Posted on 07/27/2022 12:44:59 PM PDT by Red Badger
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What I know about distance is that it’s not a constant. The distance from my couch to the fridge to get a beer is inversely proportional to the amount of people in the house which also affects time.
The opposite is Greyhound Space, where a 4 hour trip takes 8 even though the bus is passing every car on the highway.
A whiter shade of pale.
Not if this is the explanation... ugh.
"We talking about the significance of the passage of time, right? The significance of the passage of time, so when you think about it there is great significance to the passage of time...There is such great significance to the passage of time when you think of a day in the life of our children.”So there you have it...don't take time too lightly.
If you see a woman in the distance you will notice that her spaces are curved.
As she approaches, her spaces become even more curved until it is total darkness coz it`s Saturday night.
And...
Go Boilers
I know Mitch Daniels doesn’t get any love on FR, but he’s certainly done good things at Purdue.
Here is a short excerpt which can lend assistance to FR readers of the current paper & thread...
"Topological edge states in topological materials are robust against weak perturbations, an ability originating from the global geometry of eigen wave functions in the Hilbert space1,2. Such an intrinsic geometric feature is captured by global topological invariants that are related to edge states through the bulk-boundary correspondence.
However, this conventional paradigm is challenged by localization under disorder3,4,5,6 or non-Hermiticity7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24, which have become the focus of study of late, particularly in light of recent experimental progress in synthetic topological systems25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35. On one hand, despite its gap-closing tendency, the disorder can induce topology from a trivial insulator. In the resulting topological Anderson insulator, the global topology emerges in a bulk with localized states, in the absence of translational symmetry3,4,5,6. On the other hand, in a broad class of non-Hermitian topological systems, the nominal bulk states are exponentially localized toward boundaries under the non-Hermitian skin effect8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22.
The deviation of the bulk-state wave functions from the extended Bloch waves invalidates the conventional bulk-boundary correspondence, necessitating the introduction of non-Bloch topological invariants8,9,10,11. While the two localization mechanisms differ in origin and manifestation, the topology of the underlying system gets fundamentally modified in either case.
Remarkably, in the recently proposed non-Hermitian topological Anderson insulator36,37,38,39, the two distinct localization mechanisms are pitted against each other, wherein the interplay of disorder, non-Hermiticity, and topology leads to exotic phenomena such as the non-monotonous localization, disorder-induced non-Bloch topological phase transitions, and biorthogonal critical behaviors.
In this work, we report the experimental observation of non-Hermitian topological Anderson insulators in single-photon quantum-walk dynamics. Driven by a non-unitary topological Floquet operator, the quantum walk undergoes polarization-dependent photon loss and acquires the non-Hermitian skin effect. In contrast to previously implemented quantum walks with the non-Hermitian skin effect30,35, our current experiment resorts to the time-multiplexed configuration, with the spatial degrees of freedom encoded in the discrete arrival time of photons at the detector40. This enables us to implement quantum walks with a larger number of time steps, which is pivotal for the current experiment. We introduce static random disorder through parameters of the optical elements41, which would result in a complete localization of bulk states in the large-disorder limit. In the intermediate regime with moderate loss and disorder, the competition between the non-Hermitian skin effect and Anderson localization yields non-monotonic localization features which we characterize by measuring the Lyapunov exponent20. Using the biorthogonal chiral displacement, we then probe the topological phase transition, which is in qualitatively agreement with theoretical predictions. At the measured topological phase boundary, the biorthogonal localization length diverges, consistent with the biorthogonal critical nature of the phase transition36,37,38. We further measure topological edge states from dynamics close to the boundary of the non-Hermitian topological Anderson insulator."
By: Quan Lin, Tianyu Li, Lei Xiao, Kunkun Wang, Wei Yi & Peng Xue
Nature Communications has hundreds of similarly interesting articles...
This sounds like word speak like AOC would use except too big of words.
me thinks the intent of the article is stating ALL space is curved... but we already knew that. 2D (straight line/point) dimension isn’t our human experience. They are ‘looking’ beyond 3D within particle physics/quanta, trying to map/explain/formulate.
This is my interpretation of it (not understanding Hamiltonians or Hermitian spaces at all):
If a particle is being acted on by some external force that gives it a preference in the direction of travel (for example, gravity making it easier to move down than up, or an electric or magnetic field having the same kind of effect), then we can model that preference as a curved space instead of a flat space. In this case, it is easier for the particle to move ‘down’ the curve instead of ‘up’ the curve.
Therefore, the quantum properties that should be orthogonal but aren’t due to the external force, actually turn out to be orthogonal to the curved surface, just like gravity is always pointing to the center of the earth and the direction changes as you move along the earth’s surface. This happens with gravitational force on a ramp, as well. Gravity makes a ball roll down the ramp because a portion of the gravitational force is down the ramp (and the other part is toward the ramp surface), whereas if the ramp were flat, it all points down toward the center of the earth and there is no motion.
So, the properties are orthogonal to this curved surface and are not orthogonal to the flat surface and this fact can now be used to make better equations that model the behavior. It seems to be just a better way of modeling the behavior of the system.
I think you are hitting on the guts of it.
If we look at time, distance, space, energy, matter etc. naturalistically, then we are simply agonizing over our ability to observe, deduce, interpolate but not really getting to the heart of the matter.
Nothing happens without input, action, energy intent etc, iows, an actor, a prime cause. To think otherwise is lunacy (a space term!).
So, if we simply assume everything has a purpose, was purposeful and thought out, then we really ought to be looking not at the “stuff” or it’s mechanisms, but rather to the Creator. These days the naturalistic is god. It is not. It is simply our attempt to define without attribution.
God is. Everything else is his creativity.
Who dares look at all of these issues through that lens? We all get the same facts, what do we do with them?
Space time energy matter, created by a Creator. Must be a reason.
We have long separated the philosophic from the rational to our lack I think.
I will look to the author, so I can understand his words. Many will look at the words and deny an author...
“The researchers discovered that a new theoretical framework to unify Hermitian and non-Hermitian physics is established by the duality between non-Hermiticity and curved spaces.”
Oh good. They have discovered the cause of Hemorrhoids. Oh wait .... wrong article.
That's a copout. The question exists and can't be answered. Saying it is a theological question avoids embarrassment.
Would you have liked my initial response better if I said “metaphysics\philosophy” rather than “theology”? On this subject they’re almost interchangeable. I don’t understand the point of your somewhat hostile response. Actually, any question can be asked whether it can be asked intelligently is the issue. Right now, physics has no meaningful or intelligent way to ask that question. The physics and math to express it don’t exist yet. That was my point!
I wrote poetry when I was in my 20’s as an antidote to my political science major. Poly sci taught Students how to use roughly 1000 words where roughly 10 words would do.
Poly sci at the time was not a real major. So it taught students how to be baffling. The saying was if you can’t dazzle them with your brilliance. Baffle them with your BS. Poly sci major’s learned to be bafflers.
That major wasted me. Baffle others and you baffle yourself.
That’s why speaking the truth with simplicity helps both the speaker and the listener.
To this day when I’m way out beyond my ken — I still resort to poetry. A good rhyme heals the spaces between what I think I know, what I know I don’t know and what I don’t know that I don’t know. That’s sec def speech. But concise as I can get for the atheist.
Who shall I say has sent me? (Tell them—I am who I am has sent you.) That’s both true and a play on words—not to mention OT humor)
Thank you for noticing.
A good rhyme heals the spaces between what I think I know, what I know I don't know and what I don't know that I don't know.
Space rhymes with
Between my own hodgepodge of understanding and web translators, I saw on the Hebrew Wikipedia page for the musical staff (called "chamsha" for the five lines), that:
"the space between the lines is called 'beinah'"
בינה
Essentially a noun for "between", but spelled the same as binah, "understanding." To quote from a page I've had open in the background for most of the day:
The root of Bina creates the word "Bein" which means: "between [in the sense of comparison]".
https://www.13petals.org/bird/
(To this day when I'm way out beyond my ken)
Who shall I say has sent me? (Tell them -- I am who I am has sent you.) That's both true and a play on words -- not to mention OT humor)
Seen this page?
There's that same oddly placed proverb that's not exactly a proverb. It's a simple, wise saying that also stands out because it is not formatted like the others, so I had taken a closer look:
It begins with a bullet (all others are line indents), which is ALT 7 which is Unicode 2022.
(7/2022)
All in the timing. There's way more to the saga, but briefly -- when I "initially" followed the edit trail upon finding it on March 9th, it led to a sign in the middle of nowhere that signalled the Exodus. Pretty obvious imagery for anyone willing to.. read between the lines. I can describe further if you so request.
Why say in 15, what you can say in 10? 😉
For those who like to play.
Great sign-up date, by the way.
In the future, it wasn't like anyone was going to steal the body.
Physics Mystery Solved: Findings Could “Revolutionize” Our Understanding of Distance
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