic in most supercomputers is the latency (time delay) between storage and processors; radical new designs are coming forward which explicitly attack the problem of time.

Transistors and CPU clock rates are, by their nature, time-dependent; so are virtually all printed circuit-board designs. Electrons (and information) need to arrive at least in Von Neumann systems in a certain order, and on time; otherwise we get bottlenecks and sharp compute speed reductions.

The list is so long that it's almost redundant literally everything we use and do depends on something about which we have essentially zero understanding.

Flows

Flows might be defined as series of events over time, usually measured through patterns. Cargo ships carrying oil across the Pacific, money flowing in and out of London, gibberellins flowing through a leaf, information flowing as Big Data this list, too, is endless, and always involves time.

Because Flows logically follow the identification of patterns, we have chosen "The Power of Flows" as the over-arching theme of this year's FiRe conference.

Last year, examining "The Power of Patterns," we demonstrated the criticality of Pattern Recognition in bleeding-edge artificial intelligence (AI) work, from brain-inspired compute chips like True North to Big Data analysis. We announced the founding of a new Pattern Recognition Laboratory (together with the Qualcomm Institute at UCSD), and launched a new company: Pattern Computer Inc.

This year at FiRe we'll be looking at Patterns Over Time i.e., Flows. We're bringing participants global discoveries and new theories that go beyond predictive analysis, opening new study areas and providing new tools in finance, GDP calculation, global economic trends, chaos mathematics, genetics, and more.

So yes, in the world of technology, Time Matters. In fact, you could almost say Time Is Everything. How can we know virtually nothing about it?

Another Look at Time

Since Einstein spent a fair amount of time (whatever it is) looking at time, it makes some sense to pick up where he left off.

One of the most striking patterns in the mathematics of Special (and General) Relativity is that time is not treated in the same way as the three dimensions of space, despite the term "spacetime." Sure, the equations all have the same form, but time is always the opposite of space. And this is not in some abstract, figurative manner, but directly. Whereas space terms are mathematically positive, time terms are negative.

What could that be about?

While we think we understand distance (and length), it turns out that the flow of time is the part of spacetime we don't understand at all.

But wait, it gets worse:

Special Relativity dictates that "everything is relative," based on the relative velocities of different observers or objects. Everyone knows what velocity is, right? It's just distance over time. But that means that everything we observe depends on an idea that none of us can explain.

Should we isolate this unknown entity of time? Perhaps we should re-solve the equations of Special Relativity, and our other theories and laws, in terms of velocity, if this is so central, instead of for time dilation, mass increase, or distance compression.

Or maybe we should move right to the heart of the matter, and re-solve our basic equations for T itself.

Here's a typical result:

Let's start with the Law of Conservation of Energy, which says that energy is constant in any system; it cannot be created or destroyed. So what is energy?

Well, among other things, it depends on velocity:

1.      Kinetic Energy (from motion) = mv²

We could write this as E=1/2 mvv, 2E=mvv, VV = 2E/m, V= √ [2E/m]

So, normal velocity is a ratio between energy and mass. Did you know that? How does that equate to what we usually think of a ratio of distance over time?

Does this allow us to say that there is some kind of equivalence between these two expressions, so that

√ [2E/m] = (or is proportional to) D/T?

The same questions could be posed for another kind of energy:

2.      Nuclear Energy (conversion of mass to energy) = mc²

We could write this as

E=mc²

c= √ (E/m)

Because this represents Hiroshima-scale destruction, we are more comfortable thinking that (the square root of ) energy is to mass as (a very high constant number) distance is to time i.e., a lot.

But really, these are both talking about the same things: energy, time, and distance.

My first Resonance Theory paper took this approach in identifying "energy states" based on this solving for Velocity instead of D, T, or M, with this result:

V=D/T=(Dₒ (1-V²/C²))/Tₒ   (Equation 12)

But instead of taking the Einsteinian view, what if we're now a bit more curious about time itself? Then we'd like to solve these basic equations for time:

E=1/2 MV²

E=1/2M(D/T)²

(D/T)² = 2ME

D/T = √(2ME)

T = D/[√(2ME)]

Is time somehow the ratio between distance (or length) and mass times energy? And since mass not only has energy, but really is energy, we can dive a bit deeper and re-ask:

Is time somehow the ratio between distance (or length) and energy?

If so, what does that mean?

The same math, of course, applies again to nuclear energy, with the final result (picking up from above):

C= √(E/M) (where C is a constant ratio of D/T); therefore, in this special case, we have two equivalencies:

C=D/T = √(E/M) and, from Maxwell's Equations,

(and here, we need to introduce the "other" (definition of) C, as the ratio of the permittivity vs. the permeability constants of empty space. On its own, this is one of the great mysteries still outstanding in physics: How could a speed constant, measured in meters per second, also turn out to have exactly the value of the electrical vs. the magnetic properties of empty space?)

In any case, this gives us the second equivalence for C:

C= D/T= εₒ/μₒ

Where C is a constant ratio of D/T, and where the latter terms are the electrical and magnetic constants of otherwise-empty space.

We would like to write the parallel formula for the first to that for kinetic energy:

T=D/[√(ME)]

And, for the second,

T=D/[ εₒ/μₒ], or T=D (μₒ/ εₒ)

Now, that's interesting. It would suggest that Time and Distance are related through C, and specifically through the specific definition of C which represents the ratio of the electrical and magnetic properties of empty space.

Technically, we're prevented from separating D and T in this way, unless we are careful to always remember they are acting as a part of this special constant, C.  Clearly, if we separate them, they lose that meaning.

Since the Energy Conservation Law is perhaps the most fundamental law in the universe, we should take this seriously.

We could take the second-most-conservative law, the Conservation of Momentum, but the results would be similar.

Here is the Newtonian version for Momentum (P):

P = MV=M(D/T);

P/M=D/T;

T=DM/P

Because we cannot describe mass and momentum as equivalent (although some physicists do this shorthand), we're left with both terms.

Time would appear to be the ratio between distance times mass, divided by momentum. All else being equal, time increases with greater distance or mass and decreases with greater momentum.

How can something increase with mass but decrease with momentum? Only if momentum in this case carries a negative number which, as noted above, it does.

Both of these solutions for time help us to see it as an important ratio, rather than how we might normally perceive it: as a river of some kind.

Particles and Waves

If all of matter is divided by physicists into the quantum twin aspects of particle and wave, then we might ask, How does time fit into this picture? And there is a very good reason for the question, which will be evident almost immediately.

We tend to think of particles as relatively static phenomena some of which last essentially forever (the proton, the electron), while others (like the Higgs Boson) last for only a very short time.

Waves, on the other hand, are specifically defined in terms of time: all waves have a frequency, which is the number of crests per time.

While physics in general tends to view these as dual aspects of single events, let's use time to go beyond this idea.

When a proton, infinitely stable, is at rest, it is not a wave. But when it has a velocity, it also has a (de Broglie) wavelength; so, in fact, do baseballs, cars, and everything else.

In this case, the particle is the event, and the wave is the appearance of the event to an observer, with relative velocity determining wave frequency. Students of the Doppler effect know that not only will the train whistle rise in frequency as it approaches and drop as it recedes, but that we can also extend this effect theoretically. If we run away from things with rest mass at the speed of light, their frequencies approach zero. And if we run toward them at that speed, the wave approaches being a single spike, a particle.

If time is measured, then, by waves in some way, as in the basic energy equation

E=hν

(where h is Planck's constant, and  is frequency, expressed as cycles per second or wavecrests over time)

then, solving again for T,

T=h(cycles)/E

As wavecrests increase, so does time; it decreases with increased energy. Is time the ratio between cycles and energy?

And in fact, higher frequencies have increased energy per second.

While this may seem abstract, it is exactly how the most advanced scientists measure time today, through the internal atomic oscillations of atomic clocks. Not only do these drive international time standards and signaling, but they are also intimately involved with the Global Positioning System.

Although today's atomic clocks, like those made by companies such as HP and operated by labs such as the NIST, are quite complex, the basic idea is simple: there is a natural resonant frequency to electrons moving between energy levels in a given atomic isotope. Activating, and then reading, this frequency, usually via microwaves, gives a time-rate reading that is consistent to something like 10 ⁹ places. (See "Takeout Window.")

Time, for the pragmatic purposes of timekeeping and navigation, is therefore the gap between wave peaks , in a resonant pattern determined by atomic electron energy levels. Today, those atomic isotopes are hydrogen-1, caesium-133, and rubidium-87.

The greater the gap, the slower the time rate; or as gap distance increases, time decreases. In this way, we are likely seeing exactly the mathematical opposites in sign that showed up in Special (and General) Relativity, between the three spatial dimensions and time.

Does Relativity simply describe wave mechanics in otherwise empty space?

My best guess is, Yes.

Now, wouldn't that simplify everything, and bring us back to the fundamental discovery of Resonance Theory: "The laws of physics derive directly from the physical properties of otherwise-empty space," and, quoting  the paper's last sentence, "The Final conclusion of the theory must be that the properties of physical events are the properties of space."

If this seems to bring us right back to the recent discovery of gravitational waves, that's exactly where we should be.

Before we move on to even more exciting ways of understanding time, it is worth a very short detour, in honor of the scientists working at the LIGO labs.

As of today, we have instruments that require the energy of two black holes colliding, with the resultant release of a solar mass in energy, in order to detect gravity waves over a billion light years later.

But let's get serious about this: large-scale gravity waves are not the only game in town. Soon enough, someone will realize that they can come in almost any size, and we will start thinking of empty space as full of waves of all kinds and sizes, as the "clay" of empty space is better understood.

The Second Law of Thermodynamics

Of all of the laws of physics that might give us assistance in understanding time, the most obvious carries an appropriate nickname: the Second Law of Thermodynamics has long been called "Time's Arrow," for its apparent ability to describe how time can run in only one direction.

We should be particularly glad of this law, given Quantum Mechanics' bias toward time having no particular preferred direction, a la the Feynman Diagrams.

(Having said this, we should also give a tip of the hat to James Cronin and his discovery of the Charge-Parity invariance violation, which would appear to require a corresponding violation in time invariance in order to preserve CPT invariance all of which suggests yet one more small thing yet to be discovered.)

While the general rule at the quantum level remains that time is symmetrical going forward or backward, it is now well-demonstrated in experiment that time does indeed have an arrow, or preferred direction, at least in the case of the K(aon) mesons.

And doesn't the exception make the rule?

Unlike Quantum Mechanics, which tends to prevail in the world of the very small, the Second Law generally pertains to meta-level events, such as those of many particles, or those involving getting work from engines of varying efficiencies.

And while there are a near-infinite number of ways to express this Law (see "Quotes of the Week"), my favorites come in two flavors:

In words, we have the often-quoted (in textbooks) Max Planck description:

Every process occurring in nature proceeds in the sense in which the sum of the entropies of all bodies taking part in the process is increased. In the limit, i.e. for reversible processes, the sum of the entropies remains unchanged.

Essentially, the message is clear: things run "downhill" over time, with an increase in entropy, or randomness.

In formulaic terms, my preferred description of the Second Law comes in the form of the Gibbs Free Energy Equation, from a piece written by Willard Gibbs in 1876:

ΔG = ΔH TΔS

This states that the change in "free energy," or the energy available to do work, is equal to the change in "enthalpy" (basically, heat) less temperature times the change in entropy.

In other words, useful energy tends to be lost to heat and entropy over time. An example would be the most advanced combustion engines in cars today, which take the useful energy in gasoline or diesel and wind up losing 75% or more to heat and other non-usable dissipation.

Here, we have one of the most important physics equations regarding time, and time is not even mentioned (in this version).

One example of this Law is that of the Carnot engine, in which heat is imagined to move from a hot body to a colder one, while work is extracted from that heat in the process. A steam engine comes to mind.

And one prediction of this law is that, ultimately, the universe will experience "heat death," as all energy is equally distributed throughout the universe, entropy reaches a maximum, and therefore no more work can be done.

Although (or because) this defies the original 18th-century conception of heat within boxed walls, I like to imagine the extreme case of completely empty space: a box with no energy in it at all. Does time exist inside that box? Not that I can tell.

Then one can move to the next idea: the same space, but with two (massless) objects of exactly the same material and temperature. They just sit there, for eternity, unchanging. Is there any time involved? Not that I can tell.

So, in this world of the Second Law, what can we say about time, other than that it has a preferred direction? Time exists only in situations of energy flow.

This is helpful, and leads us directly back to the above equations solved for T in terms of Energy and Momentum. It also fits the whole idea of waves discussed above, as waves exist only when energy is injected into a system, whether it be a water wave or an accelerated proton.

Now, if it seems as though we have made some real progress in understanding and defining the nature of time, this might be the right moment to introduce an apparent paradox.

The Energy / Information Paradox

There are those who believe that these laws, and their relation to time, also apply to information certainly an interesting question to those in the technology world. This paradox involves the difference between energy and information, and their representations in the Second Law, and it goes something like this:

1.     Over time, things go to disorder (increase entropy), becoming totally chaotic (no information, distributed heat)

BUT, or AND

2.     At absolute zero, things go to total order (lots of information, no heat)

This has been bothering me for about 40 years. Perhaps we can call it the Energy / Information Paradox.

Summary

Time may be the most important and most ubiquitous physical concept about which we know essentially nothing. Stephen Hawking managed to write a whole book about it, without shedding any light on the subject whatsoever; at least he recognized the primacy of the issue, and made a lot of money from it.

There are many things to be learned about time, and I've offered quite a few interpretations here, all of which, to the best of my knowledge, are both new and true.

Finally, the exploration of these and other ideas relating to time promises to open entire new fields of science, and to affect every aspect of technology that we know and use today.

Sincerely,

Mark R. Anderson

CEO

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We also welcome your thoughts about topics you would like to suggest for future coverage in the SNS Global Report.

   "The law that entropy always increases holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of Nature. If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations then so much the worse for Maxwell's equations. If it is found to be contradicted by observation well, these experimentalists do bungle things sometimes. But if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation."

Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World(1927)

   "There have been nearly as many formulations of the second law as there have been discussions of it."

Philosopher / Physicist P.W. Bridgman (1941)

   "Clausius is the author of the sibyllic utterance, 'The energy of the universe is constant; the entropy of the universe tends to a maximum.' The objectives of continuum thermomechanics stop far short of explaining the 'universe,' but within that theory we may easily derive an explicit statement in some ways reminiscent of Clausius, but referring only to a modest object: an isolated body of finite size."

Truesdell, C., Muncaster, R.G. (1980). Fundamentals of Maxwell's Kinetic
Theory of a Simple Monatomic Gas, Treated as a Branch of Rational Mechanics, (Academic Press, New York)

   "The greatest pleasure a scientist can experience is to encounter an unexpected discovery. I am always astonished when a simple apparatus, designed to ask the right question of nature, receives a clear response. Our experiment, carried out with James Christenson, Val Fitch and Renk Turlay, gave convincing evidence that the long-lived neutral K meson (KL) decayed into two charged pions, a decay mode forbidden by CP symmetry." James W. Cronin, in his Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1980, on the unexpected discovery of charge-parity invariance violation.

   "The specifics of this mystery particle can't even be speculated at this point, but whatever its behavior ended up being, it would unquestionably behave very differently than the components of the Standard Model. Extreme speculation about its identity will naturally include anything the Standard Model currently struggles to explain most notably, dark matter. Even the Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) of dark matter aren't expected to get to the 750 GeV-range however, so the theoretical basis for this discovery is shaky at best." From an Extremetech.com article on the potential discovery of a super-massive new particle.

   "It's a hint at a possible discovery. If this is really true, then it would possibly be the most exciting thing that I have seen in particle physics in my career more exciting than the discovery of the Higgs itself." Theoretical physicist Csaba Csaki, who isn't involved in the experiments; quoted in an AP article.

   "At this point, you won't find any experimentalist who will put any weight on this: We are all very largely expecting it to go away again. --- But if it stays around, it's almost a new ball game. This particle if it's real it would be something totally unexpected that tells us we're missing something interesting." Dave Charlton, experimental physicist at the University of Birmingham (Britain), who heads the CERN LHC Atlas detector team; from an AP release.

   "The Sunway TaihuLight system demonstrates the significant progress that China has made in designing and manufacturing large-scale computation systems The fact that there are sizeable applications and Gordon Bell [award] contender applications running on the system is impressive and shows that the system is capable of running real applications and not just a stunt machine. In 2001 there were no supercomputers listed on the Top500 in China. Today China has 167 systems on the list compared to 165 systems in the US. This is the first time the US has lost the lead It is clear that they are on a path which will take them to an exascale computer by 2020, well ahead of the US plans for reaching exascale by 2023." Jack Dongarra, professor of Computer Science at the University of Tennessee, and co-author of the twice-yearly Top500 list.

   "No man has seen the whole Earth live since Apollo, and no woman ever has." Film director James Cameron, quoted in the Live Earth press release (2002).

   "While this statement was made 14 years ago, it is still true today." Ibid.

   "There's no way to totally avoid these kinds of copies in China. The laws are not even defined in a way so that we can do anything against it. We just have to take it as it is. Allegations of copycatting in China's auto industry also add to concerns about the country's ability to spur innovation, rather than merely tweaking foreign designs. --- It's a little bit sad, because you go outside and you see there is a booming economy. They don't have to rely on these kinds of things; they can find their own China way. I don't know why they go back to the time when China always copied. I was of the opinion that this time is over now." Jaguar Land Rover CEO Ralf Speth, after a Chinese court stripped his company of its patent rights, essentially empowering the copycat firm; quoted in the Financial Times. (See "Upgrades.")

The LHC's Very Large New Secret

Having discovered the Higgs Boson unfortunately named "the God particle" by the media not so long ago, just as suggested by physicists' "Standard Model," the Large Hadron Collider at CERN has just produced evidence for a possible new particle, at energies so large there is no theory to explain it.

Here is a picture straight from the LHC showing the Higgs discovery. Who says science isn't art?

The readings that finally proved the Higgs Boson.  Credit: CERN

And here is the LHC Atlas detector photo of what we might call "the Ungodly Large Particle," something definitely not suggested by the Standard Model:

Credit: CERN

"These readings show two photons arising from the 750 GeV region I swear! --- One notable thing about these readings is the CERN physicists weren't actually looking for them." From an Extremetech.com article.

The World's Smallest Atomic Clock

As we prepare to put atomic clocks into space to help regulate time-based performance of an increasingly large field of satellites, it seems a good time to show how things have shrunk since the early part of the 20th century, from room-sized to rack-sized to --

Chip-scale atomic clocks such as this, unveiled in 2004, are expected to greatly improve GPS location.  Credit: Public Domain: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=102127

The Carnot Heat Engine

The Second Law of Thermodynamics at work, following Time's Arrow in this case, from left to right, as heat flows across the diagram from a hotter to a cooler body  and work is extracted from an engine in the middle.

Carnot engine diagram (modern) - where an amount of heat QH flows from a high temperature TH furnace through the fluid of the "working body" (working substance) and the remaining heat QC flows into the cold sink TC, thus forcing the working substance to do mechanical work W on the surroundings, via cycles of contractions and expansions. Wikipedia.org.

China Eats Germany

Well on the way to a 1000% YTY increase in the Chinese government's foreign corporation purchase program, the spotlight seems to have moved from the US, where embarrassing questions about national security and sources of funds come up, to the EU, where no questions are asked.

The table below shows 5-month vs. full past-year purchases for a select list of EU countries:

From the "You Couldn't Make This Stuff Up" Department:

China Protects Its Thieves

"Earlier this month, JLR [Jaguar Land Rover] told Reuters it had begun legal action in Beijing against Jiangling Motors over its Landwind X7 SUV, which the UK-based company claims infringes the patented external designs of its Range Rover Evoque. But the Chinese patents for both models' exterior designs were designated 'invalid' by the State Intellectual Property Office at the beginning of this month, according to notices on the office's website, on grounds that the Evoque design was put on public display a year before the patent was filed." The Financial Times.

The result of having its own patents stripped (as well as those of the copycat firm) will be to eviscerate Jaguar Land Rover's ability to protect itself from theft and to prevent punishment of the copycat Jiangling.

According to the FT, "JLR and Jiangling's SUV models look almost identical from a distance but are priced very differently, with the Range Rover Evoque selling for about three times the price of the Landwind. --- Post purchase, some Landwind buyers have taken to 'upgrading' their models by fitting them with Land Rover logos and grilles from online suppliers on Taobao, an Alibaba online shopping platform similar to Ebay."

And that, of course, would bring up the current news of Alibaba being accused by dozens of firms from Inventing Nations of making an international online market for stolen designs and ripped-off products.

Credit: Financial Times

The real car on the left; the fake Chinese copy, now off the court's hook, on the right. Why stop at stealing the design, when you can also steal at least part of the Range Rover's top model name: Land Rover.

Anyone for Range Wind?

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The Tesla Purchase of SolarCity

One word: Brilliant.

Keep it up, Elon. Already own both stocks; buying more now.

The Microsoft Purchase of LinkedIn

Two words: Smart and Compatible.

Best acquisition the company has made since Skype.

RE: "SNS: Microsoft's Pivot Moment" and

"SNS: Asia Letter Q3 2016: Expansion All Around"

Mark,

[We are] all booked in for FiRe 2016.

Separately, you mentioned when I recently saw you in London, that you'd heard from various companies who've admitted to hacking back, i.e. taking some kind of vigilante action against those hacking them.

I know I've asked before, but if you had contacts within the business community who've admitted doing this to you and might be willing to discuss it either openly or at least to provide anonymous testimony, we'd love to hear it,

All the best,

Ed Butler
[Presenter, Producer, and Reporter
BBC
London, UK]

Ed,

Most companies involved in this are being quiet about it. 

But I think CrowdStrike might be willing to discuss it, at least from a theoretical view.

Let me know if you need an introduction. As you know, they were in our 60 Minutes segment, and are an alliance partner of our INVNT/IP Consortium ---

Your friend,

Mark

Subject: China real estate speculation

Mark,

 "The speculative rise in Chinese real estate prices continues unabated. In the latest twist to the story, the lower tier cities are converging on tier 1 in terms of prices gains; despite the large unoccupied inventory of houses in these locations. Houses are being bought to speculate with rather than to live in."

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ddde0ce31b76fab6a5&uprof=52&dr=1>

Uh oh, sound familiar?

Evan Anderson
[Director of Marketing and Research,
Strategic News Service; and
Director of Research, INVNT/IP
Seattle, WA]

Evan,

I thought our members might find the diagram of the dictatorship in Communist China interesting, taken from this story. I do think it is time to go back to using the term "Communist China," now that it is clear that there is no intent by the Communist Party leaders to either transform the country into a free-market capitalist model (vs. its current InfoMerc model) nor to turn power over to a democratically elected government.

Here is what the Chinese citizens get instead:

Mark Anderson

Mark,

Interesting news from SNS members Ragnar [Kruse] & Petra [Vorsteher]:

Mobile ad tech company Smaato has been acquired by a Chinese firm for $148 million

https://www.businessinsider.com/smaato-acquired-for-148-million-2016-6

Scott Schramke
[IT Director
Strategic News Service
Seattle, WA]

Subject: CHINA AFTER US FIGHTER JET ENGINES

Mark,

Department of Justice
Office of Public Affairs

California Resident Convicted of Conspiring to Illegally Export Fighter Jet Engines and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle to China

<https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/california-resident-convicted-conspiring-illegally-export-fighter-jet-engines-and-unmanned>

Jack Cory
[Editor
IslandGuardian.com
Friday Harbor, WA]

Mark,

Please see email below, for a one hour presentation on Wednesday at 9am Pacific time.

This is important information for life on this planet to not only be well aware of and sensitive to, but being able to visualize this data would greatly help world citizens better appreciate how it might be wisely managed. Essentially, we would like to know what the data is, where it is and how we can access it.

If we can see a way to do this, it might be another project for us this summer, and even after this summer, since you can continue your relationship with the NASA WorldWind Project going forward well beyond our short time here together.

Please register if you are interested --

Patrick Hogan

[Project Director
NASA World Wind
NASA Ames Research Center
Moffett Field, CA]

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Andrew Rakestraw is a Foreign Affairs Officer in the Office of Global Change at the U.S. Department of State. He joined the Department of State in 2013. He is the lead U.S. negotiator on transparency issues at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and also leads negotiations at the International Maritime Organization related to greenhouse gas emissions. He received a BA in international studies at the University of Washington and a JD from University of California, Hastings College of Law. 

Leif Hockstad is a senior Environmental Engineer in U.S. EPA's Office of Atmospheric Programs' Climate Change Division. He joined EPA in 2002 and currently serves as the team leader of the U.S. greenhouse gas emissions inventory, produced annually to meet U.S. commitments to international agreements on climate change. Mr. Hockstad entered the environmental field after receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Virginia.

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Past Seminars: Check out recordings of previous CMS Applications Policy Speaker Series talks on the CMS website: https://carbon.nasa.gov/policy_series.html? 

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Patrick,

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Thank you for your efforts on this,

Your friend,

Mark Anderson

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