Subatomic Darwinism

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday December 28, 2004 @03:42AM from the thining-to-hard-about-it dept.

blamanj writes "In the beginning was Darwinism, then there arose Social Darwinism, now physicists are proposing Quantum Darwinism. According to the Nature article: "If, as quantum mechanics says, observing the world tends to change it, how is it that we can agree on anything at all? Why doesn't each person leave a slightly different version of the world for the next person to find? Because, say the researchers, certain special states of a system are promoted above others by a quantum form of natural selection, which they call quantum darwinism. Information about these states proliferates and gets imprinted on the environment. So observers coming along and looking at the environment in order to get a picture of the world tend to see the same 'preferred' states."."

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So then a first post... by Tebriel · 2004-12-28 03:45 · Score: 4, Funny

So maybe a First Post really does matter then.

Wow.

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Don't tell... by jacobcaz · 2004-12-28 03:57 · Score: 4, Funny

Schrodinger's cat, it's going to be pissed.
Don't observe this post by pegr · 2004-12-28 03:57 · Score: 5, Funny

It wasn't a troll until you looked at it. Nice going...
Re:Bah by MrLint · 2004-12-28 04:14 · Score: 4, Funny

I don't agree with that.

You are choosing a non-objective reality, and there's nothing wrong with that. :)
Re:what are they talking by NoMoreNicksLeft · 2004-12-28 05:24 · Score: 5, Funny

Quantum darwinism is false! The tree is that way because God made it that way, not because 4 billion years of quantum evolution positioned its particles that way!

We need to stop teaching quantum darwinism in our schools, and teach quantum creatinism! Darwin himself denounced quantum evolution on his deathbed, it's true!