Intellectual property laws exist only because capitalism is a slavery system. Our livelihood depends on working for others so we can pay our taxes. The reason that we have to work for others is that 99% of people have been deprived of an inheritance in the land. Income property is owned by a few and the government. The others are slaves. Artists and inventors depend on their work to make a living. Can we blame them? With the exception of a few, we all do because we are all slaves and we are all disenfranchised. So now we are swimming in an ocean of laws and rules that take away our remaining liberties, one by one.
The internet and other communication technologies are the first major kinks in the armor of a sick system. As technology progresses, it will eventually die a horrible death. What will happen to a slave-based economy when robots replace everybody, i. e., when human labor, knowledge and expertise become worthless?
We should all demand a truly free system where everybody is guaranteed to inherit income property by virtue of being human, a piece of the pie, so to speak. This way we can all compete and coorperate on an equal footing. No welfare, no exploitation, no herding of billions of people into big cities that pollute the earth.
There is plenty for everybody. This is not a handout from the government because the land has existed for billions of years before any human government appear on earth. Their job is to make sure that everybody gets a fair piece. What we doo with our inheritance after that is up to us and our descendants.
The land and the world's wealth should not be divided for a price. It should be an inheritance for us and our children and their children.
One of the more striking aspects of complexity is that the reliability of software systems is inversely proportional to their complexity while the reliability of the human brain improves as it get more complex through training.
I think there is a lesson to be gained from this observation. The most obvious difference between software systems and the brain is that the former uses sequential algorithms whereas the latter is based on parallel streams of signals. It seems to me that signal-based parallelization of processes is more reliable because one is able to have strict control over the timing of events. The problem with algorithms is that one can never be sure when the algorithm will be done. This creates all sorts of timing problems. There may be other benefits to be gain from parallel processes. It should be possible to devise automatic timing error detection mechanisms that may detect many hidden errors early in the testing phase.
One can already see the benefit of parallelization by noting that the reliability of hardware systems is orders of magnitude greater than software. I think that the practice that is most detrimental to reliability is the algorithm. In conclusion, I think that society should immediately embark on a program to replace algorithmic systems with signal-based computing systems.
I belive the Chinese will blame all moral and social corruption of its young on the west. This will only exacerbate the deep distrust that the two already have of each other. This is especially disturbing when you consider that both the Chinese and the west have nuclear weapons and are continuing to arm themselves to the teeth.
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I think Tito is doing us all a favor. The destiny of humanity is space, the solar system and the stars beyond. We need to keep this truth in our collective consciousness and Tito is helping us do that.
Unless we (humanity) revolutionize our physical sciences, we are doomed because our teeming masses are fast exhausting the natural resources of our world. This in turn leads to all sorts of unpleasantness such as ecological disasters, diseases, societal friction and devastating wars. We need room to expand. We are certainly not going to colonize the solar system with our primitive chemical propulsion systems (and cockamamie contraptions like solar sails) let alone the star systems beyond. Even if we could move at the speed of light, mass migration to other stars is out of the question. And we do not have much time to find a solution. The ecological and societal clocks are ticking. We can't wait another one or two hundred years for the spacetime physics establishment to realize its errors. We need a plan of action and we need it now!
We need to revolutionize out space transportation science and technology so that a trip to an orbiting station is no more expensive and inconvenient than a trip from Los Angeles to San Diego.
This is a very weak interpretation of the EPR experiment: there is no reason to believe that "physics is fundamentally nonlocal" in the sense that you're talking about - especially when it comes to the interpretation that it will produce "instant" anything.
The hardest part of quantum entanglement to understand is the fact that Nature is both fundamentally local and nonlocal at the same time. Yes. You heard me. That's exactly what I meant.
Locality in my mind has to do with an extrinsic (to particles) space, i.e., extrinsic positions. Locality implies that, in order for an object to move from point a to point b, it must move through each and every position that comprises the distance between points a and b.
This would always be true if one assumes there is a space. I have excellent reason to believe there isn't. If one assumes that the position of a particle is intimated related to the particle, like the position variable of a sprite is part of the sprite structure, then it becomes theoretically is possible to change it in one fell swoop without going the incremental route. IMO, this is what Bell's inequality is telling us.
Interactions are local
Certainly interactions are local but we must be define what we mean by that. To me, it only means that particles with equal positions may (or may not) interact. Size and distance are extremely problematical beasts because, once one makes size or space necessary, one is immediately faced with an insurmountable infinite regress problem. I abhor infinite regress.
a particle at point B ten light years away from a particle at point A can only interact with an on-mass-shell particle intermediating the two. That is, for an electron which emits a photon which is reabsorbed by a particle ten light years away, the photon is on-shell - or VERY nearly on-shell: q^2 = 0. They can't exchange an off-mass-shell particle, because it would need to live too long. What does this mean? It means that space essentially determines the momentum scale of an interaction - i.e., interactions are fundamentally *local*.
Well, you see, to me, the two electrons never interacted. That would be action at a distance and we all know that's nonsense. The emitted photons, OTOH, travel at c and interact locally with the electrons to produce the proper changes in momentum.
Asking "where is an electron?" is nonsense. The concept of "where" doesn't exist quite as firmly for an electron as we think it does for us.
This is a nonsensical interpretation. Just because one cannot measure the exact position of an electron does not reflect on the nature of positional properties but on the nature of measurement.
You said it yourself. All that exists are particles and their interactions.
...and their properties. I doubt that you truly believe it though, because if you seriously work out the consequences of that statement, you'll find that it destroys many of your sacred cows.
Particles don't provide the structure of spacetime - their interactions do. You can't have instantaneous changes in position because that would suddenly cause all the interactions that those particles were undergoing to become nonlocal.
I disagree. It is true that a change in position is not instantaneous; it must be at least a minimum interval, the time it takes a particle traveling at c to cover Planck distance (as you see, I subscribe to a discrete universe). However, if position is truly an intrinsic property of particles (which it must be if only particles exist), it should be possible to devise an interaction such that this position is changed by a factor greater than Planck length.
However, good luck actually predicting the dynamics of creating a wormhole.
A wormhole is pure unmitigated crackpottery. Physicists should be ashamed to be talking about this crap. A wormhole is impossible because it requires the physical existence of spacetime. And, as we should all have figured out by now, spacetime cannot exist because nothing can move in it. It is motionless from the infinite past to the infinite future.
OK. So even the 'simple' 4-velocity dx/dt now looks like dx/dt = (c, dx/dt, dy/dt, dz/dt). Nothing's unitless - everything has dimensions of distance/time. Thus, we have already disproven the statement in the above link. So, we can stop here.
You sir, are a babbling moron. c is measured in meters per second and does not represent speed in time but speed in a spatial dimension. Speed in a time diemsnion is silly because it would have to be given in second per second. Any high school kidd can grasp this. Just because one can mathematically convert the time axis from seconds to meters with the use of ct does not mean that one can move in time. Get a clue.
Any physicist who does not understand that a time dimension forbids motion should have his degree taken away from him and his alma mater picketed for fraud.
Actually, I believe that's exactly what I said. Information is NOT being transmitted faster than light.
I agree but thought you meant that quantum entanglement is impossible because it would violate the c speed limit. My position is that it would not because there is no motion involved.
Not true at all. Special relativity (and even more so, general relativity) suggest that spacetime is very real in that the relative positions of two events in spacetime alone can determine whether or not one can possibly affect the other. Gravity itself is a manifestation of the curvature of spacetime. So spacetime is as real as gravity.
I disagree. Spacetime can be shown to be non-existent for a very simple reason: nothing can move in spacetime by definition. If we existed in a spacetime, we would not know it because nothing could move in it.
In fact, as weird as quantum entanglement and the EPR paradoxes are, they do not allow for us to transmit any information faster than light. It appears to be a non-local phenomenon at first glance, but no matter how hard you try, you just can't figure out a way to transmit information faster than light. To do so would prove basic quantum mechanics to be incompatible with relativity, and they've already shown to be compatible.
Nonlocality precludes the existence of space of spacetime. There is no magic in this thing. The spacetime of relativity is not real. It is an abstract math construct. Relativity is a macroscopic theory, a mere math trick or tool created for the prediction of the motion of bodies. It does not reveal any physical mechanism. As such it does not contradict nonlocality. It is only when one assumes the existence of spacetime as a physical entity that one runs into crackpot theory.
But for two particles to become entangled, they must be created or interact at the same point. They can then be moved great distances apart and they remain entangled. So no information can really be transmitted from A to B by means of making measurements on the particles. To do so would violate causality (i.e. you'd be transmitting information faster than light.
Actually this is not correct. Nothing is being tranmitted. This is the hardest part of quantum entanglement to understand. As I said, what the whole thing means is that there is no space. The universe, as its name implies is ONE. Distance or space is an illusion that emerges from the intrinsic properties properties of particles.
As Gottfried Leibniz once put it, "space is nothing but the nature of the order of things". Nature is nonlocal at its fundamental level. I envision that instant secure communication is just the least of the things we will accomplish with future technologies. We might even achive instant transportation and I don't mean "beaming" people around as in Star-Trek. I mean instant changes of position over great distances.
If two particles are entangled, they will instantly change state even if they are billions of miles apart. There is absolutely no way to intercept this form of communication because no signal is broadcast from source to receiver. What quantum nonlocality is really telling us is that space is an illusion. There exist only particles, their properties and their interactions. Everything else is either abstract or voodoo.
Well, the public is certainly not limited to Joe Sixpack. We live in a world where people can get any information they want on any subject, often at the click of a mouse. People are getting informed about the things that interest them, at prodigious rate. This is one of the promises of the internet. There are a lot of people out there, non-scientists, college dropouts who are pretty knowledgeable in a particlar subject even though they never received a degree in it.
The way I look at it, public access is like open source. It's like E.R's many-eyes paradigm. It keeps the crackpottery out and scientists on their toes. Science needs a fresh perspective, otherwise it becomes a form of self-referential intellectual incest and malformed concepts are the progeny. This is what happened to relativity and gravity research. It's been close to a hundred years and we still haven't the slightest clue as tothe the causal and physical processes that give rise to gravity. It's sad.
One of the bigger problems with the exclusivity of scientific journals is that the lay public has no real way of precisely determining how its money is being spent on scientific research. After all, most scientific papers are reports on publicly funded projects. By and large, the scientific community does not feel like it is accountable to the lay public and looks down condescendingly at them. I think it is a mistake to underestimate the collective lay-intellect. It is also not a good idea to insult the source of one's bread and butter.
There is a physics-is-math cult composed of nerd physicists and mathematicians who think they are free to create physics simply by manipulating spacetime equations using what-if scenarios. This is an absurd way of doing physics because these people don't have the slightest clue as to the actual physical processes and mechanisms that give rise to the phenomenon we call spacetime curvature. Math does not create physics. Physics is about particles, their properties and their interactions. Everything else is either abstract or voodoo. So things like wormholes, black holes and time warps are pure crackpottery, glorified mathematical toys (I think of them as math hacks) invented by grown-up nerds for the sole purpose of impressing their peers and amaze a mystified lay public.
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My mistake. Someone told me he was knighted. He might as well be since he's so brilliant that he figured out that the impossible (time travel) is possible. It's a major accomplishment, don't you think? I'll add a correction to my page.
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Excellent. You just figured out another reason why a time dimension is a myth. And if you can get this far, you can also ask yourself this question. If there is no time dimension, what's all this nonsense about time travel coming from Dr. Thorne and Sir Stephen? Did I hear anybody say "crackpottery"?
Most weird hypotheses of the comos, such as wormholes and black holes, owe their weirdness not to the strangeness of nature but to the belief among celebrated physicists like Sir Stephen Hawking and Dr. Kip Thorne that spacetime exists physically and that bodies are moving along a time dimension. Problem is, nothing can move in spacetime.
This nasty little truth is known by many physicists and is being kept under wrap by the physics community. If it came out in the open, it would make some of the most celebrated physicists in the world look like crackpots at best and frauds at worst.
Heck, unless we revolutionize our physical sciences, we (humanity) are doomed because we are fast exhausting the natural resources of our world. And we certainly are not going to colonize the solar system with our primitive chemical rockets and cockamamie ideas like solar sails, let alone the galaxy. Even if we could move at the speed of light, mass migration to other stars is out of the question. We need a revolution in our fundamental understanding of motion, inertia and gravity. All this time-travel crackpottery from famous gurus is only slowing us down. It's a monkey wrench in the works because it is causing a lot of bright young researchers to waste time chasing after a red herring.
Communism confiscates all property and enslaves everybody. Capitalism gives property to a few and enslaves the rest. It's sad.
The former failed because there is no incentive for the slaves and they become lazy and uncreative. The latter seems to work because the slaves are motivated but it will only last so long because it too, is a slave system.
Intellectual property laws exist only because capitalism is a slavery system. Our livelihood depends on working for others so we can pay our taxes. The reason that we have to work for others is that 99% of people have been deprived of an inheritance in the land. Income property is owned by a few and the government. The others are slaves. Artists and inventors depend on their work to make a living. Can we blame them? With the exception of a few, we all do because we are all slaves and we are all disenfranchised. So now we are swimming in an ocean of laws and rules that take away our remaining liberties, one by one.
The internet and other communication technologies are the first major kinks in the armor of a sick system. As technology progresses, it will eventually die a horrible death. What will happen to a slave-based economy when robots replace everybody, i. e., when human labor, knowledge and expertise become worthless?
We should all demand a truly free system where everybody is guaranteed income property, a piece of the pie. This way we can all compete and cooperate on an equal footing. No welfare, no exploitation, no herding of billions of people into big cities that pollute and destroy the earth. Just freedom.
There is plenty for everybody. This is not a handout from the government because the land has existed for billions of years before any human government appear on earth. Their job is to make sure that everybody gets a fair piece. What we do with our inheritance after that is up to us and our descendants.
The land should not be divided for a price. It should be an inheritance for us and our children and their children.
You can call it garbage if you want but it's the truth.
>I am in no way "fooled" into my opinion. I am
>comparing the facts.
You are so deluded it's not even funny.
>Tell me a system that's better, and show me
>facts.
I did. You're too deluded to listen and the sad part is that you like it that way. I'll say it for the few who will listen. We need a truly free system. Free market, free determination, free knowledge. Even the freedom to be a slave, if that is what you want. And a piece of the pie for everyone. The fewer fascist laws, the better. The land does not belong to anyone that we should be buying it and selling it. It should be divided for an inheritance. And we should leave it for our children and our children's children so that they, too, can enjoy it.
Like I said, the internet and digital communication techonologies are the first kinks in the armor. The system will crash. Hard. And the fools will crash with it. Now go back and be a good little slave.
There are few things more pathetic than a well-to-do slave who preaches to others about the virtue of work or a slave who has been fooled into thinking he's free.
Intellectual property laws exist only because we have a slavery system. Out livelihood depends on working for others so we can pay our taxes. The reason that we have to work for others is that 99% of people have been deprived of an inheritance in the land. Income property is owned by a few and the government. The others are slaves. Artists and inventors depend on their art to make a living. Can we blame them? We all do because we are all slaves. So now we are swimming in a ocean of laws and rules that take away our liberties, one by one.
The internet and other communication technologies are the first major kinks in the armor of a sick system. As technology progresses, it will eventually die a horrible death. What will happen to a slave-based economy when robots replace everybody, i. e., when human labor, knowledge and expertise become worthless?
We should all demand a system where everybody is guaranteed income property, a piece of the pie. There is plenty for everybody.
Communism confiscates all property and enslaves everybody. Capitalism gives property to a few and enslaves the rest. It's sad. The land should not be divided for a price. It should be an inheritance for us and our children an their children.
Computer programming should involve no syntax, grammar or any such thing. It should all be objects, connectors, sensors, effectors and signals.
Nah. The hardware people used to do things that way, but went to textual representations like VHDL for complex systems. Logic diagrams for big systems are painful to work on.
That's because they're doing it wrong. There should be no logic diagrams. Just objects with plug-compatible connectors, kind of like ICs. The primitive objects should just be sensors and effectors which can be connected together into higher level objects. Just drop them in and they find the right connections, automatically and reliably. Programming for the masses!!
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Intellectual property laws exist only because capitalism is a slavery system. Our livelihood depends on working for others so we can pay our taxes. The reason that we have to work for others is that 99% of people have been deprived of an inheritance in the land. Income property is owned by a few and the government. The others are slaves. Artists and inventors depend on their work to make a living. Can we blame them? With the exception of a few, we all do because we are all slaves and we are all disenfranchised. So now we are swimming in an ocean of laws and rules that take away our remaining liberties, one by one.
The internet and other communication technologies are the first major kinks in the armor of a sick system. As technology progresses, it will eventually die a horrible death. What will happen to a slave-based economy when robots replace everybody, i. e., when human labor, knowledge and expertise become worthless?
We should all demand a truly free system where everybody is guaranteed to inherit income property by virtue of being human, a piece of the pie, so to speak. This way we can all compete and coorperate on an equal footing. No welfare, no exploitation, no herding of billions of people into big cities that pollute the earth.
There is plenty for everybody. This is not a handout from the government because the land has existed for billions of years before any human government appear on earth. Their job is to make sure that everybody gets a fair piece. What we doo with our inheritance after that is up to us and our descendants.
The land and the world's wealth should not be divided for a price. It should be an inheritance for us and our children and their children.
Mod me down because of my sig.
One of the more striking aspects of complexity is that the reliability of software systems is inversely proportional to their complexity while the reliability of the human brain improves as it get more complex through training.
I think there is a lesson to be gained from this observation. The most obvious difference between software systems and the brain is that the former uses sequential algorithms whereas the latter is based on parallel streams of signals. It seems to me that signal-based parallelization of processes is more reliable because one is able to have strict control over the timing of events. The problem with algorithms is that one can never be sure when the algorithm will be done. This creates all sorts of timing problems. There may be other benefits to be gain from parallel processes. It should be possible to devise automatic timing error detection mechanisms that may detect many hidden errors early in the testing phase.
One can already see the benefit of parallelization by noting that the reliability of hardware systems is orders of magnitude greater than software. I think that the practice that is most detrimental to reliability is the algorithm. In conclusion, I think that society should immediately embark on a program to replace algorithmic systems with signal-based computing systems.
I belive the Chinese will blame all moral and social corruption of its young on the west. This will only exacerbate the deep distrust that the two already have of each other. This is especially disturbing when you consider that both the Chinese and the west have nuclear weapons and are continuing to arm themselves to the teeth.
I think Tito is doing us all a favor. The destiny of humanity is space, the solar system and the stars beyond. We need to keep this truth in our collective consciousness and Tito is helping us do that.
Unless we (humanity) revolutionize our physical sciences, we are doomed because our teeming masses are fast exhausting the natural resources of our world. This in turn leads to all sorts of unpleasantness such as ecological disasters, diseases, societal friction and devastating wars. We need room to expand. We are certainly not going to colonize the solar system with our primitive chemical propulsion systems (and cockamamie contraptions like solar sails) let alone the star systems beyond. Even if we could move at the speed of light, mass migration to other stars is out of the question. And we do not have much time to find a solution. The ecological and societal clocks are ticking. We can't wait another one or two hundred years for the spacetime physics establishment to realize its errors. We need a plan of action and we need it now!
We need to revolutionize out space transportation science and technology so that a trip to an orbiting station is no more expensive and inconvenient than a trip from Los Angeles to San Diego.
...the previous laws. Get rid of the bad IP laws and the problem will disappear.
Is their approach more secure than SafeWeb?
You're not paranoid. You're preserving your freedom.
This is a very weak interpretation of the EPR experiment: there is no reason to believe that "physics is fundamentally nonlocal" in the sense that you're talking about - especially when it comes to the interpretation that it will produce "instant" anything.
The hardest part of quantum entanglement to understand is the fact that Nature is both fundamentally local and nonlocal at the same time. Yes. You heard me. That's exactly what I meant.
Locality in my mind has to do with an extrinsic (to particles) space, i.e., extrinsic positions. Locality implies that, in order for an object to move from point a to point b, it must move through each and every position that comprises the distance between points a and b.
This would always be true if one assumes there is a space. I have excellent reason to believe there isn't. If one assumes that the position of a particle is intimated related to the particle, like the position variable of a sprite is part of the sprite structure, then it becomes theoretically is possible to change it in one fell swoop without going the incremental route. IMO, this is what Bell's inequality is telling us.
Interactions are local
Certainly interactions are local but we must be define what we mean by that. To me, it only means that particles with equal positions may (or may not) interact. Size and distance are extremely problematical beasts because, once one makes size or space necessary, one is immediately faced with an insurmountable infinite regress problem. I abhor infinite regress.
a particle at point B ten light years away from a particle at point A can only interact with an on-mass-shell particle intermediating the two. That is, for an electron which emits a photon which is reabsorbed by a particle ten light years away, the photon is on-shell - or VERY nearly on-shell: q^2 = 0. They can't exchange an off-mass-shell particle, because it would need to live too long. What does this mean? It means that space essentially determines the momentum scale of an interaction - i.e., interactions are fundamentally *local*.
Well, you see, to me, the two electrons never interacted. That would be action at a distance and we all know that's nonsense. The emitted photons, OTOH, travel at c and interact locally with the electrons to produce the proper changes in momentum.
Asking "where is an electron?" is nonsense. The concept of "where" doesn't exist quite as firmly for an electron as we think it does for us.
This is a nonsensical interpretation. Just because one cannot measure the exact position of an electron does not reflect on the nature of positional properties but on the nature of measurement.
You said it yourself. All that exists are particles and their interactions.
...and their properties. I doubt that you truly believe it though, because if you seriously work out the consequences of that statement, you'll find that it destroys many of your sacred cows.
Particles don't provide the structure of spacetime - their interactions do. You can't have instantaneous changes in position because that would suddenly cause all the interactions that those particles were undergoing to become nonlocal.
I disagree. It is true that a change in position is not instantaneous; it must be at least a minimum interval, the time it takes a particle traveling at c to cover Planck distance (as you see, I subscribe to a discrete universe). However, if position is truly an intrinsic property of particles (which it must be if only particles exist), it should be possible to devise an interaction such that this position is changed by a factor greater than Planck length.
However, good luck actually predicting the dynamics of creating a wormhole.
A wormhole is pure unmitigated crackpottery. Physicists should be ashamed to be talking about this crap. A wormhole is impossible because it requires the physical existence of spacetime. And, as we should all have figured out by now, spacetime cannot exist because nothing can move in it. It is motionless from the infinite past to the infinite future.
Nasty Little Truth About Spacetime Physics
OK. So even the 'simple' 4-velocity dx/dt now looks like dx/dt = (c, dx/dt, dy/dt, dz/dt). Nothing's unitless - everything has dimensions of distance/time. Thus, we have already disproven the statement in the above link. So, we can stop here.
You sir, are a babbling moron. c is measured in meters per second and does not represent speed in time but speed in a spatial dimension. Speed in a time diemsnion is silly because it would have to be given in second per second. Any high school kidd can grasp this. Just because one can mathematically convert the time axis from seconds to meters with the use of ct does not mean that one can move in time. Get a clue.
Any physicist who does not understand that a time dimension forbids motion should have his degree taken away from him and his alma mater picketed for fraud.
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Actually, I believe that's exactly what I said. Information is NOT being transmitted faster than light.
I agree but thought you meant that quantum entanglement is impossible because it would violate the c speed limit. My position is that it would not because there is no motion involved.
Not true at all. Special relativity (and even more so, general relativity) suggest that spacetime is very real in that the relative positions of two events in spacetime alone can determine whether or not one can possibly affect the other. Gravity itself is a manifestation of the curvature of spacetime. So spacetime is as real as gravity.
I disagree. Spacetime can be shown to be non-existent for a very simple reason: nothing can move in spacetime by definition. If we existed in a spacetime, we would not know it because nothing could move in it.
In fact, as weird as quantum entanglement and the EPR paradoxes are, they do not allow for us to transmit any information faster than light. It appears to be a non-local phenomenon at first glance, but no matter how hard you try, you just can't figure out a way to transmit information faster than light. To do so would prove basic quantum mechanics to be incompatible with relativity, and they've already shown to be compatible.
Nonlocality precludes the existence of space of spacetime. There is no magic in this thing. The spacetime of relativity is not real. It is an abstract math construct. Relativity is a macroscopic theory, a mere math trick or tool created for the prediction of the motion of bodies. It does not reveal any physical mechanism. As such it does not contradict nonlocality. It is only when one assumes the existence of spacetime as a physical entity that one runs into crackpot theory.
Nasty Little Truth About Spacetime Physics
But for two particles to become entangled, they must be created or interact at the same point. They can then be moved great distances apart and they remain entangled. So no information can really be transmitted from A to B by means of making measurements on the particles. To do so would violate causality (i.e. you'd be transmitting information faster than light.
Actually this is not correct. Nothing is being tranmitted. This is the hardest part of quantum entanglement to understand. As I said, what the whole thing means is that there is no space. The universe, as its name implies is ONE. Distance or space is an illusion that emerges from the intrinsic properties properties of particles.
As Gottfried Leibniz once put it, "space is nothing but the nature of the order of things". Nature is nonlocal at its fundamental level. I envision that instant secure communication is just the least of the things we will accomplish with future technologies. We might even achive instant transportation and I don't mean "beaming" people around as in Star-Trek. I mean instant changes of position over great distances.
Nasty Little Truth About Spacetime Physics
If two particles are entangled, they will instantly change state even if they are billions of miles apart. There is absolutely no way to intercept this form of communication because no signal is broadcast from source to receiver. What quantum nonlocality is really telling us is that space is an illusion. There exist only particles, their properties and their interactions. Everything else is either abstract or voodoo.
Nasty Little Truth About Spacetime Physics
Well, the public is certainly not limited to Joe Sixpack. We live in a world where people can get any information they want on any subject, often at the click of a mouse. People are getting informed about the things that interest them, at prodigious rate. This is one of the promises of the internet. There are a lot of people out there, non-scientists, college dropouts who are pretty knowledgeable in a particlar subject even though they never received a degree in it.
The way I look at it, public access is like open source. It's like E.R's many-eyes paradigm. It keeps the crackpottery out and scientists on their toes. Science needs a fresh perspective, otherwise it becomes a form of self-referential intellectual incest and malformed concepts are the progeny. This is what happened to relativity and gravity research. It's been close to a hundred years and we still haven't the slightest clue as tothe the causal and physical processes that give rise to gravity. It's sad.
Nasty Little Truth About Spacetime Physics
One of the bigger problems with the exclusivity of scientific journals is that the lay public has no real way of precisely determining how its money is being spent on scientific research. After all, most scientific papers are reports on publicly funded projects. By and large, the scientific community does not feel like it is accountable to the lay public and looks down condescendingly at them. I think it is a mistake to underestimate the collective lay-intellect. It is also not a good idea to insult the source of one's bread and butter.
Nasty Little Truth About Spacetime Physics
There is a physics-is-math cult composed of nerd physicists and mathematicians who think they are free to create physics simply by manipulating spacetime equations using what-if scenarios. This is an absurd way of doing physics because these people don't have the slightest clue as to the actual physical processes and mechanisms that give rise to the phenomenon we call spacetime curvature. Math does not create physics. Physics is about particles, their properties and their interactions. Everything else is either abstract or voodoo. So things like wormholes, black holes and time warps are pure crackpottery, glorified mathematical toys (I think of them as math hacks) invented by grown-up nerds for the sole purpose of impressing their peers and amaze a mystified lay public.
Nasty Little Truth About Spacetime Physics
My mistake. Someone told me he was knighted. He might as well be since he's so brilliant that he figured out that the impossible (time travel) is possible. It's a major accomplishment, don't you think? I'll add a correction to my page.
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Excellent. You just figured out another reason why a time dimension is a myth. And if you can get this far, you can also ask yourself this question. If there is no time dimension, what's all this nonsense about time travel coming from Dr. Thorne and Sir Stephen? Did I hear anybody say "crackpottery"?
Most weird hypotheses of the comos, such as wormholes and black holes, owe their weirdness not to the strangeness of nature but to the belief among celebrated physicists like Sir Stephen Hawking and Dr. Kip Thorne that spacetime exists physically and that bodies are moving along a time dimension. Problem is, nothing can move in spacetime.
This nasty little truth is known by many physicists and is being kept under wrap by the physics community. If it came out in the open, it would make some of the most celebrated physicists in the world look like crackpots at best and frauds at worst.
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Notorious Time Travel Crackpots
Communism confiscates all property and enslaves everybody. Capitalism gives property to a few and enslaves the rest. It's sad.
The former failed because there is no incentive for the slaves and they become lazy and uncreative. The latter seems to work because the slaves are motivated but it will only last so long because it too, is a slave system.
Intellectual property laws exist only because capitalism is a slavery system. Our livelihood depends on working for others so we can pay our taxes. The reason that we have to work for others is that 99% of people have been deprived of an inheritance in the land. Income property is owned by a few and the government. The others are slaves. Artists and inventors depend on their work to make a living. Can we blame them? With the exception of a few, we all do because we are all slaves and we are all disenfranchised. So now we are swimming in an ocean of laws and rules that take away our remaining liberties, one by one.
The internet and other communication technologies are the first major kinks in the armor of a sick system. As technology progresses, it will eventually die a horrible death. What will happen to a slave-based economy when robots replace everybody, i. e., when human labor, knowledge and expertise become worthless?
We should all demand a truly free system where everybody is guaranteed income property, a piece of the pie. This way we can all compete and cooperate on an equal footing. No welfare, no exploitation, no herding of billions of people into big cities that pollute and destroy the earth. Just freedom.
There is plenty for everybody. This is not a handout from the government because the land has existed for billions of years before any human government appear on earth. Their job is to make sure that everybody gets a fair piece. What we do with our inheritance after that is up to us and our descendants.
The land should not be divided for a price. It should be an inheritance for us and our children and their children.
Demand liberty! Nothing less.
>DO you really believe that garbage?
You can call it garbage if you want but it's the truth.
>I am in no way "fooled" into my opinion. I am
>comparing the facts.
You are so deluded it's not even funny.
>Tell me a system that's better, and show me
>facts.
I did. You're too deluded to listen and the sad part is that you like it that way. I'll say it for the few who will listen. We need a truly free system. Free market, free determination, free knowledge. Even the freedom to be a slave, if that is what you want. And a piece of the pie for everyone. The fewer fascist laws, the better. The land does not belong to anyone that we should be buying it and selling it. It should be divided for an inheritance. And we should leave it for our children and our children's children so that they, too, can enjoy it.
Like I said, the internet and digital communication techonologies are the first kinks in the armor. The system will crash. Hard. And the fools will crash with it. Now go back and be a good little slave.
"capitalism is the perfect system"
There are few things more pathetic than a well-to-do slave who preaches to others about the virtue of work or a slave who has been fooled into thinking he's free.
Intellectual property laws exist only because we have a slavery system. Out livelihood depends on working for others so we can pay our taxes. The reason that we have to work for others is that 99% of people have been deprived of an inheritance in the land. Income property is owned by a few and the government. The others are slaves. Artists and inventors depend on their art to make a living. Can we blame them? We all do because we are all slaves. So now we are swimming in a ocean of laws and rules that take away our liberties, one by one.
The internet and other communication technologies are the first major kinks in the armor of a sick system. As technology progresses, it will eventually die a horrible death. What will happen to a slave-based economy when robots replace everybody, i. e., when human labor, knowledge and expertise become worthless?
We should all demand a system where everybody is guaranteed income property, a piece of the pie. There is plenty for everybody.
Communism confiscates all property and enslaves everybody. Capitalism gives property to a few and enslaves the rest. It's sad. The land should not be divided for a price. It should be an inheritance for us and our children an their children.
Demand liberty! Nothing less.
I fail to understand the notion that having genes in common with flies somehow implies that living creatures evolved by chance on their own.
The current version of Linux has many things in common with the first version. Does that mean that Linux evolved on its own? I don't think so.
And yes I do favor evolution theory but this sort of nonsense only gives added fuel to those who maintain cross-species evolution is hogwash.
Nah. The hardware people used to do things that way, but went to textual representations like VHDL for complex systems. Logic diagrams for big systems are painful to work on.
That's because they're doing it wrong. There should be no logic diagrams. Just objects with plug-compatible connectors, kind of like ICs. The primitive objects should just be sensors and effectors which can be connected together into higher level objects. Just drop them in and they find the right connections, automatically and reliably. Programming for the masses!!