User contributions for McGinnis

20 May 2011

• 22:0022:00, 20 May 2011 diff hist −14 m Richard Semon There's no need for editorial emphasis of "amazing similarity". Besides, they aren't that similar. Mnemes are purely internal to the individual. Memes are externally exchangeable.

26 April 2011

• 03:1103:11, 26 April 2011 diff hist +303 Talk:Electromagnetic radiation E & B Fields are shown with improper phase

26 March 2011

• 22:4922:49, 26 March 2011 diff hist +4 m Elbert County, Georgia Changed "created" to "established"... sounds like there was nothing there until 1790.

22 February 2011

• 08:3408:34, 22 February 2011 diff hist +216 N Talk:Gauge break This page is wrong as provided. The most common usage of "gauge break" does not have to do with railroad tracks. current

7 January 2011

• 10:0710:07, 7 January 2011 diff hist +312 m Talk:Ten Summoner's Tales Request for citation.

27 September 2010

• 23:2023:20, 27 September 2010 diff hist +249 m Talk:Arthur Fine 've requested permission from the University of Washington for permission to use their online faculty photo of Arthur Fine

9 September 2010

• 17:5817:58, 9 September 2010 diff hist +587 m Talk:Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker metric I made no changes to the entry. I just note that this page needs work.

27 August 2010

• 17:2017:20, 27 August 2010 diff hist 0 m Milorganite I changed "homeowner" to "home lawn". Maybe someone knows a better term? Amusing as it was, I just had to edit, "Milorganite 5-2-0 is sold ... as a homeowner and golf course fertilizer."

17 July 2010

• 17:3217:32, 17 July 2010 diff hist +142 Man of La Mancha Noted that the expression, "tilting at windmills" derives from this story.

30 June 2010

• 06:4806:48, 30 June 2010 diff hist +56 Talk:Gödel's incompleteness theorems Suggestion for replacing a couple sentences in the initial (in the introduction) summary.
• 06:4006:40, 30 June 2010 diff hist +826 m Talk:Gödel's incompleteness theorems No edit summary

28 June 2010

• 04:3904:39, 28 June 2010 diff hist +788 Talk:Michelson–Morley experiment The entire content of the “Experiments” section is redundant and doesn't belong in this article

8 February 2010

• 22:5022:50, 8 February 2010 diff hist +75 m Perfect Cosmological Principle Added links to "Background Independence" and the "Cosmological principle"
• 22:4422:44, 8 February 2010 diff hist +32 m Background independence →See also: Added link to “Cosmological principle”
• 22:4222:42, 8 February 2010 diff hist +31 m Cosmological principle →See also: Added link to Background independence
• 22:3022:30, 8 February 2010 diff hist +535 Talk:Background independence →Space and Time as Emergent Properties: Rewrote my entry
• 22:1822:18, 8 February 2010 diff hist +943 Talk:Background independence Spacetime as emergent within a background independent system
• 21:5821:58, 8 February 2010 diff hist −79 Background independence →Diffeomorphism invariance and background independence: Grammatical changes and removal of a quote lacking context.
• 21:4221:42, 8 February 2010 diff hist +6 m Universality No edit summary
• 21:4121:41, 8 February 2010 diff hist +89 Universality Added link to "Background Independence"
• 21:3121:31, 8 February 2010 diff hist +419 Talk:Universality I found the proper reference for “Universality” in physics
• 21:2321:23, 8 February 2010 diff hist +178 Background independence Complete rewrite of introductory paragraph for readability. Also, 'background independence' is perfectly general to all sciences, including purely conceptual sciences (like mathematics).
• 20:4020:40, 8 February 2010 diff hist +457 m Talk:Universality Added note that there is no Wikipedia entry for Universality in physics

22 November 2009

• 19:1019:10, 22 November 2009 diff hist +53 m USS Liberty incident Correcting the time of the initial attack.

6 October 2009

• 20:2620:26, 6 October 2009 diff hist 0 m Topological defect Replaced 'by' with 'in' for clarity. ~~~~

16 September 2009

• 20:4220:42, 16 September 2009 diff hist +1,026 m Wikipedia talk:Bad links The LOG OUT at top-right of Edit pages doesn't work, it's not even a link, it's just text
• 19:1719:17, 16 September 2009 diff hist 0 m Vaporizer (inhalation device) I've alphabetized the Table of vaporization temperatures. The table rows were out of sequence. Except for one row ('Cannabis'), the table was alphabetized by the first column. ~~~~

31 July 2009

• 23:2923:29, 31 July 2009 diff hist 0 m Temperature Changed "impact" to "effect" for clearer interpretation by international audience.

8 July 2009

• 19:0819:08, 8 July 2009 diff hist +61 Nm User:McGinnis ←Created page with 'User: McGinnis [http://www.michael-mcginnis.com My Home Page]'

29 April 2009

• 20:2020:20, 29 April 2009 diff hist +354 m Talk:Quantum decoherence Comments on suggestion to add section relating Quantum Entanglement & Quantum Decoherence

28 April 2009

• 21:0221:02, 28 April 2009 diff hist +1,122 Talk:Quantum decoherence Suggest adding section relating Quantum Entanglement & Quantum Decoherence

22 April 2009

• 19:5019:50, 22 April 2009 diff hist +42 m Article One of the United States Constitution →Section 10: Limits on the States
• 19:4919:49, 22 April 2009 diff hist +102 Article One of the United States Constitution Added note that restriction of states to use of gold and silver coin is still the law, but is ignored and has no effective power.

16 April 2009

• 23:5223:52, 16 April 2009 diff hist +4 m Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution →Adoption
• 23:4723:47, 16 April 2009 diff hist +545 m Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution →Adoption
• 22:0522:05, 16 April 2009 diff hist −412 Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution →Adoption: Removed federalist opinion that directly contradicts 9th Amendment.
• 22:0022:00, 16 April 2009 diff hist +277 m Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution →Adoption: It was the clear intent of the framers that no rights would be lost unless explicitly addressed.
• 21:5021:50, 16 April 2009 diff hist +435 Magna Carta →America: The 9th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was, in part, intended to ensure intended to ensure that existing rights (e.g. those provided by the Magna Carta) were lost through omission.

19 March 2009

• 20:1020:10, 19 March 2009 diff hist +2 m Friedmann equations Changed instances of "Friedman" to
• 20:0320:03, 19 March 2009 diff hist +1 m Friedmann equations →The equations: Changed all occurrences of "Friedman" to "Friedmann"
• 19:5819:58, 19 March 2009 diff hist +387 m Talk:Friedmann equations →Ambiguous Spelling: Friedmann or Friedman

15 March 2009

• 20:5720:57, 15 March 2009 diff hist +584 Flatness →Flatness in cosmology: Added WMAP 5-year report quote noting that a flat spacetime means the mass density of the universe equals the critical density. Also, changed some wording and punctuation.
• 19:2519:25, 15 March 2009 diff hist +587 m Talk:Friedmann equations Suggest change spelling to "Friedman", not "Friedmann".

19 January 2009

• 07:4807:48, 19 January 2009 diff hist −72 m Sea change (idiom) Correction - A seachange isn't a dramatic transformation. It is gradual, retaining the form, replacing the substance of the object, as clearly described in the quoted verse.
• 07:3807:38, 19 January 2009 diff hist +4 m Sea change (idiom) Made "petrification" into a link

14 January 2009

• 02:4902:49, 14 January 2009 diff hist +129 m Sea change (idiom) Added definition: gradual, retains form, replaces substance.

1 October 2008

• 22:3722:37, 1 October 2008 diff hist −4 m Watcher (comics) Deleted extraneous "the"... "punishment for the their non-"

29 May 2008

• 15:5015:50, 29 May 2008 diff hist +231 m File talk:Aerogelbrick.jpg →Broken link?: new section

31 January 2008

• 07:1607:16, 31 January 2008 diff hist +6 m Cosmology →Historical descriptions of the cosmos: Changed "(a multiply universe)" to "(a multiple universe model)". "A multiply universe" is either a typo or in need of definition.

15 October 2007

• 20:4520:45, 15 October 2007 diff hist −102 m Thermal radiation Added "Temperature^^4" to clarify "quartic". I deleted the sentence about an oven being ~ 4 times room temperature... a 70F room is 1/4 the temp of a 600F oven. Not a reasonable comparison.