maxwellfire
@maxwellfire@lemmy.world
- Comment on it's a long distance relationship 2 weeks ago:
The whole idea is that the quantum particle can’t have had the state you’re measuring all along. If it did, then measuring a particular set of outcomes would be improbable. If you run an experiment millions of times, you have a choice in how you do the final measurement each time. What you find with quantum particles is that the measurements of the two different particles are more correlated than they should be able to if they had determined an answer (state) in advance.
You can resolve this 3 ways:
1: you got extremely unlucky with your choice of measurement in each experiment lining up with the hidden/fixed state of each particle in such a way as to screw with your results. If you do the experiment millions of times, the probability of this happening randomly can be made arbitrarily small. So then, the universe must be colluding to give you a non uniform distribution of hidden states that perfectly mess with your currently chosen experiment
2: the particles transfer information to each other faster than the speed of light
3: there is no hidden state that the particle has that determines how it will be measured in any particular experiment
See quantamagazine.org/how-bells-theorem-proved-spook… for a short explanation of what ‘more correlated than expected’ means
- Comment on It's true... 4 months ago:
That implies to me that surgeons aren’t training on heavier people though which seems bad
- Comment on Yer a mycologist, Harry 6 months ago:
One of the journals I submitted to explicitly banned puns or wordplay in their titles, which felt unnecessarily grumpy
- Comment on Finally a solution to the Königsberg Bridge problem. 7 months ago:
That would make the earth a donut lol and would work!
- Comment on Finally a solution to the Königsberg Bridge problem. 7 months ago:
You run into it on the planet backside and then need another bridge, right?
- Comment on Finally a solution to the Königsberg Bridge problem. 7 months ago:
A problem with this is that the river presumably goes all the way around the earth. Otherwise you could just travel west until you found its end. You really need a donut shaped earth, a sphere doesn’t help much
- Comment on (~_~;) 7 months ago:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMT_EGXQwyk
I’m not all the way through it but the first part is pretty cool
- Comment on Considering the old model is made with shrink-wrapping this is viable option 8 months ago:
How does paleo art work now? What’s done differently?
- Comment on MAAAAM 9 months ago:
I semi-regularly put the milk in the cupboard and usually realize when I try to put the cereal in the fridge and it doesn’t fit
- Comment on strobe party 9 months ago:
I think this is only true for some non intuitive definition of “temperature” of the light source. Fireflies aren’t a blackbody radiator, while the sun largely is. You absolutely can use non-equilibrium/non-blackbody light sources to heat something to hotter than the source. For example, lasers can heat something extremely hot while remaining “cool” (unless you’re considering the non equilibrium temperature of their excited atoms/electrons, which isn’t really fair.)
- Comment on How do Americans win their country back? 1 year ago:
I believe that the 67% number for the 2020 election is of eligible voters and not registered voters. While turnout is low, it’s not 25% low.