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Why quantum mechanics might need an overhaul
Science News ^ | November 4, 2016 | Tom Siegfried

Posted on 11/26/2016 6:19:48 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster

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To: UCANSEE2

No, they claim it can be in two places at the same time.


21 posted on 11/26/2016 7:18:39 PM PST by odawg
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To: TigerLikesRooster
So......
What.....
This is Heisenberg's "principle of uncertainty" in action?

22 posted on 11/26/2016 7:19:06 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: odawg

how can you be in two places at once when your really nowhere at all- Firesign Theater


23 posted on 11/26/2016 7:21:01 PM PST by ghostkatz (if you are paying income tax, you are just a sharecropper for the government.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Quantum mechanics and its predecessor theories will forever need to be updated by man as more and more is learned.


24 posted on 11/26/2016 7:21:14 PM PST by plain talk
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To: Moonman62
Science can be viewed as an endeavor to give coherent explanation to bewildering array of observed phenomena. Sometimes there is simply no other way to get around complicated theory. At other times, they are slightly off track, and end up generating two many complicated theories.

Weinberg appears to be leaning to the latter. We could be subconsciously trapped in some preconceived notion, even a certain deep-rooted philosophical view.

25 posted on 11/26/2016 7:27:29 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster (dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
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To: UCANSEE2

Quantum physics works — statistically. I have always thought it was a sign of mental infirmity to claim this statistical representation is somehow the real reality. That is like saying all of the mass of a planet is REALLY at its center of mass. After all, that’s the way Newton’s equations work.


26 posted on 11/26/2016 7:28:40 PM PST by Disestablishmentarian
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Heisenberg was caught speeding in town in his BMW. A cop pulled him over.

‘’Sir, do you know how fast you were going?”

“No, but I know where I am.”


27 posted on 11/26/2016 8:01:52 PM PST by JusPasenThru (Well...bye.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

It’s too bad that we cannot trust any of the ‘science’ coming from ‘Science News.’ There are a wholly owned subsidiary of the Global Cooling, Global Warming, Global Climate Change, Global Climate Disruption, Globull Gloaming crowd. I used to love reading all kinds of publications, but since there is no $$$$$$ in spreading the truth of the coming Ice Age, there is no point in real science. The Great Cold will return, and there is nothing we can do but prepare.


28 posted on 11/26/2016 8:01:57 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

You make a point, but the trend has been that the more experiments are done, the more quantum theory is confirmed.

There is a great deal of disagreement about the interpretation of QM and how it relates to the everyday world, but experiments aren’t helping us much there (and that’s why there is so much disagreement).


29 posted on 11/26/2016 8:05:02 PM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Nuc 1.1

electron-ic discovery

I’ll let myself out.


30 posted on 11/26/2016 8:16:03 PM PST by thoughtomator (Purple: the color of sedition)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

God DOES play dice and His dice are loaded.

One should have expected the appearance of probability, for in pseudo-randomness, God instead of man is free to determine all outcomes.


31 posted on 11/26/2016 8:17:46 PM PST by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Reverse Wickard v Filburn (1942) - and - ISLAM DELENDA EST)
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III
I sensed it when Scientific American suddenly became politicized to push liberal agenda, such as global warming, women in science. I stopped reading it. That was about three decades ago.

They infiltrated most of science communities. They love to undermine their opposition from inside. By now, probably most of scientific media was taken over.

Scientists are now virtually prohibited from challenging reigning theory and find an alternative to better explain observed data, if it does not fit liberal political agendas.

A couple of years ago, the theme of International Congress of Mathematicians was "women in mathematics." Gender politics was inserted into the mathematics community.

They will stay there like leeches until they get too old and their agendas become slowly irrelevant, like old Communism. However, it will take a long time and do severe damage.

The death of communism as a live ideology led to the birth of another pernicious virus, which went onto the quest for bringing down the West from within.

32 posted on 11/26/2016 8:18:31 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster (dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
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To: JusPasenThru
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"You were going 90 miles per hour."

"Thanks a lot, now I'm lost!"

33 posted on 11/26/2016 8:18:33 PM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: I want the USA back
"Schrödinger and Einstein exchanged letters about Einstein's EPR article, in the course of which Einstein pointed out that the state of an unstable keg of gunpowder will, after a while, contain a superposition of both exploded and unexploded states. - wikipedia

Schrödinger's cat, right? I'm going with 'space/time's a solid and all exist simultaneously.

34 posted on 11/26/2016 8:47:15 PM PST by GOPJ ("Fear is a good thing. Fear is going to lead you to take action"...Steve Bannon 2010 interview.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster


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35 posted on 11/26/2016 8:48:25 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: TigerLikesRooster

“The death of communism as a live ideology led to the birth of another pernicious virus, which went onto the quest for bringing down the West from within. “

What’s ironic about that it could very well be two former communist countries, Russia and/or China who will bring back sanity and reality back to science, and in doing so will become the new superpowers.

Today they are the least infected by cultural Marxism.


36 posted on 11/26/2016 8:52:00 PM PST by aquila48
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To: FreedomStar3028

“They don’t even know if quantum mechanics is feasible, or can be utilized. But they are talking about an overhaul?”

Quantum Mechanics is both feasible and utilized. Designers of today’s computer chips that I’m using to write this use quantum mechanics as part of the design process and it works.


37 posted on 11/26/2016 8:55:40 PM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: ModelBreaker

#37 That would explain all the Windows weirdness from time to time!


38 posted on 11/26/2016 9:01:31 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: aquila48
They lived through communism, and don't want to go back, even though some feel nostalgic about the order and predictability provided by totalitarian system. They know cultural/social aspect of Marxism is a great fraud with no upside.
39 posted on 11/26/2016 9:07:11 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster (dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
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To: plain talk
"All models are wrong; some models are useful." George E. P. Box

It's certain all quantum models are wrong, but some are useful. Similarly all religions are wrong (including global warming); some religions are useful.

40 posted on 11/26/2016 9:21:09 PM PST by Reeses (A journey of a thousand miles begins with a government pat down.)
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