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Since there has been a lot of science talk lately...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... um+physics

my brain just ran out of my ear..... that was cooool

Very cool indeed!

its damn baffling

Intriguing...

I might just have to ask my sister about this. She's (about to be) a physicist.

Oh yeah,

I remember seeing something like this a couple of months ago on wired or space.com, cant remember. This video was one hell of a lot easier to digest than what I read back then but after about an hour of re-reading the tutorial, my world had been shaken.

I will try to post the link to what I read if I can find it.

Just totally and completely mind boggling.

Double slit experiment is a cool name for a band I always thought.

*edit = the first one:
http://www.space.com/searchforlife/quan ... 41111.html

the second one: http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/12-31-2004-63619.asp

the third (and most inpalatable): http://www.mtnmath.com/faq/meas-qm.html

Damn...

Ah...quantum uncertainty. Outstanding.





I was actually expecting that to be about light...wave? particle?
WTF IS IT!!!! (metal physicist there )

Good stuff mo, and good links too, 'blud.
The 3rd one...Schrödinger's Cat...
Shall we, or shall we not?

thank u wiseblud

my friend who showed me this stuff can get more info on it as his ex is a massively obsessed with astro physics. She's not even a nerd!

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This sort of thing is precisely why I want to major in biology instead.

physics is so much better than biology... but me being the fool I am, dropped it for Business Studies. SOOO SHIT. All because I got to my new school a few weeks later than everyone started and I wasn't assed to catch up.

mo wrote:physics is so much better than biology... but me being the fool I am, dropped it for Business Studies. SOOO SHIT. All because I got to my new school a few weeks later than everyone started and I wasn't assed to catch up.

I can relate to that, Mo. I love science but I am kind of a "pure" science Mongrel. I know just enough to make me sound intelligent/idiotic depending upon the audience I am talking to. If I had my way, I would have invested more of my education in Mathematics and less in the Arts. I feel that I would have been pretty good at it, but now I am in the health sciences, which tends to be almost the antithesis of pure science, I have to be concerned with how people feel.

I guess what interests me most about physics and astronomy is that it is more of a religious thing to me than any religion has ever been. To research one or the other, is to break down and analyze the minutia of the universe in order to infer the order of things and understand the hands of god. Okay I just got a little melodramatic, but what I am trying to say is that if I spent my time doing that, it would be pimp.

I made my choice, I will be Dr. Wiseblud in a little over a year, spending time fixing squealing hearing aids and talking to people about the ringing in their ears, secretly and insensitively screaming in my mind that they need to "man up" and stop mewling about things that they can not change.

Okay back on topic, as far as Schrödinger's cat is concerned and the fact that it takes an observation in order to collapse the supersposition of states dead cat/live cat ( particle/wave, like the interference pattern seen in the double slit experiment), I would have to say that as long as the cat was the observer, the gas would never be released. So the lesson for cats is this, if trapped in a box with a particle sensor and poison gas, it is best to sleep with one eye open.

In case you are wondering, yes I had a bad day and no I do not know that I am not making sense.

Not exactly, but your dedication to the preservation of feline existence is to be congratulated!

I watched the first part of the movie called "What the *Bleep* Do We Know.
VERY interesting!

http://www.whatthebleep.com is the site.

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