VZ: according to jensen, dopfer has speculated or hypothesized/suggested that "heisenberg detectors" are sending out photons. this is the "active detector"...
hi scerir.. I forget..did you ever work in a physics laboratory? or as an academic? you described yourself as a farmer once, but its hard to grasp that...
... # I worked in the Rome University (Istit. di Fisica) for a very short time (few months). Then, for family reasons, I became a farmer (not so good though!)....
America's enemies will now know how to bring our bridges down Abundant world press coverage of this latest Mississippi bridge disaster has finally alerted the...
hi scerir. so you are a dreamer like me. maybe we will both get our hands on a real qm "apparatus" someday? were you a theorist or a hands-on guy at the...
hi all, this book "einstein defiant" by edmund blair bolles is one of the best Ive ever read on qm theory.. just finished reading it. (baggott's "meaning of...
hi all, always great to see citations of spintronics in the news. its heating up all over the world. heres a recent conference in NY. I should look it up &...
hi all I was pondering a title for a possible paper I could write on my apparatus, once its done. maybe "worlds cheapest qm experiment". or maybe "home grown...
6th August 1945 when Japan suffered first Atomic explosion In the month of August in 1945 atomic explosions devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing over...
this sounds like a very innovative & creative paper, I havent read it. I agree with the conclusion that noise is going to be the main constraint on qm...
... Err^2. Cramer did not invent it, and the proper name is 'bilking'. -scerir :-) see also http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/07/17/274531.aspx?p=1...
scott aaronson is quite brilliant & Ive profiled some of his writing on my other blog. the complexity zoo is a herculean (sisyphean, too?) effort. but lately I...
from scott aaronsons blog. I missed this. a nice new yorker article on LHC http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/05/14/070514fa_fact_kolbert?currentPage=1...
hi all a few yrs ago I just web-ordered some polarizer film from polarizer.com. this is the company that is supporting sci am's "delayed choice" home...
sorry, typo!! **hrs** ago is when I ordered the polarizer film. about 15 *yrs* ago, when I was in college, I remember a physics professor holding up two...
hi all these researchers are claiming simultaneous light transmission. I would say the critiera for this should be faster-than-light signalling (which I dont...
ok!! last nite I think I finally got all the supplies I need. I went to walmart & a local supermarket. oh, its such an obvious idea, but I didnt think of it....
hi all, something else occurred to me about scott aaronson. now, this is not exactly a criticism, but I bet he has never touched a physics experiment in his...
The paper should be this one http://www.arxiv.org/abs/0708.0681 They write: "The 'evanescent modes' and 'tunneling' violate the theory of special relativity,...
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hi all, here are some interesting pages on aspect I ran across. now around 60 or so. its great to have such a pioneer alive. heres info on his gold medal...
Maybe even better: Aspect's mentor, Bernard d'Espagnat, who did more than anyone to bring Bell's Theorem into the living room and who's now pushing ninety at...
"putting time in a leaky bottle" by sharon begley. talks about the new emerging science of "weak measurements" in quantum mechanics which supposedly defies the...
hi RP yeah esagnat is a great writer, I have his last book "veiled reality" although Ive never gotten the nerve to read the whole thing. have you read any of...
Vaidman wrote a resume about that here http://www.arxiv.org/abs/0706.1348 Note that many experiments have been performed. One of them (at least)is this one ...
The article is interesting but I don't understand one aspect of its progression. The article discusses "weak measurements," and the article discusses sensing...