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Physics Rebel Aims To Shake Up the Video Game World
waderoush writes "Physicist Shahriar Afshar is famous as the designer of the 'Afshar Experiment,' a study first described in 2004 that called into question Neils Bohr's observation that it's impossible to observe light's wave-like properties and its particle-like properties at the same time. Not surprisingly, the idea met with widespread resistance in the physics community. While he waits for the controversy to settle down, Afshar himself is taking a detour into the video game world. He's now the president and CTO of Immerz, a Cambridge, MA-based startup building an 'acousto-haptic' interface that drapes over a gamer's shoulders and turns video game sound into (literally) chest-pounding vibrations. Xconomy was allowed to test the device, and has the full story behind Afshar's unusual journey and the company's hopes for enhancing PC and console gamers' experience of action/adventure/first-person-shooter titles."
Immerz’s product, called Kor-fx ...
So anytime you get shot in game, Kor hits you with a bat'leth?
There is no "Neil" in Bohr. He's Danish: His Name is Niels Bohr, Niels Henrik David Bohr. Seriously, people...
According to quantum mechanics there's a vanishingly small possibility that the 's' simply disappeared.
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Niels Henrik David Bohr. Seriously, people...
You spelled Henry wrong ;-)
Ten years ago, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a science court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune, physics rebels, if you will. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire...Shahriar Afshar
That's because they're not "rebels". They're the Man, man. Afshar don't play by nobody's rules. Afshar don't care about no jive ass "experiments", fool. He be tripping mad physics skillz.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
Yup, the experiment didn't work with a single photon when they wanted to verify the results. The Copenhagen interpretation still remains intact.
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of cats cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
Q: Why did Albert Einstein cross the road?
A: To get away from Niels Bohr. But when he got to the other side, Bohr was there too.
>> Yup, the experiment didn't work with a single photon when they wanted to
>> verify the results. The Copenhagen interpretation still remains intact.
>I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of cats cried out in terror
> and were suddenly silenced.
That should be "...and may have been suddenly silenced."
Just because you are paranoid does not mean that no-one is out to get you.
Q: Why did Albert Einstein cross the road?
A: To get away from Niels Bohr. But when he got to the other side, Bohr was there too.
A. To prove that it could be done. But when he got to the other side, Bohr had tunneled there too.
Poll: which of these is the correct spelling of Bohr's first name?
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.