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Cosmology
Nice to see your helping hand in Category:Cosmology. For some time most of the work of fighting back the weirdos, believers in already falsified theories and original researches did rest nearly on the shoulder of User:Joshuaschroeder alone.

It would be nice to setup a WikiProject Cosmology to better coordinate the articles and make some rough high level planning. In its current state, there is IMHO an imbalance between some lengthy and some very short articles. Some should be split and some merged. Also I'm not sure we are up to date with links to the observational cosmology articles. There are always contributors adding telescopes, experiments, surveys, etc. when they popup on a astronomy news site.

Pjacobi 22:04, 2005 Feb 24 (UTC)

Thanks. I don't know what a WikiProject is, but it sounds like a great idea. It would be nice if the cosmology category could have a few long fixtures, like the dark energy, dark matter and large scale structure of the cosmos articles and a bunch of complementary, shorter, ancillary and potentially more technical articles. I feel like the major components are in place, but a lot of work needs to be done. I agree also that the observational side needs to be improved. --Joke137 22:46, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

See WikiProject and WikiProject best practices. Related example: WikiProject Telescopes. --Pjacobi 00:22, 2005 Feb 27 (UTC)

capitalization of Big Crunch and Big Rip
From Google, most references seem to use capitalization. This seems to be because the context is usually referring to a one-time hypothetical future event (the Big Crunch or the Big Rip) rather than a generic event (a big crunch in a hypothetical cyclical universe). I renamed the pages back accordingly.

If you disagree, we could propose a vote at Requested moves to gather consensus. -- Curps 20:37, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)

No, it's not a big deal. I thought it was more consistent with the capitalization policy for article titles, but I'm not worried. --Joke137 21:15, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Big Bang
Thanks for the feedback! And here I was just about to tell you how nice it was that the reference section was no longer a disgrace. Of course, what's more important is that you and Joshua are confirming that I'm not introducing errors and correcting the ones I make, so I appreciate that. —JerryFriedman 19:24, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

Cosmology Move.... Why?
Please explain why you moved the cosmology page? Dragons flight 00:21, May 10, 2005 (UTC)

Cosmology Edit Conflict
I just finished rewriting cosmology only to find that you had been doing the same and produced an edit conflict. I am going to post my version, so that it can be in the history, and we can work at reconciling the two. Dragons flight 20:01, May 16, 2005 (UTC)

 * OK, great. --Joke137 20:04, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I really liked your additions. I just stuck them on the front of what I have added. Although a number of small alterations probably need to be made, I'm actually pretty happy with the straightforward merge, as it seems our additions were in different, complementary directions. --Joke137 20:11, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

alpha beta gamma
I clearly recall discussing this chestnut with Ralph Alpher, who is apparently still alive and could be reached if so, but the article I cite says in part:

"Gamow and Alpher should have been the only authors on the official paper announcing the result, but Gamow decided to invite the physicist Hans Bethe to become a third co-author. This resulted in authorship by Alpher, Bethe and Gamow, which was a pun on the Greek letters alpha, beta and gamma."

Remember, a lot of cross-sections were not known or poorly known in those days, so they may have asked Bethe for help with those. I will send an e-mail to Ed Salpeter (with whom I have published) to see if he remembers. Pdn 02:38, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

-- well I see Ned Wright's page says: "A later paper by Alpher, Bethe & Gamow describing the hot Big Bang is one of the classic jokes in physics: Gamow added Bethe's name to this paper just to make it sound like alpha, beta, gamma. Bethe actually didn't do any work on it." so maybe I will recant. Let's wait till I hear from Ed Salpeter. (I hope) Pdn 02:42, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

I have rec'd no reply from Ed Salpeter so I e-mailed Alpher - let's allow a few days. Peter Pdn 17:52, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Having no replies, I called Alpher in Florida and he does not recall Bethe doing any work on the paper. So I will fix it back (later - must go out now) (OK if you fix it back) SOrry. He recommended I called Hans Bethe, but he died March 5, so we'll go with Alpher (I would not have bothered Bethe anyway) Pdn 18:40, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Just heard from Ed Salpeter again and he refers to Gamow's article in  "Perspectives in Modern Physics ",ed.Marshak,1966. Gamow's account supports the popular one, and as Ed S. was not involved, I should not have cited his guesswork. So please ignore any previous comments - there is no "delta" to the Alpha Beta Gamma story. Pdn 01:55, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Liouville's theorem (Hamiltonian)
The cleanup tag on this is probably not unjustified, but a more constructive set of criticisms from someone with a clear idea of coherence might help Linuxlad 21:32, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

OK, await your edits with interest - but don't for Heavens' sake try to sell it as just a trivial consequence of symplectic geometry :-) Bob

Well, it's not exactly pellucid to a mere failed radio-astronomer, (too notationally heavy IMHO) but I'll read it again tomorrow. Linuxlad 23:16, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC) Pdn 02:01, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Dark matter
Could you take a look at the last several edits to dark matter? They seem to be coming from well-intentioned editors with an incomplete understanding of the subject (see:Talk:dark matter), and in my opinion the changes need to be reverted and section clarified, but I don't really have the time right now to adequately address the issue. Dragons flight 18:49, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)

I did what I could to make this all clear. I'm sure it could still use a lot of polishing. Joke137 20:51, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks. Dragons flight 02:47, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)

Plasma cosmology
I'm not exactly a physicist, so I'm wondering how much work this article needs: Plasma cosmology. Decius 00:33, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

To be perfectly honest, I think it needs a lot of work. I don't think it makes it very clear what exactly Alfvén is proposing, or what the objections are. It also looks like a page that is very hard to edit, because any attempt to clean it up is most likely to offend someone and be reverted.

There are a number of things on the page that don't belong there. I had never heard about the Velikhovsky stuff, and it probably should be moved. The plasma cosmology is serious science. I happen to think that it is discredited science, but it is at least possible to cogently list its merits and objections. Likewise, Arp doesn't really have a place on the page because his ideas about non-standard cosmology are different. The plasma cosmology ought to be presented as a coherent whole and not mixed together randomly with other ideas from non-standard cosmology.

It seems to me that the biggest objection to plasma cosmology – other than the clear, quantitative successes of the relatively simple although somewhat ad-hoc Lambda-CDM model in understanding structure formation, CMB anisotropy and primordial element abundances (among others) – is that the plasma cosmology is not consistent with the cosmological principle that we should live nowhere special in the universe. For example, X-ray backgrounds and the CMB are both isotropic to a few percent or better. If the observable universe were due to a plasma explosion of the type Alfvén has hypothesized, that would mean that the explosion is both very nearly isotropic (which is hard to imagine for colliding regions of matter and antimatter) and that we live at the very center of the explosion. –Joke137 19:11, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * No doubt, the page needs some attention from people working in cosmology. I first read of plasma cosmology back in '94 or thereabouts, and since then I've occasionally checked up on the theory. I personally don't accept it or reject it, since I'm not familiar enough with physics and cosmology to recognize all its problems. An interesting 'concomitant' of the theory is the idea that the red-shift of distant galaxies is not in fact caused by the doppler effect. Thanks very much for taking a look at the article. Decius 21:06, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * We musnt confuse Alfvens model of the Universe as being the whole of plasma cosmology however. Alfven was simply one of the pioneers, and indeed some of his ideas have been rejected even from within plasma cosmology.  The plasma cosmology page is inconsistent entirely because of years old battles with BB proponents over the contents of the page.  It was impossible to correctly portray the field without constant interruptions and disclaimers being made by BB props, so most of us simply stopped working on the page.  I will monitor any changes made to it.  thanks.  Also, need to point out that Plasma Cosmology is NOT a coherent whole yet, it is in its infancy and indeed requires the mixing of ideas from other parts of non-standard cosmology in order to portray certain relationships between all the data.  A long long time ago the article was in far better shape than currently, until BB props started removing information and making subpages so that the whole thing turned into a jumbled mess with no clear picture of why information X is pointing to information Y. This was all back in late 2003.  --Ionized

lambda-cdm
see you on Talk:Lambda-CDM model :) Boud 11:40, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Electric Universe
On behalf of the people with actual scientific education, I would like to thank you for participating in the Electric Universe model VFD. DS 21:39, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

Universe
Hi,

Since you claim to be a cosmologist, could you peek at my comment Talk:Universe? Thanks, --R.Koot 23:42, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

In regards to Hindenburg
Hello,

In regards to your concerns about the Paul von Hindenburg article, I based my conclusions upon John Wheeler-Bennett's biography, Hindenburg the Wooden Titan and Andreas Dorplan's biography Hindenburg and Weimar Republic. Perhaps my comments needed to re-edited to sound a little less POV, but what I wrote is absolutely true. I glad you liked the article, but it needs to be expanded somewhat. There is a book by Jeremy Noakes and Geoffrey Pridham called Nazism 1919-1945 - V.1 - The Rise to Power 1919-1934 - A Documentary Reader, which is a collection of primary documents translated into English. This book has a quote from a meeting about Hindenburg and Hitler in August 1932 where Hindenburg tells Hitler that he can't in good conscience appoint him Chancellor out of concerns over what Hitler might do if achived power. Less then six months later, in January 1933, Hindenburg still had his misgrivings about Hitler, but appointed him Chancellor bascially because everyone round him was telling him to take that step. All of Hindenburg's friends like Franz von Papen were telling him just to appoint Hitler and being happy. Hindenburg, being the weak-willed and stupid old man that he was, finally gave in and appointed Hitler even through he thought Hitler was a very evil man. I just need to go to the library so I copy the quote, the book, page number, etc, etc. I haven't quite gotten arould to it yet, but I will.

Anyhow, my point is that Hindenburg had a choice between giving and not giving Hitler the Chancellorship, and he didn't have the strenght to do the right thing. I hope to bring this out in a NPOV point of way. This is my own opinion, but most historians would probably argree with it. William Shakespeare once said that some men are born great, some become great and some have greatness thrust upon them. Most historians would say that Hindenburg belongs in the last category. The real problem with Hindenburg was that he looked like a hero, and most people throught he was the real McCloy, but as Wheeler-Bennett put it, Hindenburg was a wooden titan. He was a stupid, small-minded and spineless man who let himself be used by kamarilla around him. Anyhow, I should stop wasting your time. Cheers! A.S. Brown 03:33, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Hi, thanks a lot for your response. I have tried to edit the article a little to address my concern, but feel free to alter it if you would like to do things differently. I was trying for the ideal of WP:AWT. In any case, if the article stays in such good shape as it is expanded, it will eventually be an impressive article indeed. –Joke137 19:21, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for improving the article. And thanks for discussing the matter with me first. After dealing with some of the other people around here, it so nice to deal with someone who wants to have a civilized discussion and avoids name-calling and personal attacks. Cheers! A.S. Brown 01:44, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Black holes
Joke -

Why do I dislike black holes? Simply put, they seem to me to represent relativity biting its own tail. To wit: All in all, a passage through the event horizon is eerily similar to breaking the lightspeed barrier of special relativity.
 * 1) Space and time exchange coordinate axes with the event horizon.
 * 2) The singularity, to which the mass-energy of the star gets concentrated in the Riessner-Nordstrõm black holes, must propogate through coordinate time is a spacelike fashion.
 * 3) The Newtonian potentials within a black hole and with respect to a distant observer are less than −c2/2.

So. Should GR be acting like that? To me the answer is kind of "yes" and "no". On the one hand, Kruscal and his successors have shown that this is a theorem of GR. So Einstein's GR admits black holes, and that is simply that. Yet at the same time, I have heard that Einstein felt that a good theory should not behave that way (which he used as a proff that GR does not admit black holes). I have chosen to agree with the anti-black-hole Einstein, but the price that I pay is that I cannot entirely accept GR as-is. My overall feelings are summed up fairly well in general_relativity, even though that is intended to reflect the overall feelings of the field itself. (Then again, I wrote it.)

So what do I think the candidate black holes are? Something along the gravastar line: a gravitationally collapsed object that has not fallen inside its own event horizon.

You may also be interested to know that I have been working on an alternative to Einstein's GR that builds on it but brings my own biases on the issue (no black holes and gravitational length contraction) into play. It is called Flat Background General Relativity. Feel free to take a look at it if you like. Note that I am trying to get it published. It is in a state where it does merit peer-review (which I feel safe in saying because it was peer-reviewed last year), and I am hoping at some point to actually attain publication.

So hopefully you see why I am interested in GR but hate black holes. It actually creates a problem for me since my goal here is to document Einstein's GR as it is and not as I want it to be. I am constantly having in certain cases to check myself and be sure that I am reporting on the facts as the field sees them as opposed to how I see them or want them to be seen. That is part of what went wrong with the equivalence principle and why I eventually went back to it one last time to clear out what I came to realize was junk of my own making. That is also why the new GR page is very sparse of discussing black holes, with my only mentioning the most salient facts and referencing the Wikipedia article on the topic. --EMS | Talk 21:55, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

I haven't really thought much about black holes recently, but doesn't the interchange of time and space coordinates disappear in the Kruskal metric (i.e. isn't it a property of the Schwarzschild solution)?

I haven't had much time to look at your paper yet, unfortunately. From reading the introduction, and some parts, am I right to say that what you're doing is leaving the Einstein-Hilbert part of the action alone, but having the non-gravitational part of the action couple to some kind of "flat" projection of the metric? Is the procedure for generating this metric coordinate independent? What do you mean by "flat" -- Ricci flat (Rμν = 0 or vanishing scalar curvature R = 0)? –Joke137 18:51, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

Notification of request for arbitration
In response to your repeated selective removal of facts, your false biased POV statements, and clear lack of desire for objectivity or thorough information, committed in the physical cosmology section of the article cosmology, I have created a request for arbitration. Go ahead and make your statement on the arbitration page, not that it will make any difference. Your deceptions that I have pointed out are plain to see in the cosmology article history, and the only way that the arbitrators will side with you is if they too have blind faith in the big bang belief, as well as the dominant temperament to suppress any facts that indicate otherwise. -216.112.42.6
 * note to Anon user above: it appears that indeed arbitrators have blind faith in the Big Bang, as evidenced by the debate over removing its Featured status. Not sure how your little battle is going, but I can state with certainty that in the case of Big Bang featured status removal, arbitrators are NOT looking at the past talk pages and all of the gathered evidence from the articles history.  Its getting votes to keep from random people with no backup to their vote, and complete ignorance to facts presented.  It is absolutely absurd. --Ionized 17:53, August 10, 2005 (UTC)

Ladder Paradox
Hello - There is a two-person discussion going on at Ladder paradox and we cannot seem to resolve it. We are very much in need of a tie-breaker who understands special relativity as applied to these paradoxes. If you have time to help out it would be appreciated. PAR 04:18, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

WikiProject GTR
Hi, some of us are in the early stages of forming a project to improve Category:General relativity related categories. I see User:Mpatel mentioned your name as someone who has recently made useful contributions in this area. In case you might be interested in joining the project, I wanted to let you know that I am garnering comment on the draft of the future project pages at User:Hillman/Wikiproject_GTR_draft. Sometime in the next week or so we will probably publically announce the project.---CH (talk) 06:08, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Geodesic Deviation
Hello. I have seen some of your contributions before and have a sense that you understand GR. A back-and-forth has developed between User_talk:Ems57fcva and me about whether and how geodesic deviation can be used to explain falling objects in the Earth's gravity field. Perhaps you could look at our respective talk pages and the sandbox page: User talk:Mpatel/sandbox/General relativity and comment. I do not insist on my original discussion being in there, but I feel that Ems57fcva needs to understand geodesic deviation before he edits much more of the GR article. Thanks Pdn 05:09, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

Standard convention on geometric units?
Hi, just saw (or maybe just processed for first time) your comment. Can you revisit this page and clarify? Alarmed---CH (talk) 23:14, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Can you do me a favor and obtain the textbook by Wald, General Relativity, and reconcile what you are saying with his Appendix F? Can you give a textbook citation which uses either of the two conventions you mention?  TIA ---CH  (talk) 19:40, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

OwenX's RfA
Thank you for your support on my RfA. Your trust in me is well appreciated. Owen× ☎  22:15, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Brans-Dicke
Hi, can you see the talk page for a request I made re your recent change? Also, please be careful in future edits not the break up the flow of the existing writing. TIA---CH (talk) 18:43, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Apologist
Cool idea Reddi! Can I get this one, plus one each for quantum mechanics, special relativity, general relativity and evolution theory? --Pjacobi 22:05, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

Request for arbitration
It is clear that User:Reddi will not engage me. I have started a Requests for arbitration. Thanks for your help. --Joshuaschroeder 18:12, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

WP:NPOV and Big bang
Thanks for your comments. It is important to understand that although a user editing this article may have his own POV, this does not make his edits de-facto POV. It is impossible for anyone to have a neutral point of view on a subject unless they know nothing about the subject. Rather, editors with competing POV's can do great work in creating neutral articles by collaborating to ensure that all perspectives are advanced factually and neutrally. Although this user appears to have a strong POV of his own, I can find no evidence that his edits could not be made to improve the article if they were met more cooperatively by the opposing side.

As my userpage says, I am going on a Wikibreak for Thanksgiving starting in about five minutes, so I apologise if I do not reply further. Also, in the future this sort of commentary should go on the talk page of the relevant RFC. Thanks. --Ryan Delaney talk 19:03, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

stop
I have decided to stop editing for the time being. Basically, I'm tired of arguing on the internet, and feel like there are more productive outlets for my energy. –Joke137 15:45, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Welcome to my world. I was on sabbatical for four months after the Harmonics Theory fiasco. The desire to contribute eventually came back, but you'll notice that I still stayed out of the Big Bang dispute. I just hope that the RfCs and RfA produce some form of useful resolution.--Christopher Thomas 16:22, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Hello, Joke137. Sorry to hear the POV-pushers have gotten you down. Take a wikibreak and please come back when you're feeling up to it again. There are other people here who can help tend the articles getting hit by the pseudoscientists. I do not have the background to help as directly as you do, but I'll do what I can! Take it easy... — HorsePunchKid →龜 2005-10-23 21:10:27Z

POVs, Wikipedia and understanding
Thanks for your email. In my experience, the best articles are those in which editors with conflicting POVs find a way to work together. The give-and-take process can be extremely tedious and frustrating, or very pleasurable, depending on the participating editor's attitudes. Time and patience are also important factors that sometimes we forget in our passionate exchanges about articles that are controversial. Without taking sides, I would encourage you and other editors to take some time off of editing and engaging in discussions on the talk pages of cosmology articles. Edit other articles, start a new one, offer your help at the Reference desk, etc. Come back in a month of two. Let others contribute, and you may be pleasantly surprised. Sometimes new editors are reluctant to participate when they see such unruly behavior, long-winded and heated debates, and so many reverts in an article. As in many aspects of human interaction, you cannot expect other people to change, but you can ... and when you do, it is quite remarkable to see the impression that causes on others...≈ jossi fresco ≈ t • @ 17:45, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

 * I'd offer to try to produce a version of Big Bang that addresses both sides' concerns, but at present I don't think it'll do any good. User:Elerner has already declared that his version of the article is the only one which he will accept, and User:Reddi appears to have an irreconcilable difference with other editors over how to judge the amount of scientific support for plasma cosmology, which according to WP:NPOV determines the degree to which Big Bang and Ultimate fate of the universe should discuss it. These points were both made clear during the RFC. Without admin backing, I don't think any other version will be accepted by these two editors. --Christopher Thomas 20:33, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Arbitration accepted
Requests for arbitration/Reddi 2 has been accepted. Please place evidence at Requests for arbitration/Reddi 2/Evidence. Proposals and comments may be placed at Requests for arbitration/Reddi 2/Workshop. Fred Bauder 22:09, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

arXiv template

 * You asked on my talk page:

I think your template is brilliant. One suggestion: to make it quicker to use, perhaps it could be set up to work as follows { { arXiv | hep-th/1234567 } } ? Why is the redundant archive = and id = notation necessary? –Joke137 16:36, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
 * The idea of using a template for links to external sites like this is to future-proof the linking. If arXiv decided to change the format of their URLs, we can simply alter a single template and every link which uses that template changes to suit. The reason for explicitly separating out the archive and id components is to allow them to be combined together any way we like. Another reason is that it would, at a later date, be possible to search all uses of the template for links to a particular archive. HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 17:12, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!
Now that my RfA is fully and officially completed, I want to thank you for your support. I appreciate your confidence that I can do the job. -- SCZenz 19:02, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Hi,
I've bumped into several of your edits recently. I thought that I should invite you over to WikiProject Physics and especially the discussions at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Physics; I don't think I've seen you there before. linas 02:48, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Well, I've decided to add myself. –Joke 15:54, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

History of the 2.7 K Temperature
I'm interested as to why this article is irrelevant, when it applies to those people who feature in the article? --Iantresman 19:20, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
 * History of the 2.7 K Temperature Prior to Penzias and Wilson, (PDF 1995) A. K. T. Assis, M. C. D. Neves

Hi Ian, I agree it is an interesting article. But it belongs in the cosmic microwave background article. It is very tangentially related to the work of all these people! The links from biographical articles should be articles directly about the subject, not articles that merely mention the subject. –Joke 20:44, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

BD2412's RfA
Thanks, Joke 137, for supporting my RfA - I'll do my best as an admin to make the reality of Wikipedia rise to the level of the dream. BD2412 T 17:46, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Awolf002 RfA
Thank you very much for your support for my RfA. I will do everything I can to justify your trust in me. Awolf002 03:22, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Yet Another RFA Thank You Note to clutter up your talk page...
Joke137:

Just wanted to drop you a note to say thanks for supporting me in my recent RFA. Your claim that you've never seen better responses in an RFA before was particularly encouraging. I'm humbled by the compliment, and hope to always live up to your expectations.

All the best. → Ξxtreme Unction {yak ł blah } 21:07, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Vacuum Fluctuations
As part of the Casimir Effect dispute you mention that the positive Zero point energy of harmonic oscillators is a more 'concrete' explanation of the Casimir Effect. What do you mean by that? Virtual particles are not observable, but it seems that they give a more concrete explanation about what the vacuum energy is. In contrast, the reasoning from the uncertainty principle seems very abstract.

 * It is not reasoning from the uncertainty principle. In quantum electrodynamics, you write the electromagnetic field as a sum of oscillators of different frequencies. These were the harmonic oscillators that were mentioned. Each has a vacuum energy. This energy depends on the boundary conditions. The Feynman diagram picture is more picturesque, but thinking about it as the ground state fluctuations of a second quantized field is probably more correct, since the virtual particles are just useful calculating tools: they cannot be observed, and do not propagate on shell. –Joke 19:03, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

What is meant by the velocity of empty space, let alone a non-zero velocity? Reasoning from a speculative energy-time uncertainty principle seems similarly mystical. A nonfluctuating zero energy means perfect precision and thus infinite time uncertainty. It seems like that would have us conclude that we don't know when the vacuum is constant.

The abstract nature of these principles seems like less of an explanation of this phenomena and more like the mere statement of a more general phenomena. While it is often fine to reason about specific situations from general principles, in this case it doesn't seem that it produces an effective explanation. Also, it seems like it would be difficult to adapt a wave-based explanation of the general uncertainty principle to the specific case of vacuum energy. What would be meant by 'a precise measurement of the frequency of the vacuum cannot be done simultaneously with a precise measurement of the vacuum's position? -- Intangir 22:33, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Yes, it can be concretely calculated. It takes some formalism to do so, though, which is why these statements seem vague. The essential idea is that uncertainty relations prevent you from saying that "there is no excitation of the vacuum with frequency omega" just like for a harmonic oscillator in its ground state you cannot say "it is at precisely x = 0 and has vanishing momentum." –Joke 19:03, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

I have also a seperate but related question. While we can compute a vacuum energy with externally legless Feynman diagrams, it seems that without interaction with real particles we wouldn't observe these entirely virtual events. It seems to me that there would be no observable predictions which would receive contributions from legless diagrams. In short, Feynman-style QED seems to suggest that 'vacuum energy' is instead just another prediction about the nature of particle interactions. I think what is calculated is something like restrictions on the allowed loop contributions between the plates. It suppose that this could be interpreted as interactions with the fleeting loop 'universes' which are intrinsic to the vacuum- a measureable vacuum energy. But, it also seems that this could be interpreted as an aspect of the plates interaction. The two different interpretations might say different things about whether 'vacuum energy' gravitates. -- Intangir 22:49, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Well, the reason you get a different answer between the plates is that the Green function for computing Feynman diagrams has different boundary conditions than in free space. So you should get a different result for the vacuum energy. –Joke 19:03, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Interesting. Thanks for the response. -- Intangir 19:47, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

History of science wikiproject
Please consider joining the History of Science WikiProject.--ragesoss 18:34, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Dog breeds by country
Regarding your comment on List of dog breeds by country, "...someone should try to make this page more complete..." You're doing a fine job, "someone"! ;-) Thanks.  Elf | Talk 17:54, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks for your kind comment. I don't know too much about dogs, but I know a little about breeds, and I'm sick of editing cosmology articles so I thought I'd spend some time making improvements in a less controversial area! –Joke 19:04, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, that's how I periodically get involved in the whole kitchenware realm... So if you want noncontroversial, stay away from the dog-fighting breeds pages. :-) I'm sure you've also figured out that you can determine each breed's supposed country from its breed page, but there's also a summary (cheat sheet for working from) here. Elf | Talk 20:00, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Adminship
Would you be interested in being nominated for adminship? Dragons flight 22:36, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

 * I took a couple of days to think this over. I'm flattered you thought of me. Sure, if you honestly think I'm a good candidate, I'm willing to give the RFA-roast a shot. –Joke 00:38, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Okay, I've gotten the ball started at Requests for adminship/Joke137. You'll need to answer the questions and add it to the WP:RFA queue according to the instructions there.  I can't guarantee your roast will be a success, but I certainly do believe you deserve recognition for the work you do, and have the potential to be a good admin.  Dragons flight 23:54, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

VSL expert editing.
say, thanks for noticing that the VSL article needs some expert attention. the article was created by an electrical engineer who was/is a firm believer in VSL. i am also an electrical engineer, and do not pretend to understand the deep cosmological arguments or math used thereof by the proponents, but i do understand the issue of our ability to measure dimensionful quantities vs. dimensionless quantities (essentially what Michael Duff has said in refutation of VSL) and had debated the article originator a little on that issue when he started the article. i looked at the reference you added, and it appears pretty good. r b-j 18:58, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks. I'm going to try to take a look at it in the next few days. –Joke 19:00, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Self Creation Cosmology
Hi Joke! And thank you for your welcome.

The page "Self Creation Cosmology ", and a section in "Non-standard cosmology" that I have contributed has been tagged: "This article may contain original research or unverified claims" and indeed I, as the contributor, am the originator of the theory, yet all the work mentioned has been published in refereed journals, and developed in over 50 other author citations.

My understanding of the policy on "Original Research" is that is does not apply in this case. Garthbarber

Hi Garth, you're correct that the NOR policy does not apply in this case. Still, it would be best to have a disinterested editor go over these pages. –Joke 13:35, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for removing the tag from the "Self Creation Cosmology" page, may the tag also be removed from the section on the "Non-standard cosmology" page as well?Garthbarber

Hi, it was actually William M. Connolley who removed the tag, after I consulted with him. I just removed it from the non-standard cosmology page. –Joke 14:27, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Gravity
Hi, I really don't know how it got translated. I've been reading it and, leaving aside my poor knowledge of physics and its vocabulary, it seems to be a correct translation - no automatic or machine translation at any rate.

I only translated the category thingy, and the article was created/translated by an anonymous IP, so I do not know if any message will get to them, given the ubiquity of the dynamic IP system in Spain.

Cheers,

--Seanver 23:02, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Welcome back!
What can I say but, "Welcome back!" I know I'm sometimes something of a black sheep in the Wikipedia community, and I'm not sure if you appreciate me or not, but let me just say I'm glad for your contributions. Sorry about the changes to the cosmology page, but I tried to explain my edits there. Let me know whenever I can help (even if that means you want me to stay away from a page -- I'm willing to do that for you). --ScienceApologist 20:35, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Hi, welcome back yourself. I'm not sure if I'd call you a black sheep, but you certainly have more patience and energy for science editing controversies than anybody else involved with the project! I've certainly reached the point where I want nothing to do with the interminable debates on redshift and tired light: I've been trying to edit other articles, but I find I'm drawn back to the cosmology pages because there is so much work to be done and so few experts participating. I'm not particular either way about the cosmology page, I just reverted because there seemed to be a consensus on talk. I originally wrote it that way because, I figure, there are about a hundred pages on Wikipedia devoted the physical cosmology, so we don't really need to emphasize that aspect of things. –Joke 17:28, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Wayne Gretzky FAC
Joke, I made a lot of changes to the article and left some comments on the FAC page. Thanks for your feedback!  RasputinAXP talk contribs 14:59, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations!
Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia 15:33, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

OH my GOSH, he has MOP! And I am partially to blame! Ack! KillerChihuahua?!? 16:14, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Congrats on becoming an admin!-- May the Force be with you! Shreshth91 ($ |-| r 3 $ |-| t |-|)  16:21, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
 * yes, congratulations and good luck--MONGO 16:26, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Congrats. —Ruud 16:27, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Congratulations :) —Quarl (talk) 2006-02-07 19:53Z

 * Congratulations Joke! And don't worry about my criticism, even aside from the small little problem you deserve this. -- a.n.o.n.y.m  t 19:59, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Congratulations, you're very welcome and good luck! If you ever get stuck don't hesitate to ask. Steve block  talk 20:06, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia namespace...
If you are looking for areas in the Wikipedia namesapce (not AfD), you could always check out featured pictures. We are always looking for outside opinion on the images. Just thought I'd mention it. Cheers, and congrats. -- LV (Dark Mark)  17:06, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Also, might I add that you should probably create some kind of user page. Anything really. Admins should be welcoming to new users and a user page is one great way to show your welcomeness (no idea if that's a real word). Of course it is up to you, but even a few words would be nice. Thanks. -- LV (Dark Mark)  17:11, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

I had a look at the featured pictures. That was fun – I'll try to keep an eye on these in the future. As for the user page, after a year of not editing it, I'm not sure I'm ready to rashly go and put something there. Of course, this being a wiki, other users are welcome to edit it... –Joke 04:22, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Put that at the top of your user page in some form ("I need a User Page. Please help by editing this page!") or somesuch, along with any specifics - friendly, useful, etc - that you want to see, and I guarantee you'll get a nice UserPage in almost no time. KillerChihuahua?!? 09:36, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Done, belatedly. Thanks. –Joke 01:15, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Your RfA
I am just afraid that the candidates with less proven history are more likely to burn out, lose it, or make bad mistakes. You may, probably, will do none of those...but given what has been going on here lately, you know what I mean. We are letting to many unproven users be admins. Likely you will be a good one, especially with your civil comment on my oppose vote, but I just like to be certain. If you were here a little longer and such, I would have voted support. You know more about yourself than I do...I'll I've got is a bunch diffs :). Happy editing! Voice of  All T 22:16, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

I have received your message. Best wish for your adminship, but having something useful in your user page will be much better.--Jusjih 08:24, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I agree. Why not put a nice picture of a doggy, or a monkey, or something.  In all seriousness, congratulations - I'm sure you'll make a great administrator as you build up experience.   P r o t o  ||   t <font color="#224400">y <font color="#446600">p <font color="#668800">e   09:32, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Cosmology page
Hey Joke137, it would appear that for the moment, you and I seem to care the most about our desire to present physical and metaphysical cosmology fairly and in their own light, so hopefully we can work together on this to find a solution that will benefit all WP readers. See my comments on the Cosmology Talk page. Cheers, C.Melton 17:51, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Requests for arbitration/Reddi 2
This request for arbitration is closed. The Arbitration Committee has imposed the following remedies: Violations of the remedies imposed on Reddi shall be enforced by brief blocks, up to a week in the event of repeat violations. After 5 blocks the maximum block shall increase to one year. Blocks are automatically recorded at but should also be logged at Requests_for_arbitration/Reddi_2.
 * 1) Reddi shall for one year be limited to one revert per article per week, excepting obvious vandalism. Further, he is required to discuss any content reversions on the article's talk page.
 * 2) Reddi is placed on Probation for one year. He may be banned from any article by any administrator for good cause. Each ban shall be recorded together with the reason at Requests_for_arbitration/Reddi_2. A notice shall be placed on the talk page of the article and Reddi shall be notified.
 * 3) Any three administrators, for good cause, may extend either Reddi's ban or probation in one year increments. Any extension shall be documented at Requests_for_arbitration/Reddi_2.

For the Arbitration Committe, --Ryan Delaney talk 06:44, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Empty Nest
Hi Joke, I am working on the Talk page to rebute the deletion request. Thanks for your quick moves (of course I hope they were too quick). FredrickS (UTC)

Mediation
So, I have dutifully taken the mediation of plasma cosmology. Before we start, I would like to know what form of mediation you would like to take? You guys basically have three options: the first (and most popular) is to just do it on the wiki, probably at Wikipedia talk:Requests for mediation/Plasma cosmology. The second is to do it by email (I wouldn't recommend it as there are quite a few users listed). And the third is to do it be IRC. Please respond at Wikipedia talk:Requests for mediation/Plasma cosmology where you would like to do it. Thanks. Sasquatch t|c 05:19, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Okay, now that we have all agreed to do it on the Wiki, I have intiated the next step which is an intial statement to see where we all stand. Just state your point of view on the issues at hand without making references to others or the conduct of them. Just to let you know, I have been reading over the talk page and will address the concern of needing a person who understands plasma comology. I feel after reading it, I have a pretty good grasp of it as I am pretty good in science. However, the issues seem to extend beyond just simple right and wrong on the issue but rather into what should be included and where we should draw the line. I hope, as mediator, to rectify these differences and to reach a consensus. As a last note, I suggest you put the mediation page on your watchlist as I will not always give messages like this. Thanks! Sasquatch t|c 01:28, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

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Kyle Busch

Kyle Thomas Busch (born May 2, 1985) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 8 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 for Richard Childress Racing, part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 33 Chevrolet Camaro also for RCR, and part-time in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, driving the No. 7 Chevrolet Silverado for Spire Motorsports. Busch is the 2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series champion and the 2015 and 2019 Cup Series champion. Busch is currently 9th on the all-time NASCAR Cup Series wins list and his dominance of NASCAR's three major series has him ranked as one of the greatest racing drivers of all time. Busch is also a one-time WWE 24/7 Champion. He is the younger brother of 2004 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series champion Kurt Busch.

Busch is the former owner of Kyle Busch Motorsports, a race team that fielded cars in the Xfinity Series from 2011 to 2013 and the Truck Series between 2010 and 2023. He is nicknamed "Rowdy" and "Wild Thing" for his driving style, "the Candy Man" due to his longtime sponsorship with Mars, Incorporated, "Shrub", as the younger brother of Kurt Busch and a small bush being called a shrub, "Kyle Kush" due to his partnership with cannabis company 3Chi, and the self-titled "KFB".

Early life and career
Busch was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada. His exposure to racing came at the age of six when he drove around the cul-de-sac of his family's Las Vegas neighborhood in a makeshift go-kart. Although he could not reach the throttle, Busch still was able to pick up the basics from his father Tom, who controlled the gas pedal as Busch drove the vehicle. Busch worked in the family garage with his father and older brother Kurt as he grew, becoming crew chief for his brother's dwarf car team at age ten.

Busch began his driving career in 1998, shortly after his 13th birthday; from 1999 through 2001, Busch won over 65 races in legends car racing, winning two track championships at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Bullring short-track, before moving to late models; Busch scored ten victories in late model competition at the Bullring during the 2001 season.

At the age of 16, Busch began competing in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, driving the No. 99 Ford for Roush Racing as a replacement for Nathan Haseleu, who was released midway in the 2001 season. He made his debut at Indianapolis Raceway Park, posting a 9th-place finish in his first race in the series. In his second race at Chicago Motor Speedway, he was leading until his truck ran out of fuel with 12 laps to go.

Busch was the fastest in practice for the 2001 Auto Club 200 at California Speedway in Fontana, CA, when he was informed he was not allowed to participate in events at the track, due to the fact that the CART FedEx Championship Series, running at the track the same weekend had its race sponsored by Marlboro cigarettes. Busch was decreed ineligible to compete due an interpretation of the Master Settlement Agreement of 1998, prohibiting people under 18 years of age in participating in events sponsored by tobacco companies; Tim Woods III replaced Busch in the No. 99 Ford for the event and finished 25th. Busch competed in a total of six races in the Truck Series in 2001, finishing ninth twice, at IRP and at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Six weeks after the Fontana incident, NASCAR imposed a minimum age of 18 years starting in 2002 to prevent incidents of the sort from happening again; this was partially because Winston was the series sponsor of its premier Winston Cup Series at the time. When the age requirements were put in place, Busch switched from NASCAR to the American Speed Association (ASA) National Tour, finishing 8th in points.

In 2002, Busch graduated a year early with honors from Durango High School in Las Vegas, Nevada to focus on his driving career. That same year, he made his debut in the ARCA RE/MAX Series at Lowe's Motor Speedway, finishing twelfth in the No. 22 Chevrolet for WP Motorsports.

NASCAR
Busch holds several records in NASCAR competition, including the most race wins in a season across the top three NASCAR series the modern era, with 24 wins, which he accomplished in 2010. He holds the record for most all-time wins in all three of NASCAR's national touring series with 231 (as of April 12, 2024). Furthermore, he holds the record for the most Xfinity Series wins in a season with 13 in 2010, and the most overall with 102. Busch also holds the record for most overall wins in the Truck Series with 66. As of 2023, he is the only driver in history to have 60 wins in each of NASCAR's top 3 series. At Dover on May 6, 2019, His 10th place finish tied the record of consecutive top-ten finishes to start a season by tying Morgan Shepherd with 11. With his win at Auto Club Speedway on February 26, 2023, Kyle is now the sole record holder for the most consecutive seasons with a win, as of 2023 it stands at 19.

At age 19 years and 317 days, Busch became NASCAR's youngest ever pole winner in a Cup Series race at California Speedway in 2005. He is the youngest driver to qualify for the Chase for the Sprint Cup, in 2006. Furthermore, Busch became the first driver to win a race and a championship in a Toyota in the Cup Series, winning at Atlanta Motor Speedway during the 2008 season and the 2015 Cup championship. Additionally, he is the only driver to win four straight spring races at Richmond International Raceway (2009–2012), and was also the inaugural winner of the first Cup Series race at Kentucky Speedway, in 2011.

Busch, who began his NASCAR career in 2003, is one of only six drivers who have won a championship in both the Cup Series and the Xfinity Series, and in 2005 became the 14th of only 36 drivers to win a race in each of NASCAR's three national series. In 2009, Busch became the first driver to win two of NASCAR's top touring series races in the same day (at Auto Club Speedway), followed in 2010 as the first driver to win races in all three of NASCAR's top three touring series in the same weekend (at Bristol), which he did again at the same track in 2017.

When Busch won the 2009 Crown Royal Presents the Russell Friedman 400 at Richmond International Raceway as he turned 24, he was the second of just three people to ever win on their birthday. Twelve years later, on his 36th birthday, he won the Buschy McBusch Race 400 at Kansas Speedway. By winning for the second time on his birthday, he joined Cale Yarborough as the only two drivers to win on their birthday twice. In 2010, Kyle Busch Motorsports became the first Truck Series organization to win the owners' championship in its debut season after recording eight wins, 16 top fives, and 21 top-ten finishes in 2010.

As of completion of the 2022 Daytona 500, Busch holds the record for most lifetime laps led in that race – 324 laps – without winning it.

In December 2021, it was announced that M&M/Mars was leaving Busch and Joe Gibbs Racing as primary sponsor at the end of the 2022 season. On September 13, 2022, Busch announced he signed a multi-year contract with Richard Childress Racing starting in 2023.

Late model racing
Busch has maintained an active schedule of regional late model stock car racing, running his own Kyle Busch Motorsports cars in various events. His biggest win came in December 2009 when he won the 42nd running of the Snowball Derby at Five Flags Speedway in Pensacola, Florida. Busch won the Snowball Derby again in December 2017.

On July 10, 2011, Busch won the 32nd annual Slinger Nationals at Slinger Speedway in Wisconsin. Two weeks later, Busch won the 38th annual TD Bank 250 presented by New England Dodge Dealers at Oxford Plains Speedway; it was his third attempt to win the event. Busch became only the second active NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver to win the event, New England's largest short track race, joining Kevin Harvick as the only other active Sprint Cup driver to win the race with his victory in 2008. Busch stated "I've had this one on my list of big races that I wanted to win and now that I've done it, it feels great - it was everything I thought it would be." Busch also won the preliminary Pro All Star Series Oxford 150 the previous night, sweeping the weekend's events.

Busch won the eighth annual Prelude to the Dream at Eldora Speedway in June 2012, beating Tony Stewart to win the pay-per-view all-star event.

In July 2013, Busch won the second running of the Howie Lettow Memorial 150 at the Milwaukee Mile, beating defending race winner Travis Sauter and NASCAR Truck Series regular Johnny Sauter to win the darkness-shortened 43-car event, having led every practice session and setting fast time in qualifying.

Other racing
Busch was one of several American drivers under consideration to drive for the US-based Formula One team US F1. Busch declined the offer, stating that the timing was wrong; the team folded due to economic issues without ever competing in a race. Busch was scheduled to test drive a Toyota F1 car at the end of the 2008 racing season, but was forced to cancel the test due to his commitment to attend the 2008 Nationwide Series banquet.

In 2020, Busch ran the 24 Hours of Daytona for AIM Vasser-Sullivan, driving a Lexus RC F GT3 alongside Jack Hawksworth, Parker Chase, and Michael De Quesada. Busch drove for four-and-a-half hours as his team finished 26th overall and ninth in the GTD class.

Nitro Rallycross, a rallycross series founded by former NASCAR driver Travis Pastrana, invited Busch to run the November 2021 race weekend at Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park. Busch finished 4th in the Supercar Final, with Pastrana winning the race.

In 2023, Busch announced that he would be running in the Superstar Racing Experience that summer to race in select races. Those select races were the events at Motor Mile Speedway on July 27 and Berlin Raceway on August 3. During the SRX event at Motor Mile Speedway, Busch battled with Tony Stewart and Clint Bowyer for the win in the closing laps. In the end, Busch claimed the checkered flag and was one of only 4 drivers in SRX history to win in their debut race in the series. Kyle won the next weekend at Berlin Raceway, earning back-to-back wins and making him 2 for 2 in the series.

Charity efforts
In 2006, Busch founded the Kyle Busch Foundation following a visit to the St. John's Home in Grand Rapids, Michigan. According to the Foundation, "The Kyle Busch Foundation is dedicated to providing essential tools for less fortunate children throughout the country.". Busch also has personal sponsorship deals in place with Monster Energy and Electric Visual, with both appearing on his late model at one time or another.

During the 2008 season, Busch announced the "Kyle's Miles" program in association with Pedigree to help dogs in shelters and breed rescue organizations.

After Busch's first Cup Series win at California on September 4, 2005, he and car owner Rick Hendrick donated their winning shares from that race to the American Red Cross to help benefit those in need after Hurricane Katrina. Because of this, Busch had an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show, which during the interview he announced the donations, which gained huge public attention and praise.

Personal life
Kyle Busch married Samantha Sarcinella on December 31, 2010, in Chicago, which was featured in an hour special on Style Network. Sarcinella is a native of St. John, Indiana, and a graduate of Purdue University with a psychology degree. Their son, Brexton Locke Busch, was born on May 18, 2015. The couple welcomed a daughter, Lennix Key Busch, on May 10, 2022.

He is often nicknamed "Shrub", as the younger brother of Kurt Busch, a small bush being called a shrub. Busch also uses the nickname "Rowdy", after Days of Thunder character Rowdy Burns.

Legal issues
On May 24, 2011, Busch was cited for reckless driving and speeding near Troutman, North Carolina, driving 128 mph in a 45 mph speed limit zone. He issued a public apology in which he stated he got "carried away" test driving a Lexus LFA. On August 23, 2011, he received a $1,000 fine and had his license suspended for 45 days after he pleaded guilty to speeding. He was also ordered to serve 30 hours of community service and placed on one year of unsupervised probation. On April 29, 2014, Busch was cited for traveling 60 mph in a 45 mph speed limit zone on NC 73 in Denver, North Carolina. Busch claimed he thought the speed limit was 55 mph. The officer claimed Busch had a "disrespectful attitude."

On February 6, 2023, news accounts indicated that in January, Busch had been arrested in Cancun, Mexico, for possession of a handgun. The prosecutor indicated that Busch had been sentenced to 42 months in prison and a $1,100 fine, but offered no information about how Busch’s sentence would be served. Busch issued a statement apologizing for being unaware of the relevant Mexican laws, but indicated that he considered the matter closed.

In popular media
Busch is one of the cover drivers of NASCAR Kart Racing. He is also featured on the cover of NASCAR Heat 2 after winning the cover driver competition at the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR All-Star Race.

Busch is featured as a playable driver in Forza Motorsport 6, via the NASCAR expansion pack. The expansion features twenty-four paint schemes from the 2016 Sprint Cup Series season, including Busch's No. 18 Camry with primary sponsorship from M&M's and Interstate Batteries. Busch, along with Chase Elliott and Jimmie Johnson, provide commentary in the expansion as the "voices of motorsport."

Busch had a cameo as a West Virginia state trooper in the 2017 film Logan Lucky.

In 2017, he appeared as a celebrity contestant on The $100,000 Pyramid.

As of August 2019, Busch and his wife star on CMT's Racing Wives reality TV show.

A professional wrestling fan, Busch has also appeared on WWE programming several times, including guest hosting Monday Night Raw in 2009, and 10 years later on the same program on December 2, 2019. During the latter appearance, he won the WWE 24/7 Championship, pinning R-Truth with fellow NASCAR personality Michael Waltrip as special guest referee; R-Truth reclaimed the title later in the show. That event was part of a cross-promotion with NBC Sports with NASCAR's prize-giving banquet.

In 2022, an American documentary, Rowdy, was produced which focused on the NASCAR career of Kyle Busch. It was released on 29 June 2022.

Rowdy Energy
Rowdy Energy was a drink industry business based out of Del Mar, California, that specializes in energy drinks. The business is co-owned by Busch, who founded it with beverage entrepreneur Jeff Church in 2019.

The drink is named after Busch's nickname "Rowdy". It was launched in 2019 by both Busch and Jeff Church, who had co-founded Suja Juice in 2012. In an interview with Autoweek, Busch said he created the drink, "Just to have a healthier option for the fans, for myself." According to the company's YouTube channel, the first run of drinks were produced in January 2020. The drinks are available online in ten flavors, including seven sugar free options that are Keto certified. The traditional drinks have 60 percent less sugar than other popular energy drink brands.

Rowdy branding was first spotted at a race track during Busch's 2020 24 Hours of Daytona performance when, in the opening hour, Busch was seen with a can of the Cherry Limeade flavor and wearing a Rowdy Energy branded hat. The logo also appeared on Busch's 2020 Daytona 500 helmet and he was seen drinking one of the beverages following his exit from the race. Rowdy Energy is listed as an associate partner on KyleBusch.com. Outside of NASCAR, Rowdy Energy became a sponsor of Formula Drift driver Ken Gushi in late 2020. The brand has also served as the naming rights for races such as the Southern Super Series' Rowdy Energy Twin 100s at Five Flags Speedway in July and sprint car racing's TRD KKBM Giveback Classic presented by Rowdy Energy in November. Rowdy Energy is also the sponsor for sprint and midget car driver Rico Abreu.

On January 10, 2024, Kyle Busch announced that Rowdy Energy was ceasing operations and closing its doors in the coming weeks.

NASCAR
(key) ( Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led. ** – All laps led. )

Craftsman Truck Series
$$ Season still in progress $1$ Ineligible for series points

ARCA Re/Max Series
(key) ( Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led. )

Superstar Racing Experience
(key) * – Most laps led. 1 – Heat 1 winner. 2 – Heat 2 winner.

Complete WeatherTech SportsCar Championship results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Awards and honors
NASCAR
 * Two-time NASCAR Cup Series Champion (2015, 2019)
 * Two-time NASCAR Cup Series Regular Season Champion (2018, 2019)
 * 2009 NASCAR Xfinity Series Champion
 * Seven-time NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Owner's Champion (as owner of Kyle Busch Motorsports - 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019)

WWE
 * WWE 24/7 Championship (1 time)

Media
 * Two-time Best Driver ESPY Award winner (2016, 2019)

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I was wondering why you moved the page from Mervyn Dymally to Mervyn M. Dymally. The naming convention says that articles should be at the name they are best known in English. Is he better known by that name? Guettarda 03:06, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
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Changing username
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Robert Silver
It's not the existence of a single news article, it's the content of the article. Looks like you've deleted a bunch of notable debaters with links from numerous Wikipedia articles? I think you should undelete, these folks are very well known in their community. -- TrinityC 01:13, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Any idea...
How old Image:CaliforniaSenateSeal.gif is? Thanx 68.39.174.238 04:57, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Grr. If it could be proven reasonably old we could PD it as pre 1923... 68.39.174.238 05:20, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

 * We need to get some legislator in some state (Preferably CA) to actually get passed a bill to PD all State stuff... 68.39.174.238 03:20, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Sensenbrenner
Thanks for your efforts to keep the Jim Sensenbrenner article free from vandalism. It's an uphill battle, but worth it in the end. Cheers --BaronLarf 11:57, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Don't know if you're aware of these, too, but you might want to add Cheryl Warren Sensenbrenner and Frank Sensenbrenner to your watch list.--BaronLarf 12:02, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

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OCNative: I notice you have contributed a lot to the historical charts of CA state assemblymen and senators so I was interested in your opinion on this. I feel the placement of the charts, one on a page ~/historical and on the discussion page, respectively, is out of place. What if we create a page like United States Congressional Delegations from California which will house both charts and call it: California State Legislature Delegations? Cmdrbond 01:20, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
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Thanks for adding the Senate table to the above :). I've been thinking about making a chart of the partisan mix of state governments (the legislature plus Governor), but I haven't done anything on it yet. NoSeptember  22:28, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

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Computational indistinguishability

In computational complexity and cryptography, two families of distributions are computationally indistinguishable if no efficient algorithm can tell the difference between them except with negligible probability.

Formal definition
Let $$\scriptstyle\{ D_n \}_{n \in \mathbb{N}}$$ and $$\scriptstyle\{ E_n \}_{n \in \mathbb{N}}$$ be two distribution ensembles indexed by a security parameter n (which usually refers to the length of the input); we say they are computationally indistinguishable if for any non-uniform probabilistic polynomial time algorithm A, the following quantity is a negligible function in n:

 * $$\delta(n) = \left| \Pr_{x \gets D_n}[ A(x) = 1] - \Pr_{x \gets E_n}[ A(x) = 1] \right|.$$

denoted $$D_n \approx E_n$$. In other words, every efficient algorithm A's behavior does not significantly change when given samples according to Dn or En in the limit as $$n\to \infty$$. Another interpretation of computational indistinguishability, is that polynomial-time algorithms actively trying to distinguish between the two ensembles cannot do so: that any such algorithm will only perform negligibly better than if one were to just guess.

Related notions
Implicit in the definition is the condition that the algorithm, $$A$$, must decide based on a single sample from one of the distributions. One might conceive of a situation in which the algorithm trying to distinguish between two distributions, could access as many samples as it needed. Hence two ensembles that cannot be distinguished by polynomial-time algorithms looking at multiple samples are deemed indistinguishable by polynomial-time sampling. If the polynomial-time algorithm can generate samples in polynomial time, or has access to a random oracle that generates samples for it, then indistinguishability by polynomial-time sampling is equivalent to computational indistinguishability.

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Operation Relex

Operation Relex is the name given to the Australian Defence Force (ADF) border protection operation in the country's northern approaches conducted between 2001 and 2006. The operation was instigated following the Tampa affair in September 2001 and the Australian government's resultant Pacific Solution. The focus of Operation Relex was illegal immigration, with assets from all three services of the ADF deployed to prevent the arrival of Suspected Illegal Entry Vessels (SIEVs) in the Australian migration zone.

The primary period of activity of Operation Relex was between October and December 2001 when ten SIEVs were intercepted by HMA Ships HMAS Warramunga (FFH 152), HMAS Arunta (FFH 151), and HMAS Leeuwin (A 245), assisted by several Fremantle-class patrol boats.

Operation Relex was folded into the broader border protection activity named Operation Resolute which commenced in July 2006. In 2013, the Abbott government implemented Operation Sovereign Borders.

Operational Service Medal – Border Protection
The Australian Government issued a medal for service on Border Protection on 22 May 2012.

To qualify, ADF members must have been deployed or force assigned for duty as a member of a declared operation:
 * for a period of not less than an aggregate of 30 days; or
 * completed 30 sorties from a unit assigned to a declared operation, provided that those sorties were conducted over a period of not less than an aggregate of 30 days at a rate of one sortie per day.

Op Relex
3 September to 13 March 2002

Op Relex II
14 March 2002 to 16 July 2006

HMA Ships Involved in Op Relex
Major Fleet Units

Patrol Boats

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Nancy Eaton

Nancy Alice Edward Eaton (May 28, 1961 – January 21, 1985) was a Canadian heiress and a member of the prominent Eaton family. She was the great-great-granddaughter of Timothy Eaton, founder of Eaton's department stores. She was the only daughter of Edward Eaton and Nancy Leigh (Gossage) Eaton of Toronto.

Murder
On January 21, 1985, Eaton was stabbed twenty-one times and then raped in her Farnham Street apartment in Toronto. An acquaintance of Eaton's, Ernest John Andrew Leyshon-Hughes, also known as Andrew Leyshon-Hughes, who was himself a member of the prominent Canadian Osler family, admitted to murdering her, but was found not guilty by reason of insanity. He was indefinitely remanded to the custody of The Ontario Review Board. In February 2001, Leyshon-Hughes was living at the Royal Ottawa Hospital and was a student at Algonquin College. In 2005, Leyshon-Hughes was discharged from the psychiatric hospital into the community.

In popular culture
In 2003, the television movie The Death and Life of Nancy Eaton was released. Jessica Paré played the part of Nancy. It airs on LMN in the United States and is based on the book A Question of Guilt by William Scoular. As of 2018 the movie was released online on Encore+.

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