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Knowledge Overload or Internet Lazy?
Dareth writes "Are we being overloaded by knowledge? Is the number of sources growing faster than we can keep up with them? These questions are posed by this article in USA Todays's tech section The article seems to suggest we need 'better technology to cope with the problems better technology creates.'" From the article: "With a generation growing up expecting everything on the Internet, libraries, non-profit organizations and leading search companies like Yahoo and Microsoft are committing hundreds of millions of dollars collectively to scan books and other printed materials so they can be indexed and retrieved online. HarperCollins Publishers even announced plans in mid-December to digitize its vast catalog."
What's with all the karma whoring today? No friends to party with?
After all, I am strangely colored.
Technically, nobody know what an electron really is. Sometimes it exists, and sometimes it doesn't. Observing this little menace can be a pain. It may only be predicted on probability. That is to say that we cannot just watch it and know exactly where it's going to be. When we observe it, that's when it's forced into a position.
Studies prove this is true. It's an important part of Quantum Physics. With a beam-splitting experiment we find that small particles exist in two places at once, interfering with eachother, and forming an interference pattern when passed through a two slit hole. Light particles do this same thing, and so do atoms, and whole molecules.
The electron is an elusive critter. Heck, we don't really know what it is. Who's to say that it does exist? How can you know something exists when you don't even know it's behavior, it's physics, or how to know when it exists?
It's called the Associated Press. Welcome to the 20th century.