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"The spikes in mine are significantly bigger, and, in my opinion, more impressive."
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Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?
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Quantum Darwinism, an Idea to Explain Objective Reality, Passes First Tests | Quanta Magazine
Three experiments have vetted quantum Darwinism, a theory that explains how quantum possibilities can give rise to objective, classical reality.
www.quantamagazine.org
can't really wrap my head around this stuff
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This helps.Quantum Darwinism, an Idea to Explain Objective Reality, Passes First Tests | Quanta Magazine
Three experiments have vetted quantum Darwinism, a theory that explains how quantum possibilities can give rise to objective, classical reality.
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I tried to make something like that for a science fair in like 3rd grade. Turns out I did not understand how magnets work, and it totally failed.
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Super cool.
Complex quantum teleportation achieved for the first time
Austrian and Chinese scientists have succeeded in teleporting three-dimensional quantum states for the first time. High-dimensional teleportation could play an important role in future quantum computers.
Complex quantum teleportation achieved for the first time
Austrian and Chinese scientists have succeeded in teleporting three-dimensional quantum states for the first time. High-dimensional teleportation could play an important role in future quantum computers.
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Books in the maths first year undergraduate guide:
Walter Rudin, Real and Complex Analysis
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China says it found something bizarre and unexpected on the moon
Chinese media is claiming that while investigating the far side of the moon, the country’s Yutu-2 lunar rover stumbled upon a unique “gel-like” substance of unknown origin sitting inside a small crater. What we know so far: Yutu-2 made the discovery during its eighth lunar day on the moon as it...
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China says it found something bizarre and unexpected on the moon
Chinese media is claiming that while investigating the far side of the moon, the country’s Yutu-2 lunar rover stumbled upon a unique “gel-like” substance of unknown origin sitting inside a small crater. What we know so far: Yutu-2 made the discovery during its eighth lunar day on the moon as it...www.technologyreview.com
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Some of us have issues. We actually enjoy it when our brain hurts. And what makes *everyones* brain hurt? Why, quantum mechanics of course.
Good op-ed by Sean Carroll, who os pretty good at speaking science to us newbs:
www.nytimes.com
Good op-ed by Sean Carroll, who os pretty good at speaking science to us newbs:
Opinion | Even Physicists Don’t Understand Quantum Mechanics (Published 2019)
Worse, they don’t seem to want to understand it.
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Some of us have issues. We actually enjoy it when our brain hurts. And what makes *everyones* brain hurt? Why, quantum mechanics of course.
Good op-ed by Sean Carroll, who os pretty good at speaking science to us newbs:
Opinion | Even Physicists Don’t Understand Quantum Mechanics (Published 2019)
Worse, they don’t seem to want to understand it.
past a certain level of detail, what does it mean to "understand" something? perhaps the reason that no one is able to give good explanations about some of these things is because the basic vocabulary being used is already the maximum level of detail CAPABLE of being used to describe the phenomena?
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It gets into why versus how. Engineering versus theory. That distinction gets blurred so much it's not entirely clear there is a distinction. It's what Feynman meant when he said, "that is so confusing that I'm not sure it's even a problem" about some experimental result he was confronted with.
He talked at length on the subject in one of his more recent mindscapes. Basically in the early 20th they all realized it was an open question and agreed to table it for a generation and focus on practical application.
"Practical" meaning something a,little different for a theoretical physicist.
I suspect, but do not know, they were hoping that further discoveries would answer the question indirectly. It has not yet bourne out.
He talked at length on the subject in one of his more recent mindscapes. Basically in the early 20th they all realized it was an open question and agreed to table it for a generation and focus on practical application.
"Practical" meaning something a,little different for a theoretical physicist.
I suspect, but do not know, they were hoping that further discoveries would answer the question indirectly. It has not yet bourne out.
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QM is good stuff.Some of us have issues. We actually enjoy it when our brain hurts. And what makes *everyones* brain hurt? Why, quantum mechanics of course.
Good op-ed by Sean Carroll, who os pretty good at speaking science to us newbs:
Opinion | Even Physicists Don’t Understand Quantum Mechanics (Published 2019)
Worse, they don’t seem to want to understand it.