We can trap particles for a real amount of time. We don't need to slow them down. But just because you asked, we can slow down the speed of light in a vacuum by first putting it through a different medium.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_light
I think there's still disagreement on whether consciousness can enter a Von Neumann chain in this case. But yeah, basically the interpretation of this experiment is that nothing went back in time- only observing what happened collapsed the wave-function that included not just the photons, but the scientists themselves.
Well most cables are good enough in the $2 range, but I wanted to chime in that coax and optical audio is passive and unidirectional, so there is no parity checks. If the receiving clock isn't right, there can be jitter. That's not usually a problem with the cable, but it can be. (Unlike TCP/IP which resends bits if stuff goes missing)
This cable is far superior to present-day televisions. We're talking about Christmas 2018, when the quality of televisions will finally meet this cable.
You just don't get it. Until Arnold Schwarzenegger comes back to acting, we NEED this technology.
Plus, I heard a rumor that once they get all of Cameron Diaz's moves, they'll throw her out of acting altogether and use the computer version for pennies on the dollar! PENNIES ON THE DOLLAR!
I used to run a site that integrated multiple different theme servers and a central ebay-like store where you could buy/sell materials gained in each server. Gold was the standard of currency. It was a lot of fun. I ran out of money, so the site remains but the servers are offline. Check it out, maybe I'll revive it: http://www.mineverse.com/
Google Voice commands allow that format. When I'm on the road, I never type- I click the microphone and say "navigate to mcdonalds" which it then uses gps to determine which mcdonalds i'm looking for. Or "navigate to 22 somwhere st. "
Here's the full list: http://www.google.com/mobile/voice-actions/
But for some reason the pattern buffer is going to get confused a lot, and we're going to have a lot of interesting hybrid car/truck accidents. oh, the ensuing hijinks!
I suspect he weighed the options.. the chance that the guy would never get caught apparently seemed more important than the benefit of damage control of reporting it himself. Ultimately, when faced with two options: Continue to ruin the name of the church by reporting it or cross your fingers and maybe nothing will ever come of it.. you can see why he kept it a secret. The last thing the church needed was more of this!
Exactly.. The idea is that, let's say an explosion happens 1 light year away. Just before the explosion, they send a FTL message to earth to warn us about it. We get the message before the event happens in our frame of reference. Thus apparently events happened out of order. But this isn't breaking causality, because there's nothing we can do with this information that would prevent the explosion from taking place. We'd just know about it sooner. It'd still take us 1 year at the speed of light to get out to the site of the explosion to stop it.
This is all nonsense if they first measured with a photon, then even measurement discrepancies would be consistent across multiple different tests. Even if they measured photons wrong, they'd measure neutrinos to be the same amount wrong, and therefore still faster than light.
I find the reason I avoid Microsoft technologies is how fast they churn out new products, just to realize the failure and drop it. Why would I adopt any product microsoft makes when I'm not sure if they'll even hold on to it? They're so fast at changing technology and completely alienating the userbase that bought into it.. The old windows phone that lasted a week? The zune- whose market place is sure to close.. Forget it. I'll go with a small company who has a lot more riding on their products.
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We can trap particles for a real amount of time. We don't need to slow them down. But just because you asked, we can slow down the speed of light in a vacuum by first putting it through a different medium. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_light
I think there's still disagreement on whether consciousness can enter a Von Neumann chain in this case. But yeah, basically the interpretation of this experiment is that nothing went back in time- only observing what happened collapsed the wave-function that included not just the photons, but the scientists themselves.
Well most cables are good enough in the $2 range, but I wanted to chime in that coax and optical audio is passive and unidirectional, so there is no parity checks. If the receiving clock isn't right, there can be jitter. That's not usually a problem with the cable, but it can be. (Unlike TCP/IP which resends bits if stuff goes missing)
This cable is far superior to present-day televisions. We're talking about Christmas 2018, when the quality of televisions will finally meet this cable.
" Is it because everybody is discontented but doesn't what to do about it,"
This. If you look at these protesters for the 99%, they don't even really all agree on their goals.
Hahaha a joke about women and star trek in the same sentence! Why do we have such trouble getting laid with gold like this around?
That doesn't mean [...], but it does mean, generally, getting off of the computer.
You must be new here...
I think it's meant to be ironic.
You just don't get it. Until Arnold Schwarzenegger comes back to acting, we NEED this technology.
Plus, I heard a rumor that once they get all of Cameron Diaz's moves, they'll throw her out of acting altogether and use the computer version for pennies on the dollar! PENNIES ON THE DOLLAR!
I'd like to hear more about this theory. I've heard of a land, in a far off world, where this may be true.. but I'm just so skeptical.
It does prompt you when you first install, asks if it can send anon usage stats. You can decline.
I used to run a site that integrated multiple different theme servers and a central ebay-like store where you could buy/sell materials gained in each server. Gold was the standard of currency. It was a lot of fun. I ran out of money, so the site remains but the servers are offline. Check it out, maybe I'll revive it: http://www.mineverse.com/
He did use infinimer as a muse, but the code he wrote is all 100% from scratch.
So all this time I've been "playing" mafia wars, I've actually been using an interface to do the mafia's real dirty work? oh man..
Google Voice commands allow that format. When I'm on the road, I never type- I click the microphone and say "navigate to mcdonalds" which it then uses gps to determine which mcdonalds i'm looking for. Or "navigate to 22 somwhere st. " Here's the full list: http://www.google.com/mobile/voice-actions/
But for some reason the pattern buffer is going to get confused a lot, and we're going to have a lot of interesting hybrid car/truck accidents. oh, the ensuing hijinks!
i keep trying to explain this! People are corporations now!
I suspect he weighed the options.. the chance that the guy would never get caught apparently seemed more important than the benefit of damage control of reporting it himself. Ultimately, when faced with two options: Continue to ruin the name of the church by reporting it or cross your fingers and maybe nothing will ever come of it.. you can see why he kept it a secret. The last thing the church needed was more of this!
Exactly.. The idea is that, let's say an explosion happens 1 light year away. Just before the explosion, they send a FTL message to earth to warn us about it. We get the message before the event happens in our frame of reference. Thus apparently events happened out of order. But this isn't breaking causality, because there's nothing we can do with this information that would prevent the explosion from taking place. We'd just know about it sooner. It'd still take us 1 year at the speed of light to get out to the site of the explosion to stop it.
tl;dr: FTL does not necessarily break causality.
That's what I keep asking! I think the first thing they'd do is a control experiment with photons!
This is all nonsense if they first measured with a photon, then even measurement discrepancies would be consistent across multiple different tests. Even if they measured photons wrong, they'd measure neutrinos to be the same amount wrong, and therefore still faster than light.
Why don't we just pick out a symbol and let the media decide what they'll call it!
Chuck Norris doesn't need to prepare.
I find the reason I avoid Microsoft technologies is how fast they churn out new products, just to realize the failure and drop it. Why would I adopt any product microsoft makes when I'm not sure if they'll even hold on to it? They're so fast at changing technology and completely alienating the userbase that bought into it.. The old windows phone that lasted a week? The zune- whose market place is sure to close.. Forget it. I'll go with a small company who has a lot more riding on their products.
hahaa, oh man, thanks for that.