williamjennings

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by williamjennings 11y ago
Spooks at government agencies are not the spirits of dead people; they are merely remote observers. The word ghost is translated as geist, like in the word 'poltergeist'.
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by williamjennings 11y ago
Spooks can also refer to watchers. There are CIA spooks, idiomatically. Ghost is translated as geist.
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by williamjennings 11y ago
It is important to note here that Einstein was not being translated from German properly into English. 'Spuk' has a meaning akin to spook in the sense of a remote observer; Rather than 'spooky', which is an adjective re
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by williamjennings 11y ago
Octopodes do not beg to differ, they tergiversate to genuflect. The thing to recognize is that tentacles predate arms, legs, or fins by millennia. Jellyfish tentacles have fewer kinds of parts than any arm, hence they constitute simpler ma
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by williamjennings 11y ago
In this context, the word moot is a synonym for false. You are omitting the word "normalized wave function" from your description of the Born Rule; it is a key part of the mathematical justification. The squared amplitude does no
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by williamjennings 11y ago
Because thermodynamics at the time espoused normally distributed error as dictated by Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics; Born used a normalized wave function to solve Schroedinger's equation. Thermodynamics and Linear Algebra have gotten mo
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by williamjennings 11y ago
It isn't fundamentally easier to control an arm than a tentacle; That is human intuition based on the fact that we have arms. Limiting the number of degrees of freedom is something done at the level of experimental design for the pro
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by williamjennings 11y ago
Most of the contradictions arise as epistemological forks in the context of molecular spectroscopy with nuclear decay events. Thusly, it is a question of whose theories to use, and the Born rule is moot when the distribution of particles i
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by williamjennings 11y ago
The rigidity is the expensive part. Modeling has gotten easier with parallel distributed computing. Reliability is of qualia that I would only attribute to platinum group metals. If heat causes errors in an organic synthesis, then that r
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by williamjennings 11y ago
Talk about Non sequitur! It does not seem like you understand my use of the word 'default'; because scales are nested, the nanoscale is everywhere. One can design molecular machines using classical models; but those models are ch
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by williamjennings 11y ago
My opinion is that the Copenhagen interpretation does not contradict DeBroglie in terms of nuclear chemistry, but solely thermodynamics. The Copenhagen interpretation makes a leap of faith with the Born Rule as it is based on Maxwell-Boltzm
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by williamjennings 11y ago
Even when intuition fails, intuitionist logic may still prove quite useful.
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Smalley was obviously right because Drexler thought that nanotechnology would eventually become something like mechanical engineering. That does not work, because quantum mechanics are the default nanoscale rules. However, Drexler was able
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by williamjennings 11y ago
There are a lot of geolocations in that area where you can still walk out onto sandbars during low tide. In this map, much of the green zone around Denmark is seasonally 'land'. Ye auld name for that peninsula, "Jutland&quot
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by williamjennings 11y ago
The Black Sea is aquatically contiguous with the Mediterranean, so it is safe to say that there was a spanning civilization in that climate zone, after humanity migrated north of the Sahara. Some of the metals and ceramics found in these si