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Physics: Quantum quest
Nature News ^
| 11 September 2013
| Philip Ball
Posted on 09/16/2013 1:40:34 PM PDT by neverdem
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09/16/2013 1:40:34 PM PDT
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neverdem
To: neverdem
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posted on
09/16/2013 1:43:08 PM PDT
by
gundog
(Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
To: neverdem
Im not sure why this is a paradox..anything that transitions from one state to another has a border that is passes through when it is both and neither..
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posted on
09/16/2013 1:52:49 PM PDT
by
tophat9000
(Are we headed to a Cracker Slacker War?)
To: neverdem
To: neverdem
‘What is it about this world that forces us to navigate it with the help of such an abstract entity? wonders physicist Maximilian Schlosshauer of the University of Portland in Oregon...’
Search me. God made it that way; ask Him.
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posted on
09/16/2013 2:01:01 PM PDT
by
Jack Hammer
(American)
To: Jack Hammer
Where is the old sense of awe. Now that the world is deemed no more than our personal toy box, we yawn.
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posted on
09/16/2013 2:05:16 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
Most moderns can’t handle awe - it scares them.
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posted on
09/16/2013 2:09:16 PM PDT
by
Jack Hammer
(American)
To: Jack Hammer
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posted on
09/16/2013 2:11:55 PM PDT
by
hosepipe
(This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
To: Jack Hammer
God made it that way; ask Him God might reply, study My Creation,
I have made it Understandable
I have Given you Reason and Logic
One might say that we Honor God by Honoring His Creation
By Studying it and using it Prudently.
We Honor God by being Good Stewards of
the Gifts of Logic and Reason.
Always Honoring the Giver of the Gifts
In all Gratitude and Humility.
And Knowing that ALL is Freely Given Gifts.
The Quantum Mechanics Conundrum is, I Believe, Resolvable.
In this Context
To: HangnJudge
We Honor God by being Good Stewards of the Gifts of Logic and Reason. Thank you.
That ranks as one of the most enlightening things I've ever read on FR!
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posted on
09/16/2013 2:20:22 PM PDT
by
frog in a pot
("To each according to his need..." -from a guy who never had a real job and couldn't feed his family)
To: HangnJudge
Einstein: “G-d does not play dice.”
Bohr: “Albert, quit telling G-d what to do!”
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posted on
09/16/2013 2:35:36 PM PDT
by
donmeaker
(Youth is wasted on the young.)
To: neverdem
It is quite simple. We may know “this much” but not more. Period.
See my tag line,
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posted on
09/16/2013 2:36:51 PM PDT
by
ImaGraftedBranch
(...By reading this, you've collapsed my wave function. Thanks.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
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posted on
09/16/2013 2:38:52 PM PDT
by
donmeaker
(Youth is wasted on the young.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
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posted on
09/16/2013 2:39:55 PM PDT
by
donmeaker
(Youth is wasted on the young.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
And yet I would imagine our bleeding edge science is the equivalent of Lincoln logs. We don’t know what we don’t know. Like an eleven year old :)
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posted on
09/16/2013 2:42:11 PM PDT
by
catbertz
To: donmeaker
Einstein: G-d does not play dice.
Bohr: Albert, quit telling G-d what to do! I've always been uncomfortable with Einstein's words here
With his profound Gifts of Reason, and dare we say, Vision
Einstein was able to look “Differently” at
our understanding of Physics.
But to state these words,
especially from a Jewish perspective,
might be thought of as... blasphemous
Better would be to say,
I cannot comprehend a Physics where G-d Rolls Dice
It would seem to be a breach in Causality and Determinism,
both strong features of our understanding of the Universe
To: tophat9000
There is no transition. What quantum theory states is that all that exists is in 'superposition', where a dual state of matter/energy exists at all times, and only 'collapses' into one definitive state or another depending on what arrangement is devised to observe it -- waves or particles. Note that, at subatomic distances, matter and energy are so interchangeable that mass is measured in electron volts.
This also implies, in part, a subjective, user-created reality.
I find it only too fitting that the more we get closer to the nature of 'what is real', the more unreal it becomes.
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posted on
09/16/2013 2:51:58 PM PDT
by
Joe Brower
(The "American People" are no longer capable of self-governance.)
To: neverdem
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posted on
09/16/2013 2:56:27 PM PDT
by
Lmo56
(If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
To: neverdem
There can not be any paradoxes in nature. What appears to be a paradox is just humans’ imperfect understanding of the universe.
To: neverdem
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