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So it seems to me that a lot of people believe in Cause and Effect but dismiss Effect and Cause (where the effect happens before whatever caused it)...
Now i've always been a believer in effect and cause but would be very interested to hear what people think about it all.
I'd like to learn about;
That experiment where you have a laser going through 2 slits (mike psi was telling me about it on the way to ejc last year but it's very hard to grasp)
quantum computer weirdness
and interesting concepts about Time (or bizarre Time related experiences you've had with poi)
m
So it seems to me that a lot of people believe in Cause and Effect but dismiss Effect and Cause (where the effect happens before whatever caused it)...
Now i've always been a believer in effect and cause but would be very interested to hear what people think about it all.
I'd like to learn about;
That experiment where you have a laser going through 2 slits (mike psi was telling me about it on the way to ejc last year but it's very hard to grasp)
quantum computer weirdness
and interesting concepts about Time (or bizarre Time related experiences you've had with poi)
m
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this link will keep you busy for months. i go here when i get the time and inclination. there's real physicicts that will answer your questions if they are reasonalbly thought out. there's one guy who will blow you off if you ask stupid questions but everyone else is nice.
quantum physics tribe
of special note in this one is the comment, insightful and wise, by myself
this thread will blow your mind for a while.define time
this new thread looks like it has some juciy links, haven't followed them yet standind wave hteory of matter
this link will keep you busy for months. i go here when i get the time and inclination. there's real physicicts that will answer your questions if they are reasonalbly thought out. there's one guy who will blow you off if you ask stupid questions but everyone else is nice.
quantum physics tribe
of special note in this one is the comment, insightful and wise, by myself
this thread will blow your mind for a while.define time this new thread looks like it has some juciy links, haven't followed them yet standind wave hteory of matter
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nice one arashi. should fill the void before my netpro course materials arrive
nice one arashi. should fill the void before my netpro course materials arrive
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god, people should have been, like me, in school (and when i say school I mean it, not university) and read all that [censored] then. yadda yadda wave / particle duality blah blah blah wave/particle collapse, rhubarb rhubarb, entangled quantum states, boring boring, watched pot never boils la la la. Woo hoo, and then you get to macro states and it has no effect! Booyah!
god, people should have been, like me, in school (and when i say school I mean it, not university) and read all that [censored] then. yadda yadda wave / particle duality blah blah blah wave/particle collapse, rhubarb rhubarb, entangled quantum states, boring boring, watched pot never boils la la la. Woo hoo, and then you get to macro states and it has no effect! Booyah!
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Damn meg, you missed your calling.
You should have been a physics teacher
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Damn meg, you missed your calling.
You should have been a physics teacher
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Science is too easy, it's just an algorithm.
Science is too easy, it's just an algorithm.
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still can't believe it's not butter
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mmm gstring theory.
mmm gstring theory.
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Posted:
hey matt id suggest reading
The Quantum Brain: The Search for Freedom and the Next Generation of Man by Jeffrey Satinover
i found it was an excellent read one of the most challenging books ive read, it explains quantum weirdness quite well (in a brain twisting kind of way)
hey matt id suggest reading
The Quantum Brain: The Search for Freedom and the Next Generation of Man by Jeffrey Satinover
i found it was an excellent read one of the most challenging books ive read, it explains quantum weirdness quite well (in a brain twisting kind of way)
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Posted:
There is no such thing as 'cause' AND 'effect'. Just a long series of 'effects' OR 'causes'.
ie -
effect (which causes) effect (which causes) effect ...
OR
cause (which was caused by) cause (which was caused by)...
Infinate patterns of essentially the same thing happening.
There is no such thing as 'cause' AND 'effect'. Just a long series of 'effects' OR 'causes'.
ie -
effect (which causes) effect (which causes) effect ...
OR
cause (which was caused by) cause (which was caused by)...
Infinate patterns of essentially the same thing happening.
Dreamer
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Location: York, England
Posted:
wait, i'm trying to go back into science....
But I still find this HILARIOUS. *is happy*
Written by: mcp_orange
Science is too easy, it's just an algorithm.
wait, i'm trying to go back into science....
But I still find this HILARIOUS.
*is happy* Keep your dream alive
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Posted:
For the two slit experiment it appears that photon act like both waves and particles which means that a single photon is able to interfere with itself. Apparently it's just the way nature works. Don't ask me to explain it any further cos it scares me.
A lot of people make some very wild claims about quantum dynamics (my signiture is an example of over-extending some of the metaphores used to explain quantum dynamics). All I know for sure is that you really can't say anything but the most basic things about it unless you've spent half your life studying it so there are a lot of crap book on the subject written by people who have no idea about the subject. Personally I have only a working knowledge of it but I do recognise the 'bull-s**ters' if I see them.
I'm not really sure what you mean by effect then cause. We are told by the quantum physicists that the timing of a nuclear fission event is random, as is the formation of particle/anti-particle pairs. I'm not sure but that might be an example of effect without cause (any quantum physicists in the crowd?). With the exception of thermal dynamics most equations in physics work perfectly well if you regard the causes as effects and visa versa and time running backwards (again I might have it totally wrong since I'm well out of my leage here) but I suspect that that is not what you are refering too.
Could you explain this effect and cause more throughally and your reasoning and evidence for it please?
For the two slit experiment it appears that photon act like both waves and particles which means that a single photon is able to interfere with itself. Apparently it's just the way nature works. Don't ask me to explain it any further cos it scares me.
A lot of people make some very wild claims about quantum dynamics (my signiture is an example of over-extending some of the metaphores used to explain quantum dynamics). All I know for sure is that you really can't say anything but the most basic things about it unless you've spent half your life studying it so there are a lot of crap book on the subject written by people who have no idea about the subject. Personally I have only a working knowledge of it but I do recognise the 'bull-s**ters' if I see them.
I'm not really sure what you mean by effect then cause. We are told by the quantum physicists that the timing of a nuclear fission event is random, as is the formation of particle/anti-particle pairs. I'm not sure but that might be an example of effect without cause (any quantum physicists in the crowd?). With the exception of thermal dynamics most equations in physics work perfectly well if you regard the causes as effects and visa versa and time running backwards (again I might have it totally wrong since I'm well out of my leage here) but I suspect that that is not what you are refering too.
Could you explain this effect and cause more throughally and your reasoning and evidence for it please?
According to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle of Quantum Dynamics, we may already be making love right now...
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Posted:
Too bloody confusing!!! lol
I'll stick to the physics I know... The physics of a staff or poi twirling...
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There is no such thing as 'cause' AND 'effect'. Just a long series of 'effects' OR 'causes'.
ie -
effect (which causes) effect (which causes) effect ...
OR
cause (which was caused by) cause (which was caused by)...
Infinate patterns of essentially the same thing happening.
Too bloody confusing!!! lol
I'll stick to the physics I know... The physics of a staff or poi twirling...
Contact juggling was invented by dung beetles.
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i've not seen anything exceptional from the QP tribe. haha. lots of bickering then devolving to philosophy. i've seen word of the double slit temporal laser experiment you're talking about here. that only affects relative time though between two bodies (the two slits), and can't cause say one slit to activate before the laser is turned on ever, just earlier than the other slit. the very definition of "happening" is that it occurs in the direction of entropy. i believe very muchly in a bi-directional 4th dimension on the quantum scale, but building that up evokes layers and layers of entropy that are all lossy (as in JPEG/lossy compression) and impossible to perceptually penetrate.
Once you get up to our scale level, it all becomes semantics on whether you want to call the first temporal one the cause or the effect. but on the general notion that effects couldn't happen without all their conditional causes being in place, i agree with you. looking at events this way and putting yourself where you need to be at the right times for different goals to materialize in the future is a helpful life planning tool. if you figure out any way to use this knowledge to win the lottery, i pre-accept a 10% cut at least for my contribution.
poi in general (and this is philosophy), i see as an untangling of the 5th dimension (spin) through the small hole provided by the 4th (while avoiding ugly tangles in the 3rd). It feels like taking a balloon and squeezing it through the gap under a door. or maybe a fouton instead of a balloon sometimes. haha.
-- dut
Written by: spherculist
So it seems to me that a lot of people believe in Cause and Effect but dismiss Effect and Cause (where the effect happens before whatever caused it)...
Now i've always been a believer in effect and cause but would be very interested to hear what people think about it all.
I'd like to learn about;
That experiment where you have a laser going through 2 slits (mike psi was telling me about it on the way to ejc last year but it's very hard to grasp)
quantum computer weirdness
and interesting concepts about Time (or bizarre Time related experiences you've had with poi)
m
i've not seen anything exceptional from the QP tribe. haha. lots of bickering then devolving to philosophy. i've seen word of the double slit temporal laser experiment you're talking about here. that only affects relative time though between two bodies (the two slits), and can't cause say one slit to activate before the laser is turned on ever, just earlier than the other slit. the very definition of "happening" is that it occurs in the direction of entropy. i believe very muchly in a bi-directional 4th dimension on the quantum scale, but building that up evokes layers and layers of entropy that are all lossy (as in JPEG/lossy compression) and impossible to perceptually penetrate.
Once you get up to our scale level, it all becomes semantics on whether you want to call the first temporal one the cause or the effect. but on the general notion that effects couldn't happen without all their conditional causes being in place, i agree with you. looking at events this way and putting yourself where you need to be at the right times for different goals to materialize in the future is a helpful life planning tool. if you figure out any way to use this knowledge to win the lottery, i pre-accept a 10% cut at least for my contribution.
poi in general (and this is philosophy), i see as an untangling of the 5th dimension (spin) through the small hole provided by the 4th (while avoiding ugly tangles in the 3rd). It feels like taking a balloon and squeezing it through the gap under a door. or maybe a fouton instead of a balloon sometimes. haha.
-- dut
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Embrace the horror
Embrace the horror
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Horror duly embraced, and a new website saved to favourites, thanks
Horror duly embraced, and a new website saved to favourites, thanks
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Posted:
matt - look up 'pauli's exclusion principle' and the 'epr experiment'.
then think how this could be applied to computing
the double slit experiment is not an example of 'effect and cause'.
i'm personally not aware of any situation that could be described as 'effect and cause'.
cole. x
matt - look up 'pauli's exclusion principle' and the 'epr experiment'.
then think how this could be applied to computing
the double slit experiment is not an example of 'effect and cause'.
i'm personally not aware of any situation that could be described as 'effect and cause'.
cole. x
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It's hard to be contary when noone has any idea what is being discussed
It's hard to be contary when noone has any idea what is being discussed
According to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle of Quantum Dynamics, we may already be making love right now...
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coleman, not that experiment. people were saying the Ashfar Experiment of July 2004 corroborated the Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (killing off support of the Copenhagen Interpretation). I think it's been argued pretty successfully that it still doesn't "prove" anything, which is kind of how I see QM staying for quite a while. but yeah, i think in general "Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics" is what he's trying to discuss, if you want to google up and prepare to get contrary, but I could be wrong.
-- dut
coleman, not that experiment. people were saying the Ashfar Experiment of July 2004 corroborated the Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (killing off support of the Copenhagen Interpretation). I think it's been argued pretty successfully that it still doesn't "prove" anything, which is kind of how I see QM staying for quite a while. but yeah, i think in general "Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics" is what he's trying to discuss, if you want to google up and prepare to get contrary, but I could be wrong.
-- dut
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Transaction Interpratation
Afshar Experiment
Apparently you are right and there is strong disagreement that the Afshar experiment disproves the Principle of Complementarity
From what I can tell the Transactional Interpatation seems to be consistant but it is unpopular and seems to have attracted a large number of people from the lunatic fringe.
However I don't think that this interpratation is what Spherculist was hinting at. I think he meant something of a supernatural nature, but it's hard to tell from his original post.
Transaction Interpratation
Afshar Experiment
Apparently you are right and there is strong disagreement that the Afshar experiment disproves the Principle of Complementarity
From what I can tell the Transactional Interpatation seems to be consistant but it is unpopular and seems to have attracted a large number of people from the lunatic fringe.
However I don't think that this interpratation is what Spherculist was hinting at. I think he meant something of a supernatural nature, but it's hard to tell from his original post.
According to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle of Quantum Dynamics, we may already be making love right now...
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[t-jack]
Someone had a theory of everything based on available evidence 10,000 years ago, and again after that, and after that and after that and numerous other times until the present day. All of them have successfully "proved" their theories, until the next one arrives....I wonder how we'll "think we know" in another 10,000 years or so?!
[/t-jack]
[t-jack]
Someone had a theory of everything based on available evidence 10,000 years ago, and again after that, and after that and after that and numerous other times until the present day. All of them have successfully "proved" their theories, until the next one arrives....I wonder how we'll "think we know" in another 10,000 years or so?!
[/t-jack]
Let's relight this forum 
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It's called progress. If we thought we were perfectly right already why is so much effort being put into testing the theories, the evidence and anything else we can think of? We might still be about 10 000 years away from being perfectly right but I think we are making a pretty good stab at the truth. Newtons laws aren't right but unless you're sub-atomic or traveling near light speed they are very close to perfect. And the stuff we knew 10 000 years ago wasn't all wrong either. Mabey eclipses weren't caused by a giant monster but they managed to domesticate wheat which is fairly impressive.
Written by: Dunc
[t-jack]
Someone had a theory of everything based on available evidence 10,000 years ago, and again after that, and after that and after that and numerous other times until the present day. All of them have successfully "proved" their theories, until the next one arrives....I wonder how we'll "think we know" in another 10,000 years or so?!
[/t-jack]
It's called progress. If we thought we were perfectly right already why is so much effort being put into testing the theories, the evidence and anything else we can think of? We might still be about 10 000 years away from being perfectly right but I think we are making a pretty good stab at the truth. Newtons laws aren't right but unless you're sub-atomic or traveling near light speed they are very close to perfect. And the stuff we knew 10 000 years ago wasn't all wrong either. Mabey eclipses weren't caused by a giant monster but they managed to domesticate wheat which is fairly impressive.
According to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle of Quantum Dynamics, we may already be making love right now...
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Or do we only think it is
Written by: Jeff
It's called progress
Or do we only think it is
Let's relight this forum
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