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The universe isn't mathematical, it is explained by math, a country is not Chinese because I wrote a tour guide in Chinese about it. Infinite universes isn't really applicable here, you're thinking of a growing block universe. A simpler point is a block universe. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternalism_(philosophy_of_ti...


But if Chinese was the only language (which is a more correct analogy), the country might in fact be Chinese.


Tinfoil hats, cancer treatment, self driving cars or perhaps platoons for highways, smart homes that are easily hacked, wireless low powered implants that cause benign tumors that sue a tech company into bankrupty, but the shell company opens another 5g implant company.


Ever heard of pilot wave theory? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Broglie%E2%80%93Bohm_theo... It's an easy visualization that can be shown with speakers and liquid


Here's one interesting silicone oil pilot-wave video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmC0ygr08tE


But to fit experimental observations, the "wave" would have to be faster than light.


Yeah. On the other hand it does give decent intuition about how certain interactions would result, especially if talking about massive particles traveling much slower than light.

I remember reading an article here a while back that involved a macroscopic re-creation of the double slit experiment results, but where mere observation remained possible, because light did not sufficiently influence the substrate. In that experiment the particles were droplets traveling on top of a set of waves, working in the pilot wave fashion.

Any attempt to use anything of similar scale to the particles to observe which slit the drop went through would break the interference pattern, but mere light did not, allowing one to visually see how a pilot wave style interpretation could work, if it were not for that whole (photons travel at the speed of light, so these would need to be faster than light propagating pilot waves) thing.

Indeed it looks like flubert linked a video from an earlier study of the same basic mechanics, prior to the more recent one that included the double slit experiment replication.


I was under the impression that the double slit experiment with the oil drops does not replicate the quantum mechanics expected interference pattern.

http://math.mit.edu/~bush/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/...


Have you heard of Bohemian or pilot wave theory for QM? It's very rarely discussed except in darker corners of the internet but it's surprising to me it's not used as visualization. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Broglie%E2%80%93Bohm_theo...


I didn’t know I was writing for the “darker corners of the internet”!

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/07/a-brief-history-of-q...


Oh, yeah, Ars is pretty dark, but where it really comes up a lot is amongst child pornographers and terrorists. In fact, it's been shown that when a new pilot wave paper lands, productivity (such as it is) in those areas drops precipitously for a time. In fact it's a robust enough result that it forms a strong argument for increasing science funding.

More seriously, I interpreted "darker corners of the internet" in the parent to be a bit tongue in cheek, but to generally be indicating fora where there's a higher ratio of layman to expert, and crackpot to serious practitioner. There was no claim that it isn't discussed outside of that setting, just that it occurs more frequently there (as a proportion of QM discussions in general). This squares with my (poorly informed) general impression.


"have you not heard of this rarely talked-about theory that exists in the dark corners where only whspers live? Well here's a link to the wikipedia page"


My iPhone 12 is legacy because it's based on an iPhone released in 2007 and the software is also legacy because it's based on Unix which is 50+ years old. Glass is thousands of years old so it's legacy technology and the molecules are the same as those from the age of dinosaurs so it's very very legacy.


Are you used to iPhone? Would you try to make it work like the iPhone way?


Do you feel the same with an iPad? I do with my phone but I think it has more to do with your utility of it. The iTunes app may not look proper in your computer. Android may simply suit you better. Do you find yourself trying to make it work like Android?


Just press 0 until an operator comes. That's what I do. You don't need AI for that. This is too high tech for no reason. Might as well use an AI on your toothbrush that tells you where you need to brush more with an accelerometer and camera in the brush. Overkill. Tech users tend to have an issue putting tech into everything. They will insist/injecting on strange changes like moving with a drone for short distances instead of vehicles or other changes that have little benefit.


How would you feel about paying for pirated content? If someone just had publication subscriptions they could simply charge a small fee and show all the content on the sites. I could see small groups even do this and every time someone joins the monthly fee goes down.


paying for pirated stuff is a messy minefield, but it's actually a pretty interesting thought - piracy is what spurred the music industry to shift to new models that allowed more consumer-friendly businesses like spotify to exist. i've never even considered pirating a news website before, but it seems like the sort of thing that should be possible.


How successful is it as a model for cash flow compared to the others? I can wait a week to see the kernel benchmarks or whatever so I don't see why anyone would subscribe if not to suppose it rather than need it. I never used the site I'm just assuming it's like phoronix.


I unfortunately don't know any details other than it seems to be working. The content they have is highly in depth, and the comments section is excellent.

My experience was that I started reading the articles as a non subscriber. Because I enjoyed it I began visiting the site more and more. After some time it started to annoy me that I had to wait to read the latest content, and that's when I started subscribing. These days I read it less frequently, but I still subscribe to support the site.


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