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Quantum physics just got less complicated
PhysOrg ^ | 12/19/14

Posted on 12/19/2014 11:34:49 AM PST by LibWhacker

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To: LibWhacker

How does a particle know what we think? Strange. :)


21 posted on 12/19/2014 11:58:20 AM PST by itsahoot (Voting for a Progressive RINO is the same as voting for any other Tyrant.)
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To: rightwingcrazy

“That was my understanding from college, decades ago. I suppose they formalized the connection.”

Yes:

It’s possible to write equations that capture how much can be learned about pairs of properties that are affected by the uncertainty principle. Coles, Kaniewski and Wehner are experts in a form of such equations known as ‘entropic uncertainty relations’, and they discovered that all the maths previously used to describe wave-particle duality could be reformulated in terms of these relations.


22 posted on 12/19/2014 11:59:20 AM PST by TexasGator
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To: LibWhacker; SunkenCiv
thanks, for the ping/post...
Science Ping!

23 posted on 12/19/2014 12:00:46 PM PST by skinkinthegrass ("Bathhouse" E'Bola/0'Boehmer/0'McConnell; all STINK and their best friends are flies. d8^)
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To: outofsalt

Proving the irresolvability of the most persistent duality of life, namely, What do women really want?

Rather than a duality, that would be more like an infinite superposition of possibilities. You could know precisely what one would want, or when she wanted it, but not at the same time.


24 posted on 12/19/2014 12:00:47 PM PST by rightwingcrazy
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To: LibWhacker

Irony:

Scientists that base their calculations on the “uncertainty principle” ridiculing the Christian faith.


25 posted on 12/19/2014 12:01:06 PM PST by Bratch
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To: verga

Piong for later


26 posted on 12/19/2014 12:01:10 PM PST by verga
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To: faithhopecharity

“because Speaker of the House Mr. (No-)Boner protects O”

1. No impeachment would get a democratic senate approval.

2. Who would go through that tortured ordeal just to get Biden as president.


27 posted on 12/19/2014 12:01:27 PM PST by TexasGator
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To: LibWhacker

tell them to use the new math of common core and I bet they’ll find the answer in no time.


28 posted on 12/19/2014 12:01:42 PM PST by huldah1776
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To: TexasGator

Ah. Back to the books.


29 posted on 12/19/2014 12:02:34 PM PST by rightwingcrazy
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To: LibWhacker

Well, duuuuuh!


30 posted on 12/19/2014 12:03:25 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: LibWhacker; 6SJ7; AdmSmith; AFPhys; Arkinsaw; allmost; aristotleman; autumnraine; bajabaja; ...
Thanks LibWhacker.

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31 posted on 12/19/2014 12:08:13 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/ _____________________ Celebrate the Polls, Ignore the Trolls)
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To: LibWhacker

Grrr. I was writing a paper on this (no joke). Ok, going back to the one on time dilation, black holes, and why singularities don’t exist.

/I have wierd aka geek hobbies


32 posted on 12/19/2014 12:09:30 PM PST by piytar (No government has ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason.)
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To: rightwingcrazy

“Ah. Back to the books.”

My quantum physics courses were forty years ago. I have no hope of catching up.


33 posted on 12/19/2014 12:09:46 PM PST by TexasGator
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To: rightwingcrazy

I stand corrected but, only if money is removed as a variable.


34 posted on 12/19/2014 12:11:35 PM PST by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: faithhopecharity

Biden told Gore how to invent it.


35 posted on 12/19/2014 12:11:44 PM PST by pallis
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To: LibWhacker
They found that 'wave-particle duality' is simply the quantum 'uncertainty principle' in disguise, reducing two mysteries to one.

Nothing new here... my prof taught that to me in college 23 years ago, LOL!

36 posted on 12/19/2014 12:12:25 PM PST by backwoods-engineer (Blog: www.BackwoodsEngineer.com)
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To: LibWhacker

Long story short: the cat is definitely dead.


37 posted on 12/19/2014 12:14:06 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Democrats have a lynch mob mentality. They always have.)
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To: rightwingcrazy

Why don’t they just answer both questions rather than dink around with the semantics?


38 posted on 12/19/2014 12:14:18 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: LibWhacker

Huh? Isn’t this what’s been understood for decades?


39 posted on 12/19/2014 12:21:42 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: LibWhacker

Ah...here’s the important part:

It’s possible to write equations that capture how much can be learned about pairs of properties that are affected by the uncertainty principle. Coles, Kaniewski and Wehner are experts in a form of such equations known as ‘entropic uncertainty relations’, and they discovered that all the maths previously used to describe wave-particle duality could be reformulated in terms of these relations.


40 posted on 12/19/2014 12:22:51 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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