Bibliography -I

Articles on the Extension of Plancks and Einsteins Ideas Beyond Physics with examples from the observations on financial, economic, social, and political systems by Dr. V. Laxmanan
Compiled April 16, 2013 Last Updated: June 14, 2013
Left: Einstein receiving the Planck medal from Max Planck, on June 28, 1929 (years after both had received the Nobel Prize in Physics). During the award ceremony, Planck reportedly told Einstein that he was being awarded the medal for taking my (Plancks) horrible idea of an energy quantum and turning into an equally horrible idea of a quantum of light energy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Planck_Medal

Right: Robert A. Millikan, with Einstein, when the latter visited Millikan at Caltech. Millikans Nobel Prize winning experiments confirmed Einsteins photoelectric law and also provided the first direct experimental determination of the Planck constant h.
http://www.millikanalumni.com/

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There is now a Bibliography-II created today June 14, 2013. Hence, this will be the final update to this list. The favorite American game of baseball is being used as a proxy for a broader understanding of the significance of the real meaning of the ratio y/x and y/x. Both ratios are used but inconsistently and mostly we use the y/x ratio and create a lot of confusion, frustration, and political and social divisions. The ratio y/x is widely used discuss a wide range of financial and economic data, in addition to social, political, cultural and environmental trends (profit margin, unemployment rate, the Debt/GDP ratio, homicide rates, traffic fatality rates to name a few) and is also used in sports (to predict if Cabrera is on pace to break Wilsons single-season RBI record, see Part II of list). However, the y/x ratio is NOT a true measure of the rate of change. The ratio y/x, which is rarely used in these contexts, is the true measure of the rate of change and only the use of this ratio, rather than the y/x ratio, will yield correct predictions of at least the near future trends. It also leads to the untenable comparisons such as those made by Mayor Bloomberg recently when he compared the NYC homicides record with records of other major US cities. This is highlighted here by calling attention to (see also Part II): a) the marginal tax rate m = y/x in the tax equation y = mx + c which describes the US tax code and b) the use of the ratio y/x to discuss the amazing four-game stretch of Cabrera from May 19 to May 23, 2013 where he had a batting average y/x = change in hits/change in At Bats = 9/15 = 0.600. The above means that we understand the difference between y/x and y/x but use it inconsistently without reflection. The root cause of the frequent and frustrating lapse into, Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics! The theoretical framework provided by a broader generalization Einsteins ideas (the meaning of the work function in the photoelectric law) and Plancks ideas (the broader meaning of entropy, energy and temperature and the average energy U of a complex system of N particles with various energy states, giving rise to entropy and the notion of temperature) will provide a
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deeper understanding of what we are now doing by using y/x ratios instead of investigating the nature of the x-y relation. The articles discussing Mayor Bloombergs comparison of homicide rates (in Part II) and other articles here along with the Google, Apple, Kia, Southwest Airlines and AirTran articles (in Part I) of this bibliography list also provide the theoretical justification.

Baseball Statistics, Sports, and Airline Quality Rating

1. Babe Ruths 1923 Batting Statistics and Einsteins Work Function, Published April 17, 2013, http://www.scribd.com/doc/136489156/BabeRuth-s-1923-Batting-Statistics-and-Einstein-s-Work-Function 2. Babe Ruth Batting Statistics and Einsteins Work Function, To be Published April 17, 2013, http://www.scribd.com/doc/136556738/BabeRuth-Batting-Statistics-and-Einstein-s-Work-Function 3. Airline Quality Report: Analysis of On-Time Percentages, Published April 18, 2013. http://www.scribd.com/doc/136760664/Airline-QualityReport-2013-Analysis-of-the-On-Time-Percentages 4. The Difference between a Ratio y/x and the Rate dy/dx or y/x, to be To be Published April xx, 2013. 5. The Olympic Long Jump Record and a little known Mathematical Property of a Straight line, August 10, 2012, http://www.scribd.com/doc/102557784/The-Olympic-Long-JumpRecords-and-a-Little-Known-Mathematical-Property-of-a-Straight-line 6. A Little Known Mathematical Property of a Straight Line: Strange but True, there is One! August 4, 2012, http://www.scribd.com/doc/102000311/A-Little-Known-MathematicalProperty-of-a-Straight-Line-Strange-but-true-there-is-one

The Reinhart-Rogoff Microsoft Excel error and the Debt/GDP ratio

A. An MIT Non-Economists View of the Harvard-UMass Debt/GDP Ratio and Economic Growth Debate, Published April 26, 2013,
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http://www.scribd.com/doc/138076426/An-MIT-Non-Economist-s-Viewof-the-Harvard-UMass-Debt-GDP-Ratio-and-the-Economic-Growth-Debate B. Iceland Votes Against Austerity: Analysis of Icelands Debt-GDP, Published April 28, 2013, http://www.scribd.com/doc/138345921/Iceland-Votes-AgainstAusterity-Analysis-of-Iceland-s-Debt-GDP-Data-2002-2012 C. A Brief Survey of the Debt-GDP Relations for Some Modern 21st Century Economies, Published May 1, 2013, http://www.scribd.com/doc/138912093/A-Brief-Survey-of-the-DebtGDP-Relationship-for-Some-Modern-21st-Century-Economies

Extension of Plancks Radiation Law Beyond Physics

7. Plancks Blackbody Radiation law rederived for more general case, May 30, 2012, http://www.scribd.com/doc/95329905/Planck-sBlackbody-Radiation-Law-Rederived-for-more-General-Case 8. What is Entropy? June 3, 2012, Discussion of example given by Boltzmann in 1877 http://www.scribd.com/doc/95728457/What-is-Entropy

The 2013 Forbes Billionaires

9. Entropy and Indias Billionaires (Part I), Published April 4, 2013 http://www.scribd.com/doc/134019768/entropy-and-india-sbillionaires-part-1 10. Entropy and the Forbes Billionaires: Net Worth is not the only property possessed by billionaires, Published April 3, 2013, http://www.scribd.com/doc/133763628/Entropy-and-the-ForbesBillionaires see also http://www.scribd.com/doc/133762538/Entropyand-the-Forbes-Billionaires 11. Empirical Evidence for Entropy Outside Physics: Wealth Distribution among billionaires in the 2013 Forbes and Hurun Rich Lists, http://www.scribd.com/doc/132059874/The-Empirical-Evidence-for-

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Entropy-Outside-Physics-Wealth-Distribution-among-the-billionaires-of2013-Forbes-and-Hurun-Rich-Lists Published March 24, 2013. 12. Average Net Worth of the 2013 Asia-Pacific Billionaires, Published April 1 2013, http://www.scribd.com/doc/133530737/The-Average-NetWorth-of-2013-Forbes-Asia-Pacific-Billionaires 13. The Average Net Worth of the Forbes 2013 Billionaires: Summary of Regional Analysis, Published March 31, 2013; please also take a look at the closely related Refs. [1,4] where the concept of entropy and how it appears in a complex system is again discussed. 14. The Average Net Worth of the Forbes Billionaires, Published March 28, 2013, http://www.scribd.com/doc/132910617/The-Average-Net-Worthof-the-Forbes-2013-Billionaires A comprehensive discussion of both Plancks (1900) and Einsteins (1907) methods of arriving at the SAME expression for the average energy U of a system of N particles in physics. Planck introduces the concept of entropy while Einstein introduces the concept of quantization, i.e., energy goes as 0, , 2 and so on, very explicitly. Planck is less explicit on this point. 15. The Median Net Worth of the 2013 Forbes Billionaires: Why the median is a meaningless stat, Published March 26, 2013 http://www.scribd.com/doc/132433860/An-Essay-on-the-MedianForbes-2013-Billionaire-Why-the-Median-is-a-meaningless-stat 16. The Average Net Worth of the Forbes 2013 Billionaires: Accumulation of the first trillion, Published March 27, 2013 17. Average Net Worth of Billionaires and Ordinary US households, Published March 24, 2013, http://www.scribd.com/doc/132189331/Average-Net-Worth-ofBillionaires-and-Ordinary-US-Households 18. Wealth Distribution between the 2013 Forbes and Hurun Rich Lists, http://www.scribd.com/doc/131830628/Wealth-Distribution-Betweenthe-2013-Forbes-and-the-Hurun-Rich-Lists, Published Mar 22, 2013. 19. Average Net Worth by Country - Part 1: Preliminary Analysis of the 2013 Forbes Billionaire Data, Published March 18, 2013. http://www.scribd.com/doc/131208984/The-Average-Net-Worth-byCountry-Part-I-Analysis-of-the-2013-Forbes-Billionaires-Data
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20. Average Net Worth by Country - Part 2: Analysis of the 2013 Worlds Billionaire Data, to be published March xx, 2013. 21. China has fewer billionaires than most other large countries, Published March 21, 2013, http://www.scribd.com/doc/131583456/China-Has-Fewer-BillionairesAccording-to-the-Billionaire-Net-Worth-Analysis2013 22. Average Net Worth of Billionaires by Country: 2013 Hurun Rich List,
http://www.scribd.com/doc/131764299/Average-Net-Worth-of-Billionairesby-Country-The-2013-Hurun-Rich-List Published March 22, 2013.

23. The Average Net Worth by Country, Part 1: Introducing the x-y Diagram, Preliminary Analysis of the Forbes 2013 Worlds Billionaires Data, Published March 19, 2013, http://www.scribd.com/doc/131208984/The-Average-Net-Worth-byCountry-Part-I-Analysis-of-the-2013-Forbes-Billionaires-Data 24. Average Net Worth by Country - Part 2: Analysis of the 2013 Worlds Billionaire Data, to be Published March xx, 2013. 25. The Recent Growth in the Average Worth of US Billionaires (09-13) A Curious Limits to Growth Revealed Again, Published March 18, 2013 http://www.scribd.com/doc/131005255/The-Recent-Growth-in-theAverage-Worth-of-US-Billionaires-%E2%80%9909-%E2%80%9813-ACurious-Limits-to-Growth-Revealed-Again 26. Quantitative Comparison of the Billionaires in the Forbes Hall of Fame, http://www.scribd.com/doc/130826078/Quantitative-Comparison-of-theBillionaires-in-the-Forbes-Hall-of-Fame Published March 17, 2013. 27. Growth in the Combined Net Worth of Billionaires from 2000-2013: An Interesting Limits to Growth is Revealed, Published March 15, 2013, http://www.scribd.com/doc/130517722/Growth-in-the-Combined-Net-Worthof-Billionaires-From-2000-2013-An-Interesting-Limit-to-Growth-is-Revealed 28. Growth of Billionaires Worldwide and in the USA: Analysis of the number of billionaires data since 1982, Published March 14, 2013, http://www.scribd.com/doc/130377891/The-Growth-of-BillionairesWorldwide-and-in-USA-Analysis-of-the-data-since-1982

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29. Countries with the most billionaires in the 2013 Forbes Billionaire List, Published March 9, 2013, http://www.scribd.com/doc/129406030/Countrieswith-Most-Billionaires-in-the-Forbes-2013-Billionaires-List 30. Average worth of the Top 10 Billionaires in a Country, Published Mar 11, 2013, http://www.scribd.com/doc/129863162/Average-Worth-of-the-Top-10Billionaires-in-a-Country 31. Per Capita Trends for Ultra High Net Worth Residents in US Cities, Published March 11, 2013, http://www.scribd.com/doc/129722844/Per-CapitaTrends-for-the-Ultra-High-Net-Worth-UHNW-Residents-in-US-Cities 32. Europe and Asia-Pacific billionaires in the Forbes 2013 list: Whats the difference? Published March 10, 2013 http://www.scribd.com/doc/129634796/Europe-and-Asia-Pacific-Billionairesin-the-2013-Forbes-List-What-s-the-difference 33. The Rate of Creation of Billionaires: Analysis of the Forbes 2013 Billionaire List, Published March 6, 2013, http://www.scribd.com/doc/128944910/The-Rate-of-Creation-ofBillionaires-Analysis-of-the-2013-Forbes-Billionaire-s-List 34. Billionaires and Calculus: Ratio versus Rate of Change Is Einsteins Work Function Observed In this Problem? Published March 5, 2013. http://www.scribd.com/doc/128610494/The-Forbes-Billionaires-andCalculus-Is-Einstein-s-Work-Function-Observed-Here 35. Billionaires and the Population Law: Analysis of the 2013 Forbes Billionaires List, to be published.

Financial Analysis: Profits-Revenues Data

36. The Facebook Future, May 19, 2012, http://www.scribd.com/doc/94103265/The-FaceBook-Future

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37. The Future of Facebook I, May 21, 2012, Nonlinear analysis, with Power law model with n < 1, http://www.scribd.com/doc/94325593/TheFuture-of-Facebook-I 38. Money in Economics is Just like Energy in Physics: Extending Plancks Law Beyond Physics, Published Jan 14, 2013, Introduction to the generalized statement of Plancks radiation law and application to describe the maximum point on the profits-revenues graph of a company (the old, GM, Ford, Yahoo), http://www.scribd.com/doc/120324960/Money-inEconomics-is-Just-like-Energy-in-Physics-Extending-Planck-s-law-beyondPhysics 39. Simple Mathematical Laws Govern Corporate Financial Behavior: A Brief Compilation of Profits-Revenues Data, June 4, 2012, http://www.scribd.com/doc/95906902/Simple-Mathematical-LawsGovern-Corporate-Financial-Behavior-A-Brief-Compilation-of-ProfitsRevenues-Data 40. Now, the Good News for Tesla: Analysis of the Profits (Losses)Revenues Data and a New Measure of Profitability (MPR and MCR), Published Feb 27, 2013, http://www.scribd.com/doc/127436107/TeslaMotors-Profits-Losses-Revenues-Analysis-and-a-New-Measure-ofProfitability-MPR 41. Tesla Motors: Nonlinear Model for Profitability Analysis, Published February 28, 2013, http://www.scribd.com/doc/127767159/TeslaMotors-Nonlinear-Model-for-Profitability-Analysis Nonlinear model and breakeven revenue calculations. 42. A Simple Universal Vehicle Acceleration Law Deduced from Empirical Observations, V. Laxmanan, to be published. 43. GM Before the Bankruptcy: Maximum point on the profits-revenues graph, http://www.scribd.com/doc/103938349/GM-Before-theBankruptcy-Maximum-Point-on-Profits-Revenue-Graph , Published August 25, 2012. 44. The New GM: A Brief Analysis of the Profits-Revenues Data, http://www.scribd.com/doc/103600274/The-New-GM-A-Brief-Analysisof-the-Profits-Revenues-Data-through-1Q2011, Published May 9, 2011 and again on August 22, 2012, Discussion of the new GM data from 1Q2010 to 1Q2011.
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45. Why Cant GM be more like Microsoft? The New GM Just May be. http://www.scribd.com/doc/103607023/Why-Can-t-General-Motors-bemore-like-Microsoft-The-new-GM-may-just-be Published August 22, 2012. 46. Google: A Lovable One-trick Pony, July 1, 2012, http://www.scribd.com/doc/98825141/Google-A-Lovable-One-TrickPony-Another-Single-Product-Company-Analyzed-Using-the-NewMethodology 47. Kia Motor Company: A Disappearing Brand http://www.scribd.com/doc/99333764/Kia-Motor-Company-ADisppearing-Brand, Published July 6, 2012. 48. A Fresh Look at Microsoft after its Historic Quarterly Loss, Published July 25, 2012, http://www.scribd.com/doc/101062823/A-Fresh-Look-atMicrosoft-After-its-Historic-Quarterly-Loss 49. A Second Look at Microsoft after its Quarterly loss, Published July 30, 2012, http://www.scribd.com/doc/1015181/A-Second-Look-atMicrosoft-After-the-Historic-Quarterly-Loss 50. The Air Tran Story: The Merger and the Maximum Point on the Profits-Revenues Graph, August 14, 2012, http://www.scribd.com/doc/102832984/The-Air-Tran-Story-TheMerger-and-Maximum-Point-on-Profits-Revenues-Graph 51. The Future of Southwest Airlines: The Unknown Story of Rising Costs, August 14, 2012, http://www.scribd.com/doc/102835946/The-Futurefor-Southwest-Airlines-The-Unknown-Story-of-Rising-Costs-and-theMaximum-Point-on-Profits-Revenues-Curve 52. The Perfect Apple II, Taking a Second Bite, A Simple Methodology for Revenues Prediction, http://www.scribd.com/doc/101503988/ThePerfect-Apple-II Published Jul 30, 2012, 53. The Perfect Apple: How it can be destroyed, Published June 7, 2012, http://www.scribd.com/doc/96228131/The-Perfect-Apple-How-it-canbe-destroyed 54. Three Types of Companies: From Quantum Physics to Economics, May 24, 2012, http://www.scribd.com/doc/94647467/Three-Types-ofCompanies-From-Quantum-Physics-to-Economics 55. Some Examples of Corporate Financial Behavior, June 4, 2012, http://www.scribd.com/doc/95906902/Simple-Mathematical-LawsPage | 9

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Govern-Corporate-Financial-Behavior-A-Brief-Compilation-of-ProfitsRevenues-Data Annies Inc. A Single-Product Company analyzed using a new methodology, June 29, 2012, http://www.scribd.com/doc/98652561/Annie-s-Inc-A-Single-ProductCompany-Analyzed-Using-a-New-Methodology Yahoo! Inc. Quick Look at recent profits-revenues trends, Published Sep 30, 2012, http://www.scribd.com/doc/108514055/Yahoo-Inc-QuickLook-at-Recent-Profits-Revenues-Trends Yahoo! Inc. Maximum Point on the Quarterly Profits-Revenues Graph, Published Oct 11, 2012, http://www.scribd.com/doc/109769005/YahooInc-Maximum-Point-on-the-Quarterly-Profits-Revenues-Graph Yahoo! Inc. Maximum Point on the Quarterly Profits-Revenues Graph, Published Sep 30, 2012, http://www.scribd.com/doc/108512834/YahooInc-Maximum-Point-on-the-Profits-Revenues-Graph Amazon.com Profits-Revenues Analysis: My Facebook Posts, Jan 18,2013, http://www.scribd.com/doc/120933845/Amazon-com-Profitsand-Revenues-Analysis-My-Facebook-Posts Amazon.com, Analysis of the Profits-Revenues Data, Published Sep 25, 2012, http://www.scribd.com/doc/106881274/Amazon-ProfitsRevenues-Data-Analysis Research In Motion (RIM): Will Disappear in 2013, July 5, 2012, http://www.scribd.com/doc/99181402/Research-in-Motion-RIMLimited-Will-Disappear-in-2013 Mount Profit Revealed by Ford Motor Company, May 29, 2012, http://www.scribd.com/doc/95140101/Ford-Motor-Company-DataReveals-Mount-Profit A Look at Zillow after Trulias IPO: Analysis of Profits-Revenues Data, Published Sep 22, 2013, http://www.scribd.com/doc/106626486/A-Lookat-Zillow-After-Trulia-s-IPO-Analysis-of-Profits-Revenues-Data The Trulia IPO: Analysis of Profits-Revenues Data, Sep 21, 2012 http://www.scribd.com/doc/106573459/The-Trulia-IPO-Analysis-ofProfits-Revenues-Data Analysis of Zyngas Profits-Revenues Data: Maximum Point on the Profits-Revenues Graph, August 20, 2012,
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http://www.scribd.com/doc/103369016/Analysis-of-Zynga-s-ProfitsRevenues-Data-Maximum-point-on-the-Profits-Revenues-curve 67. A Brief Analysis of Groupons Profits-Revenues Data, August 19, 2012, http://www.scribd.com/doc/103265909/A-Brief-Analysis-of-Groupon-sProfits-Revenues-Data 68. Groupons Business Model: Analysis of Profits-Revenues Data, August 16, 2012, http://www.scribd.com/doc/103027366/Groupon-Analysis-ofProfits-Revenues-Data-and-its-Business-Model Profits-Revenues Data Analysis using the Work Function Model.

Unemployment, Government Budget, and US National Debt

69. The Highest US Unemployment Rates: Obama years Compared with Historical Data (1941-2011), July 11, 2012, http://www.scribd.com/doc/99857981/The-Highest-US-UnemploymentRates-Obama-years-compared-with-historic-highs-in-Unemploymentlevels 70. The US Unemployment Rate: What Happened in the Obama years?, July 9, 2012, http://www.scribd.com/doc/99647215/The-USUnemployment-Rate-What-happened-in-the-Obama-years 71. Further Empirical Evidence for the Universal Constant h and the Economic Work Function, Analysis of Historical Unemployment Data for Japan (1953-2011), July 24, 2012, http://www.scribd.com/doc/100984613/Further-Empirical-Evidence-forthe-Universal-Constant-h-and-the-Economic-Work-Function-Analysis-ofHistorical-Unemployment-data-for-Japan-1953-2011 72. An Economy Under Stress: Preliminary Analysis of Historical Unemployment July 24, 2012, http://www.scribd.com/doc/100939758/An-Economy-Under-StressPreliminary-Analysis-of-Historical-Unemployment-Data-for-Japan 73. Further Evidence for a Universal Constant h and the Economic Work Function: Analysis of Historical US (1941-2011) and Canadian (19762011) Unemployment July 24, 2012, http://www.scribd.com/doc/100910302/Further-Evidence-for-a-

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Universal-Constant-h-and-the-Economic-Work-Function-Analysis-of-US1941-2011-and-Canadian-1976-2011-Unemployment-Data 74. A Second Look at Australian 2012 Unemployment Data, July 22, 2012, http://www.scribd.com/doc/100720086/A-Second-Look-at-Australian2012-Unemployment-Data 75. A First Look at Australian Unemployment Statistics: A New Methodology for Analyzing Unemployment Data, July 19, 2012, http://www.scribd.com/doc/100500017/A-First-Look-at-AustralianUnemployment-Statistics-A-New-Methodology-for-AnalyzingUnemployment-Data 76. Growing the US Economy I : The Obama First term Record, Published Feb 12, 2013, http://www.scribd.com/doc/125093206/Growing-the-USEconomy-I-The-Obama-First-Term-Record 77. Growing the US Economy II Looking Beyond the Unemployment Rate, Published February 15, 2013, http://www.scribd.com/doc/125602428/Growing-the-US-Economy-IILook-Beyond-the-Unemployment-Rate 78. Is Full Employment Feasible? Analysis of Recent US Employment Data (2001-2012), Published February 14, 203, http://www.scribd.com/doc/125452243/Is-Full-Employment-FeasibleAnalysis-of-the-recent-US-Employment-Data 79. Chinas Unemployment Rate: A Useless Statistic? Published Feb 25, 2013, http://www.scribd.com/doc/127149529/China%E2%80%99sUnemployment-Rate-A-Useless-Statistic-A-Method-to-the-Madness-isRevealed 80. Is Full Employment Feasible? Analysis of Job Creation Rate for Brazil and brief comparison with Sweden, Published February 21, 203, http://www.scribd.com/doc/126583857/Is-Full-Employment-FeasibleAnalysis-of-the-Jobs-Creation-Rate-for-Brazil-1997-2011-and-briefcomparison-with-Sweden 81. Is Full Employment Feasible? Analysis of Job Creation Rate for Malaysia, Published February 18, 203, http://www.scribd.com/doc/126081920/Is-Full-Employment-Feasible-

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Analysis-of-the-Jobs-Creation-Rate-for-Malaysia-for-the-period-19992012-and-comparison-with-Singapore-Australia-and-U Is Full Employment Feasible? Analysis of Job Creation Rate Germany for the period 1999-2011, Published February 17, 203, http://www.scribd.com/doc/125862643/Is-Full-Employment-FeasibleAnalysis-of-the-Jobs-Creation-Rate-for-Germany-for-the-period-19992011 The Unites States Postal Service: A Test Case to Understand the US Government Inefficiencies and Budget Cuts Ahead, Sep 1, 2012, http://www.scribd.com/doc/104663110/The-United-States-PostalService-A-Test-Case-to-Understand-the-US-Government-Inefficienciesand-Budget-Cuts-Ahead US National Debt in January 2013: A Fresh Start, Published Jan 24, 2013, http://www.scribd.com/doc/121955182/US-National-Debt-inJanuary-2013-A-Fresh-Start The US National Debt and the Long Term, Sep 1, 2012, http://www.scribd.com/doc/104659108/The-US-National-Debt-and-theLong-Term The US National Debt Retirement Program, Sep 1, 2012, http://www.scribd.com/doc/104659448/The-US-National-DebtRetirement-Program Predicting the Breakeven Point for a US Budget Surplus, Sep 19, 2012, http://www.scribd.com/doc/106362706/Predicting-the-BreakevenPoint-for-a-US-Budget-Surplus The Clinton Budget Surpluses, http://www.scribd.com/doc/105819500/The-Clinton-Budget-SurplusesTreating-Government-like-a-Business, Published Sep 13, 2012 , Google financial data for early years may be found in Table 2. The Amazing US Government Surplus (Deficits)-Receipts Relation during the Clinton Presidency, http://www.scribd.com/doc/105821230/The-Amazing-US-GovernmentReceipts-Surplus-Relation-during-the-Clinton-Presidency, Published Sep 13, 2012.

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90. A Brief Review of the Historical US Government Receipts-Surplus (Deficit) Relation, http://www.scribd.com/doc/106003088/A-BriefReview-of-the-Historical-US-Government-Surplus-Receipts-Relation, Published Sep 15, 2012. 91. The Efficiency of the Government Compared to the Thermal Efficiency of a Heat Engine, Sep 18, 2012, http://www.scribd.com/doc/106220758/The-Efficency-of-GovernmentCompared-to-Thermal-Efficiency-of-a-Heat-Engine 92. From Debt Free to $16T \: Lessons to be learned, Sep 11, 2012, http://www.scribd.com/doc/105651734/From-Debt-Free-to-16TLessons-to-be-learned 93. The US National Debt Growth Rate: The Clinton-Bush-Obama Transition, Sep 5, 2012, http://www.scribd.com/doc/105058946/TheUS-National-Debt-Growth-Rate-The-Clinton-Bush-Obama-Transition 94. Are you Better off than you were Four Years Ago? Sep 3, 2012, http://www.scribd.com/doc/104833993/Are-You-Better-Off-Than-YouWere-Four-Years-Ago 95. The Rate of Growth of the US National Debt: Obama versus Bush years, Sep 3, 2012, http://www.scribd.com/doc/104803209/The-Rate-ofGrowth-of-the-National-Debt-The-Obama-versus-the-Bush-years 96. The US National Debt: Brief History: Good News the rate of growth is slowing down, Sep 2, 2012, http://www.scribd.com/doc/104677653/The-US-National-Debt-BriefHistory-Good-News-The-Rate-of-Growth-of-the-Debt-is-Slowing-Down Fatality Rates and Other Social Problems 97. A Second Look at US Teenage Pregnancy Rates Evidence for a Predominant Natural Law, Aug 8, 2012, http://www.scribd.com/doc/102384514/A-Second-Look-at-the-USTeenage-Pregnancy-Rates-Evidence-for-a-Predominant-Natural-Law 98. US Teenage Pregnancy Rates -1, Are they falling? Why or why not?, August 2, 2012, http://www.scribd.com/doc/101828233/The-USTeenage-Pregnancy-Rates-1 99. The Effect of Speed Limits on Fatalities and Texas Proofing of Vehicles, August 3, 2012,
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http://www.scribd.com/doc/101983375/Effect-of-Speed-Limits-onFatalities-Texas-Proofing-of-Vehicles 100. Does Speed Kill? Forgotten US Highway Deaths in the 1950s and 1960s, August 3, 2012, http://www.scribd.com/doc/101982715/DoesSpeed-Kill-Forgotten-US-Highway-Deaths-in-1950s-and-1960s

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About the author V. Laxmanan, Sc. D.

The author obtained his Bachelors degree (B. E.) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Poona and his Masters degree (M. E.), also in Mechanical Engineering, from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, followed by a Masters (S. M.) and Doctoral (Sc. D.) degrees in Materials Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. He then spent his entire professional career at leading US research institutions (MIT, Allied Chemical Corporate R & D, now part of Honeywell, NASA, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), and General Motors Research and Development Center in Warren, MI). He holds four patents in materials processing, has co-authored two books and published several scientific papers in leading peer-reviewed international journals. His expertise includes developing simple mathematical models to explain the behavior of complex systems. While at NASA and CWRU, he was responsible for developing material processing experiments to be performed aboard the space shuttle and developed a simple mathematical model to explain the growth Christmas-tree, or snowflake, like structures (called dendrites) widely observed in many types of liquid-to-solid phase transformations (e.g., freezing of all commercial metals and alloys, freezing of water, and, yes, production of snowflakes!). This led to a simple model to explain the growth of dendritic structures in both the groundbased experiments and in the space shuttle experiments. More recently, he has been interested in the analysis of the large volumes of data from financial and economic systems and has developed what may be called the Quantum Business Model (QBM). This extends (to financial and economic systems) the mathematical arguments used by Max Planck to develop quantum physics using the analogy Energy = Money, i.e., energy in physics is like money in economics. Einstein applied Plancks ideas to describe the photoelectric effect (by treating light as being composed of particles called photons, each with the fixed quantum of energy conceived by Planck). The mathematical law deduced by Planck, referred to here as the generalized power-exponential law, might
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actually have many applications far beyond blackbody radiation studies where it was first conceived. Einsteins photoelectric law is a simple linear law and was deduced from Plancks non-linear law for describing blackbody radiation. It appears that financial and economic systems can be modeled using a similar approach. Finance, business, economics and management sciences now essentially seem to operate like astronomy and physics before the advent of Kepler and Newton. Finally, during my professional career, I also twice had the opportunity and great honor to make presentations to two Nobel laureates: first at NASA to Prof. Robert Schrieffer (1972 Physics Nobel Prize), who was the Chairman of the Schrieffer Committee appointed to review NASAs space flight experiments (following the loss of the space shuttle Challenger on January 28, 1986) and second at GM Research Labs to Prof. Robert Solow (1987 Nobel Prize in economics), who was Chairman of Corporate Research Review Committee, appointed by GM corporate management.

Cover page of AirTran 2000 Annual Report

Can you see that plane flying above the tall tree tops that make a nearly perfect circle? It requires a great deal of imagination to see and to photograph it.

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r opaniad Invocation
There is a story going around on the Internet that when Thomas Edison invented his gramophone the first words recorded were those from the Isopanishad. The invocatory verse of this Upanishad is given below. Intrigued by this story, I did a bit of research and found out that the first words recorded were from the nursery rhyme that we all learn as children (at least in the English speaking world), Mary had a little lamb. Regardless, the invocatory verse here is a profound revelation. I have also learned recently that British schools are promoting Sanskrit and that there is also a PERFECT You-tube rendition of the Isopanishad by British high schoolers. What has this got to do with ? Read on.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isha_UpanishadAn opening invocation prefaced to the Isha Upanishad

The opening invocation prefaced to the Isha Upanishad http://vedabase.com/en/iso/chapter-view o pram ada pram ida prt pram udacyate prasya pram dya pram evvaiyate

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Word for word meaning: o the Complete Whole; pram perfectly complete; ada that; pram perfectly complete; idam this phenomenal world; prt from the all-perfect; pram complete unit; udacyate is produced; prasya of the Complete Whole; pram completely, all; dya having been taken away; pram the complete balance; eva even; avaiyate is remaining.

Translation (mine first paragraph below, modified slightly from the original cited here; see the bolded blue text):

Om! That is perfect and complete (o pram ada). This is perfect and complete (pram ida). Whatever arises (udacyate) from the Perfect and Complete Whole (prt) is also perfect and complete (pram). Taking the perfect and the complete (pram dya) of (or which belongs to) the Perfect and the Complete Whole (prasya) only leaves behind that which is also a perfect and complete whole (pram evvaiyate). (That means the Supreme Being, the Personality of Godhead. This means the phenomenal world, the material universe and all of material creation.) The Personality of Godhead is perfect and complete, and because He is completely perfect, all emanations from Him, such as this phenomenal world, are perfectly equipped as complete wholes. Whatever is produced of the Complete Whole is also complete in itself. Because He is the Complete Whole, even though so many complete units emanate from Him, He remains the complete balance.

What has this got to do with ?

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