I'm not so sure the teleportation theorem does say that. If it's possible to transfer quantum states without measurement, and all you need for teleportation is to transfer these states, then you don't need to make measurements (which is what the teleportation theorem describes). Quantum physics doesn't rule out teleporters. In fact, the cloning theorem suggests that if you do teleport a person, then they are teleported and not destroyed after duplication. That is, if you only transfer their state and don't make measurements in the process of teleportation.
Isn't one of those quantum states made up of positions? If you aren't transmitting matter then clearly the position (and momentum) quantum states aren't being included. The only way of identifying identical particles is by their state. If all the states move from one, otherwise identical, particle to another, then the particle itself has moved. The only way you can say it hasn't, would, obviously, be if the position state of the particle hasn't changed. So all the other identifying properties of the particle could move, but you'd need the position to remain so that you could say there was no matter transmission.
I had that with my old ISP (Virgin.net). I wrote a simple webpage in HTML 4.01, checked it was valid with W3C's Markup Validation Service, and then uploaded it. When I checked it there was script just after the html element but before the head. Not what I wanted to see on a page that not only asserted I knew something about writing HTML, but also had the W3C validation link at the bottom.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html><s cript src="http://www.virgin.net/js/random_ad.js" language="javascript"></script> <!-- Document is valid. However, Virgin.net inserts a <script> element here --> <head> <...
Carmageddon 2 was good, but not great. Making the pedestrians 3D was definitely the way forward, but there just wasn't as many as the original - the price of 3D over simple sprites. The joy of running over long lines of peds at high speed just wasn't there. Sliding your car sideways over crossings was no longer worth it. Even landing your car on a lone ped's head or smearing them up the walls wasn't the same.
The finished product will be good for measuring mass. You would use it to calibrate more practical measures of mass. Just like the current prototype mass. The key difference would be that this finished product can be replaced. The current kilogram changes in mass, whereas the new kilogram wouldn't, as it's just n number of silicon atoms (given that silicon atoms don't change in mass). The logistics would also be simpler as anyone with the appropriate resources can simply construct a mass weighing one kilogram from the definition.
I've always thought that teleporters would make a lot more sense if they didn't have Heisenberg compensators. It would mean they can only transfer the quantum state without examining it in detail, and therefore can't make copies of people. With a Heisenberg compensator they can make copies of people. And if that's the case then they aren't really teleporters at all, what they really do is make copies of people and kill the originals! Which must be the case when you think about the difference between "teleportation" and just making a copy.
Or to put it another way: the LHC is not 100% efficient and can't be powered with a single postgrad and a bicycle generator. The true power consumption of the LHC will be about 120 MW.
The expense of Physics isn't a problem until it's unaffordable. Physics has always been profitable in the long term, and survives because it's profitable in the short term. And Physics gave you the Space Program.
Jar Jar Binks was only added so we'd forget how much we hated the muppet from the Empire Strikes Back. I just don't want to think about what's in the new films that'll make me like Jar Jar Binks.
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God and creationism is a marker that reads: "Stop thinking here". Your assertion that some god set in motion the rules of Physics and Chemistry is fantasy. Your drivel about us and the universe is logically inconsistent. Evolution has never been disproved. The data doesn't contradict it, and I don't see anyone inventing data to support the theory. Your statement that evolution is only a theory is asinine. Your statement that it doesn't make predictions is false (do some research). I have a better theory about the existence of the theory of Evolution: Someone made a guess and the data doesn't contradict the guess. Here's another theory that might assist you: Some skeletons don't last for long. Some of your other points I agree with.
eBay expressed their regrets that any item purchased on their site was related to the shootings in any way, and contacted law enforcement and offered their assistance. How is this not committed to social conciousness?
Sadly a company that only cares about profit, might have done exactly the same thing when that profit depends significantly on public opinion. Although I don't wish to suggest that eBay is that mercenary.
They already have enough energy and space for a live astronaut, so a dead one shouldn't prevent any difficulties. Dead astronauts require less energy and space than live ones. The main problem, in my opinion, would be how to store the body and how the crew dealt with it. A funeral and a memorial area (which can double as body storage) would seem to be optimal. Although if the dead crew member would have wanted to be ejected, that could be accommodated too, and can be done when the ship is accelerating.
Depriving people of property is the very definition of theft. In your example the owner still has the, albeit broken, window. Thinking that a window's unbroken state is property is somewhat bizarre.
The points would be interesting if I didn't already play Guild Wars. When I read the article I mostly get a pleasant feeling of smugness.
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BR is a good idea but unfortunately in practice the certifications aren't balanced so almost everyone has the same ones. Versatility isn't much good if it just means putting yourself at a bad disadvantage. Contrast BR with CR though which is the anti-thesis of BR. CR does give you a godly - light shoots down from the sky and kills everyone in a certain area - weapon that's impossible to beat. And because so many players now have high-levels in CR the long reload time doesn't do much to curb the imbalance of it.
It's a common misconception but PlanetSide is not a MMOFPS. It's a MMOS (Massively Multiplayer Online Shooter). Especially when you consider that a principle tactic involves using the Third Person view to position a virtual camera, and to get a good view of someone with no way of being seen yourself. Not exactly what you'd expect from anything claiming to be an FPS.
Strictly you can't measure the speed of light in km/s. SI units define the value for good reasons. One of which is that the speed of light (in Relativity) is a fundamental limit for any velocity. Saying that more energetic photons have a higher velocity is not a simple thing.
The other side of the coin is that patents do more than respect an inventor's rights. Say, an inventor makes an invention and keeps it a secret. Another inventor makes the same invention and decides to share it. This seems all well and good, none of the natural "rights" of the inventors have been infringed. Now consider what happens if the first inventor patents his invention and prevents its use: The patent now stops the other inventor sharing his invention and the public from enjoying it. The move trivial the invention, the more chance it has of being re-invented. In fact, it doesn't even have to be re-invented, many patents are taken out that cover inventions already in the public domain. In which case the patent doesn't respect the inventor's rights at all!
I agree that patents can be a good way to promote innovation. However this must always be for the public good, otherwise why should the people grant patent rights?
Me too! I also find it ironic that a few people with the same nationality expressed a common opinion, while some other people, but also of the same nationality, condoned another - completely different - opinion.
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I'm not so sure the teleportation theorem does say that. If it's possible to transfer quantum states without measurement, and all you need for teleportation is to transfer these states, then you don't need to make measurements (which is what the teleportation theorem describes). Quantum physics doesn't rule out teleporters. In fact, the cloning theorem suggests that if you do teleport a person, then they are teleported and not destroyed after duplication. That is, if you only transfer their state and don't make measurements in the process of teleportation.
Isn't one of those quantum states made up of positions? If you aren't transmitting matter then clearly the position (and momentum) quantum states aren't being included. The only way of identifying identical particles is by their state. If all the states move from one, otherwise identical, particle to another, then the particle itself has moved. The only way you can say it hasn't, would, obviously, be if the position state of the particle hasn't changed. So all the other identifying properties of the particle could move, but you'd need the position to remain so that you could say there was no matter transmission.
Carmageddon 2 was good, but not great. Making the pedestrians 3D was definitely the way forward, but there just wasn't as many as the original - the price of 3D over simple sprites. The joy of running over long lines of peds at high speed just wasn't there. Sliding your car sideways over crossings was no longer worth it. Even landing your car on a lone ped's head or smearing them up the walls wasn't the same.
None. You just rotate the ball and trim off the excess?
The finished product will be good for measuring mass. You would use it to calibrate more practical measures of mass. Just like the current prototype mass. The key difference would be that this finished product can be replaced. The current kilogram changes in mass, whereas the new kilogram wouldn't, as it's just n number of silicon atoms (given that silicon atoms don't change in mass). The logistics would also be simpler as anyone with the appropriate resources can simply construct a mass weighing one kilogram from the definition.
Weigh it against the old kilogram.
I've always thought that teleporters would make a lot more sense if they didn't have Heisenberg compensators. It would mean they can only transfer the quantum state without examining it in detail, and therefore can't make copies of people. With a Heisenberg compensator they can make copies of people. And if that's the case then they aren't really teleporters at all, what they really do is make copies of people and kill the originals! Which must be the case when you think about the difference between "teleportation" and just making a copy.
Or to put it another way: the LHC is not 100% efficient and can't be powered with a single postgrad and a bicycle generator. The true power consumption of the LHC will be about 120 MW.
The expense of Physics isn't a problem until it's unaffordable. Physics has always been profitable in the long term, and survives because it's profitable in the short term. And Physics gave you the Space Program.
Jar Jar Binks was only added so we'd forget how much we hated the muppet from the Empire Strikes Back. I just don't want to think about what's in the new films that'll make me like Jar Jar Binks.
God and creationism is a marker that reads: "Stop thinking here". Your assertion that some god set in motion the rules of Physics and Chemistry is fantasy. Your drivel about us and the universe is logically inconsistent. Evolution has never been disproved. The data doesn't contradict it, and I don't see anyone inventing data to support the theory. Your statement that evolution is only a theory is asinine. Your statement that it doesn't make predictions is false (do some research). I have a better theory about the existence of the theory of Evolution: Someone made a guess and the data doesn't contradict the guess. Here's another theory that might assist you: Some skeletons don't last for long. Some of your other points I agree with.
How about virtual penetration with someone's virtual appendage being stuck into someone else's virtual orifice?
IANAL but I think that's just virtual rape.
eBay expressed their regrets that any item purchased on their site was related to the shootings in any way, and contacted law enforcement and offered their assistance. How is this not committed to social conciousness?
Sadly a company that only cares about profit, might have done exactly the same thing when that profit depends significantly on public opinion. Although I don't wish to suggest that eBay is that mercenary.
They already have enough energy and space for a live astronaut, so a dead one shouldn't prevent any difficulties. Dead astronauts require less energy and space than live ones. The main problem, in my opinion, would be how to store the body and how the crew dealt with it. A funeral and a memorial area (which can double as body storage) would seem to be optimal. Although if the dead crew member would have wanted to be ejected, that could be accommodated too, and can be done when the ship is accelerating.
Depriving people of property is the very definition of theft. In your example the owner still has the, albeit broken, window. Thinking that a window's unbroken state is property is somewhat bizarre.
All fusion bombs use a fission detonator.
Therefore all of our current military nuclear weapons use fission.
You could get enough material to create the trigger from scraping the sensors of fire detectors.
Please tell me more about this Americium-based fission trigger.
The points would be interesting if I didn't already play Guild Wars. When I read the article I mostly get a pleasant feeling of smugness.
BR is a good idea but unfortunately in practice the certifications aren't balanced so almost everyone has the same ones. Versatility isn't much good if it just means putting yourself at a bad disadvantage. Contrast BR with CR though which is the anti-thesis of BR. CR does give you a godly - light shoots down from the sky and kills everyone in a certain area - weapon that's impossible to beat. And because so many players now have high-levels in CR the long reload time doesn't do much to curb the imbalance of it.
It's a common misconception but PlanetSide is not a MMOFPS. It's a MMOS (Massively Multiplayer Online Shooter). Especially when you consider that a principle tactic involves using the Third Person view to position a virtual camera, and to get a good view of someone with no way of being seen yourself. Not exactly what you'd expect from anything claiming to be an FPS.
It's only possible to incorrectly measure the speed of light in km/s.
Strictly you can't measure the speed of light in km/s. SI units define the value for good reasons. One of which is that the speed of light (in Relativity) is a fundamental limit for any velocity. Saying that more energetic photons have a higher velocity is not a simple thing.
The other side of the coin is that patents do more than respect an inventor's rights. Say, an inventor makes an invention and keeps it a secret. Another inventor makes the same invention and decides to share it. This seems all well and good, none of the natural "rights" of the inventors have been infringed. Now consider what happens if the first inventor patents his invention and prevents its use: The patent now stops the other inventor sharing his invention and the public from enjoying it. The move trivial the invention, the more chance it has of being re-invented. In fact, it doesn't even have to be re-invented, many patents are taken out that cover inventions already in the public domain. In which case the patent doesn't respect the inventor's rights at all!
I agree that patents can be a good way to promote innovation. However this must always be for the public good, otherwise why should the people grant patent rights?
Me too! I also find it ironic that a few people with the same nationality expressed a common opinion, while some other people, but also of the same nationality, condoned another - completely different - opinion.