The cool science thread

[FunkyGreenJerusalem]

Oooh. Quantum entanglement. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8081058.stm)

I don't understand this, or what it means - IT MUST BE OUTLAWED!

[K'Nort]

Instead of a specific entry, I will provide a handy source.

[Tages]

I don't understand this, or what it means - IT MUST BE OUTLAWED!

Clearly quantum physics and other wizardry must be punished post-haste.

I recommend we start with string theorists. They gave my cow sour milk.

[FunkyGreenJerusalem]

Clearly quantum physics and other wizardry must be punished post-haste.

I recommend we start with string theorists. They gave my cow sour milk.

It's our job to protect the children - even if they aren't children yet, only sub-atomic particles that might one day move in and out of a child!

[Iangould]

New Scientist isn't so sure about the Eden Project's geothermal power plans.

A similar "hot dry rock" project blew up in Australia and one in Switzerland had to be stopped because it seemed to be causing earthquakes.

Come to think of it, man-made earthquakes are kinda cool too.

[Iangould]

Also from New Scientist -

A GIANT inflatable tower could carry people to the edge of space without the need for a rocket, and could be completed much sooner than a cable-based space elevator, its proponents claim.

[Michael P]

Also from New Scientist -

A GIANT inflatable tower could carry people to the edge of space without the need for a rocket, and could be completed much sooner than a cable-based space elevator, its proponents claim.

Someone must inform Pete Abrams immediately.

[The Black Guardian]

Hmm... what happens if you entangle some atoms, then place one of the atoms in one location, while splitting another of the atoms in another location?

[Fenris]

From Tyler Cowan's blog:

Hawking is now pushing a different strategy, which he calls top-down cosmology. It is not the case, he says, that the past uniquely determines the present. Because the universe has many possible histories and just as many possible beginnings, the present state of the universe selects the past. "This means that the histories of the Universe depend on what is being measured," Hawking wrote in a recent paper, "contrary to the usual idea that the Universe has an objective, observer-independent history."...Hawking's idea provides a natural context for string theory. All those universes might simply represent different possible histories of our universe.

... Which seems exactly like a Greg Egan novel, come to think of it.

[Paul McEnery]

Hmm... what happens if you entangle some atoms, then place one of the atoms in one location, while splitting another of the atoms in another location?

So long as it's not in my beer, in my stomach, I'll be fine with the idea.














Actually, that's possibly a good point.

[berk]

Hmm... what happens if you entangle some atoms, then place one of the atoms in one location, while splitting another of the atoms in another location?

I imagine that's the kind of thing they'll be investigating in the future, the sort of question this experiment is an initial step towards.

I have to admit that I don't really understand the explanation of how the atoms were entangled, in the same sense that two photons produced from a single physical event, like the annihilation of a particle, would be.

[Paul McEnery]

Totally mad fish!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM9o4VnfHJU

[FunkyGreenJerusalem]

Totally mad fish!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM9o4VnfHJU

Yeah, seen that before.

The deep sea is just bollocks.

Pretty sure there was the forward thinkers who were like 'we're going up to the land to get shit happening... you in?' and the stoners, who were like no way man, were staying here, and taking lots and lots of drugs'... and their only actual plan was to grow a giant squid which would show up every now and again to mess with peoples minds.

[Iangould]

Another totally mad fish.

[Iangould]

Finding planets in other solar systems is getting old-hat.

now we're finding them in other galaxies.