The loops then spontaneously flip until they reach a stable energy state, which represents the solution to the problem. ... Is it just me, or does this sound suspiciously like the Improbability Drive?
Does Zaphod know about this?
>The loops then spontaneously flip until they reach a stable energy state, which represents the solution to the problem. ...
>>Is it just me, or does this sound suspiciously like the Improbability Drive?
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"When Joseph Plateau published his treatise on soap bubbles and film in 1873, soap bubbles already had their own place in literature and art. Plateau's problem consists in taking a generic curve in three-space and finding a surface with the least possible area bounded by that curve. The empirical solution may be obtained by dipping a tridimensional model of the curve into soapy water, resulting in a form called a minimal surface. When a soap bubble is blown, the soapy surface stretches; when blowing ceases, the film tends toward equilibrium. The sphere presents the least exterior surface area of all surfaces containing the same volume of air."
Architecture and Mathematics: Soap Bubbles and Soap Films, Michele Emmer, Professor of Mathematics Università di Roma
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Quantum state effects
are no different from other
cool tricks of nature.
Why shouldn't results
from the quantum world be used
like anything else?