Re: QM Primer

2013-11-16 Thread Jason Resch
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 1:13 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/14/2013 11:00 PM, Jason Resch wrote: Telmo, Bruno, I've incorporated your suggestions into an updated document. Thank you. To all: feel free to use these however you find appropriate. Jason If I use it (and I

Re: Everything is real or unreal?

2013-11-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Nov 2013, at 04:51, Samiya Illias wrote: Neils Bohr is famously quoted as saying: 'Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded asreal. He said something close to that in some of his talk on complementarity. It is a bit of a non-sense, easy to derive from the wave

Re: Everything is real or unreal?

2013-11-16 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 5:22 AM, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: Never mind who said it. Considering what we know of quantum mechanics, is everything real made of everything unreal? Does that mean that everything is actually unreal, a holograph, a reflection of our mind, if that is

Re: The self as lens: Leibniz's lens-like model of perception and reality

2013-11-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Nov 2013, at 21:59, LizR wrote: AHA, I can see from your avatar why you're so keen on Leibniz - you're almost his double! :) Are you talking to Roger or me? Not sure which avatar you meant, nor which picture of Leibniz? Don't mind too much ... :) On 16 November 2013 04:57,

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-16 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2013/11/14 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com Hi Alberto, On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote: Yes. I proposed myself not to argue against sectarian apocalypticists because that is a waste of time, Mentioning apocalyptic narratives is an

Re: Everything is real or unreal?

2013-11-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Nov 2013, at 11:32, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 5:22 AM, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: Never mind who said it. Considering what we know of quantum mechanics, is everything real made of everything unreal? Does that mean that everything is actually

Re: Nuclear power

2013-11-16 Thread spudboy100
Cost-ways, I can see this. -Original Message- From: meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Fri, Nov 15, 2013 7:37 pm Subject: Re: Nuclear power On 11/15/2013 4:11 PM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: What about

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-16 Thread spudboy100
Ok, but I am not hostile at all to geothermal, especially if these quakes are very minor ones. This is also true, for me, with fracking nat gas. I am real ok with this. I would sign on the dotted line regarding solar, if I can be assured that Solar can and will power all of civilization's

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-16 Thread spudboy100
I am real ok, with this as well, I have read, in years past, the Amory Lovins, view on things. However behind all the savings, let us agree that due to Newtonian Laws, and Carnot Cycles, we cannot forever, postpone moving to a new energy regime. If you can do it with solar or antimatter,

Re: Everything is real or unreal?

2013-11-16 Thread Alberto G. Corona
That particle interactions can be reduced to math and math to set theory or peano aritmethic or category theory or homotophy type theory resembles me the idea that persons can be reduced to elementary particles, so persons are uninteresting objects. And because I think that knowledge is something

Re: Everything is real or unreal?

2013-11-16 Thread smitra
Quantum mechanics is only an approximate description of the Mathematical Multiverse. The only things that are real are the elements of that Multiverse, which are algorithms (some of them describe people in some computational state). While the details have yet to be worked out (I have been

Re: Everything is real or unreal?

2013-11-16 Thread Craig Weinberg
For humans, this is what is real: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=82c_1384436180 What quantum mechanics tells us is that reality is a relation between fundamental relativism and derived absolutes, as well as derived relativism and fundamental absolutes. In short, reality cannot itself be

Re: Everything is real or unreal?

2013-11-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Nov 2013, at 15:14, Alberto G. Corona wrote: That particle interactions can be reduced to math and math to set theory or peano aritmethic or category theory or homotophy type theory resembles me the idea that persons can be reduced to elementary particles, so persons are

RE: Nuclear power

2013-11-16 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 10:55 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Nuclear power On 11/15/2013 8:36 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: From:

Re: Nuclear power

2013-11-16 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.auwrote: For all the arguments pro and con nuclear fission, including an impassioned speech by a 16 year old last night to a UN Youth Voice competition, what never seems to be discussed is the elephant in the room of how

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-16 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of spudboy...@aol.com Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2013 4:25 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World Ok, but I am not hostile at all to geothermal, especially

Re: Nuclear power

2013-11-16 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.comwrote: LFTR reactors would produce U233 – which is very nasty stuff. Yes but nasty can be your friend. Proliferation is a vastly smaller problem with a LFTR and its U-233 than with a conventional reactor and its

RE: Nuclear power

2013-11-16 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Clark Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2013 10:44 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Nuclear power On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au

RE: Nuclear power

2013-11-16 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Clark Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2013 10:53 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Nuclear power On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-16 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 6:46 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/14/2013 3:30 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 4:19 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Good one, Chris. But you can tell from the posts here that what drives the Deniers is fear of government.

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-16 Thread LizR
On 17 November 2013 08:36, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: No, I am concerned that the global warming scare can be exploited to convince the people to relinquish more of its freedoms to the government. You mean the people still have some freedoms to relinquish? The government

Re: Nuclear power

2013-11-16 Thread John Mikes
Russell wrote: *For all the arguments pro and con nuclear fission, including animpassioned speech by a 16 year old last night to a UN Youth Voicecompetition, what never seems to be discussed is the elephant in theroom of how much uranium resources we have. IIUC, if all fossil fuelpower

RE: Nuclear power

2013-11-16 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Mikes Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2013 12:24 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Nuclear power Russell wrote: For all the arguments pro and con nuclear fission, including

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-16 Thread John Mikes
Telmo: unfortunately I reflected to the NZ solution on another list... - it is a convoluted - I could say: inadeqyate - technology, just as the Au version of the surface utilization. SOME PARTS OF THE WORLD??? let us say: the surface? Solar woulrd cover immense surfaces just for supplying the

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-16 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 9:12 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 17 November 2013 08:36, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: No, I am concerned that the global warming scare can be exploited to convince the people to relinquish more of its freedoms to the government. You mean the

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-16 Thread John Mikes
Brent: that is a convoluted solution! I appreciate that you love sunshine, but keep it for the beach. Have you ever calculated how much surface of the present day efficiency is required to collect - say - 1000 times the energy we use today on the Globe? Think of energy required for the missing

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-16 Thread Telmo Menezes
Hi John, On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 9:33 PM, John Mikes jami...@gmail.com wrote: Telmo: unfortunately I reflected to the NZ solution on another list... - it is a convoluted - I could say: inadeqyate - technology, just as the Au version of the surface utilization. SOME PARTS OF THE WORLD??? let

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-16 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Mikes Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2013 12:33 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World Telmo: unfortunately I reflected to the NZ solution on another

Re: Nuclear power

2013-11-16 Thread spudboy100
Doesn't Thorium 232 need plutonium to initiate a fertile reaction into a fissile one. That is converting Th232 into U233? I have read of Rubbia's proposal for subcritical reactions driven by a proton or laser beam. I have zero idea if it is workable. The abundance of thorium is unassailable

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-16 Thread spudboy100
If you need to push this TW challenge back at me, I would advise using the techno emergence of Graphene for all this electrical because it has made the jump and is being researched world wide. Caveat. This does not guarantee that it will do the job at the TW level, and maybe silicon can? But

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-16 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of spudboy...@aol.com Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2013 1:20 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World If you need to push this TW challenge back at me, I would

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-16 Thread John Mikes
Dear Telmo, oil wells went down deeper than previously estimated as feasible. Techniques are evolving. If 2, 0r 5 pipes are inadequate in transport capacity, use more. Ask the engineers - I also claim ignorance. the geological temperature vertical map is varying according to a lot of factors.

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-16 Thread John Mikes
Chris: if you utter reservoir - you are on the wrong track. Nothing must COME OUT from the depth. Not even what YOU pumped in into open plenum. (My objection against the NZ plant). In Hungary in the 1950s a 'hot spring well' was tried to bring out 'heat' by its own pressure. By the time it reached

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-16 Thread Chris de Morsella
John - The term reservoir has a well understood usage, when speaking about hydraulic fracturing, to describe the engineered rock volume that is filled by micro-fissures, created by injecting water under immense pressure into the rock, at the well head. The injected slurry contains poppants.

Everything you wanted to know about physics...

2013-11-16 Thread LizR
...but were afraid to ask. http://www.openculture.com/2013/05/leonard_susskind_teaches_you_the_theoretical_minimum.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an

Re: Everything is real or unreal?

2013-11-16 Thread Samiya Illias
Bruno wrote: In a sense, with comp, the illusions and dreams are more real that the stuff we imagine, which are useful fictions. Dreams and illusions are not stuff we imagine? How do you differentiate? On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 16 Nov 2013,

Re: Everything is real or unreal?

2013-11-16 Thread LizR
Nothing to get hung (up) about. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email

Re: The self as lens: Leibniz's lens-like model of perception and reality

2013-11-16 Thread LizR
I meant Roger. He uses this picture. Of course I'm working on a theory that makes me a cat looking through a goldfish bowl. (I guess I can't keep it secret any longer!) [image: Inline images 1] On 16 November 2013 23:37, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 15 Nov 2013, at 21:59, LizR

Re: Nuclear power

2013-11-16 Thread LizR
On 16 November 2013 19:54, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/15/2013 8:36 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: First, I think maybe we disagree as to what constitutes a police state. My definition of it is one in which the police can investigate and interrogate anyone at anytime on any

Re: Nuclear power

2013-11-16 Thread LizR
On 17 November 2013 07:30, Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com wrote: That is not what I intend when I mention police state. Security around a dangerous facility is desirable. What I am referring to is the wholesale erosion of civil liberties and the wide scale practice of eavesdropping on

Re: Nuclear power

2013-11-16 Thread LizR
On 17 November 2013 07:44, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.auwrote: For all the arguments pro and con nuclear fission, including an impassioned speech by a 16 year old last night to a UN Youth Voice competition,

Re: Nuclear power

2013-11-16 Thread LizR
I'm glad I brought up the subject of thorium reactors, I have learned a lot more about them than I knew previously (most of it good). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-16 Thread meekerdb
On 11/16/2013 11:36 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: But I certainly take your point that there is a reason the government is not trusted. However, it is not the government that is warning us about global warming. It is in the scientific research literature. You didn't find lies about drones or drugs