Exactly; if one must 'sound out the words' to read, one hasn't read enough. Every well-read person I've spoken to about this always parses printed words as symbols, not phonetic values. For myself, I generally have no idea how to even begin pronouncing most of the names in books I read; they're just arbitrary tokens.
I do tend to subvocalize when writing, as I have insufficient practice at it.
You could say they have no "rest mass", but since they are never at rest that is meaningless.
It's not meaningless, it's very useful: it means the m0 in the mass-energy equivalence formula is zero (E^2 = p^2 c^2 + m0^2 c^4). It's a helpful quantity elsewhere in SR and GR as well. Whether one is referring to 'rest mass' or 'relativistic mass' when writing 'mass' varies on context in physics, but is important.
You cannot tell that anything has happened by just looking at one of the entangled particles, no.
On a very brief and undetailed level, entanglement just says that measurements of particles A & B are correlated. What happens in an entangled measurement is vaguely like this:
Particles A & B are two-state systems: when measured in a certain way, they can either be a 1 or a 0. Before being measured, they are some combination of 1 and 0 and thus have a probability of being measured 1 or 0, but are not either.
Particles A & B are now entangled and in a state such that each individually has a 50% chance of being either 1 or 0.
Without being measured, B is moved to a long distance away.
A is measured.
When B is measured, it will be !A (100% of the time if the entanglement is perfect).
The important part is that the people measuring B don't know what A was until someone tells them via a classical channel.
If one makes continuous measurements of a stream of Bs (B1, B2,...), they see a random pattern of 1s and 0s.
The people measuring a stream of As see a random pattern of 1s and 0s, but the interesting part is the A1...An is exactly !(B1...Bn) (anticorrelated)! You can't use this to send a signal, since each measurement is itself random, but if team A sent classical messages of their results, team B could predict the measurements of B.
Using further methods like mixing A with C and also B with D before measuring and other stuff, then telling each other what measurements of A&C resulted, it's possible to say that D4 == C4 exactly, 'teleporting' particle C4 (i.e. just reproducing the exact quantum state), but this requires measuring D1, D2, and D3 and thus destroying their state. It's more complicated than this, but resembles a logic puzzle.
Money is like energy. Unless there is some huge devaluation event or you actually burn physical notes this money has not gone up in smoke.
Arguably burning physical notes evenly distributes the value to all other holders of the same currency, even. Further strengthening your point: it's very hard to destroy money.
I agree: I've been using wireless charging since the end of 2012 when I got my Note2, and it's a required feature for me. Why would I want to deal with plugging in my device every time I set it down? I just set it on it's charger, roughly centered, and there's no penalty for picking it up again.
DoE manages all nuclear weapons, nuclear materials handling and security, and nuclear weapons research as well. It's the direct descendant of the Atomic Energy Commission. We probably don't want to disband that.
This is a good reason to get a plug-in hybrid like the Volt. I live in a condo and don't have access to any electric service at my parking spot, so I actually got mine expecting to use the free charging at work. A month before I picked up my ordered configuration, the charging at work changed from 'free' to 'double utility rate' - now I only use gas with my Volt. Given the relative efficiencies and current prices in Boston, gas is actually cheaper for me to use per mile. Electricity would be slightly cheaper if I could charge at home.
It still works like an electric vehicle, though: the Volt has an electric drive train, and the ICE functions as a generator. So there's no gearing, and I get the benefit of electric-drive torque. Quibble: the Gen2 volt (2016 and newer) has a generator-regenerator drive box that can technically be used to direct-drive the transmission, but mine has never done so. The efficiencies are mapped, and as I understand it the ICE-transmission losses can be fractionally less than generator-battery-direct drive losses at high speeds on flat terrain for long distances.
The downsides of the Volt are that it has a fairly short interior, the rear two seats have almost zero legroom, and it has limited rear window visibility.
Not once the pay is enough to comfortably support one's lifestyle. Then job satisfaction is the most important factor for many people, including myself.
As long as we have first-past-the-post, winner-take-all elections, it is one's rational self-interest to vote strategically against the party they least want to win, rather than for the party they most want to win.
You're being very myopic there. If you ever want B to become more like C, you must be willing to accept B losing in the short term. If B sees many of their votes going to C, then they'll move C-wards to pick up more votes. You have to think long term. Don't think in terms of C winning, think in terms of turning B into C, or at least something close enough to C that you're happy with them.
Side-note: I have never understood why the Republicans pander to the religious extremists - would those people ever vote Democrat? What do the Republicans have to lose by trying to pick up some moderates?
What are they doing with this money? Swimming in it? If they do something with it, the passive method of doing so being investment, then they're actually giving it to other people with an expectation of getting something back in the long term. That means other people have it, such as the company who used it to invest in the company you work for which used it to pay you.
Those quantities are certainly mathematical dimensions. What is meant by 'hidden dimensions' is hidden spatial dimensions, i.e. directions, orthogonal to the perceived three. I've not kept up with the field, but last I recall these were theorized to be rolled up on very small scales. So something could move 'in the purple direction' by ±1e-9m at most - moving +2 being the same as moving -1 in a simplified version, as it's rolled up like a straw (iirc there are far more complicated shapes suggested for these dimensions).
One possibility of detecting these is if gravity isn't confined to the normal three dimensions, then at small scales it will not obey an inverse square law, but will 'bleed off' into the other small dimensions. Tests have been made to submillimeter scale, but that's far larger than I believe has been posited for the size of the extra dimensions.
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Exactly; if one must 'sound out the words' to read, one hasn't read enough. Every well-read person I've spoken to about this always parses printed words as symbols, not phonetic values. For myself, I generally have no idea how to even begin pronouncing most of the names in books I read; they're just arbitrary tokens.
I do tend to subvocalize when writing, as I have insufficient practice at it.
You could say they have no "rest mass", but since they are never at rest that is meaningless.
It's not meaningless, it's very useful: it means the m0 in the mass-energy equivalence formula is zero (E^2 = p^2 c^2 + m0^2 c^4). It's a helpful quantity elsewhere in SR and GR as well. Whether one is referring to 'rest mass' or 'relativistic mass' when writing 'mass' varies on context in physics, but is important.
You cannot tell that anything has happened by just looking at one of the entangled particles, no.
On a very brief and undetailed level, entanglement just says that measurements of particles A & B are correlated. What happens in an entangled measurement is vaguely like this:
Using further methods like mixing A with C and also B with D before measuring and other stuff, then telling each other what measurements of A&C resulted, it's possible to say that D4 == C4 exactly, 'teleporting' particle C4 (i.e. just reproducing the exact quantum state), but this requires measuring D1, D2, and D3 and thus destroying their state. It's more complicated than this, but resembles a logic puzzle.
Money is like energy. Unless there is some huge devaluation event or you actually burn physical notes this money has not gone up in smoke.
Arguably burning physical notes evenly distributes the value to all other holders of the same currency, even. Further strengthening your point: it's very hard to destroy money.
I don't know how they define a startup, but it's apparently very broadly interpreted if the 20 year old Jawbone is included.
As for any inner meaning or ‘message’, it has in the intention of the author none. It is neither allegorical nor topical.
The rest of the foreword is a pretty good read, and he expounds on that theme that the story is essentially unrelated to contemporary events.
Is there anything that wouldn't be a boondoggle in California?
I don't understand how an IRC client (and server bots?) is worth $9e9.
I agree: I've been using wireless charging since the end of 2012 when I got my Note2, and it's a required feature for me. Why would I want to deal with plugging in my device every time I set it down? I just set it on it's charger, roughly centered, and there's no penalty for picking it up again.
My Sonicare toothbrush has been wirelessly charging every night for 15 years.
DoE manages all nuclear weapons, nuclear materials handling and security, and nuclear weapons research as well. It's the direct descendant of the Atomic Energy Commission. We probably don't want to disband that.
This is a good reason to get a plug-in hybrid like the Volt. I live in a condo and don't have access to any electric service at my parking spot, so I actually got mine expecting to use the free charging at work. A month before I picked up my ordered configuration, the charging at work changed from 'free' to 'double utility rate' - now I only use gas with my Volt. Given the relative efficiencies and current prices in Boston, gas is actually cheaper for me to use per mile. Electricity would be slightly cheaper if I could charge at home.
It still works like an electric vehicle, though: the Volt has an electric drive train, and the ICE functions as a generator. So there's no gearing, and I get the benefit of electric-drive torque. Quibble: the Gen2 volt (2016 and newer) has a generator-regenerator drive box that can technically be used to direct-drive the transmission, but mine has never done so. The efficiencies are mapped, and as I understand it the ICE-transmission losses can be fractionally less than generator-battery-direct drive losses at high speeds on flat terrain for long distances.
The downsides of the Volt are that it has a fairly short interior, the rear two seats have almost zero legroom, and it has limited rear window visibility.
Would not a golden hammer tend to be single-use all the time, unless perhaps it's a ball-peen or other soft-faced hammer?
Why not work earlier instead of forcing me and hundreds of millions of others to change their clocks?
Why do the people wanting to end work at 1600 get to have the government force me to change my clock? Just go home earlier than I do!
Or less than 160 containers on one of these.
If anything goes wrong, we can just hunt them to extinction with atlatls or buffalo jumps like the first time.
Not once the pay is enough to comfortably support one's lifestyle. Then job satisfaction is the most important factor for many people, including myself.
A 40Gbps IP-over-HDMI link sounds nice at consumer AV equipment prices.
Service guarantees citizenship!
'jigga' is an acceptable pronunciation, even promulgated by the US NBS in the 1960s-1980s. It has since fallen out of widespread use.
If it persists for thousands of years, it's not that dangerous.
As long as we have first-past-the-post, winner-take-all elections, it is one's rational self-interest to vote strategically against the party they least want to win, rather than for the party they most want to win.
You're being very myopic there. If you ever want B to become more like C, you must be willing to accept B losing in the short term. If B sees many of their votes going to C, then they'll move C-wards to pick up more votes. You have to think long term. Don't think in terms of C winning, think in terms of turning B into C, or at least something close enough to C that you're happy with them.
Side-note: I have never understood why the Republicans pander to the religious extremists - would those people ever vote Democrat? What do the Republicans have to lose by trying to pick up some moderates?
What are they doing with this money? Swimming in it? If they do something with it, the passive method of doing so being investment, then they're actually giving it to other people with an expectation of getting something back in the long term. That means other people have it, such as the company who used it to invest in the company you work for which used it to pay you.
Those quantities are certainly mathematical dimensions. What is meant by 'hidden dimensions' is hidden spatial dimensions, i.e. directions, orthogonal to the perceived three. I've not kept up with the field, but last I recall these were theorized to be rolled up on very small scales. So something could move 'in the purple direction' by ±1e-9m at most - moving +2 being the same as moving -1 in a simplified version, as it's rolled up like a straw (iirc there are far more complicated shapes suggested for these dimensions).
One possibility of detecting these is if gravity isn't confined to the normal three dimensions, then at small scales it will not obey an inverse square law, but will 'bleed off' into the other small dimensions. Tests have been made to submillimeter scale, but that's far larger than I believe has been posited for the size of the extra dimensions.