Wigners_friend

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[–] Wigners_friend@piefed.social 6 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (3 children)

It wouldn't work, even in principle. They want to force you to live by their lunacy. It would be totally pointless if they couldn't exert power over the unwilling.

[–] Wigners_friend@piefed.social -4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (3 children)

Great answer, but it unfortunately is taken seriously. The reason is because it is an "end of the road" hypothesis. It tells you all the weirdness is fundamental and no further thought is required. Just like good old Copenhagen. The unfalsifiability is a virtue here, it's a complete explanatin without the messy testing. Now stop thinking, shut up, and calculate.

[–] Wigners_friend@piefed.social -2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

If we sufficiently torture the word "simplest".

A reasonable approach, but melting is a phase transition. It's a collective behaviour. What the experiment shows is that quantum phenomena happen fast enough to make thermodynamics a bit strange. Probably because it is formulated in terms of continuous maths and atoms are discrete.

[–] Wigners_friend@piefed.social -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (9 children)

Energy-time relations have no link to the uncertainty principle. They apply to classical cameras for instance. There are no "energy fluctuations", you cannot magically get energy from nothing as long as you give it back quickly, like some kind of loan.

This is because the energy-time relation works for particular kinds of time, like lifetime of excitations or shutter times on cameras. Not just any time coordinate value.

Edit: down votes from the scientifically illiterate are fun. Let's not listen to a domain expert, let's quote wiki and wallow in collective ignorance.

It's stronger than a classical one, yes. But Einstein's description is mocking the idea of entanglement as an active link that allows distant states to be changed by local actions.

[–] Wigners_friend@piefed.social 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Deus ex human revolution: explores a meta narrative of how you use power in computer games. Your character has incredible capability. You could obliterate every enemy with ease. It's a completely different game if you try to avoid killing those who are just getting by (sure a security guard will shoot you, but they are expecting lethal terrorists). You use the power you have to avoid killing, not to make it easy.

[–] Wigners_friend@piefed.social 26 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

"Smarter than you think" and "Similar to tiktok trends"...These are contradictory. Unless you thought our ancestors had undergone total lobotomies

[–] Wigners_friend@piefed.social 23 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Positrons don't move backwards in time in any physical sense. Their mathematical representation is like an electron with a negative time coordinate but this is physically dubious because it fails in curved spacetimes. Electron-positron pairs are entangled because they are correlated by the process that created the pair. Entanglement is just a correlation, not some magical link.

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