tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884461091177489373.post2139008791773677301..comments2015-08-21T18:36:39.772+05:30Comments on Constructive Interference: MajinVyaashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15083889422016649280noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884461091177489373.post-46799839674475602062012-03-12T22:16:33.297+05:302012-03-12T22:16:33.297+05:30Ah! I should have known. That sentence didn't ...Ah! I should have known. That sentence didn't seem to make much sense otherwise! <br /><br />I wish there were an easier way to read quantum mechanics, but without the math, there's no way one can appreciate it. Feynman's lectures on quantum electrodynamics are a good starting point. Little to no math at all and very well presented: http://dft.ba/-25s2Vyaashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15083889422016649280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884461091177489373.post-5302072602645582792012-03-12T03:45:05.466+05:302012-03-12T03:45:05.466+05:30Lol, that was a typo. I meant to type "Now&qu...Lol, that was a typo. I meant to type "Now" and I typed 'noe' instead.<br />I even read the first two chapters on a treatise of quantum mechanics before the maths got too intense.Michael Bazellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05513957228999474078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884461091177489373.post-19691134848461537222012-03-12T03:22:59.138+05:302012-03-12T03:22:59.138+05:30I had no idea that majins were a Dragonball Z thin...I had no idea that majins were a Dragonball Z thing.<br /><br />Gravitational effects at the center of the black hole and time at the event horizon are perfectly valid majins and can be mixed. Its what physicists do for a living. Mixing majins is the prime reason for the LHC and other billion dollar research projects.<br /><br />No doubt nature is complex, and I don't deny that packaging her into 'poetical unity' might prove to be a failure. But if that sort of thinking persisted 150 years ago, this- me rambling on the internet, would not have happened. Packaging electricity and magnetism was an essential step in civilization's progress. There is no reason to dismiss the idea that a bigger package exists.<br /><br />Quantum mechanics is not accepted as fact? I'm sorry, but that sounds at best medieval. Quantum mechanics has withstood the most diligent of observations. I urge you to read Schrodinger's nobel lecture where he points out the paradigm shift that is required in our thinking. We cannot simply plant the flag of ignorance saying our perceptions and intuitions fail to predict nature correctly. We will probe and thank goodness that statistically we've been on the right track. There is so much left to figure out; our plates are full. Infact, as our good friend Suppy once said, "Our eternal quest for information indeed suggests that there is an eternity's worth of information to quest after." I paraphrase of course.Vyaashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15083889422016649280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884461091177489373.post-51082912740978387802012-03-12T02:53:44.747+05:302012-03-12T02:53:44.747+05:30Welcome back!That means I can go off on a creative...Welcome back!That means I can go off on a creative hiatus.<br />First off, Dragon Ball Z reference?<br />Yes, there are some awesome majins out there, but like drinking and driving, some can't be mixed and if done, the results aren't pretty. The laws of the macro and the quantum are suitably separated, but what if the two were to collide? Like gravitational effects at the center of a black hole? Or the concept of time at the event horizon? Sometimes it's mankind's whim to neatly package away the laws of nature into a poetical unity, but Nature can be complex and unyielding and there's nothing we can do about it. Einstein said that God doesn't play dice with the Universe, but look- quantum mechanics with all its complexities are noe accepted as fact. So I guess we should marvel at the wonders of the Universe and revel in our limited understanding of it.Michael Bazellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05513957228999474078noreply@blogger.com