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100th Anniversary of Quantum Physics
EricR writes "On December 14, 1900, Max Planck presented experimental results in front of the German Physical Society and announced that they could best be explained if energy exists in discrete packets, which he called "quanta." Today is the 100th birthday of Quantum Physics."
So I guess this calls for many discretely wrapped packets as a celebration? We could do that, or just flick the light switch a couple times... Yippeee! =)
...oOOo..'(_)'..oOOo...
It could also be argued that science is used to control people...or capitalism for that matter. It all boils down to one things....human nature. There is a place for science and a place for religion, and they are on each one side of the coin. The thing we have to do is see the coin as a whole. It is best to realize that science AND religion are cohesive and not neccessarily "against" or "opposite" eachother Thus one may achieve harmony with both the knowable and the unknowable.
>>>>>> Chewie, take the professor in the back and plug him into the hyperdrive.
Ummm... Mr.-Most-Important-Person-in-the-World, just because YOU don't understand it doesn't make it invalid, or useless.
How incredibly blind or drunk are you to take my
words and turn them into me calling anything invalid
or useless? What makes you think I don't understand
quantum physics? Having a bad day? Need some midol?
Without quantum physics (which IS incidentally the topic of discussion), you wouldn't have transistors and their elk, culminating in the computer with which you posted this backwoods tin-foil-hat-wearing drivel.
NO KIDDING!! exactly what part of my problem with
bullshit science that seems to have to reinvent
itself every 50 years because OOPS! WE MISSED
SUMPIN! BUT WE GOT IT THIS TIME HONEST!!! don't
you understand?
The tornado-in-a-can doesn't look too impressive compared to a 1/4 inch square chip that can simulate the folding of protein, or powers a Korg Triton.
That's a matter of perspective. Imagine, if you
CAN, an advanced vortex based processor with
perfectly timed speed, pressure, and velocity to
keep 1 billion particles in motion, and powered
by static charge, while each particle retains a
trackable id of some sort, and can rapidly change
between 10 different states enabling a fast
efficient base 10 computational platform. You
invent the wheel before you invent the space
shuttle. Don't be so narrow in your thinking.
An academic in his free time using a computer figured out why the shower curtain in a shower gets sucked in with a few days of his spare time. The guy who invented the tornado in a can took 15 years of on/off effort.
You don't have to player hate. You don't have to
feel so threatened because someone outside the
comfort of academia did something nobody else
can understand. It happens all the time. There
isn't one true way to learn or do anything.
As for warp drive, sure. Why not. Why wouldn't I
want that. Hopefully we are mature enough at
that point that someone doesn't make it a weapon.
Chances are that weapon research will create the
first warp drive. You can't think of things as
"simple stuff" or "hard stuff". It's just stuff.
How you look at it. Pick a better target for your
childish flames next time you feel like stomping
your feet.
The most important thing any republican needs to know.