Physics
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On time-traveling information and quantum mechanics.
K (who is better at reading the internet than I am) asked me, “Have you seen all those reports about future actions dictating the past?” I promptly rolled my eyes. Thinking, which ones? Because there are a lot of “scientific” studies of that ilk. One of my favorites (“favorite” here meaning “most laughably silly) is…
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On perpetual motion machines (and where to find them).
The invention of a perpetual motion machine will revolutionize the world, and Dr. Harvey Trussbloom has done it! Well, perhaps he didn’t invent it, but he found it. Or, no, not quite found it, but he knows where it is. Roughly. Although perhaps it isn’t entirely accurate to refer to it as a “perpetual motion machine.” …
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On free will.
I like thinking about free will. Talking about it. Writing about it. Even though it’s a waste of time. And really kills parties. Try it sometime, if you don’t believe me… wait until you’re hanging out with some people, having a great time, talking, laughing, and then try to mire everybody in a pedantic discussion…
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On the grain size of reality and, eventually, creative work.
I thought Max Tegmark’s Our Mathematical Universe was fun – he describes some good thought experiments, such as a suicidal contraption to test an idea that wavefunctions don’t collapse and we instead experience randomness due to a bifurcation of realities with perceptual continuity in only one of them – but I didn’t like that he…
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On Cosmos and working through the math.
K and I have been watching that new Cosmos television show. The library had the whole set of DVDs, and she and I have both been tired enough that it’s felt nice to zonk out with some television in the evening while N is having her fifth dinner. K really likes the show. Things were perhaps…
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