Coding
Kawasaki F7
Note many years later: They're selling for 5000 bucks on ebay. Duh!
My first motorcycle was a Kawasaki F7. F7 is 255 decimal.
Physics
Quantum Mechanics Entanglement and Spooky Action at a distance
Very interesting and experimental approach to entanglement and Bells inequality.
Interesting points of note in the video
- pop bottle bottom glasses on 70's guy!
- Eigenvalues of a quantum mechanical solution are what you can observe. You never observe solutions that are combinations of eigenvalues.
- StarTrek looking test apparatus mock up. Scotty would have felt at home fixing this bugger!
- Einstein did not like ghostly action at a distance. EPR
- Assume quantum theory is incomplete: Look for a hidden variable. Photon pairs are emitted with a shared equal hidden parameter.
- Theories using hidden variables have been created that preserve locality and realism
- Experiments that only test perfect correlations do not force us to choose between quantum explanation and hidden variable method
- John Bell was the first person to show how to bring the two theories into conflict so they could be tested
- Testing perfect correlations are tantamount to looking at one sock and seeing it is blue and concluding the sock on the other foot is blue
- Imperfect correlations: set the target polarizers at unequal angles.
- Alain Aspect and company tested Bell's Theorem
- Tunable lasers were required for this test setup
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Hiking
Places you can only find in the desert southwest
Places like this are magical. If you camp there for any amount of time you find the world spinning round. If you just sit there and meditate you can see the Sun rise spin to the other horizon and set.
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