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Journeying Through the Quantum Froth
FQXi ^ | 8/9/09 | Marc Kaufman & Zeeya Merali

Posted on 08/09/2009 12:08:19 PM PDT by LibWhacker

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1 posted on 08/09/2009 12:08:19 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

“Doubly Special Relativity”

Sounds like democrat club or something.


2 posted on 08/09/2009 12:10:46 PM PDT by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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To: LibWhacker

Q: Why did Albert Einstein cross the street?
A: To get away from Niels Bohr. But when he got to the other side Bohr was
there also.


3 posted on 08/09/2009 12:10:48 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: Islander7

Like “double secret probation”.


4 posted on 08/09/2009 12:16:55 PM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: LibWhacker

Why do I always read these things? All they do is make my head hurt.


5 posted on 08/09/2009 12:17:55 PM PDT by oldsalt (There's no such thing as a free lunch.)
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To: Bobkk47

LOL! I never heard that one.

How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb?

parsy, who had to be told the answer.


6 posted on 08/09/2009 12:18:15 PM PDT by parsifal ("Where am I? How did I end up in this hospital room? What is my name?" Anonymous)
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To: Islander7
Double secret probation
7 posted on 08/09/2009 12:19:29 PM PDT by traderrob6
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To: LibWhacker
>"It seems to me it is much more appealing to find partial answers, answers that close the door on a few open issues but actually open the door on many more puzzling issues."

Jessica still can't
sort out chicken of the sea
versus real chicken . . .

8 posted on 08/09/2009 12:22:33 PM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: Bobkk47
That is sooo bad. LOL
9 posted on 08/09/2009 1:19:52 PM PDT by Nuc1 (NUC1 Sub pusher SSN 668 (Liberals Aren't Patriots))
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To: LibWhacker

Bump!


10 posted on 08/09/2009 1:23:20 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: parsifal
How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb?

Two - one to climb the giraffe and the other to fill the bathtub with brightly colored machine tools.

11 posted on 08/09/2009 1:40:50 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Your opinion is doubleplusungoodthinkful. You have been reported to flag@whitehouse.gov.)
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12 posted on 08/09/2009 1:43:47 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Your opinion is doubleplusungoodthinkful. You have been reported to flag@whitehouse.gov.)
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“How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb?”

You were close.

Answer: Fish.

parsy, who is aware many will not get this. They are the lucky ones.


13 posted on 08/09/2009 4:57:57 PM PDT by parsifal ("Where am I? How did I end up in this hospital room? What is my name?" Anonymous)
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14 posted on 08/09/2009 6:36:55 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: JoeProBono

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2312024/posts?page=12#12


15 posted on 08/09/2009 6:38:32 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: parsifal

I was going to post that as the alternate answer.


16 posted on 08/09/2009 6:45:19 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Your opinion is doubleplusungoodthinkful. You have been reported to flag@whitehouse.gov.)
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To: parsifal

Ok, but then what is the difference between a duck?


17 posted on 08/09/2009 6:47:56 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (These fragments I have shored against my ruins)
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To: ctdonath2
Also, if spacetime is quantized, then Zeno's paradox is solved!

But now I have not excuse for why I wasn't able to get up to take the trash out.

18 posted on 08/09/2009 6:50:11 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (These fragments I have shored against my ruins)
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To: LibWhacker

I don’t think gravity is quantifiable in the material sense. Being (assumed) a function of space-time itself would necessarily preclude it from combining with the corresponding matter based theories. I don’t expect the discovery of gravitons in my lifetime. Just a hunch.


19 posted on 08/09/2009 6:50:35 PM PDT by allmost
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

I don’t know. Search smee.

parsy, the wannabe punster.


20 posted on 08/09/2009 7:05:54 PM PDT by parsifal ("Where am I? How did I end up in this hospital room? What is my name?" Anonymous)
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