[decimon]

Walk the Planck ping.

[Hoosier-Daddy]

Schrödinger’s virus?

[BitWielder1]

Preparing viruses to infect future quantum computers?

[Psycho_Bunny]

This would be pretty interesting to work on.

[ETL]

"how the tiniest constituents of matter and energy behave, confusing patterns of their ability to do two things at once (referred to as being in a superposition state), and of their 'spooky' connection (referred to as entanglement) to their physically distant sub-atomic brethren, emerge."

For anyone interested in the strange workings of quantum mechanics, here are links to a perhaps a bit 'dry' at first but soon fascinating 2-part interview. It's done in such a way as to be easily comprehensible to anyone slightly familiar with the subject:

Program: Science and the Written Word:

A regular series produced by CUNY-TV [City University of New York] featuring interviews with
authors of new books on science. Hosted by Lou Massa, professor of
chemistry and physics at Hunter College/CUNY.

Guest: Lothar Schafer

Professor of Physical Chemistry , University of Arkansas
In this 2-part interview, Lothar Schafer talks about his book “In
Search of Divine Reality”. The tries to make connections among
science, religion, and the arts.

Part-1(an audio link will be found on the page that comes up)
Taped: 11/08/1999 Running Time: 0:27min.
http://www.cuny.tv/audiovideo/action.lasso?-database=CUNYPROG&-response=detail2.lasso&-table=webprogdetail2&-sortField=TapeDate&-sortOrder=descending&-sortField=SeriesTitle&-sortOrder=ascending&-sortField=Title&-sortOrder=ascending&-logicalOperator=OR&-op=bw&SeriesTitle=lothar&-op=bw&Title=lothar&-maxRecords=1&-skipRecords=1&-search
______________________________________

Part-2(an audio link will be found on the page that comes up)
Taped: 11/08/1999 Running Time: 0:27min.
http://www.cuny.tv/audiovideo/action.lasso?-database=CUNYPROG&-response=detail2.lasso&-table=webprogdetail2&-sortField=TapeDate&-sortOrder=descending&-sortField=SeriesTitle&-sortOrder=ascending&-sortField=Title&-sortOrder=ascending&-logicalOperator=OR&-op=bw&SeriesTitle=lothar&-op=bw&Title=lothar&-maxRecords=1&-skipRecords=2&-search

[bunkerhill7]

Obummer is which viral quantum particle :
[Choose your best answer]
a. a virus
b. a Barry-on quark lepton
c. an infirm Fermion with a half-ast spin
d. has no charm,
e. up is down
f. really strange
g. his bottom is his top
h. a muon moron
i. electroweak
j. a Tachyon with an imaginary brain
k. thinks a boson is a sailor
l. a glueball
m. a Polariton polarizing the USA
n. Magnon the Magnificent
o. a plekton [brain full of plankton]
p. a WIMP [(weakly interacting massive pinhead]
q. a po-moron, an elastic scatterbrain
r. a skyrmoron, a pie-on-the eye idiot
s. a gallstone boson, a massless excitation of a field
that has been spontaneously broken, a broken choral
spin
t.an instanton, a local minimum of action.
u. a dyon, a hypothetical birth certificate
v. a geon, a wave of the future which is held together in a
confined brain region by the gravitational attraction of
its own field energy. [Stuck on Himself]
w. an inflaton,the generic name for an unidentified scalar
sap responsible for the cosmic inflation and recession.
x. a spurion, inserted into an spin-violating
decay in order to analyze it as though it conserved
spin jobs.
y. a luxon - travels in luxury at the speed of light and
doesnt` give a darn about the masses but is banned
from the Luxor.
z. a tardyon- always a year late creating PHONEY SAVED
jobs, but travels everywhere and has a 20%
unemployment rate

[dangerdoc]

bump

[SunkenCiv]

Only under Windows OS. ;') Thanks decimon.

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[dr_lew]

The weird world of quantum mechanics describes the strange, often contradictory, behaviour of small inanimate objects such as atoms. Researchers have now started looking for ways to detect quantum properties in more complex and larger entities, possibly even living organisms.

The everday world IS the weird world of quantum mechanics, starting with the quantized properties of matter, such as water, for example. Then there are solid state properties, as consider metals. What is weirder than aluminum foil? Its "conduction bands" are macroscopic quantum states. Then there is the Mossbauer effect. A little more arcane, but a natural phenomenon which involves the "zero phonon" line, where an entire crystal absorbs the momentum of a nuclear decay of an atom without any vibration. This is definitely "spooky action at a distance", no question, as all the atoms mysteriously "cooperate".

Well, I do know what they mean in this case, but I think the mystification of "the quantum world" is misleading. Is consciousness a quantum phenomenon? Of course! The whole world as it evolves moment to moment is a quantum phenomenon.