My earlier rumouring was false, I hear third hand that the NRC committee on Beyond Einstein has not consolidated their reporting and sent it to the NRC, they are having one more meeting right about nowish.
Interesting.
Still due to submit to NASA Sep 8th, with an announcement on Sep 9th from Griffin.
We'll see if NASA still has any of that money left by then...
Best wishes to everyone seeking NASA funding. We should start lobbying for the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer to be orbited on one of the contingency shuttle flights. 1.5 billion has been spent, international partners are frustrated and the experiment is sitting completed in a clean room. AMS is an opportunity to do some real physics on ISS.
Here's an awesome link for those of us who aren't ready to seriously debate Einstein:
http://www.phys.uu.nl/~thooft/theorist.html
Please pass it around.
Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer.
Second the motion...
"Hey, look. We detected an anti-Carbon-12 nucleus in Cosmic Rays. There must be an anti-star out there doing antinucleosynthesis, or anyway there must have been before it went antisupernova. What a great scientific return on $1.5 x 10^9 investment!"
I understand that heads of all major departments will be briefed on Sept. 5th, and the public press conference on the 6th. I also understand that the true result has been leaked and is out there (somewhere); and also that there are false rumors out there. Since I've heard two contradictory rumors about the result, I am sure the second part is right.