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1 posted on 03/26/2018 9:56:54 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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I say we run Shroedinger’s cat through the two slits and have Shroedinger’s dog waiting on the other side.

Behavior problem solved. ALthough we may have to repeat the experiment 9 times before the cat quits providing interference.


2 posted on 03/26/2018 10:04:05 AM PDT by DannyTN
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He was more interested in money and the things it could bring: fine food and drink, material luxury, and women. He wanted a Mad Men lifestyle, not a professor’s office...... He died of a massive heart attack in 1982, at the age of 51.

At least he died happy..................

3 posted on 03/26/2018 10:05:00 AM PDT by Red Badger (The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
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He was more interested in money and the things it could bring: fine food and drink, material luxury, and women. He wanted a Mad Men lifestyle, not a professor’s office...... He died of a massive heart attack in 1982, at the age of 51.

At least he died happy..................

4 posted on 03/26/2018 10:05:05 AM PDT by Red Badger (The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
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He was a fascinating character, darker than this article reveals. His son is Mark Everett, who is basically the rock band The Eels. He wrote a lot about his father and the legacy of self-destruction and suicide he passed down to his children. A brilliant guy though.


6 posted on 03/26/2018 10:14:07 AM PDT by dead
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Interesting. Thanks for posting.


7 posted on 03/26/2018 10:14:40 AM PDT by onedoug
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From 1961:

11 posted on 03/26/2018 11:06:48 AM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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In accordance with his wishes, his family had him cremated, and left his ashes out to be collected with the trash.


Now that’s pragmatism.


12 posted on 03/26/2018 12:11:05 PM PDT by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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“he said that quantum physics actually implied an infinite number of near-identical parallel universes”

The multiverse is not from an “understanding of Quantum physics, but do totally to the fact that some behaviors of matter/energy at the quantum level have no explanation and zero empirical evidence for how - by what laws - they occur, but occur we know they do.

So the idiots among the tribe of theoretical physics invents things out of whole cloth to “explain” things that neither they nor anyone yet understands. ALL their fanciful notions about matter/energy at the level we reside at having the ability to demonstrate behavior only see at the quantum level have and ZERO empirical proof. Neither things like the multiverse nor string theory nor many others are more science than they are science fantasy.


14 posted on 03/26/2018 1:19:25 PM PDT by Wuli
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Why Traveling to Alternate Dimensions Would Be a Disaster
https://hubpages.com/literature/Why-Traveling-to-Alternate-Dimensions-Would-Be-a-Disaster


15 posted on 03/26/2018 3:51:16 PM PDT by tbw2
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DC & Marvel multi-verses thank him.

Every super-critter is simultaneously, alive, dead, and/or trans-somethinged.

There are no real consequences for violating Newton’s prosaic notions.

It is a great relief.


17 posted on 03/26/2018 4:54:24 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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When you turn out the light at the end of the thread, make certain to close the dimensional door.


20 posted on 03/26/2018 7:19:06 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( Here Kitty Kitty! (What are you doing in that box!))
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For a period of time in the 70s my brother was the closest working associate of Hugh Everett and has many stories to tell about him.


23 posted on 03/26/2018 10:24:53 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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The work of DeWitt, Deutsch, and others led the many-worlds interpretation to become much more popular over the ensuing decades. But Everett didn’t live to see the many-worlds interpretation achieve its current status as the most prominent rival to the Copenhagen interpretation. He died of a massive heart attack in 1982, at the age of 51.

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Everett used Many Worlds as an excuse to live a gluttonous life and disregard his health. He figure he’d always be alive in one of the worlds.


26 posted on 03/27/2018 4:54:17 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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The many-worlds interpretation hit a roadblock almost immediately in the person of Everett’s PhD advisor at Princeton, the eminent physicist John Wheeler. Wheeler was a physicist’s physicist; he wasn’t terribly well known outside of the field, but he knew absolutely everyone important within it. He was a protégé of Bohr, and had also been close with Einstein. Fifteen years before Everett showed up at his door, Wheeler had supervised the PhD of a young Richard Feynman; he would later go on to supervise the PhDs of dozens more renowned physicists (including Kip Thorne, one of the winners of last year’s Nobel Prize in Physics).

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Wheeler may be one of the greatest physicists ever. He came up with his own crazy idea, one so nuts that his student Feynman had to call it too outlandish to be true.


27 posted on 03/27/2018 4:58:32 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To solve the problem of superposition, Everett proposed something truly radical, seemingly more appropriate for the pulp sci-fi novels he read in his spare time: he said that quantum physics actually implied an infinite number of near-identical parallel universes, continually splitting off from each other whenever a quantum experiment was performed. This bizarre idea that Everett found lurking in the mathematics of quantum physics came to be known as the “many-worlds” interpretation.

Think of space-time as a solid - Astronauts moving in "time" fast enough to break the bonds of illusion...

Astronaut's gene expression no longer same as his identical twin, NASA finds

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/14/health/scott-kelly-dna-nasa-twins-study/index.html

31 posted on 03/27/2018 9:06:51 AM PDT by GOPJ (Whores who serviced members of "elite' Washington MSM - We pay cash for dirt...)
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