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excerpt 1 of 6
 2006-05-17 15:25 |
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 perception is science
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Observation is knocking a photon into it or whatever. It's not the conscious act of seeing or perceiving the presence of something. I can stare at a double slit with an electron wave-packet passing...
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2006-05-17 20:46 |
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My point was that it has nothing to do with consciousness. Since the electron is accelerating it will radiate any way, so I'll see it whether I bounce radiation off it any way. Use wave-function...
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2006-05-17 21:00 |
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If you do want a Quantum Mechanics text book, Leslie Ballentine's is damn good. More concise than a lot of other QM text books I've seen. Otherwise, Sakurai or Griffin are the standard introductory...
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2006-05-18 12:17 |
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Re: perception is science
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The notation for a wave-function is usually Ψ. Wave-functions are the things that appear in the Schrodinger equation (http://tinyurl.com/kh97h). Wave-functions aren't the only thing available for...
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2006-05-18 21:54 |
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The wave-function is just a statistical measure. Take pulling balls arbirarilly from a bag as an example. I can describe the outcomes of this process with statistics. All the statistics does though...
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2006-05-19 09:36 |
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What does string theory have to do with it? It's not even what I'd call physics.
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