Some (most?) 10-year olds are not able to properly extrapolate the implied lessons in folk adages, which in this case was/is that there's no point in getting impatient and fussing about processes that take their own sweet time to happen, and will do just fine without your worry-warting, and that your subjective experience that some desired event is taking too long to occur is purely a function of your own unreasonable demands on the universe distorting and stretching your time sense. Which is all a lot wordier than the original 5-word adage.
BTW, there was a ST:TSG episode on a part of this in which Data the conscious android sits watching boiling pots and not watching boiling pots and times both (which is actually, of course, a form of watching) and finding no difference -- as an attempt to probe human consciousness which he envies and finds very hard to understand or predict.
Literalism is a sign of limited mental development. I believe Christ once mentioned something like this to explain why He spoke in parables.;)
What does being tactful have to do with interaction or lack thereof? Of course, you could be referring to "discrete" systems, which is a separate idea!
Except for all the double slit experiments and the fact that microchips work when there is no open route for its electrons to get across the internal barriers that they do tunnel across, and...
OK, if time isn't linear...
Here's a slit experiment I'd like to see tried (maybe it has been?). I'll call it the "Winking Slits" version.
Equip the double-slit shield with hi-speed flaps to alternately cover the slits for sequential "shots"; left closed-right open; left open-right closed. Does interference happen, or not?
Then versions where the choice of slit to cover is randomized. Then versions where the location of the photons arrival on the screen determines which slit is open. Etc.
Speed up and slow down the shot sequences; is there a point at which interference appears?
Make the choice of slits manual; have a human choose each time, or a simple program written to make the choices (with the program's output either known or not.)
You're still not being clear. Do you mean that the range of possible values of the wavefunction is better understood after observation, or that the underlying wavefunction itself is "constrained"? Or are those alternatives distinct at all?
"you couldn't know if the universe could actually be older than than it is, without our observation".
Does the grammar of this sentence actually permit comprehension? As a science editor, I have my doubts.
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Unrelated (to JAVA), but pls email me, Gori, at brianfh1-at-gmail.com .
Some (most?) 10-year olds are not able to properly extrapolate the implied lessons in folk adages, which in this case was/is that there's no point in getting impatient and fussing about processes that take their own sweet time to happen, and will do just fine without your worry-warting, and that your subjective experience that some desired event is taking too long to occur is purely a function of your own unreasonable demands on the universe distorting and stretching your time sense. Which is all a lot wordier than the original 5-word adage. BTW, there was a ST:TSG episode on a part of this in which Data the conscious android sits watching boiling pots and not watching boiling pots and times both (which is actually, of course, a form of watching) and finding no difference -- as an attempt to probe human consciousness which he envies and finds very hard to understand or predict. Literalism is a sign of limited mental development. I believe Christ once mentioned something like this to explain why He spoke in parables. ;)
What does being tactful have to do with interaction or lack thereof? Of course, you could be referring to "discrete" systems, which is a separate idea!
Except for all the double slit experiments and the fact that microchips work when there is no open route for its electrons to get across the internal barriers that they do tunnel across, and ...
OK, if time isn't linear ...
Here's a slit experiment I'd like to see tried (maybe it has been?). I'll call it the "Winking Slits" version.
Equip the double-slit shield with hi-speed flaps to alternately cover the slits for sequential "shots"; left closed-right open; left open-right closed. Does interference happen, or not?
Then versions where the choice of slit to cover is randomized. Then versions where the location of the photons arrival on the screen determines which slit is open. Etc.
Speed up and slow down the shot sequences; is there a point at which interference appears?
Make the choice of slits manual; have a human choose each time, or a simple program written to make the choices (with the program's output either known or not.)
You're still not being clear. Do you mean that the range of possible values of the wavefunction is better understood after observation, or that the underlying wavefunction itself is "constrained"? Or are those alternatives distinct at all?
Younger than the oldest objects, actually.
How many times? And when?
Dark Energy is the reification of scientific ignorance; as ignorance recedes, so Dark Energy will evaporate.
If you don't, you lose your POV! A man's gotta know his limitations ...
ad logicam: As in, "Hot things tend to rise; The sun is high above us; Therefore the sun is hot!"? I like it. Officially appropriated.
"you couldn't know if the universe could actually be older than than it is, without our observation". Does the grammar of this sentence actually permit comprehension? As a science editor, I have my doubts.
Silverberg & Asimov wrote a pretty decent sequel, also titled Nightfall.