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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."
hm.... no flames :-P
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Would it be the 102nd? Or am I missing something here.
"I have a porkchop, you have a porkchop. I have a veal, you have a veal".
I NO FAIL IT!
In SOVIET RUSSIA, Germans explain you!!!
First quantum!
2002-1900 = 100?
Maybe I'm just sleepy, but wasn't the anniversary two years ago?
Pat
This past year, I was accepted into Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science. It has been a remarkable experience that I would like to share with the Slashdot community. Here's an account of my experience.
Week 1, Sunday: I moved in today. My roommate, a sophomore CS student, had already moved in two days before me. The floor is already completely covered with garbage. He also smells. I think he might be gay too. He's already asked me if I like the color he painted his toenails. This should be interesting. I am almost completely settled in. Techno music is playing in every room in every floor of my dorm. There are computers and other types of trash out in the common areas. What a mess. Tomorrow, I am going to go sign up to get my network connection.
Week 1, Monday: I got hooked up to the CMU network today! I jacked into the network, only to find that the hostname and address assigned to me were colliding with another system. I'll just increment the network numbers a few times. I am really eager to get on.
Week 1, Tuesday: I am still looking for a free IP address. Can't anybody here properly configure their systems?
Week 1, Friday: I finally found a free IP! It's mine! You sons of bitches can't have it, I found it, I keep it, it's mine! To hell with all of you! Head hurts really bad. I've slowly been developing a headache since I first arrived. Everywhere I look there are these Lucent Technologies wireless access points. I wonder if that's the problem.
Week 1, Saturday: I sat down at my computer today. My desktop wall paper is now the goatse.cx guy. Pleasant. Scattered over every directory on my C: drive are thousands, possibly millions, of files titled "J00AR30WN3DBITCH-phj33r-" and then some random hacker's name. Don't these people have lives? Maybe they need laid or something. It'd take days to clean this out. I mentioned to my roommate that I needed to reinstall Windows, and immediately he jumped up and shouted: "NO! Do NOT use Windows!" Suddenly, two dozen other guys (all of them possibly homosexuals) appeared at the door, each touting an operating system called Linux. Half of them got into a fight over which was better, Debian, RedHat, Slackware, and a bunch of others I couldn't recognize. Some kid who appeared to not have showered since he was born was touting "Linux From Scratch", saying that only losers used pre-made distros. A crowd of people in the back kept quiet about how I'd be sorry if I used Linux instead of BSD on the network. Who the fuck are these people? Classes start next week. Hope I have my computer working so I can do my assignments.
Week 3, Friday: People are still trying to get Linux to work on my system. They keep telling my that my hardware sucks. We go through about four or five distributions a day. Every now and then, I notice a little devil on my screen. Stickers for every of these distributions have been plastered on my case. Suddenly, my room stinks a lot more with these people in here. I ask them why they never shower, and the usual response is something along the lines of "showering is like rebooting" and "I don't want to lose my uptime."
Week 3, Saturday: There's a troop of men running naked in a circle around McGill Hall. I am not even going to ask.
Week 4, Wednesday: Linux is FINALLY working on my computer! I have a pretty slick desktop too. I think I might like this. I can finally work in my room instead of the labs, although considering the every increasing layer of garbage on the floor...
Week 4, Thursday: My computer flashes messages about how I am "0WNX0RED" and how I should "PHJ3 3R" whoever and how "L4MEX0R" I am for having an insecure box. A kid suggests we reinstall Linux after discovering about 17 rootkits.
Week 5, Friday: Someone got BSD working on my computer. I wonder if this will last. The stress has been building and I forgot to take a shower this morning.
Week 6, Tuesday: Seems I have been "0WNX0R3D" again. Took longer this time. Minutes later, someone comes in with a "Bastile Linux" install CD. He gets started installing. I am feeling very suspicious of these guys.
Week 6, Thursday: Everyone seems to know more about my system than I do. It's a bit unnerving. I guess anyone could feel upset from this sort of treatment. They hack my box, trash it, then reinstall everything. I guess they think they're being funny. My dirty clothes are piling up and I am out of clean ones. I don't have time to do laundry, I'll have to wear something out of the pile.
Week 6, Friday: I got up this morning, sat at my machine, and stared at it blankly. An icon appeared on my desktop for Quake III. I suppose it couldn't hurt to play some. I have been very stressed lately.
Week 6, Sunday: I lost track of time! I started playing Quake III on the network with some other CMU students (who killed me hundreds of times in the course of 10 minutes) and completely lost myself. There's a bag of chips that has been sitting here for a few weeks. I think I'll finish those off for breakfast and then go to sleep.
Week 7, Wednesday: I masturbate every day now. Not a single girl comes near me. This is so depressing. Do I really smell? Oh well, I have the task of learning how to secure my Linux box to keep me busy. Who has time for the opposite sex after all?
Week 8, Tuesday: I got into a fight with this little shit who kept telling me RedHat was great. What a fucking moron! Anybody who knows Linux knows that Debian kicks its sorry little ass. I'll be getting my judiciary papers for the incident in the mail. Doesn't this school get it? I can't let someone go around converting people to RedHat! WtF!?
Week 8, Friday: My roommate squeezed my ass today! At first I was shocked and appauled, and I told him off for it. Thinking about it later though, there was just something that seemed too strong about my reaction. I'll talk to him later and appologize for getting so upset, it wasn't really so bad.
"I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics."
Read Epic the first RPG novel.
we just thought it happened in 1900 maybe it really happened in 1902 and a time traveler went back and changed history, but micheal retained memories of the previous timeline
I have, I suppose, like all men, wondered what it would be like to have a larger cock. I have, once again, like a lot of people seen the 'freaks' in porno movies who have horse like dicks and thought to myself - 'That can't be normal, most people aren't like that surely.'
But in the back of your mind, you always wonder. Now let me say from the outset that I have nothing in my pants to brag about and although through the years I seem to have been able to satisfy most of the women I have been with, there has never been more than one or two who have, afterwards, made favourable comments either about my length, girth, performance or stamina although they have commented favourably about the over all performance. Perhaps they were just being kind not saying much at all.
Yes, I could say it is because they were so fucking exhausted, they couldn't say anything, but of course that would be lying. I suppose though, if I think back amongst all the women I have had sex with, similarly, there have only been a few that I have thought to be outstanding for one particular reason or another and with them, I have made that very obvious.
I don't think any of them have had particularly small cunts - all the more reason for doubting myself. There has, however, been a couple that have had particularly well-developed cunt muscles and that has made all the difference for both of us. Once again, I now wonder why that was necessary.
There was another whose cunt inner walls were very ribbed and that was sensational. The only trouble with that was that those ribs were made to make you come and come I did. Luckily she was in the days when I was young enough to recover quickly and start all over again and again.
There was another who much preferred me up her arse mind you she had a huge cunt. Her husband once told me "It was like chucking a bit of string in a Cathedral."
There was another who had bushes of body hair everywhere she could cover up. That I found to be magnificent; I couldn't get enough of her.
I suppose that brings me inevitably on to the issue of size and my size in particular. Well here goes. As I have, for as many years as I can remember, been aware of my size and the issue of whether or not I was big enough, I can tell you that I always seem to have been around 7.5 - 8inches long with 4.5 - 5 inches in girth (that girth measurement is not around the head of my dick because I know that is bigger by about another half inch or so and therefore does not give the true measurement over all).
I therefore thought it was about time to go in search of facts and figures of prick sizes and on methods of improving what I have. With the web now so available to us all and virtually anything you want to research on there, I found no trouble in coming up with many different solutions to my 'problem'.
However, a new problem then developed. Did I want to spend a lot of money on contraptions for the outside of my body and tablets and potions for the inside of my body that might not work anyway? Many years ago, I had had one of those suction pumps that were great fun and made your dick look VERY impressive for as long as you had it on, but as soon as it came off, you were back to square one.
I really did give that one a go for a long time simply because I could see the result I wanted to achieve when it was in operation, but try as I might, it just didn't work for me. One of my friends who I confided in (after a particularly fine foursome where it was difficult for everyone not to be exposed to everyone else) suggested pills.
After some thought, I really couldn't understand how any pill would be able to aim just for your prick and enlarge that, surely there were other similar muscles in your body. And in any case all the pills were 'natural' or 'herbal' and easily available without prescription and that made me sceptical as well.
But then I came across a couple of exercise programmes on the web that were not going to cost me anything and could easily be done in a few minutes of privacy. I won't tell you the names of the sites I got these off otherwise you are going to think this is some kind of advert and not fact at all. However, if anyone wants to contact me, they can and I will give the name of the site to you then.
I started about three months ago and it seems to be having an effect. You can't just do the exercises on their own, you also need to strengthen up the muscle between your balls and your arse for the greatest effect - I will go in to that later.
Each day, I do a warm up whereby I take a shower and whilst still in there, I lather up the old tool and put my thumb and forefinger in an 'O' around the base and pull away from me. I found it best to have my hand the way round that kept the rest of my fingers furthest away from my body when I pulled.
I didn't pull my dick straight out from my body, it always felt most effective when I pulled it almost straight down. I would take each pull slowly so it took me about five seconds to pull down from the base to the head.
I, of course, have always found this to be quite stimulating and would become semi erect by the twentieth to thirtieth pull. Unfortunately, I have never been able to determine if this will slow down the effect I am having on my size or not, perhaps someone could let me know.
After I have done it with one hand about fifty times (always lathering him up frequently as I go) I change hands and pull it down the other way. I am not suggesting that you should pull it slowly down to one side and then the other, I always try to pull it straight down as I have never had any kind of bend on mine.
I suppose that if yours has got a bend in it and you don't like that, (heaven knows why, I have always thought that looked great on blokes, but there again, I don't know if it effects the way you can fuck) you could always slowly pull your dick in the opposite direction to the bend and see if that helps.
Once you have done about fifty pulls with both hands, you need to then gently play with your dick, (not a bad thing) whilst still in the shower to kind of let it get over what you have just done to it.
Just a couple of words of warning, if you are going to give it a try but have had in the past or can get hold of any professional advice now that suggests that, for what ever reason you shouldn't try it, then don't, it just might not be for you. But if you feel confident that it is safe for you and you would like to give it a try, build up to the exercise, don't go mad and do too much straight away.
I must admit, I did it too hard, for too long to begin with and it damn well hurt. My prick went a bruised colour and I felt sure I had done some kind of permanent damage. Luckily I hadn't, but it taught me a very good lesson. I started the second time with just ten pulls with one hand and then the next day, ten pulls with the other.
Soon, I was up to ten pulls per day with both hands and gradually, I have tightened my grip to pull harder as the weeks have gone by, also increasing the number of pulls.
Obviously, this is what works for me and everyone is different. If your prick is used to a lot of battering then you should be able to start stronger that if it isn't, but take it easy and take it steady.
I have now been able to graduate to being able to do it anywhere at anytime I have privacy, I no longer need some kind of lubricant, but my first pull of the day is always in the shower, with the warmth and with the soap, that kind of warms me up for the day. It doesn't take long to whip the old trousers down, say when you go for a pee, instead of standing at a stall, go into a cubicle and you can do a quick pull as well.
The other main thing to watch out for is where you are pushing the blood that is already in your prick as you begin each pull down from the base. Obviously, as your grip gets tighter and you pull down harder, you are going to trap the blood and try forcing it out the end - ouch!!!
For those of you like me who have a foreskin, you will find that it tends to have a semi permanent redness about it as though it is sore and to a certain extent it is. For those cut guys, I don't know what to say because I don't know any cut guys who are doing the same exercises.
What I have tended to start doing as the girth has improved is to continue with the downward pulls, with an ever increasing grip, but not go to the knob end. I now usually stop half way down, pull my foreskin back and then continue with the pull. I only ever go as far as the head. I have never continued my pull over it.
My pulling sessions now normally finish with an extended pull for the final time. That is to say, when I decide I have had enough and things are starting to get a bit tender (which they can if you don't always use lube), the last gripped pull reached the head and I stay there, still pulling for say another ten or fifteen seconds and then slowly let go.
My relaxation period (when I am not at home) always tends to be taking hold of him and gently squeezing him a dozen or so times until things feel back to normal (don't forget, this can be quite exciting and when you leave the loo, you don't want to be walking around the office with a damn great lob on, do you - or do you?).
What effect has all this had? Well, I think it has changed me in several ways, both physically and mentally. First of all, the one you have all been waiting for, what has it done to my dong?
Well when you consider that all these 'enlargement' sites tell you that although you will see change in a few weeks, for the best effect, you must keep doing it for at least a year. I can report that there is not much change in length - you remember I used to be 7.5 - 8 inches (could I really claim 8, well sometimes, just perhaps, maybe if I was quick enough with the ruler) well now, on many occasions there is definitely eight, perhaps a tad more, or is that just my imagination?
But it is the girth where there has been significant change - you remember it was 4.5 - 5, well now I can truly claim an increase to 6 inches at least and you can really feel the difference. When it is flaccid, it used to be about 3 - 3.5 inches, now it is 4 - 4.5 inches dependent on the temperature, you men will know what I mean by that.
And it seems to have been noticed as well (and this is where the mental effect comes in), because the girth has changes size, so has the head, although I have not measured the head yet when fully erect, taking into consideration the increased girth measurement, I would say that it is now in the region of 6.5+ inches, and that shows!!!
When I now have sex, there is a lot more squirming takes place by my partner when we are trying to get me up inside her. She can definitely feel that something is very different and when I am fully up inside of her, she shakes gently, holds me perfectly still as far up inside her as she can get me and squeezes him a lot more with her cunt wall muscles.
When she finally lets him go so that we can start moving, she now loves the feeling of the rim of the head of my dick scraping along the inside walls of her fanny. She also seems to be a lot noisier when she cums.
Now the other thing I thought I better mention is that muscle just behind your balls - I can't remember what it is called but I think it was once referred to as the PA muscle, but there again, it doesn't really matter what it is called as long as you exercise the right one.
All the sites I have found say you must exercise this along with the other pulling exercises and the way to do this is by clenching your arse cheeks together time after time after time. The way I checked which one it was, was to wait until I went for a pee and stopped myself from peeing once I was in full flow. Now the one you can feel yourself clenching is the one you have to exercise.
The sites also say that you can do this at anytime and in any position, laying down, standing up or sitting down. When I went for a pee and stopped myself, the muscle I felt was directly between my balls and my arse but when I started exercising, in certain positions it felt as though I was exercising a completely different muscle up inside my arse.
I don't know if this is the same muscle or not, but to be sure, I feel far more confident exercising when I am sitting down, particularly upright say when in the office or driving. And you really can do it anytime, anywhere no one will ever know what you are doing.
I can't recall any of the sites actually explaining why it is necessary to excise this thing but I have gathered from the way the sites are written that it will help us with our self control and the stiffness of our cock when erect - so exercise I do.
They also suggest that you need to build up to where you are clenching it hundreds of times a day in batches of say fifty at a time. This may sound a lot, but it really isn't IF YOU CAN REMEMBER TO DO IT. It is so easy to forget, but I have now got myself into a frame of mind where it just cums to me second nature now and I almost don't have to think about it, I just find myself doing it.
I do it slowly now but I started where I didn't hold the clench for very long because I found that if I did, it didn't take many clenches before it started to hurt as though I had strained it. Now, fifty takes me about ten minutes, that's all, and if I want to, I can start another fifty straightaway.
Obviously, I don't count them, otherwise I would never be able to concentrate on what anyone around me was saying or what other traffic was doing, I just know how long I have been doing it for each time, but I can really feel the difference in the size of the muscle, now all I have to do is learn how to use that better muscle to my advantage. Once again, if anyone could help me out on that one, I would be most grateful.
All these 'enlargement' plans claim -
Permanent penis enlargement - well, we will see, so far, so good
Experience multiple orgasms - can't say that one has worked on me yet
Curvature straightening - never had a curve
Increased sexual stamina - I can certainly last a lot longer now, maybe too long, you have to be careful here.
Cures and prevents impotence - cleaver one this, I suppose they can always turn round and say you might have suffered if you hadn't exercised.
Bigger penis head - definitely and it's great.
Rock hard erections - haven't needed too much here although I would say there is certainly an improvement.
Increased levels of semen - hard for me to judge because I love to cum so frequently, but that's another story, however, the girlfriend did go away recently for a couple of days and I was able to leave myself alone (except for exercising) for that time, when she got back and I whipped her straight off to bed, I nearly drowned her.
More confidence and better sex - definitely, when you can't sit down with your legs together or you are always having to make yourself comfortable down there, you know you are doing SOMETHING right and that transfers over to when you get her into bed. And it's great when you can sense that she feels the difference, you almost want to smile. With the increased flaccid state, you feel far more confident getting caught around the house. But the best bit is when you are on top of her and in a press-up position so that she can look down you and she sees what is about to hammer her and she makes that quiet little noise in the back of her throat and can't wait to get her hands around it and guide it into her slowly so that you don't hurt her -That's fucking brilliant.
Anyway, that's how if has worked and is still working for me. If you feel it can benefit you, why not give it a go. If you have tried something else and it has worked, why not share it with the rest of us so that we can all benefit.
Until someone cums up with a better solution on how to get your hands on your own member and make big improvements to its size - all free of charge, I am just going to keep pulling away and clenching with my exercises and see what I can achieve. I hope for some improvement to the length, more than I have achieved so far, and a continued improvement to the girth and head - I will measure it sometime for you if anyone is interested.
Please let me know what free improvements you have been able to make to your own meat and how you have been able to make them. Please don't exaggerate, hopefully you can see that I have tried to be as factual as possible with no exaggerations as at the end of the day, we are only trying to make ourselves act and feel better in life and that can't be a bad thing.
I really hope this helps some of you guys out there who have felt like I have in the past.
Good exercising and good luck.
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"On December 14, 1900, Max Planck [G] 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 [G]."
Cool, but useless.
Gotta love quantum physics...
Check out the University of Chicago's Physics Department for all the information you could want to know about modern research in quantum physics.
Oh, and December 2, 2002 was the 60th Anniversy of the first self-sustaining controlled release of nuclear energy
ah go f*ck yourself, you d*mned idiot
I didn't get first post, but I'd like to use this space anyway to promote the use of RPN. Reverse Polish Notation is an excellant and intuitive way way of crunching numbers.
Don't delay, learn RPN today!
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...
More research needs to be done.......... http://www.geocities.com/lilmacumd/escape.html
.. why didn't he use a computer instead of a chalkboard? That would have saved him a lot of time. But "Nooooo"; Mr. "Oh look at me, I'm Max 'Smarty Pants' Planck" played the waiting game like a run of the mill academic or government employee.
Trolling is a art,
I didn't understand the impact of uncertainty until I saw The Crying Game.
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency. -A. Turing
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. But many people who consider themselves "scientifically minded" are still baffled by the question - What does it all mean, anyway?
In a nutshell, the theory of quantum physics, first devised by Max Planck (a German scientist) about 100 years ago, states that energy can be best understood as existing in discrete packets, which he called "quanta". This can be demonstrated with a simple photoelectric effect experiment - energy from electromagnetic waves does not gradually increase but is measured out in discrete photonic packets, or "quanta".
For more information on Max Planck, visit this biographical website.
For a more in-depth, but still accessible definition of quantum physics, see this webpage part of an online encyclopedia of science.
HTH.
Of course describing energy as quanta is just a way for us to understand how things work. Anytime we discover and present a theory as to how things work in the universe we are presenting a picture or an incomplete slice of the whole (as how we understand it). Sure it helps us understand better, but we have to realize that it is not the way things work out per say (as a whole). Meandering on: A GUT theory is an admiral thing to strive for, but we must understand what it must take to come to such a comprehensive theory. All present theories will have to be thrown out of the window. They will never make cohesive integral sense incorporated into a GUT. Each time we delve further into quantumn particles we find more and more suprises. Likewise with peering into the vastness of space.
It is all so amazing and we must realize that any theories we come up with will never be able to describe things as a whole. It is basically the universe trying to understand itself...when it already knows. Dang....now I am getting into Zen philosophy so I will jsut shut up becasue I don't know where this is leading towards.
>>>>>> Chewie, take the professor in the back and plug him into the hyperdrive.
first off everything has its origins including religion, religion was created before ideas of morality, chivalry(Middle Ages), and ethics were created. It was created for one purpose: to control people. Do you go to church? How many times a day do you pray? Tell me what your so called "Word of God" says about it. The universe is not the creation of some God as you term it. It may have been created by a "being" of some kind but certainly not the bull that you are shoveling. Feel free to flame, i just am sick and tired of stupid people claiming to have faith in this "God" of theirs and not have the balls to back it up.
Since I goofed on the last post, I'll add the obligatory links to:
CERN
The Enrico Fermi Institute
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratories
Agronne National Laboratories
Los Alamos National Laboratories
Yep, all the information you could want on modern Quantum Physics.
At least we can figure out how the hell they came up with it.
It all goes downhill from first post
And by what strange quantum phenomenon does 2002-1900=100?
I swear i'll never understand quantum mechanics.
Wow... a hundred years of quantum physics and we're still uncertain. Quantum physics is just one big guess (or, if you must, several smaller guesses).
After all, there's a high probability that we'll never know anything...
(Laugh.)
Happy Birthday Quantum Physics! :)
Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people's medicine for fuel.
...as of late. But TWO YEARS? come on guys, your inbox can't be THAT backlogged? Can it?
Umm, oh wait.... This Is Slashdot(tm)!
Congratulations! You got first post.
YOU DID IT!
There is a finite probability that this will be modded up to 5.
Through the wave of all the 2002-1900=100 jokes here, I would like to salute Mankinds greatest discovery, Qauntum Physics. This shows teh flexibility of the human brain, able to work with 4 dimensions (Relativity) to now (26 dimensions), and even something as strange as Quantum Mechanics, that defies our imagination and relies purely on reasoning, yet so powerful, it gave us the best of the last century's inventions, including the device you're staring at.
Quantum Mechanics is more than the kind of Physics that allows engineers to make locomotives. Its even more than what allowed us to land on the moon. As a warmer, we get nukes and the mighty computer. This physics promises us glimpses of the time the Universe was born, the quantum computer, time travel, teleportation, and many other things we have'nt imagined yet.
Physics has always been the foundation of knowledge, and it was replaced 100 years ago (+- 2 years). I think we're in for much bigger surprises this century.
"Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." -Nim Chimpsky
When Planck was studying spectra, he was mostly dealing with photons, and then layed down the fundamental parts of quantum theory, outlining the physics behind these "digital" packages, which Einstein later defined as photons.
What makes a man want to be a mouse? (Python's Flying Circus)
this page talks about some other interesting scientific events that have their anniversary today:
1986 - First non-stop, non-refuelled flight around the world
1967 - Announcement of first synthesis of biologically active DNA
1962 - Mariner transmits information from first-ever rendezvous with Venus
It all goes downhill from first post
Are you certain it's the 100th anniversary? No, because of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle ... well, can you at least give me a probability that it is the 100th anniversary? Personally, I'm putting my money on it being the 102th anniversary, but that's just me.
Cyde Weys Musings - Scrutinizing the inscrutable
...discrete... indiscrete packets? Would Schrodenger's cat be let out of the bag?
"Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
Cohen
maybe I'm dumb, but I can't seem to figure it out. Does anyone know?
Liberate your mind in two clicks or less.
I've read that the notion of quanta first came about from Boltzmann's statisical mechanics, with the notion of entropy coming in discrete units....
I read a thing about entanglement; that's a quantum-physics thingy when one particle is "entangled" with another particle; it means that the two particles are exactly the same; they're a pair which do the exact same things at the exact same times, and it doesn't even matter how far apart they are in the universe; they'll always do the same things at the same times no matter where they are in the universe. One could be on mars, and a person could drain two electrons from it, and its partner could be on pluto with two electrons jumping from it. Yes, you can manipulate these particles and their manipulations would be copied wherever else they are in the entire universe -- isn't this freaky stuff? Ever since hearing this entanglement thing, which isn't a theory THERE'S PROOF!!! Anyhoo, once I heard about this, it started me thinking about communications applications, and soforth. Ever heard of an ansible? If you have, you're gasping now at the possibility of such things actually existing, all thanks to entanglement. For those who don't know, an ansible is an instantanious communication device which can be used anywhere in the universe; it's currently just a theory, but thanks to quantum entanglement of particles, it's more possible. See, entangled particles come in pairs. One could be on earth, and the other could be on Catland, which is the planet in the center of the universe. Someone makes the one on earth cause an atomic blast, and the one on Catland will cause an atomic blast -- faster than lightspeed travel because it's not actually faster than lightspeed travel because the pair of particles are the same thing! Trippy, ain't it? It's quantum physics. Quantum Physics is cool! Happy birthday Quantum physics! (Banana Chan, which wasn't mentioned here, is at http://www.geocities.com/radiomovie2002/ )
In case the Slashdot editor's inboxes get too clogged up, I'd just like to note that 2003 is the 100th anniversary of flight. Maybe someone can post the story now so that it makes it to the front page in time.
Of course, here in New Zealand, we celebrate the anniversary somewhat earlier than you do in the US :-)
STF
Quantum Physics was president we wouldn't have the problems we have today...
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education. - Paul Feyerabend
As you can doubtless see from a second look, it all fits into place that Planck's announcement, which lead to other scientists further investigating the full ramifications of the theory, was the conception of Quantum Physics as we know and love it today. Whilst the title is obviously innacurate, the observation that today is Quantum Physics' 100th birthday is clearly correct, as it is broadly accepted that models of reality have a 2 year gestation period- a similar duration to elephants, I believe.
Sadly, though, Quantum Physics has not been too lucky in love, having had occasional brief flings with 50's icon Relativity, whom everyone would have liked to see it matched up with, but it never quite seemed to work out for them- it seems they just had too many differences.
Although we all wish Quantum Physics well, and it seems surely impossible that such a great catch would never get married (who knows, maybe good old Q.P will be able to patch things up with Relativity after all), it shall obviously not be having any anniversaries for some time yet.
Hope this clears everything up,
Tomble
Be careful! New moon tonight.
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As such, there is a risk of discussions developing that involve people talking out of their
completely uninformed ass. Some of the most common symptoms of Quantum Ass-Talking Syndrome (QATS) involve the following topics:
If you feel the urge to discuss these topics, we advise that you immediately consult somebody who knows what the hell they're talking about. If further trouble develops, a dose of reality is recommended.
I think I incorporated too many cohesive integral
slices of pizza in my gut. It's a fairly
comprehensive theory, with tangible links to the
Grand Lack of Excersize theory. But seriously....
My feeling is that we try to look way too far ahead
instead of just saying "we don't know". It amazes
me that we'll occasionally overlook something so
incredibly useful like the "tornado in a can" but
have the nerve to propose increasingly bizarre shit
based on a foundation of bizarre shit. I'm sure
that if we live long enough, we'll get our Grand
Unification, and that it's probably our purpose
for existing in the first place. I'm just an
advocate for not blatantly charging forward and
basing new things on old things that aren't much
better than voodoo. It's ok to say "We don't
really know".
The most important thing any republican needs to know.
we EAT quantum mechanics.
YOU smell government 10km away!
Well god bless. the development of quantum mechanics has allowed mankind a look into how strange the universe can really be.
As Hawking said (to paraphrase)... not only does God play dice but some times he throws them where no one can see.
One of the things i find so funny about it is how much physicist seem to hate it, even the ones that helped found it!
However it is the most accurate theory in modern physics, which is why it has become known as the standard model.Perhaps string theory or M-theory can help make it a bit more astetic... which seems to be what most physicist go for these days.
> 1986 - First non-stop, non-refuelled flight around
> the world
Woohoo! 15th anniversary!
Wow, I guess that means that this is the 2-year anniversary of that story being first submitted to /. I'm glad to see it finally made it on to the front page. Congrats, EricR. :)
Meh.
The question is though: Did it exist before we found out it existed?
Notation reverses YOU!
Whereas of course,
In SOVIET RUSSIA,
RPN POLISHES you!
Although strictly speaking, that probably should have been:
In SOVIET POLAND,
Notation YOU! reverses
Whilst SOVIET RUSSIA has it's own method of doing these things, which didn't quite catch on in the west.
Sorry about that, everyone.
Be careful! New moon tonight.
The wavelength distribution of blackbody radiation had been determined some (many?) years earlier. However, no one could figure out how to to explain how it could come about.
Somehow, Planck worked out an equation which yielded that wavelength distribution quite precisely. I believe that it is correct that his model was a "what if" conjecture about energy exisiting in discrete packets.
As discussed, the rest is history.
53 years of passing time has dimmed my memory, but I'm pretty sure that is the story.
It's a quantum thing. If you don't understand how 1900 - 2002 is 100 years, you need to go back to physics class. Schroedinger's cat would understand.
Everybody get out your Schroedinger boxes out!
But then again when you try to show that it is understood you can not communicate this. As that is a problem with smart people.
I don't like it [quantum mechanics], and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it. [Upon the realization that his attempt to disprove the whole quantum jumping thing had, instead, proved it. Yes, boys and girls, those damnedable Schroedinger wave formulas you struggled with were the unfortunate result of poor Irwin's efforts to discredit the fledgling quantum theory.]
If you study Zen enough, I assure you, your brain will hurt as it never has before.
And then, you will understand that pain is only a temporal effect, and it will cease to seem displeasant.
And the pain will be gone, suddenly. ^_^
THIS THING CAN TURN ON A DIME, MACROSSZERO STYLE ALSO FUCK BETA, ~NYORON
if dumb ass sales people could quit useing "quantum leap" meaning large leap. Quantum means tiny, bitch!
In soviet russia, you are a fucking idiot. Come to think of it, you are a fucking idiot here in America too.
. I'm just an
advocate for not blatantly charging forward and
basing new things on old things that aren't much
better than voodoo. It's ok to say "We don't
really know".
Ummm... Mr.-Most-Important-Person-in-the-World, just because YOU don't understand it doesn't make it invalid, or useless. 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.
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.
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.
That is why we have academics working in institutions on that wacky shit, because we want to put the stuff it into practice ASAP.
You can't tell me you don't want warp drive, because that would be frickin' cool. We gotta slog through the simple stuff (GUT) before we can start bending the rules...
THIS THING CAN TURN ON A DIME, MACROSSZERO STYLE ALSO FUCK BETA, ~NYORON
He showed that a cathode ray firing one electron at a time still produces an interference pattern. That means that though the electrons are fired discretely, there is a wave pattern formed perfectly alike to interference patterns. So the electron either knows where past electrons went and future electrons will go, and governs itself accordingly, or there are rules that apply to the things outside our perception which are contrary to the rules inside our perception. Neat huh.
That kind of stuff is just plain freeky. It is more "logical" to try to assume that the partical *did* take all possible paths and interfered with each of these possibilities, but our universe only "sees" one of these possibilities. IOW, light really is a wave, but we see only one "strand" (partical) of it in our universe. That I can more or less relate to, dispite still being weird. It is just a matter of a filtered view of the whole, like a WHERE clause in SQL. But if that is not the explanation, then I am clueless to try to comprehend such weirdness.
BTW, who is the *first* researcher to notice the weirdness of QP? IOW, the first to say something like, "This is really getting creepy" rather than just a clinical view of "this is kind of curious". Einstein called it "spooky action", but was he the first?
Table-ized A.I.
Republican Majority Leader, Trent Lott, made a birthday speech congratulating Quantum Physics with its 100 year anniversary, and fondly recalled when during the planning stages of the Manhattan project, scientists were considering building a weapon of mass destruction based on Quantum Physical principles.
"I can tell you now, I wish they'd picked Quantum Physics," Lott said, "If they did, I'm sure the world as we know it would be a better place for white people to live."
Are you on drug(s)?!! Why not?
It might be possilbe to use entanglement to send [instantaneous] information by using spin states, but until they solve the issue of seeing the states without changing them, much the same issue with quantum computing
God is teasing us. We cannot have our cake and eat it too. QP is just like this all over. If I was religious, I just might interpret this as a big Neener Neener Neener from the beyond. It is the biggest sign of a Teasing God since the discovery that zits appear mostly on the body parts most visible to the public. Does the act of observing a face cause zits? Nobel in there for somebody.
Table-ized A.I.
Paul Dirac wed Relativity and Quantum Mechanics long ago. It's where we get the proof of spin and anti-particles.
Whats ironic is that Boltzmann first came up with this idea, and Planck was one of his primary detractors. Boltzmann, despondent that nobody found his description of a probabilistic interpretation of things interesting, killed himself.
Not long after, Planck came forward using Boltzmann's ideas. There is some evidence to show that Planck's true hope was that he would be proved wrong -- he didn't like the quanta or probability interpretation at all.
Tim
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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.
If ever there was an insightful bloke
.. Just had to share that.
OS Software is like love: The best way to make it grow is to give it away.
Of course I've heard of it.
Any self respecting geek has heard of it.
Ever read Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card? Thought so. However he didn't refer to quantum mechanics, he referred to Philotics.
Look it up, Philotics is interesting stuff.
Of all the Universal Constants, here's one I know: Nice guys finish last
Interview with David Bohmt m
http://www.fdavidpeat.com/interviews/bohm.h
David Bohm 1917-1992
In 1950 David Bohm wrote what many physicists consider to be a model textbook on quantum mechanics. Ironically, he has never accepted that theory of physics. In the history of science he is a maverick, a member of that small group of physicists-including Albert Einstein, Eugene Wigner, Erwin Schrödinger, Alfred Lande, Paul Dirac, and John Wheeler--who have expressed grave doubts that a theory founded on indeterminism and chance could give us a true view of the universe around us.
Today's generation of physicists, impressed by the stunning successes of quantum physics--from nuclear weapons to lasers-are of a different mind. They are busy applying quantum mechanics to areas its original creators never imagined. Stephen Hawking, for example, used it to describe the creation of elementary particles from black holes and to argue that the universe exploded into being in a quantum-mechanical event.
Bucking this tide of modern physics for more than 30 years, Bohm has been more than a gadfly. His objections to the foundations of quantum mechanics have gradually coalesced into an extension of the theory so sweeping that it amounts to a new view of reality. Believing that the nature of things is not reducible to fragments or particles, he argues for a holistic view of the universe. He demands that we learn to regard matter and life as a whole, coherent domain, which he calls the implicate order.
Most other physicists discard Bohm's logic without bothering to scrutinize it. Part of the difficulty is that his implicate order is rife with paradox. Another problem is the sheer range of his ideas, which encompass such hitherto nonphysical subjects as consciousness, society, truth, language, and the process of scientific theory making itself.
The son of a furniture dealer, Bohm was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in 1917. He studied physics at the University of California with J. Robert Oppenheimer. Unwilling to testify against his former teacher and other friends during the McCarthy hearings, Bohm left the United States and took a post at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. From there he moved to Israel, then England, where he eventually became professor of physics at Birkbeck College in London.
Bohm is perhaps best known for his early work on the interactions of electrons in metals. He showed that their individual, haphazard movement concealed a highly organized and cooperative behavior called plasma oscillation. This intimation of an order underlying apparent chaos was pivotal in Bohm's development.
In 1959 Bohm, working with Yakir Ahronov, showed that a magnetic field might alter the behavior of electrons without touching them: If two electron beams were passed on either side of a space containing a magnetic field, the field would retard the waves of one beam even though it did not penetrate the space and actually touch the electrons. This 'AB effect" was verified a year later.
During the Fifties and Sixties Bohm expanded his belief in the existence of hidden variables that control seemingly random quantum events, and from that point on, his ideas diverged more and more from the mainstream of modern physics. His books Causality and Chance in Modern Physics and Wholeness and the Implicate Order, published in 1957 and 1980, respectively, spell out his new theory in considerable detail. In the Sixties Bohm met the Indian philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti, and their continuing dialogues, published as a book, The Ending of Time, helped the physicist clarify his ideas about wholeness and order.
Recently retired from Birkbeck College, Bohm is now trying to develop a mathematical version of his implicate-order hypothesis-the kind of precise, testable theory that other physicists will take seriously. It is not an easy task, for Bohm's universe is a strange, mystical place in which past, present, and future coexist. The objects in his universe, even the subatomic particles, are secondary; it is a process of movement, continuous unfolding and enfolding from a seamless whole that is fundamental. To test the theory of general relativity, Einstein forecast that the sun's gravity would bend light waves from distant stars; he was correct. So far Bohm has been unable to find an experimental aspect that could support his ideas in the same way.
Although recently recovered from serious heart surgery, Bohm continues to make frequent trips throughout Europe and to the United States, where he lectures, talks to colleagues, and encourages students. His ideas have been enthusiastically received by philosophers, neuroscientists, theologians, poets, and artists.
No, Schroedinger's cat is not dead. The poor cat is the worlds first qubit.
How many Schroedinger cats do we need to build a quantum computer??
What is Bell's Inequality?...
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Quantum Physicist and Philosopher David Bohm, born in Pennsylvania in 1917 died in England in 1992, a contemporary of Einstein and a student of Openheimer, wrote what many physicists consider to be a model textbook on quantum mechanics in 1950.
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According to this web site:
http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf
Bohm was also the founder of MITs DIALOGUE project, which somehow seems to be linked to or behind the OpenCourseware project.
"The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained." David Bohm.
Excerpts from an interview with David Bohm:
Omni: Yet you've said that quantum mechanics doesn't provide a clear picture of nature. What do you mean?
Bohm: The main problem is that quantum mechanics gives only the probability of an experimental result. Neither the decay of an atomic nucleus nor the fact that it decays at one moment and not another can be properly pictured within the theory. It can only enable you to predict statistically the results of various experiments.
Physics has changed from its earlier form, when it tried to explain things and give some physical picture. Now the essence is regarded as mathematical. It's felt the truth is in the formulas. Now they may find an algorithm by which they hope to explain a wider range of experimental results, but it will still have inconsistencies. They hope that they can eventually explain all the results that could be gotten, but that is only a hope.
Omni: How did the founders of quantum mechanics initially receive your book Quantum Theory?
Bohm: In the Fifties, when I sent it around to various physicists-including [Niels] Bohr, Einstein, and [Wolfgangl Pauli--Bohr didn't answer, but Pauli liked it. Einstein sent me a message that he'd like to talk with me. When we met he said the book had done about as well as you could do with quantum mechanics. But he was still not convinced it was a satisfactory theory.
How might Bell's Inequality be explained for a high school physics class?...
Me thinks you do not know of what you speak. You almost get there, but no, you miss.
This is an insightful and *accurate* description of a tricky subject. Well done.
ps. I am theoretical physics PhD student.
Today we commemorate the 100 years since /. editors managed to successfully demonstrate that quantum leaps also occur in the macroworld...
---
Niels Bohr once said /.'ers. :-)
Anybody who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it
So the 2002 - 1900 = 100 effect has proven (once again) with its schocking effect the broad understanding of the subject amongst
But remember to strip for the nurse!
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100 years after 1900 would, in RealMath, be 2000, I do Believe. Maybe the poster isn't Y2k compliant. Maybe he/she has been submitting this every year since 2000, and it was finaly posted. Or the Majority can't do math, which is a little dissettling.
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What's GHZ and how might GHZ be explained
/ stories
for a high school physics class?...
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Hmm, not related, but -- I've wondered when this'll happen:
Any selling/buying of mod points on eBay?
To be able to fake word-of-mouth must be a dream for ad agencies. Say, "Insightful" +5 for messages that claim a commercial compiler give better code than another (and a few 'Trolls' on comments that disagree). No worse than ordering studies guaranteed to get a "correct" result, which of course not even Msoft would do...
(Exchange service? "You get as many mod points as you give up -- the browser plugin do the work". Not much worse than writing auto-aimers for games!)
I'm not even going to think about what good ad money an application reading can make... How many mod points a month could be generated? (Needs a few prepared messages to fake a real person.)
(N B: I haven't looked, but if a /.-user in any way can see who modded whom to what, it should probably be turned off... Could be used for an "exchange".)
To do some meta-modding here, if you mod this positive, vote "Funny" -- not "Interesting"! (-: Don't make me more cynical, please! :-)
Karma: Excellent (My Karma? I wish...:-( )
Yeah, well then maybe we should wait another two years until we're certain it is the 100th birthday.
Engineering is the art of compromise.
Have you read Heisenberg's "Physics and Philosophy?"
The major problem people are having with QM, the reason this "Zen" thing keeps coming up, is that QM says something incredibly strange about the world: the results of any experiment or measurement are inextricably tied up with the very act of measurement. QM seems to shatter the idea that an objective universe exists independently of the observer.
What QM is trying to tell us is that there is no way to actually draw a line between observer and observed. That's why people always bring up Zen (or Buddhism in general), since one of its major philosophical principles is that the separation between self and universe is an illusion.
Wow, Max Planck looks a lot Dr. Mind Bender from G.I. Joe. Makes you think.
Caffeine Good
Entanglement....particle.....wave function.....BLAM
Ok, now for some rest.
Heh heh, that really was ripped word for word from Agnostica.com, right down to the announcement of the "100th" anniversary. Of course, the funny thing is that that "news" item announced the launch of the Agnostica site, two years ago when it was the 100th year anniversary, for sure.
Guess I need to update the site more often.
Nice to know the folks at Slashdot celebrate Agnostica, though!
Lates...
Darren "Gav" Bleuel
Nukees, an atomic comic
And in related news:
"Scientist don't re-calculate the numbers they cite"
"156 fast CD-burners are equivalent to 421 normal ones"
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Na, I think the calculation got messed up by using fuzzy numbers...Speaking of it, I feel a litte fuzzy myself...
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I can never find a good Quantum Mechanic when I need one. My qubits are entangled again and I need a tune up.