It's just inconsistent that it allows me to load the flag dialog, but gives no indication that i'd have to wait two more seconds to actually flag the post
In addition to the answer regarding how some objects of pure research turn out to be monumentally important (and we don't know ahead of time which ones they'll be), there is another point worth considering.
What does it mean for something to "benefit" people/citizens/society? You might instantly...
@ACuriousMind the commutative case (set theory constructed on boolean algebras) there is this work of gaisi takeuti math.or.jp/publication/PublMSJ/PDF/Vol13.pdf ; there the reals are commutative observables and statements about the reals are immediately translated into statement about observables (classical mechanics)
for the quantum version, there are less results, but you can construct a set theory that is almost ZFC over an algebra of projections on a Hilbert (where the projection on the zero vector means false, the projection on the whole space true, and the rest are roughly speaking "intermediate truth values")
and the reals in this case are all the self-adjoint operators affiliated with the algebra of projections ;-)
"In Bermuda Triangles, rumours are there, that one can see the past. So, is it just like a minor black hole with immense gravitational pull, that we can travel past like the actor did in the cinema?"
So, where does one buy cheap textbooks (physics/mathematics) online?
Book review for L&L volume 2: "When I phase transition off this mortal coil, I'm going to be cremated. This is one of the 5 books that will fry with me. Its power and beauty still make me weep."
I answered a certain question correctly on p-n-p transistors and doping in Phys.SE and the answer was accepted and voted up. I got +25 reputation for that. Today I came to know that the question has been migrated to Electrical Engineering.SE community. Side by side, I have lost 25 reputation for ...
NbRCeID 2 http://www.sciencemag.org/content/349/6251/952 I wonder when we will finally able to see a cat sized object quantum mechanically vibrating like the mechanical device in this article...?
My question got upvoted on Meta but I got no reputation for that. All of my questions which got upvoted on Phy.SE gave me reputation. Any plausible reason for that not happening in this case?
@Secret You won't be able to see it, because all the interaction with the light that is required to see it will probably destroy any state in which the position uncertainty is large enough to see it.
Agreed Still it is kinda amazing how far we have got, over the years we have seen quantum effects starting at the level of atoms, then molecules and then to something as large as a virus
Now the above example we have something that can be seen with our eyes, and that's kinda amazing
Everytime I saw researches like these, it does make me wonder on how far we can push the limits
@Secret You see quantum effects every day. The fusion in the sun relies mainly on the quantum tunnelling probability of one nucleus through the repulsive barrier of the other (since they are equally charged). That research is somewhat interesting, but it's really not as if we didn't have enough evidence of quantum physics as it is.
@obe I read about it in S. Weinberg, Lectures on Quantum Mechanics.
@DanielSank You're missing the point. They've done stuff I can never do, but the stuff you call me a "genius" for is stuff they can learn in a few years. When I filled out the application to the internship/co-op department, they didn't ask me if I knew what an associated bundle is, they wanted to know if I could code C++, Java, whatever and where I had interned in high school!
@skillpatrol If you're referring to Carothers Real Analysis, yes, I did get it. I'm also returning it because I can't even do the exercises on the first page.
I looked up what book the intro analysis class uses at UT and downloaded it from Springer.
@0celo7 : steer clear of quantum computing. It's jam-tomorrow pseudoscience that's been pimped and peddled for forty years but has gone nowhere. Meanwhile real computing has advanced by leaps and bounds and changed the world. If you're interested in the general theme find out about optical computing.
@Slereah Indeed. I have a more conventional book on order from the library. But that book might give me a good way to channel my desire to learn measure theory and functional analysis.
@JohnDuffield Thanks but I'm not going ignore it just because you said so.
Uh lol that @santiago should have been @skillpatrol.
@skillpatrol stop scaring the poor guy. If there are actual problems with the coursework load cause he spends too much time doing other things, he'll notice soon enough
I have not seen any more centipedes in here...I conclude that the one I saw was a statistical anomaly, likely the result of quantum tunneling though the walls.
