At least in my experience, most modern atheists do not assert the non-existence of God
I'm guessing you havent been on the internet very long. The majority of all online forums appear to contain atheists vehemently asserting the non-existence of God. It's like there's a Godwin's Law, but for atheistic evangelism.
I'm fairly certain Chess will become a distan memory once Electronic Arts releases Super 3D Chess Extreme 64. It will become the game played by kings for centuries to come. At least, that's what the guy from Electronic Arts keeps telling me.
This is somewhat related, since it involves fooling automated programs: I encoded my real email address into an autostereogram (you know, those "Magic Eye" puzzles) to prevent it from being harvested by bots.
The thing I never understood was that the fruit was meant to give 'knowledge of good and evil,' allowing them to choose between good and evil.Before eating the fruit, they were only capable of good, and yet were naked. After eating the fruit, they were still naked, but now they realised being naked was 'evil,' and so they must have been doing 'evil' while they were only capable of 'good.'
I think the whole reason there is so much misunderstanding and ridicule about the Adam & Eve story is that it may be allegorical to the human condition as opposed to (or in addition to) a literal description of an actual event). I suspect there is so much more going on in the first couple of chapters of Genesis that the staunch Biblical literalist and the zealous antichristian evangelist both miss. Sadly, it's these two groups that do the vast majority of the talking when this issue ever comes up.
One of the most misguided things going on in the world at the moment is the attempt by the US government to force other countries to adopt what they call US-style "Intellectual Property Rights". The underlying economic theory for this appears to be that the US and UK can lose their industrial manufacturing base, outsourcing it to India or China, and still maintain their primary positions in the world by controlling the information used to design the products manufactured by this cheap labor, or by selling digital content to the newly affluent consumers in these countries. This comes down to a bet that in the future digital bits will be easier to control, and become harder to copy. In the age of the Internet, this is a bet against reality, as the whole history of digital computing is that bits always become easier to copy, and harder to control.
This is what happens when technology moves faster than the wealthy and powerful move.
You had me at "you're collapsing the wave function".
The red/blue billiard balls analogy is nice, too. It all makes more sense now that I understand the two entangled particles would have different properties, as opposed to the same property, when one of the particles is "observed".
And we know it's instantaneous only because that's predicted by theory? (since it would be impossible to test this in any FTL manner, if the entangled particles must be measured in tandem) How do we *know* the change is instantaneous?
Additionally, assuming the change *is* instantaneous, the change in state must have *some* measurable effect. You may not be able to measure the status of the particle except in correlation with its entangled particle, as you explained, but surely the change in state must affect the universe around it? Couldn't you, instead, (assuming sufficient technology), measure the effect the change in state has on its surroundings?
My point is that if the change in state is instantaneous, then information *has* been transmitted faster than the speed of light. Whether we can also access that information instantaneously is another matter.
Anyone know any good websites that talk about this stuff?
The reason is that you can't measure the status of the particle except in correlation with its entangled particle. So, although the state can change, it can't be measured without communicating...with whoever is observing the other particle.
Finally, a clear explanation. Thank you, sir.
But does the entanglement cause the state of the second particle to change instantaneously, according to theory?
I'm still not all that clear on how quantum entanglement cannot transmit information faster than the speed of light. Does it take time for the second particle to change its state (i.e. the "entanglement" travels at the speed of light)?
Assuming entanglement works instantaneously (and this may be where I am confused), couldn't one simply assign a meaning to the change in state and, therefore, pass information faster than light?
e.g. say a ship millions of lightyears away has a device that measures the quantum state of a particle entangled with one here on earth, and the device emits an alarm when the state of that particle, which it is monitoring, changes. The triggering of the alarm could transfer information based in the meaning assigned to it (The Cubs win the pennant, or whatever).
The only difference is that I don't see a need to apologize for my phone ringing, anymore than I would apologize for my desk/home phone ringing, or my doorbell ringing. Getting a notification that someone would like to talk to is not an offense.
It's called being polite. Like saying "I'm sorry" when someone dies, or standing up before your guest stands up from the table. These things are part of something called "civility". I know these concepts might seem strange and archaic to youngsters, but after our civilzation falls in a few decades for lack of civility, then maybe your children will understand its importance.
Are these people really that stupid? I mean, honestly. They think stopping sneak-previews in Canada is going to have any impact AT ALL on movie piracy?
Well, I say good riddance! Last year I won a free sneak preview to some martial arts movie (ultimately distributed by Alliance-Atlantis, I believe). They had guards at the entrance to the theatre proper, with an upper-level employee of the theatre taking people's cellphones! For some inexplicable reason, the distributors believed people would record the movie on their camera phones an upload it to the internet. This is for a movie that had already been out for about a year or so in Hong Kong!
What's worse, people just handed over their cellphones -- contact lists, call histories, stored images, and all -- to these strangers in exchange for a free movie viewing. I tried to just ignore them and walk into the movie, but they stopped me and demanded I go thru their rigamarole. I made a bit of a fuss, then just left.
They were fricken' wanding people before they entered the theatre, for goodness sake!
I wrote a bunch of letters to the theatre and the distributor, but no one seemed to care.
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A huge child pornography ring involving almost every senior member of the Swedish Police was discovered yesterday!
What these analysts did not say was that this was in Mayfly years.
I'm guessing you havent been on the internet very long. The majority of all online forums appear to contain atheists vehemently asserting the non-existence of God. It's like there's a Godwin's Law, but for atheistic evangelism.
I'm fairly certain Chess will become a distan memory once Electronic Arts releases Super 3D Chess Extreme 64. It will become the game played by kings for centuries to come. At least, that's what the guy from Electronic Arts keeps telling me.
Great. Just what the Civ series needs. Civilization V: Attention Deficit Disorder Edition.
Stunt Race FX was a great game. It does not belong anywhere near the garbage on that list.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds...stupid! Stupid!!
(Okay, so it's "Eris" and not "Eros". Sue me.)
This is somewhat related, since it involves fooling automated programs: I encoded my real email address into an autostereogram (you know, those "Magic Eye" puzzles) to prevent it from being harvested by bots.
I think the whole reason there is so much misunderstanding and ridicule about the Adam & Eve story is that it may be allegorical to the human condition as opposed to (or in addition to) a literal description of an actual event). I suspect there is so much more going on in the first couple of chapters of Genesis that the staunch Biblical literalist and the zealous antichristian evangelist both miss. Sadly, it's these two groups that do the vast majority of the talking when this issue ever comes up.
Yes, it was the cities that were stupid...
;-)
This is what happens when technology moves faster than the wealthy and powerful move.
You had me at "you're collapsing the wave function".
The red/blue billiard balls analogy is nice, too. It all makes more sense now that I understand the two entangled particles would have different properties, as opposed to the same property, when one of the particles is "observed".
Thanks. I hope you guys get modded accordingly. :)
And we know it's instantaneous only because that's predicted by theory? (since it would be impossible to test this in any FTL manner, if the entangled particles must be measured in tandem) How do we *know* the change is instantaneous?
Additionally, assuming the change *is* instantaneous, the change in state must have *some* measurable effect. You may not be able to measure the status of the particle except in correlation with its entangled particle, as you explained, but surely the change in state must affect the universe around it? Couldn't you, instead, (assuming sufficient technology), measure the effect the change in state has on its surroundings?
My point is that if the change in state is instantaneous, then information *has* been transmitted faster than the speed of light. Whether we can also access that information instantaneously is another matter.
Anyone know any good websites that talk about this stuff?
Finally, a clear explanation. Thank you, sir.
But does the entanglement cause the state of the second particle to change instantaneously, according to theory?
I'm still not all that clear on how quantum entanglement cannot transmit information faster than the speed of light. Does it take time for the second particle to change its state (i.e. the "entanglement" travels at the speed of light)?
Assuming entanglement works instantaneously (and this may be where I am confused), couldn't one simply assign a meaning to the change in state and, therefore, pass information faster than light?
e.g. say a ship millions of lightyears away has a device that measures the quantum state of a particle entangled with one here on earth, and the device emits an alarm when the state of that particle, which it is monitoring, changes. The triggering of the alarm could transfer information based in the meaning assigned to it (The Cubs win the pennant, or whatever).
What am I missing in my example?
A wizard did it.
That depends. What resolution are these "snapshots"?
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The People have a new enemy...
It's almost as if society is continuously replacing itself with people who have no knowledge of history...
...in the laaaand of the freeeee...and the hoooome of theeee braaaave...
Thankfully the Mooninite thing was an advertising stunt and not a terrorist hoax or anything.
Are these people really that stupid? I mean, honestly. They think stopping sneak-previews in Canada is going to have any impact AT ALL on movie piracy?
Well, I say good riddance! Last year I won a free sneak preview to some martial arts movie (ultimately distributed by Alliance-Atlantis, I believe). They had guards at the entrance to the theatre proper, with an upper-level employee of the theatre taking people's cellphones! For some inexplicable reason, the distributors believed people would record the movie on their camera phones an upload it to the internet. This is for a movie that had already been out for about a year or so in Hong Kong!
What's worse, people just handed over their cellphones -- contact lists, call histories, stored images, and all -- to these strangers in exchange for a free movie viewing. I tried to just ignore them and walk into the movie, but they stopped me and demanded I go thru their rigamarole. I made a bit of a fuss, then just left.
They were fricken' wanding people before they entered the theatre, for goodness sake!
I wrote a bunch of letters to the theatre and the distributor, but no one seemed to care.
;-)
Greasing the right palms will let you break the law and get away with it, too.