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McQ
Skeptic Friend
USA
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 03/16/2007 : 04:13:13 [Permalink]
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Momma, can I have a Photon-in-a-Box, pu-leeze?
If I understand this, haven't the experimenters been able to overcome the Heisenberg Principle?
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Chippewa
SFN Regular
USA
1496 Posts |
 Posted - 03/16/2007 : 10:22:36 [Permalink]
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Golly! Einstein thought of this!? (Photon box) I thought of this when I was a kid; i.e. (What if you had a sphere with polished mirrors inside and flashed a light on and off - would it trap the light?) I'm sure other kids thought of that and I didn't go on in the direction to develop relativity theory further but it does imply that great minds can also think like kids.  |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 03/16/2007 : 13:53:21 [Permalink]
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Yeah, but your dream mirrors weren't superconducting mirrors. (And how does that make 'em shinier?)
When I was a kid, I daydreamed about a computer which knew the locations and vectors of all the matter and energy in the universe. I figured such a computer would be able to predict everything that would happen in the future. (I did not understand quantum mechanics as a kid. Nor do I now.) But then I realized the computer would have to be bigger than the universe in order to do that, and exist both within the universe and outside it. And it occurred to me that this problem was also an argument against an omniscient, omnipotent god.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Chippewa
SFN Regular
USA
1496 Posts |
Posted - 03/16/2007 : 17:26:49 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
...When I was a kid, I daydreamed about a computer...
Pretty cool, though you know now that if it could be built somehow, the answer would br "42". (Thanks to Douglas Adams.)
And how many of us as kids looked at a globe of the world or a map and thought, without any knowledge of Alfred Wegener, "why does South America seem to fit into Africa?" |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 03/16/2007 : 18:41:13 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Chippewa
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
...When I was a kid, I daydreamed about a computer...
Pretty cool, though you know now that if it could be built somehow, the answer would br "42". (Thanks to Douglas Adams.)
And how many of us as kids looked at a globe of the world or a map and thought, without any knowledge of Alfred Wegener, "why does South America seem to fit into Africa?"
Hey, I noticed that, too! It was only later I learned the reason for the remarkable fit. But I did think the two continents had split apart.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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