No, read this excellent site for info on why the hidden variable theory (both things sprayed red) does not (as far as our knowledge currently indicates) hold water.
Quote: "
Einstein believed the correct way out of this paradox was to assume that Bob's photon (and all particles) possessed some sort of fixed properties which were hidden from our view (generally referred-to as hidden variables). No faster-than-light communication is then required: the particle properties were set when the particles were created. Crucially, though, this would mean the particles possessing more information than quantum theory said they should have. If particles had these hidden variables then quantum theory was wrong."
That is so wrong... you cannot transfer information at above the speed of light.
You can demonstrate that a measurement at one end instantly affects the other end, but there is NO WAY of using that fact to actually transfer information.
i.e. You have to have knowledge of the results of the measurement at both ends to make the inference that entanglement exists. That knowledge can only travel at the speed of light.
Just my opinion but I think Einstein meant by the 'mind of God', the totality of life, the universe and everything and was simply awed by it's depth, complexity and most of all by our ability to even begin to divine it's nature.
The bottom line for me is that we don't really have a clue how it came into being, and I include in that statement the question, 'how did the laws by which the universe operates come into being'.
I don't think it's a question we will be able to readily address at any point soon.
But, you can see the attraction in making the attempt.
I don't like the way you conflate awareness/control/power.
So how about the human race being wiped out by an unaware asteroid? Where's the control there?
Or by a virus? How self aware is a virus?
"Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina originally designed and programmed NCSA Mosaic for Unix's X Window System at NCSA. Funding for the development of Mosaic came from the High-Performance Computing and Communications Initiative, a programme created by the High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991 (or The Gore Bill after its author, then-Senator Al Gore).[5]
Development of Mosaic began in December 1992. Version 1.0 was released on April 22, 1993, followed by two maintenance releases during summer 1993. A port of Mosaic to the Commodore Amiga was available by October 1993. Version 2.0 of NCSA Mosaic was released in December 1993, along with version 1.0 releases for both the Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows. An Acorn Archimedes port was underway in May 1994."
In fact I was browsing the Web on an Acorn Archimedes before MS even had a TCP/IP stack! This was having seen a friend run Mosiac on a Mac and showing me the White House site.
It wasn't until August 1994 that Microsoft released an add-on package (codenamed Wolverine) which provided limited TCP/IP support in Windows for Workgroups 3.11.
Microsoft's initial reaction to the internet was to try and replace it with MSN (the Microsoft network), a move which had many corporations wondering whether to go with open web technologies or buy into the MSN 'walled garden' approach to networking.
The first version of Internet Explorer was not even included in Windows 95 although you could buy it as an add-on in the 'Plus Pack!'.
To his credit, BIll Gates realised that the Internet was the way of the future and released the famous "The Internet Tidal Wave," memo in May 1995. Alarmed by the quickening popularity of the Internet, Gates realized that his upcoming products, Windows 95 and MSN, were woefully unprepared for the coming online age.
So, in fact, Windows was virtually the last sizeable operating system to embrace the web.
1) Unix and clones/derivatives 2) AmigaOS 3) MacOS 4) RiscOS 5) Windows
P.S. Of course, the Internet was around for a long time before the WWW happened.
* The only drawback right now is that I can't sign up to the online store with a UK credit card
Actually you can, at either the US or Hong Kong Store... just pick an address in the US or HK, entery your UK credit card details (works for some cards not others) and fill up your account 'before' going to buy something on the store.;)
Wouldn't knowing that you are going to be locked up for a genetic predispostion encourage you to 'do the crime' as you are going to have to 'do the time' anyway?
Because it's worked oh so well for Europe and Canada! Quick, let's all jump on that bandwagon! And where do you plan on getting the funding for all of this?
I recently went down with appendicitis.
A friend drove me to the local health centre where they diagnosed it, gave me a shot of pethedin, called an ambulance
which then drove me 50 miles to the nearest hospital.
I was operated on immediately, stayed in hospital under supervision for 5 days and am having follow up tests.
Total cost to myself: zero
Location: Wales, UK.. offically a 'deprived' area of Europe.
If in later life I need any long term medical help, the cost to me will also be zero.
The number of people turned away from hospital because they don't have the right insurance: zero
The US has one of the most costly and inefficient health systems in the western world.
The health system here is by no means perfect but in comparison to the US system it seems like heaven on earth.
I replied to this statement:
For the purpose of the example statement, i think average was inferred.
I was asking what basis you had for stating that 'on average', black people are more athletically gifted?
Any sources?
'Inflection does play a factor. If one is saying that blacks are basketball players, as in women are baby makers, yeah, it's an insult. But if one is saying that blacks are basketball players because they are keenly athletic, that is a compliment, isn't it?'
Your statement makes very little sense.
Being a 'baby-maker' is (usually) a function of being a female.
Being good at basketball is surely not a function of being black is it? There are millions of black people who are useless at basketball and, for instance, a hell of a lot of good basketball players in eastern europe. Is this because eastern europeans are keenly athletic?
This assumes some level of integrity on the part of the persons conducting the clinical studies, plus a resistance by practicioners to
blandishments and incentives provided by pharmaceutical companies.
Unfortunately, even the 'scientific method' can be and is systematically subverted.
Pharmaceutical firms are inventing diseases to sell more drugs, researchers have warned.
Disease-mongering promotes non-existent diseases and exaggerates mild problems to boost profits, the Public Library of Science Medicine reported.
In cancer, heart disease, mental health and related fields the [Pharmeceutical] industry has sponsored trials of new drugs which have held out great promise for patients. But when the same drugs have been tested in independent trials paid for by non-profit organisations - governments, medical institutions or charities - they have yielded different results.
A drugs industry insider turned whistleblower, who claims to have proof that multinational companies are 'bribing' thousands of doctors to prescribe their products, has narrowly escaped an apparent attempt on his life.
I'll be honest here. I am not a 'believer' in homeopathy. I cannot see how it can possibly work. (excluding placebo effects and any benefit accrued from having a practicioner that exhibits some empathy for your basic humanity.)
On the other hand, promoting health with a holistic approach adressing mental state (stress levels), diet, lifestyle etc. and involving a compassionate relationship between patient and practioner I can see as both effective and preferable in many instances to being palmed off with the latest badly researched pharmaceutical cash cow by a disinterested and corrupt practioner of 'conventional medicine'.
If a homeopath believes his remedies will effect a cure and don't, he is guilty of intentional misconduct?
If a allopath believes his remedies will effect a cure and instead kill the patient, he is innocent?
'regularly fed misinformation about the effectiveness of those treatments.'
Perhaps practicioners of conventional medicine should have a large warning sign on their establishments
explaining the meaning of the word 'Iatrogenic' and that according to the latest statistics deaths due to 'medical errors' currently run at 195,000 people per year in the US.
Slashdot Mirror
stenography? ;)
The Early 'noughties' of course...
http://www.ipod.org.uk/reality/reality_entangled.asp
Quote: " Einstein believed the correct way out of this paradox was to assume that Bob's photon (and all particles) possessed some sort of fixed properties which were hidden from our view (generally referred-to as hidden variables). No faster-than-light communication is then required: the particle properties were set when the particles were created. Crucially, though, this would mean the particles possessing more information than quantum theory said they should have. If particles had these hidden variables then quantum theory was wrong."
That is so wrong... you cannot transfer information at above the speed of light. You can demonstrate that a measurement at one end instantly affects the other end, but there is NO WAY of using that fact to actually transfer information. i.e. You have to have knowledge of the results of the measurement at both ends to make the inference that entanglement exists. That knowledge can only travel at the speed of light.
I'd mod you up if I had points! Well said.
Just my opinion but I think Einstein meant by the 'mind of God', the totality of life, the universe and everything and was simply awed by it's depth, complexity and most of all by our ability to even begin to divine it's nature. The bottom line for me is that we don't really have a clue how it came into being, and I include in that statement the question, 'how did the laws by which the universe operates come into being'. I don't think it's a question we will be able to readily address at any point soon. But, you can see the attraction in making the attempt.
I don't like the way you conflate awareness/control/power. So how about the human race being wiped out by an unaware asteroid? Where's the control there? Or by a virus? How self aware is a virus?
Numberwang!
What about if the children need protecting from the parents? A not uncommon situation.
"Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina originally designed and programmed NCSA Mosaic for Unix's X Window System at NCSA. Funding for the development of Mosaic came from the High-Performance Computing and Communications Initiative, a programme created by the High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991 (or The Gore Bill after its author, then-Senator Al Gore).[5]
Development of Mosaic began in December 1992. Version 1.0 was released on April 22, 1993, followed by two maintenance releases during summer 1993. A port of Mosaic to the Commodore Amiga was available by October 1993. Version 2.0 of NCSA Mosaic was released in December 1993, along with version 1.0 releases for both the Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows. An Acorn Archimedes port was underway in May 1994."
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser)
In fact I was browsing the Web on an Acorn Archimedes before MS even had a TCP/IP stack! This was having seen a friend run Mosiac on a Mac and showing me the White House site.
It wasn't until August 1994 that Microsoft released an add-on package (codenamed Wolverine) which provided limited TCP/IP support in Windows for Workgroups 3.11.
Microsoft's initial reaction to the internet was to try and replace it with MSN (the Microsoft network), a move which had many corporations wondering whether to go with open web technologies or buy into the MSN 'walled garden' approach to networking.
The first version of Internet Explorer was not even included in Windows 95 although you could buy it as an add-on in the 'Plus Pack!'.
To his credit, BIll Gates realised that the Internet was the way of the future and released the famous "The Internet Tidal Wave," memo in May 1995. Alarmed by the quickening popularity of the Internet, Gates realized that his upcoming products, Windows 95 and MSN, were woefully unprepared for the coming online age.
So, in fact, Windows was virtually the last sizeable operating system to embrace the web.
1) Unix and clones/derivatives
2) AmigaOS
3) MacOS
4) RiscOS
5) Windows
P.S. Of course, the Internet was around for a long time before the WWW happened.
You can plug US/Japan consoles straight into the uk mains supply...
http://www.genkidenki.com/ will sell you ps3 consoles/games/movies from Japan into the UK (maybe other European countries as well)
It depends on your account location, not where the machine was purchased.
Actually you can, at either the US or Hong Kong Store... just pick an address in the US or HK, entery your UK credit card details (works for some cards not others) and fill up your account 'before' going to buy something on the store. ;)
Wouldn't knowing that you are going to be locked up for a genetic predispostion encourage you to 'do the crime' as you are going to have to 'do the time' anyway?
I recently went down with appendicitis.
A friend drove me to the local health centre where they diagnosed it, gave me a shot of pethedin, called an ambulance which then drove me 50 miles to the nearest hospital.
I was operated on immediately, stayed in hospital under supervision for 5 days and am having follow up tests.
Total cost to myself: zero
Location: Wales, UK .. offically a 'deprived' area of Europe.
If in later life I need any long term medical help, the cost to me will also be zero.
The number of people turned away from hospital because they don't have the right insurance: zero
The US has one of the most costly and inefficient health systems in the western world.
The health system here is by no means perfect but in comparison to the US system it seems like heaven on earth.
I replied to this statement: For the purpose of the example statement, i think average was inferred. I was asking what basis you had for stating that 'on average', black people are more athletically gifted? Any sources?
There are millions of black people who are useless at basketball
For the purpose of the example statement, i think average was inferred.
And you are basing this assertion on what source?
Are you including Nigerians, Kenyans, Bantu, Pygmies, Massai, Australian Aborigines?
Or perhaps you are just applying stereotypes?
Your statement makes very little sense.
Being a 'baby-maker' is (usually) a function of being a female.
Being good at basketball is surely not a function of being black is it? There are millions of black people who are useless at basketball and, for instance, a hell of a lot of good basketball players in eastern europe. Is this because eastern europeans are keenly athletic?
Unfortunately, even the 'scientific method' can be and is systematically subverted.
Pharmaceutical firms are inventing diseases to sell more drugs, researchers have warned. Disease-mongering promotes non-existent diseases and exaggerates mild problems to boost profits, the Public Library of Science Medicine reported.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4898488.stm
In cancer, heart disease, mental health and related fields the [Pharmeceutical] industry has sponsored trials of new drugs which have held out great promise for patients. But when the same drugs have been tested in independent trials paid for by non-profit organisations - governments, medical institutions or charities - they have yielded different results.
http://www.mindfully.org/Industry/2004/Drug-Trials -Profit23apr04.htm
A drugs industry insider turned whistleblower, who claims to have proof that multinational companies are 'bribing' thousands of doctors to prescribe their products, has narrowly escaped an apparent attempt on his life.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4 064664,00.html
I'll be honest here. I am not a 'believer' in homeopathy. I cannot see how it can possibly work. (excluding placebo effects and any benefit accrued from having a practicioner that exhibits some empathy for your basic humanity.)
On the other hand, promoting health with a holistic approach adressing mental state (stress levels), diet, lifestyle etc. and involving a compassionate relationship between patient and practioner I can see as both effective and preferable in many instances to being palmed off with the latest badly researched pharmaceutical cash cow by a disinterested and corrupt practioner of 'conventional medicine'.
Life is, as always, complicated.
If a homeopath believes his remedies will effect a cure and don't, he is guilty of intentional misconduct? If a allopath believes his remedies will effect a cure and instead kill the patient, he is innocent?
Perhaps practicioners of conventional medicine should have a large warning sign on their establishments explaining the meaning of the word 'Iatrogenic' and that according to the latest statistics deaths due to 'medical errors' currently run at 195,000 people per year in the US.
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/iatrogenic/me ssage/1451
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Iatrogenic
Makes holistic and homeopathic therapies look positively benign by comparison...
Actually, you ARE allowed to water your garden with a watering can. I guess a swimming pool could quality as a very large watering can? ;)
errr.. lost countless millions I believe....
Yeah, what he said! ;)