Quantum Mechanics
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I took physics when they didn’t have all or know about all these subatomic particles. Made life simpler.
If we ever figure out quantum mechanics enough to enable quantum teleportation.. or quantum entanglement.. or whatever the kids call it nowadays, it will cause the complete collapse of society.
If we all of a sudden didn't have to pay (significant amounts) to transport goods or people over distance the world economy would implode in an instant.
If we all of a sudden didn't have to pay (significant amounts) to transport goods or people over distance the world economy would implode in an instant.
I don’t think it’s unfortunate. I’m not in the Terminator doomsday scenario like others when it comes to AI. That’s just is projecting our own fears into something.
An AI would not be subject to chemical induced emotions.
So it would not have greed, rage, jealousy, etc. At least that’s my opinion.
Musk is going to make us all cyborgs eventually. I would be down for that.
I’m just happy to know there is a reality somewhere out there where Mississippi State has won multiple national championships, including 1996 Men’s basketball, 1985 and 2013 baseball, 2014 football, and back-to-back in women’s basketball.
Ummm....if we didn't have to pay to transport goods, then the economy would explode. There would be some pretty significant disruptions and big time losers, but a lot more big time winners.
If we can teleport people, then we are technically killing them and creating a copy, which depending on your theory of the value of life creates a lot of other issues.
Major breakthrough's in physics theories have often involved simplifying things. So Ptolemy's epicycles that were required to account for plants moving "backwards" were no longer necessary Copernicus convinced people that the Heliocentric model was correct.
Maxwell "simplified" electricity and magnetism into a single force represented by a single set of equations.
If anybody produces a grand unified theory for all the fundamental forces, it would in theory replace a bunch of equations relying on string theory over different parameters/fields into a single equation.
Some people think that if we really understood quantum mechanics, we would end up with simpler, more elegant equations, and that a lot of what we are doing now are equivalent to Ptolemy's epicycles and are essentially ad hoc solutions that are back tested to match observations.
Same thing with photons -- how do it know?
In order to look, you have to bounce something off of it or absorb it. So once you start looking, that is enough to screw up the wave property.
But in another nod to uncertainty, if you only monkey with it a little bit, you only mess up the pattern a little bit:
An experiment performed in 1987 produced results that demonstrated that information could be obtained regarding which path a particle had taken without destroying the interference altogether. This showed the effect of measurements that disturbed the particles in transit to a lesser degree and thereby influenced the interference pattern only to a comparable extent. In other words, if one does not insist that the method used to determine which slit each photon passes through be completely reliable, one can still detect a (degraded) interference pattern.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment
The universe is beautiful but also really terrifyingly freaky. It knows when we're looking at it.
In order to look, you have to bounce something off of it or absorb it. So once you start looking, that is enough to screw up the wave property.
But in another nod to uncertainty, if you only monkey with it a little bit, you only mess up the pattern a little bit:
An experiment performed in 1987 produced results that demonstrated that information could be obtained regarding which path a particle had taken without destroying the interference altogether. This showed the effect of measurements that disturbed the particles in transit to a lesser degree and thereby influenced the interference pattern only to a comparable extent. In other words, if one does not insist that the method used to determine which slit each photon passes through be completely reliable, one can still detect a (degraded) interference pattern.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment
The universe is beautiful but also really terrifyingly freaky. It knows when we're looking at it.
Hey, I made an A in Business Calculus while working on my Masters about 20 years after my BS. Had to go back and relearn the Algebra from the ground up, and then learn the Calculus. Copied the board madly in class madly without having a clue what any of it meant.
That’s what I’ll probably never get. Why is it a wave, and then when you look at it, it’s not a wave. Of course, nobody gets this... except the idea electrons are both waves and particles.
The LHC is going to restart in May of this year, dark matter theories...
that are still viable will probably be proven right are wrong after the Run 3 data is analyzed. Unfortunately, that will take another decade. But as of right now the failure of the LHC to find any dark matter candidate particles is leading more and more scientists into the MOND camp, which was a dying breed just a few years ago.
http://www.sci-news.com/astronomy/modified-gravity-theory-09165.html
that are still viable will probably be proven right are wrong after the Run 3 data is analyzed. Unfortunately, that will take another decade. But as of right now the failure of the LHC to find any dark matter candidate particles is leading more and more scientists into the MOND camp, which was a dying breed just a few years ago.
http://www.sci-news.com/astronomy/modified-gravity-theory-09165.html
never knew that Sheldon and Leonard were Bulldogs! That Penny is still plenty hot, amiright!