That's unusual as I've only heard scare stories of people suddenly facing police on their doorstep along with a TV license person. By the way, you are supposed to have a license for using iplayer, so you might want to keep quiet about that if they come knocking again.
You'd think so, wouldn't you? Technically, you're right - you need a license if you watch or record programmes as they are being shown (no matter what device is used). However in practise, it's assumed that everyone watches TV and thus you'll have to prove that you don't.
If you don't already want to watch these old episodes, then you're not a hardcore fan and probably wouldn't enjoy watching them. I've been a fan of Doctor Who for decades but I find that even the Jon Pertwee episodes are difficult to watch due to the poor quality and pacing compared to modern shows.
Don't even try to convince your lady to watch them as you'll just bore her. You'd be much better off watching something like The Prisoner if you want some old retro sci-fi.
Unfortunately, it's tricky to avoid paying them without ending up in court and trying to prove that you have no devices capable of receiving their broadcasts.
There isn't much consensus on the interpretations of quantum mechanics, so as long as the maths works out, then it's really just a matter of preference.
A lot of people have problems with the many worlds interpretation due to the huge number of versions of the universes (not sure that should be a word) that we end up not being in. However, collapsing a waveform has a similar issue with all the different possible outcomes being "thrown away" when a measurement is made.
Either way, the results give us the probability of either finding ourselves in a particular universe or the probability of a particular result, so they both provide far more information than attributing it to a god or gods.
It shouldn't be possible to devise any kind of test for different interpretations as the maths are identical. The next step would be to have a deeper understanding of why reality works that way and there's a number of different approaches (e.g. string theory, quantum loop theory) but ultimately physics aims at modelling what happens and interpretations aren't helpful unless they help you picture what's going on.
I'll let you in on a secret - Cricket isn't real: we just make that up to confuse non-brits.
And, since when did we start the world wars? I'm pretty sure it was Germany that did that as we only start wars with France (or places with lots of oil).
The photon is it's own anti-particle, so in theory you could have a photon meeting it's opposite and thus "cancel out". However, photons can exist in the same state in the same place and thus it's not easy to get a photon to interact with another photon. Typically, you can get an area where you won't detect the photons (think dark areas in double split experiments), but the photon/anti-photons will just pass through each other without interacting.
There's a certain amount of presumption with the whole superposition of states and then finding only one state upon measurement. However, it's not exactly easy to measure the superposition of states when any such measurement causes it to "collapse" into one particular state.
Some people prefer the many-worlds explanation where we "select" a reality by performing the measurement. That would imply that the waveform doesn't collapse as such, but the difference is only in interpretation and is not measurable.
We know "what" happens very precisely, but the "why" part is open to interpretation and there is not really a consensus on that.
He hadn't committed any crime in the UK and certainly not the US. What possible reason could the UK use to extradite him? The closest thing they've managed to use is the "so-called" rape accusations that suddenly arose when the US were looking to get their hands on Assange.
I have my doubts about anyone producing a "good" national ID card. Credit card companies are unable to keep their system secure and they have a financial incentive to do so. However, government employees typically don't have such a good incentive to keep everything secure and often have reasons to sabotage such a system. I really don't think that national ID cards solve anything except creating more government jobs to administer them.
Thanks, but have you got any examples where the effect isn't due to the energy levels? I was thinking of things like "brown noise" but there's not much evidence that it actually works.
In that case, you'd be better off installing xubuntu from scratch or maybe rolling your own distribution. At least with linux there's loads of choice and you can have it "your way".
Also, make sure that you always mention explosives in any post whether or not it's about terrorists. Throw in some unusual words like fertilizer, salt peter and the fact that nuclear power plants are remarkably easy to sabotage.
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That's unusual as I've only heard scare stories of people suddenly facing police on their doorstep along with a TV license person. By the way, you are supposed to have a license for using iplayer, so you might want to keep quiet about that if they come knocking again.
You'd think so, wouldn't you? Technically, you're right - you need a license if you watch or record programmes as they are being shown (no matter what device is used). However in practise, it's assumed that everyone watches TV and thus you'll have to prove that you don't.
If you don't already want to watch these old episodes, then you're not a hardcore fan and probably wouldn't enjoy watching them. I've been a fan of Doctor Who for decades but I find that even the Jon Pertwee episodes are difficult to watch due to the poor quality and pacing compared to modern shows.
Don't even try to convince your lady to watch them as you'll just bore her. You'd be much better off watching something like The Prisoner if you want some old retro sci-fi.
Unfortunately, it's tricky to avoid paying them without ending up in court and trying to prove that you have no devices capable of receiving their broadcasts.
There isn't much consensus on the interpretations of quantum mechanics, so as long as the maths works out, then it's really just a matter of preference.
A lot of people have problems with the many worlds interpretation due to the huge number of versions of the universes (not sure that should be a word) that we end up not being in. However, collapsing a waveform has a similar issue with all the different possible outcomes being "thrown away" when a measurement is made.
Either way, the results give us the probability of either finding ourselves in a particular universe or the probability of a particular result, so they both provide far more information than attributing it to a god or gods.
It shouldn't be possible to devise any kind of test for different interpretations as the maths are identical. The next step would be to have a deeper understanding of why reality works that way and there's a number of different approaches (e.g. string theory, quantum loop theory) but ultimately physics aims at modelling what happens and interpretations aren't helpful unless they help you picture what's going on.
Okay, I'll start calling soccer "head sphere" if you start calling american football "hand ovoid".
Also, why are toilets called "rest rooms"? I prefer to call them "thinking rooms" as it's where a lot of people come up with good thoughts.
That's ironic, my foot is shaped like an american football.
Wouldn't that mean that Nigeria would have the highest murder rate in the world if that was true?
I'll let you in on a secret - Cricket isn't real: we just make that up to confuse non-brits.
And, since when did we start the world wars? I'm pretty sure it was Germany that did that as we only start wars with France (or places with lots of oil).
By the way, queenie says "Hello" back to you.
As I'm in the UK, I'd prefer to call it American-style HandEgg. Football is a game played using a (round) ball and predominately using your feet.
The photon is it's own anti-particle, so in theory you could have a photon meeting it's opposite and thus "cancel out". However, photons can exist in the same state in the same place and thus it's not easy to get a photon to interact with another photon. Typically, you can get an area where you won't detect the photons (think dark areas in double split experiments), but the photon/anti-photons will just pass through each other without interacting.
There's a certain amount of presumption with the whole superposition of states and then finding only one state upon measurement. However, it's not exactly easy to measure the superposition of states when any such measurement causes it to "collapse" into one particular state.
Some people prefer the many-worlds explanation where we "select" a reality by performing the measurement. That would imply that the waveform doesn't collapse as such, but the difference is only in interpretation and is not measurable.
We know "what" happens very precisely, but the "why" part is open to interpretation and there is not really a consensus on that.
That seems a little harsh on everyone from Canada, Mexico, Brazil etc.
He hadn't committed any crime in the UK and certainly not the US. What possible reason could the UK use to extradite him? The closest thing they've managed to use is the "so-called" rape accusations that suddenly arose when the US were looking to get their hands on Assange.
Yep, and also the fact that it uses the same magnitude degree as the kelvin which is the S.I. base unit for temperature.
That would be less secure as it's not always easy to guess someone's username whereas people leave their fingerprints everywhere they go.
Fingerprints are public data unless you never touch anything in a public place.
I have my doubts about anyone producing a "good" national ID card. Credit card companies are unable to keep their system secure and they have a financial incentive to do so. However, government employees typically don't have such a good incentive to keep everything secure and often have reasons to sabotage such a system. I really don't think that national ID cards solve anything except creating more government jobs to administer them.
Ssshhh! Don't you know the first rule of i2p?
Thanks - this was the kind of thing I hoped someone would post.
Thanks, but have you got any examples where the effect isn't due to the energy levels? I was thinking of things like "brown noise" but there's not much evidence that it actually works.
Any examples that you know of?
In that case, you'd be better off installing xubuntu from scratch or maybe rolling your own distribution. At least with linux there's loads of choice and you can have it "your way".
Also, make sure that you always mention explosives in any post whether or not it's about terrorists. Throw in some unusual words like fertilizer, salt peter and the fact that nuclear power plants are remarkably easy to sabotage.
And encrypt everything.