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Shinji Ikari

Shinji Ikari
"The loneliest people are the kindest, the saddest people smile the brightest, and the most damaged people are the wisest. All because they don't wish to see others suffer like they do." -Anonymous
 

m0rl0ck

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
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H.P. Lovecraft

Call of Cthulhu was released today :)
 

KellyR

KellyR
SMcA said:
Terry Pratchett wrote a lot of wise things hidden under his humour.
And what about the cat, does she not observe whether she is alive or not?
Not, if she is dead, I admit but surely this complicates the thought experiment which Schrodinger created to show the Copenhagen interpretation implies that the cat remains both alive and dead until the state has been observed. Schrödinger did not wish to promote the idea of dead-and-alive cats as a serious possibility; on the contrary, he intended the example to illustrate the absurdity of the existing view of quantum mechanics.*

So what is wrong with admitting that we don’t know?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schrödinger's_cat#Origin_and_motivation
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Ah. I see. Well, it's good to know that Shroedinger wasn't an airhead and didn't mean the 'experiment' to actively represent quantum physics. And there is nothing wrong with saying that we don't know. I say it all the time.
 

Marak

Marak
Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day.

Teach a man to fish and he'll eat for a lifetime.

Give a man religion and he'll starve to death praying for a fish.


Dunno who said it - but I'll buy him a pint if I find out :) .
 

Nadreck

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"I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent"
- Winston Churchill


"Age and treachery will always triumph over youth and innocence"
- Unknown


Interviewer: "Would you like to achieve immortality through your work?"

Woody Allen: "Well, no, I'd rather achieve immortality through not dying."
 

KellyR

KellyR
Flowey said:
Actually, light can and does push stuff around thus afecting speed and trajectory.
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Yeah. It does push free quantum particles around. If you mean the sails of a solar sail spacecraft then no. The sail generates power from the sunlight which runs an ion engine; it doesn't push it directly as wind would a conventional sail on a waterborne sail craft.

Light exerts too weak of a force to affect, to any even marginally significant degree, billions of quantum particles banded together as a whole.
 

Shinji Ikari

Shinji Ikari
KellyR said:
Yeah. It does push free quantum particles around. If you mean the sails of a solar sail spacecraft then no. The sail generates power from the sunlight which runs an ion engine; it doesn't push it directly as wind would a conventional sail on a waterborne sail craft.

Light exerts too weak of a force to affect, to any even marginally significant degree, billions of quantum particles banded together as a whole.
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Wrong, the lightsail does not use an ion engine to propel itself, if it did it'd do nothing new and the name lightsail would be redundant, either way, you don't need to take my word for it.

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/tdm/solarsail/index.html
 
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