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=== The Days of Our Quantum Lives ===
=== The Days of Our Quantum Lives ===


Like Einstein tossing dice with Schrödinger's cat, these are the Days of Our Lives.
Like Einstein tossing dice with Schrödinger's cat, these are the Days of Our Quantum Lives.
 
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Revision as of 18:10, 4 May 2020

Online diary of Karl Jones for Monday May 4, 2020.

Diary

Cosmic Uncertainty

"We found a hint that that number of the fine structure constant was different in certain regions of the universe. Not just as a function of time, but actually also in direction in the universe, which is really quite odd if it's correct ... but that's what we found."

- John Webb, University New South Wales

Makes me think about Uncertainty ... first the uncertainty that drives scientists to experiment ... then, eventually, the Uncertainty of the limits of our perception, scaled to extremes in space and time ... touch the nuclei of atoms, receive starlight from the Big Bang ... does the Uncertainty come from us mortal fleshy things, or does Uncertainty inhere in Creation?

To be a primate is to be highly uncertain, that's for sure

To be a primate is to be highly uncertain, that's for sure.

The Days of Our Quantum Lives

Like Einstein tossing dice with Schrödinger's cat, these are the Days of Our Quantum Lives.

Update: We are the Croupiers in this game.

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