Is it just me or is a 20 fs sampling rate a little small to predict a ~500 cm^-1 oscillation frequency?
The more I consider this, the more I come to the conclusion that the researchers are finding quantum effects with their "Designed to Detect QM Effects (TM)" experiment. Cool anything to tens of K and I could find novel QM in roadside rocks using their set-up. Using samples related to photosynthesis makes it all so very interesting. Future research will explore higher temperatures where I expect their long lived electronic states will decay much more rapidly. Photosynthesis happens at several hundred degrees higher than the experiment.
However, anything QM related is cool. Everything at QM scales involves QM. Light is on the QM scale - no doubt it involves QM. It's still new physics and a very interesting result.
How is this ANY different than the genius employed by hyper-mega-mart corp. to make similar advancements? Entrepreneurs profit from inventions. The inventors are generally happier in the garage/lab avoiding all the BS, politics and sales involved in bringing the product to market.
I'm their target -- a masters in physics who is unhappy in my current job
Me too!
I think most teachers teach because that is what they love doing, but there are some qualified people who could be lured into it for proper compensation.
That's where we differ. I'll be going back to school to get my certification in the fall. I'm NOT doing it for the pay. Will take a pay cut in fact.
I'm going to pursue the career because:
1. I've always wanted to teach.
2. I've got a kid starting school next year too. Having the same schedule will be an advantage from the childcare perspective.
3. My measly vacations as a scientist don't give me enough time to tinker with all the fun stuff. The added vacation time and being in a school should enable me to widen my horizons.
I know there is a shortage of Math/Physics teachers. I consider the shortage a guarantee of finding a job where I want to teach. It's nice knowing that I'll be sought after.
Thanks to the union agreements already in place my starting salary will be indexed to take into account my M.Sc. Without that assurance, I wouldn't be willing to start over at a starting teacher salary.
Seeing as I seem to work with photonics, I'll say that's the way to go.
In reality, I bet it will be a combination of the two. Photons have spin 1 and as others have pointed out and electrons are +-1/2 spin. I wonder if stimulating a photon out of an electron spin state change could be used as a direct interface between the two technologies?
After being laid off from another tech-wreck, I purchased my desktop box as they seemed to have a few extra after downsizing from 10000+ to 7 hundred. My brother, a tech-illiterate, has never had a computer but he wanted one so the kiddies could use it for school, games, etc.
I added a graphics card, DVD, CDRW and mucho software. I dropped it off at his place, gave him a very brief intro (showed him how to start the games) and said call me when you get the internet set-up. When he got the local ISP hardware, I went over, set the PC up, showed him and his equally illiterate wife how to send/receive e-mail and surf safely. I returned home happy with having introduced the family to the wonders of the net.
Not TWO days past before I get a call from my Bro, which I expected because he's techno-illiterate. He asked me where I had put the OS install CD. I was stunned.
It turned out that at work he was discussing with his work buddies (all labourers/plumbers/welders/etc) his computer learning, adventures and problems from the night before. Them being the computing know-it-alls they are, decided that they could 'fix' his problems. Well, with the days work being cancelled due to weather (it was -40 with the wind chill) they headed over to my bro's place for the big fixing session. By the time my brother called me the PC would no longer boot.
Making a long, painful story short, I had to re-install everything (can you believe they actually screwed with the BIOS?). It wasn't the tech-illiterate that was the problem. It was the tech-know-it-all. The people who are most dangerous are those that think they can fix anything with no experience, books, knowledge or common sense.
The car metaphor worked well here too. I told them that the computer may have had a broken tail light or maybe had the equivalent of a weak alternator but that was no reason to replace the entire power train.
I made my brother swear not to let anyone else near his PC. If he did - then he forfeit my gratious tech-support services.
The details of the 'reasoning' on the 'fixing' still keep me awake at night though....
I will gladly pay for music if I knew that the middlemen (CRIA) didn't skim off all those dollars to pay for their annoying advertising campaigns. They collect recordable media levies and the artists see squat.
The recording industry is a dinosaur in the post meteor strike world. Ample bandwidth on the internet makes distribution a breeze. Why pay for the fuel to truck CD's accross the country/seas/etc? If artists were to record their own music and distribute directly to the customers via the internet at a reasonable price perhaps they would see their fair share... and the CRIA/RIAA sees zero cents. The ISPs would then start to make some dollars off of bandwidth usage fees.
Music is information/digital. No need for the 'physical stuff' unless I want it. Then let me burn it myself. Of course being Canadian, I will then have paid for it twice... once to buy direct from the artist and again to the crooked middlemen imposing the levies to line the pockets of their broken business model.
I hope the CRIA follows its big brother the RIAA into the abyss of middleman hell.
amazing records kept on us financially?
Indeed this is another side to the records bank that is routinely collected on every individual. Each database has a certain type of data and when you put it all together you get shoe size, how many days since you've changed your underwear and your pr0n viewing habits.
That's why I wear clown shoes. They won't ID me because my shoe size doesn't match their records. They'll never catch me bwahahahahah!!!
reaching for tin-foil hat...
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Perfectly stated. Time is relative. Always.
Absolute time and absolute determinism must be absolutely discarded.
The more I consider this, the more I come to the conclusion that the researchers are finding quantum effects with their "Designed to Detect QM Effects (TM)" experiment. Cool anything to tens of K and I could find novel QM in roadside rocks using their set-up. Using samples related to photosynthesis makes it all so very interesting. Future research will explore higher temperatures where I expect their long lived electronic states will decay much more rapidly. Photosynthesis happens at several hundred degrees higher than the experiment.
However, anything QM related is cool. Everything at QM scales involves QM. Light is on the QM scale - no doubt it involves QM. It's still new physics and a very interesting result.
Throw in lasers and you've got the triple whammy!
How is this ANY different than the genius employed by hyper-mega-mart corp. to make similar advancements? Entrepreneurs profit from inventions. The inventors are generally happier in the garage/lab avoiding all the BS, politics and sales involved in bringing the product to market.
1. I've always wanted to teach.
2. I've got a kid starting school next year too. Having the same schedule will be an advantage from the childcare perspective.
3. My measly vacations as a scientist don't give me enough time to tinker with all the fun stuff. The added vacation time and being in a school should enable me to widen my horizons.
I know there is a shortage of Math/Physics teachers. I consider the shortage a guarantee of finding a job where I want to teach. It's nice knowing that I'll be sought after. Thanks to the union agreements already in place my starting salary will be indexed to take into account my M.Sc. Without that assurance, I wouldn't be willing to start over at a starting teacher salary.
Seeing as I seem to work with photonics, I'll say that's the way to go.
In reality, I bet it will be a combination of the two. Photons have spin 1 and as others have pointed out and electrons are +-1/2 spin. I wonder if stimulating a photon out of an electron spin state change could be used as a direct interface between the two technologies?
Wow... a newbie got lucky today.
Flame ON!
After being laid off from another tech-wreck, I purchased my desktop box as they seemed to have a few extra after downsizing from 10000+ to 7 hundred. My brother, a tech-illiterate, has never had a computer but he wanted one so the kiddies could use it for school, games, etc.
I added a graphics card, DVD, CDRW and mucho software. I dropped it off at his place, gave him a very brief intro (showed him how to start the games) and said call me when you get the internet set-up. When he got the local ISP hardware, I went over, set the PC up, showed him and his equally illiterate wife how to send/receive e-mail and surf safely. I returned home happy with having introduced the family to the wonders of the net.
Not TWO days past before I get a call from my Bro, which I expected because he's techno-illiterate. He asked me where I had put the OS install CD. I was stunned.
It turned out that at work he was discussing with his work buddies (all labourers/plumbers/welders/etc) his computer learning, adventures and problems from the night before. Them being the computing know-it-alls they are, decided that they could 'fix' his problems. Well, with the days work being cancelled due to weather (it was -40 with the wind chill) they headed over to my bro's place for the big fixing session. By the time my brother called me the PC would no longer boot.
Making a long, painful story short, I had to re-install everything (can you believe they actually screwed with the BIOS?). It wasn't the tech-illiterate that was the problem. It was the tech-know-it-all. The people who are most dangerous are those that think they can fix anything with no experience, books, knowledge or common sense.
The car metaphor worked well here too. I told them that the computer may have had a broken tail light or maybe had the equivalent of a weak alternator but that was no reason to replace the entire power train.
I made my brother swear not to let anyone else near his PC. If he did - then he forfeit my gratious tech-support services.
The details of the 'reasoning' on the 'fixing' still keep me awake at night though....
I will gladly pay for music if I knew that the middlemen (CRIA) didn't skim off all those dollars to pay for their annoying advertising campaigns. They collect recordable media levies and the artists see squat.
The recording industry is a dinosaur in the post meteor strike world. Ample bandwidth on the internet makes distribution a breeze. Why pay for the fuel to truck CD's accross the country/seas/etc? If artists were to record their own music and distribute directly to the customers via the internet at a reasonable price perhaps they would see their fair share... and the CRIA/RIAA sees zero cents. The ISPs would then start to make some dollars off of bandwidth usage fees.
Music is information/digital. No need for the 'physical stuff' unless I want it. Then let me burn it myself. Of course being Canadian, I will then have paid for it twice... once to buy direct from the artist and again to the crooked middlemen imposing the levies to line the pockets of their broken business model.
I hope the CRIA follows its big brother the RIAA into the abyss of middleman hell.
amazing records kept on us financially? Indeed this is another side to the records bank that is routinely collected on every individual. Each database has a certain type of data and when you put it all together you get shoe size, how many days since you've changed your underwear and your pr0n viewing habits. That's why I wear clown shoes. They won't ID me because my shoe size doesn't match their records. They'll never catch me bwahahahahah!!! reaching for tin-foil hat...