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Posted By Radiofreeeuropa 9 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & TechnologyQuantum Mechanics has been described
as the crowning achievement of the 20th Century,
a theory that has been validated with great precision.
The quanta - the idea that at the smallest of scales,
everything is discrete; has devastated classical physics and forced us
to perceive reality in a most unreasonable fashion by conventional standards.
Yet at it's very core, the stuff upon which the physical universe is hung,
is more real than the physical universe itself.
This article looks at the implications not only in science but in other disciplines as well. Particularly the implications in your personal existence.
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Radiofreeeuropa9 months, 2 weeks ago
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FTA- "Quantum Mechanics has been described
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as the crowning achievement of the 20th Century,
a theory that has been validated with great precision.
Yet at it's very core, the stuff upon which the physical universe is hung, is more real than the physical universe itself."
We seemed to have some great commentary on the last "shoeless" article that looked at theoretical physics and it's implications in other disciplines. (Anarchs of the New Paradigm). In this outing, we have a look at some of the history and reflect on what impact this all has on you personally...and/or Jay Ward cartoon characters. -
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CRYMTYPHON9 months, 2 weeks ago
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I was sent an invite to this thread, in the hopes I would say something so totaly idiotic as to be amusing .
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I decline.
Instead, I will proceed with utter seriousness to comment on the 'ultra-violet paradox', wherein the energy of a thought-experiment becomes infinite, and therefore seems to disprove classic physics.
The solution is in the quantum view that levels of energy are not infinite; there are 'jumps' in waves of energy with nothing between .
This is exactly the same as Zeno's paradox,
where it is shown that motion is impossible; because
before you can go from point A to point B, you
must Am I Boring Enough Yet Good go halfway to point C;
and before you can reach point C you must go halfway,
on thru infinity just as this paragraph goes on, ha ha serves that twerp RadioFreeEuropa right to invite me to make a fool of myself, like they did at the office party when they spiked my yogurt cup and got me to explain what 'Crymtyphon' meant, and I remember when I was a kid and spent all night in the woods hunting snipe yeah that was real funny wasn't it TehranChick so in quantum physics we actualy see that no ideal is infinitely divisible ; not space, not time not energy and damned certainly not my patience!
Thank you.
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Radiofreeeuropa9 months, 2 weeks ago
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Well, er...ahem...though I take exception to the twerp reference...
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I'm amused.
Must have missed that office party though or was I there but simply unobserved?
Maybe the wave collapsed in the punchbowl. I hope I didn't try to surf it.
So did you catch any snipes?
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Radiofreeeuropa9 months, 2 weeks ago
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Oh it's coming back to me now...yes Schrödinger's cat was passed out in the corner and I believe it was either Heisenberg or Tehranchik who remained motionless, face down in the guacamole dip through much of the evening. A good time was had by all no doubt until not2needy came home and threw us all out...apparently no one bothered to get aproval to have the office party at her place...
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Then the rapture came and we all went up in the clouds.
(Except for EagleEye, apparently they have a no birds rule...who'd of thunk it?)
But then Mdair, who had been eating chili at the office party farted... God said
"Sir, I take exception to you farting before the creator of the universe!"
To which Mdair replied
"I didn't know it was your turn."
With that God threw us all out and here we are condemned to type endlessly away on our keyboards about such banal and mundane subjects as the nature of theoretical boxes containing cats.-
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Eagle_Eye9 months, 2 weeks ago
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it sure beats talking about politics...
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...from my experience (and getting kicked out by God and told it's not your time that's why I didn't follow ) what I saw could only be described by quantum physics and string theory...there is also another energy theory smaller than string but I can't put my feather on it at the moment. -
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CRYMTYPHON9 months, 2 weeks ago
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In the past, it was traditional for reductionsts to
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have the final word.
Freudians told us sex was behind all human achievement.
Biologists told us our bodies were machines.
Newtonian physics said we were billiard balls on the pool-table of the cosmos.
Historians said we were units of social tension between challenge and response.
Priests told us we were spirits trapped in clay bodies.
With quantum physics, the ultimate reduction was achieved;
you can go no further down without coming back to
thoughts within the mind.
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Progressive9 months, 2 weeks ago
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"Is it at least possible that true seekers may have glimpsed the implications of the quantum universe without actually doing the math?"
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Is it possible that those who were doing the math were too busy to appreciate the implications of the quantum universe?
If Schrödinger's cat has any lives left, I'd like to introduce him to a Maus in my basement.
...and that's the last time I'm bringing the guacamole dip if you people can't keep your faces out of it! -
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flyonthewallzz9 months, 2 weeks ago
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"If every concept has a meaning only in terms of the experiments used to measure it, we must agree that things that cannot be measured really have no meaning in physics."
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But can they be explored?
I have no grasp whatsoever of quantum physics.
My physics teacher described a particle accelerator, as trying to figure out an invisible Swiss watch by smashing it and studying the dents in the concrete.
I measure stuff every day, and often feel tricked by irrational numbers like PI or Phi (the golden ratio). Both values can easily be described by the real word, but the resulting symbols are always irrational.
I have wasted a fair amount of my life playing with the concept.
Foolishly I think a hybrid Babylonian (clocks or angles) system may find closure. But I always end up with Fractals.
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Radiofreeeuropa9 months, 2 weeks ago
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Q:What do you call a nun who's had a sex change?
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...A:A Trans-sister
Relativity : Family get-togethers at Christmas
Gravity : Strength of a glass of beer
Time travel : Throwing the alarm clock at the wall in the morning
Black holes : What you get in black socks
Critical mass: A gaggle of film reviewers
Hyperspace : A parking spot at the supermarket
And does Kryptonite harm supermodels?
An engineer friend of mine told me of a group of scientists that were nominated for a Nobel prize a few years ago. Using dental tools, they were able to sort out the smallest particles that mankind has yet discovered.
The group became known as
"the Graders of the Flossed Quark."
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aceofspades19 months, 2 weeks ago
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while driving down the New Jersey Turnpike one day, contemplating my existence both within & without the edge of a black hole, my mind probably somewhat addled from inhaling the noxious fumes of the Secaucus refineries which were spewing their sulphurous vapors, I was stopped by a NJ State trooper.he claimed he had clocked me speeding with his laser gun. Since I was at a standstill at the point that he stopped me (although I was still travelling through the universe at thousands of miles per hour) . I tried to explain to him that he only had what he thought was a measure of my relative speed to my surroundings at the time that he measured it, at which time I may or may not have been there, and his measurement was only a speculative artifact of what might or might not have not been. He didn't buy it. Too bad there are not more theoretical physicists on the New Jersey State Police. And maybe I should have wiped the guacamole off my face
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