merovingian | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 24 2007 | Parallel, Universe, Quantum
Mathematical proof for existence of Parallel Universes by Oxford scientists.
Quoted: Parallel universes really do exist, according to a mathematical discovery by Oxford scientists described by one expert as "one of the most important developments in the history of science".
To my roommates at calTech, I told you so.
- merovingian | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 20 2008 | humor
"This is fucking awesome"
ShareViewed: 3 Times - merovingian | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 10 2008 | military, spending, taxes
42.2 Cents of every tax dollar spent on the military tops the list
Quoted: How Your Tax Dollars Are Spent
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merovingian | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 10 2008 | video, iphone, rap, humor
click to playThe iphone rap video has arrived
Quoted: Hit me if you want me baby I'll be on my iphone.
ShareViewed: 10 Times- merovingian | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 10 2007 | bush, government, lawsuit
German guy abducted from Germany by U.S. using CIA's "extraordinary rendition" program and held in Kabul for 4 months where he claims he was tortured. Turns out the CIA got the wrong guy and now he wants $75k in compensation. Supreme Court rejects hearing the case without comment and say "state secrets" would be revealed if either the Justices themselves or the court were given access to the information for which the hearing would be based.
Bonus:
Quoted: The state secrets privilege arose from a 1953 Supreme Court ruling that allowed the executive branch to keep secret, even from the court, details about a military plane's fatal crash... Three widows sued to get the accident report after their husbands died aboard a B-29 bomber, but the Air Force refused to release it claiming that the plane was on a secret mission to test new equipment. The high court accepted the argument, but when the report was released decades later there was nothing in it about a secret mission or equipment.
ShareViewed: 1 Time - merovingian | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 20 2007 | senate, habeas corpus, government, civil rights
A vote in the US Senate fell four votes short of what was needed to restore habeas corpus — the fundamental right of individuls to challenge government detention. Here is the record of the vote on the Cloture Motion to restore Habeas Corpus. Article 4 of the US Constitution states that habeas corpus shall not be suspended unless in cases of rebellion and invasion when the public safety may require it.
ShareViewed: 3 Times - merovingian | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 01 2007
Best Beef Jerky. I thought I would share this with any jerky lovers out there. Enjoy
ShareViewed: 4 Times - merovingian | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 30 2007 | news
The Forbes 40
Quoted: We looked at 40 of the largest urbanized areas in the country and judged them on culture, nightlife, job growth, the cost of living alone, ...
ShareViewed: 2 Times - merovingian | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 22 2007 | ny times, mice, excercise, brain
Scientists have suspected for decades that exercise, particularly regular aerobic exercise, can affect the brain. But they could only speculate as to how. Now an expanding body of research shows that exercise can improve the performance of the brain by boosting memory and cognitive processing speed. Exercise can, in fact, create a stronger, faster brain.
ShareViewed: 1 Time - merovingian | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 03 2007 | plame, libby, bush
You knew this was going to happen. Politicians don't do jail time.
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You must be Michael's friend before you can comment on this Fave.cmon bitch, wtf! Don't capitalize that fucking T!! Caltech mother fucker!
Doesn't prove free will doesn't exist.
I like this snippet from a slashdot poster:
"The Many-Worlds concept of quantum mechanics was originally presented as an interpretation of the theory. It was viewed by many as being ridiculous, or "non-economical with universes" as the joke goes. Work in fields like quantum decoherence has, over the last few decades, helped to explain how "normal" (classical) states emerge from quantum superpositions. Decoherence, briefly, explains how a superposition of quantum states evolves deterministically (no randomness!) into a discrete set of pseudo-classical states (due to entanglement with the many degrees of freedom available in the "environment"--i.e. the universe at large). This extension to quantum mechanics has been tested experimentally and verified.
The remaining issue in a theory of quantum + decoherence is that the classical states have the right probabilities, but there is still nothing to explain why we observe a particular classical state (photon measured spin-up instead of spin-down). However the (ad-hoc) postulate of wavefunction collapse, no longer being necessary to explain how the probabilities arise, can in fact be entirely removed if we allow that the global superposition never collapses.
Thus, a local observer (e.g. an instrument or a human) perceives a single outcome only because they are a participant in this "global superposition" (the superposition of the entire universe). The wavefunction of the universe as a whole evolves deterministically."
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