@DanielSank My superstitous side cautions me not to talk so much about it before I've signed anything, but I likely got a job as a software developer, yes.
@Phase Not quite, but I highly recommend picking it up at that price, yes
Well i wanted to know. Can the laws of quantum physic apply to all matter and not just photons and stuff but this matter CHOOSE to behave in a predictable way that we all understand and can make formulas to predict how it will behave?
First of all, as far as science is concerned, nothing chooses to behave quantum-mechanically.
The world just works that way.
Second of all, sure, it's possible that the natural world is all choosing to behave in some way that makes it easy for us to describe, but that it could choose to behave differently some day. However, if that's the case, it's useless to discuss it until we actually see that happen.
There's absolutely nothing you can gain (scientifically) by talking about behavior that might exist unless it's behavior we can at least imagine looking for with an experiment.
@DanielSank "Core technology" for SAP, may involve stuff like working on the compiler for their language, building database interfaces, security testing - mostly low-level stuff that their actual products then build on.
@DeusIIXII Right, like... even more simply, we could imagine that quantum mechanics doesn't work at some level, and we can propose all kinds of alternative theories. Those proposals are only truly useful if they either give us an idea for an experiment or give us a better way to describe the experiments we've already done.
@ACuriousMind Good for you. Will you take it if they give you an offer?
@skullpatrol What about it? I realized I like physics but don't want to make a living out of it, and that long-form research doesn't play exactly to my strengths.
@ACuriousMind The only other one we ever actually did any work on was our blog about audio equipment... which I really want to go back to!
@ACuriousMind Oh, yeah the chat server thingy is fun. It's just a way to dip my feet into new programming languages: i.e. implement the protocol in each new language.