Analog Science Fiction & Fact Magazine "The Alternate View" columns of John G. Cramer Subject Index

"The Alternate View" columns of John G. Cramer are short (~2,000 word) essays about cutting-edge science. They are aimed at readers (and writers) of "hard" science fiction, as exemplified by the SF stories of Analog, but are about real science, usually physics or astronomy. These columns are published bimonthly in Analog Science Fiction & Fact Magazine.

This index is current to 11/13/96
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Group 1 -- Cutting Edge Science Group 2 -- Quantum Mechanics Group 3 -- Neutrinos Group 4 -- Cosmology and Astrophysics Group 5 -- Gravity and General Relativity Group 6 -- Wormholes Group 7 -- Mega-Projects Group 8 -- Space Drives Group 9 -- Evolution and Catastrophe Group 10 - Communications and Virtual Reality Group 11 - Flashes in the Pan - Things That Didn't Work Group 12 - Science Policy Science Fiction Novels by John G. Cramer John G. Cramer's Home Page Go to chronological index of Alternate View columns.

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Group 1 - Cutting Edge Science

The Alternate View Column Title	Subject of Column	Analog Issue	Column Code
The Other 40 Dimensions	Klein-Kaluza compactification	04/85	AltVw06
Light in Reverse Gear I	Optical reversal with a 4-Wave mixer	06/85	AltVw07
Light in Reverse Gear II	Advanced radiation	08/85	AltVw08
Antimatter in a Trap	Penning ion trapping	12/85	AltVw10
Super Atoms and Super Fields	Positrons from Z>173 atoms	13/86	AltVw17
Warm Superconductors	Ceramic BaYCuO superconductors	10/87	AltVw22
Report on NanoCon 1	NanoCon I - The 1st Nanotechnology Conference	10/89	AltVw35
Harnessing the Butterfly - The Steering of Chaos	Using chaos for control	03/92	AltVw51
Bose-Einstein Condensation: A New Form of Matter	Thousands of atoms in the same quantum state	03/96	AltVw77
The "Real World" and The Standard Model	Effect on the universe of varying force strengths and quark masses	05/96	AltVw78
Burn Up the Nuclear Waste	Particle accelerators for waste "burnup"	07/96	AltVw79
Inside the Quark	Preons and quark sub-structure	09/96	AltVw80
The Atom Laser	A laser that emits coherent atoms instead of coherent light	07/97	AltVw85
Breaking the Standard Model	Evidence from DESY for a new particle: the leptoquark	11/97	AltVw87

Group 2 - Quantum Mechanics

The Alternate View Column Title	Subject of Column	Analog Issue	Column Code
Other Universes II	Everett-Wheeler interpretation of QM	11/84	AltVw03
The Quantum Handshake	The Transactional Interpretation of QM	11/86	AltVw16
Watching The Quantum Jump	Exciting single atoms in a trap	05/88	AltVw26
Paradoxes and FTL Communication	The Calcutta QM Paradox	09/88	AltVw28
Einsteins' Spooks & Bell's Theorem	The EPR paradox & nonlocality	01/90	AltVw37
Quantum Time Travel	Time tricks with quantum mechanics	04/91	AltVw45
Quantum Telephones to Other Universes, to Times Past	Non-linear quantum mechanics and communication	10/91	AltVw48
The Quantum Physics of Teleportation	Transporting a complete quantum state	12/93	AltVw62
Tunneling through the Lightspeed Barrier	Quantum tunneling and transit time	12/95	AltVw75
Bose-Einstein Condensation: A New Form of Matter	Thousands of atoms in the same quantum state	03/96	AltVw77
Space Drives, Phased Arrays, and Interferometry	Amplitude and intensity interferometry	01/97	AltVw82
The Atom Laser	A laser that emits coherent atoms instead of coherent light	07/97	AltVw85

Group 3 - Neutrinos

The Alternate View Column Title	Subject of Column	Analog Issue	Column Code
Neutrinos and WIMPs	The Solar Neutrino Problem	05/86	AltVw13
Heavy Neutrinos: Who Ordered That?	Reports of a 17 kilovolt neutrino	12/91	AltVw49
Neutrino Physics: Curiouser and Curiouser	SAGE neutrino detector results	09/92	AltVw54
Neutrinos, Ripples, and Time Loops	Tachyonic neutrinos, cosmic string effects	02/93	AltVw57

Group 4 - Cosmology and Astrophysics

The Alternate View Column Title	Subject of Column	Analog Issue	Column Code
Antimatter in the Universe	The possibility of antimatter galaxies	08/79	Analog-1
Other Universes I	GUTs cosmology	09/84	AltVw02
In The Fullness of Time	The universe in the far future	10/85	AltVw09
Children of the Swan	Cygnus X-3 cosmic ray particles	03/86	AltVw12
SN1987A - Supernova Astrophysics Grows Up	Supernovae, neutrinos, and gravitational collapse	12/87	AltVw23
Supernova Duds and Toothpaste	Neutrinos and fluorine nucleosynthesis	02/89	AltVw31
The Mouse that Boomed	Fast object seen with radio-astronomy	08/89	AltVw34
Cosmic Voids and Great Walls	The large-scale structure of the universe	08/91	AltVw47
Searching for MACHOs (massive compact halo objects)	The gravitational lensing of brown dwarfs	05/94	AltVw65
Stretch Marks on the Universe - Quantized Redshift	Puzzle of clustered galactic red-shifts	11/94	AltVw68
GRS1915+105: The Fastest Fireball in the Galaxy	A quasar-like object in our galaxy	04/95	AltVw71
"Texas" in Munich, Part 1: The Constants of the Universe	Closing in on the universe's parameters	08/95	AltVw73
"Texas" in Munich, Part 2: Gamma Ray Bursts	The gamma ray burst puzzle	10/95	AltVw74
Ultra-Energetic Cosmic Rays and Gamma Ray Bursts	Correlation between cosmic rays and gamma bursts?	01/96	AltVw76

Group 5 - Gravity and General Relativity

The Alternate View Column Title	Subject of Column	Analog Issue	Column Code
Antigravity I: Negative Mass	The gravitation of negative mass	07/86	AltVw14
Artificial Gravity: Which way is Up?	Centrifugal gravity on space stations	02/87	AltVw18
Spiral Galaxies and Antigravity Beams	Gravity waves from cosmic strings	01/88	AltVw24
The Rainbows of Gravity	Einstein's ring and gravitational lensing	11/88	AltVw29
Falling through to Pelucidar	Shadow matter and gravitation	04/89	AltVw32
The Twin Paradox Revisited	Special relativity and time dilation	03/90	AltVw38
Centrifugal Forces and Black Holes	Light-like orbits near a black hole	11/92	AltVw55
The Force of the Tide	Gravitational tidal forces	01/94	AltVw63
The Alcubierre Warp Drive	A warp-drive s olution to Einstein's equations	11/96	AltVw81
Antigravity Sightings	Woodward's Mach's Principle space drive	03/97	AltVw83
The Krasnikov Tube: A Subway to the Stars	A solution to Einstein's equations in the form of a time-shortcut tube	09/97	AltVw86

Group 6 - Wormholes

The Alternate View Column Title	Subject of Column	Analog Issue	Column Code
Wormholes and Time Machines	General relativity and FTL travel	06/89	AltVw33
Wormholes II: Getting There in No Time	Wormholes as starships	05/90	AltVw39
Natural Wormholes: Squeezing the Vacuum	Negative mass from squeezed vacuum	07/92	AltVw53
NASA Goes FTL - Part 1: Wormhole Physics	JPL relativity/quantum workshop report 1	13/94	AltVw69

Group 7 - Mega-Projects

The Alternate View Column Title	Subject of Column	Analog Issue	Column Code
The Coming of the SSC	The Superconducting Supercollider Project	03/88	AltVw25
Mega-Projects & -Problems; The Hubble in Trouble	NASA'a problems with the HST	02/91	AltVw44
RHIC: Big Bangs in the Lab	Heavy-ion collider project at Brookhaven	06/91	AltVw46
CERN and the LHC	The large hadronic collider project	05/92	AltVw52
DUMAND: Neutrinos from Beneath the Ocean	Large underwater neutrino detector	06/93	AltVw59
Beauty and the B-Factory	B mesons and matter: proposed accelerator to make B-mesons	09/94	AltVw67
CERN in Transition	The new 33 TeV lead beams	06/95	AltVw72
The Decline and Fall of the SSC	The killing of the DOE's Superconducting Super Collider Project	05/97	AltVw84

Group 8 - Space Drives

The Alternate View Column Title	Subject of Column	Analog Issue	Column Code
The Dark Side of the Force of Gravity	The Dark Matter Problem	02/85	AltVw05
Strings and Things	Cosmic strings	04/87	AltVw19
Laser Propulsion and the Four P's	Laser-sustained propulsion	08/87	AltVw21
FTL Photons	The Casimir Effect and the speed of light	13/90	AltVw43
Nuke Your Way to the Stars	Continuously detonating nuclear rocket	13/92	AltVw56
The Tachyon Drive: Vex= and Eex= 0.	Using tachyons as reaction fuel	10/93	AltVw61
NASA Goes FTL - Part 2: Cracks in Nature's FTL Armor	JPL relativity/quantum workshop report 2	02/95	AltVw70
The Alcubierre Warp Drive	A warp-drive solution to Einstein's equations	11/96	AltVw81
Space Drives, Phased Arrays, and Interferometry	Amplitude and intensity interferometry	01/97	AltVw82
Antigravity Sightings	Woodward's Mach's Principle space drive	03/97	AltVw83
The Krasnikov Tube: A Subway to the Stars	A solution to Einstein's equations in the form of a time-shortcut tube	09/97	AltVw86

Group 9 - Evolution and Catastrophe

The Alternate View Column Title	Subject of Column	Analog Issue	Column Code
The Pump of Evolution	The Fermi Paradox and catastrophes	01/86	AltVw11
Dinosaur Breath	Cretaceous air trapped in amber	07/88	AltVw27
Killer Asteroids and You	Earth-orbit-crossing asteroids	01/92	AltVw50

Group 10 - Communications and Virtual Reality

The Alternate View Column Title	Subject of Column	Analog Issue	Column Code
Telepresence: Reach Out and Grab Someone	Robotics and telepresence	07/90	AltVw40
A Visit to Virtual Seattle	Virtual reality	11/90	AltVw42
The Bandwidth Revolution: Internet and WorldWideWeb	The coming of the Web	03/94	AltVw64
News from CyberSpace: Virtual Reality and HyperText	Report on two conferences	07/94	AltVw66

Group 11 - Flashes in the Pan - Things That Didn't Work

The Alternate View Column Title	Subject of Column	Analog Issue	Column Code
New Phenomena	Magnetic monopoles, "anomalons", free quarks?	02/83	Analog-3
Again Monopoles	Magnetic monopole detection at Stanford (?)	09/83	Analog-4
When Proton Meets Monopole	Monopole catalysis and proton decay	07/84	AltVw01
Antigravity II: A Fifth Force?	Hypercharge and hyperforce	09/86	AltVw15
Recent Results	Review of past AV columns	06/87	AltVw20
Cold Fusion, Pro-fusion, and Con-fusion	Pons & Fleischman and cold fusion?	12/89	AltVw36
The Rise and Fall of Gyro-Gravity	Spin-modification of gravity?	09/90	AltVw41

Group 12 - Science Policy

The Alternate View Column Title	Subject of Column	Analog Issue	Column Code
The Territoriality of Space Exploration	Guest Editorial: Should the USA have claimed the Moon as territory?	11/81	Analog-2
The Alternate Who????	1st column - Introduction of the author	07/84	AltVw00
The Retarding of Science	AARSE - American Association for the Retardation of Science and Engineering (satire)	13/84	AltVw04
Dyson on Space	Freeman Dyson's views on the space program	13/88	AltVw30
Science and SF in Japan	Report on a trip to Japan	04/93	AltVw58
Science Policy: The Parable of the King and the Grain	The politics of scientific decisions	08/93	AltVw60
CERN in Transition	The new 33 TeV lead beams	06/95	AltVw72

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