"and there are many practitioners in this field of quantum physics who are proposing that the second law doesn't apply to systems that are i
Information based on photons has great advantages; photons interact only very weakly with the environment - unlike electrons, so photons do not lose much energy along the way and can therefore be sent over long distances. Photons are therefore very well suited for carrying and distributing information and a quantum network based on photons will be able to encode much more information than is possible...
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Professor Biercuk highlighted the challenges of making predictions in a quantum world: "Humans routinely employ predictive techniques in our daily experience; for instance, when we play tennis we predict where the ball will end up based on observations of the airborne ball," he said.
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"This works because the rules that govern how the ball will move, like gravity, are regular and...
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alwyn:
and this is how my psychology teacher kind of explained things to me like that personalities are a constant. But how much information of controlled variables does this program they have made actually take before making a prediction.
alwyn:
The predictions were remarkably accurate, allowing the team to use their guesses preemptively to compensate for the anticipated changes.Doing this in real time allowed the team to prevent the disintegration of the quantum character, extending the useful lifetime of the qubits.Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-01-quantum-future-literally.html#jCp
Scientists at the University of Sydney have demonstrated the ability to "see" the future of quantum systems, and used that knowledge to preempt their demise, in a major achievement that could help bring the strange and powerful world of quantum technology closer to reality.
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The Milky Way galaxy, like most large galaxies, has a supermassive black hole at its center, but some galaxies are centered on lighter, intermediate-mass black holes. RX J1140.1+0307 is such a galaxy—in fact, it is centered on one of the lowest black hole masses known in any luminous galactic core.
What puzzles scientists about this particular galaxy is that the calculations don't add up....
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"Just after the star came around the sun last year, we started looking at it through the Krizmanich Telescope, and we were shocked to see it was seven times fainter than it had ever been before," said Colin Littlefield, a member of the Garnavich lab. "The dimming is a sign that the donating star stopped sending matter to the compact dwarf, and it's unclear why....
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alwyn:
"We had never seen anything like this before," Garnavich said. "For two hours, it would flash quickly and then the next two hours it would pulse more slowly."Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-01-astrophysicists-dimming-binary-star.html#jCp
alwyn:
Intermediate polars are interesting binary systems because the low-density star drops gas toward the compact dwarf, which catches the matter using its strong magnetic field and funnels it to the surface, a process called accretion.Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-01-astrophysicists-dimming-binary-star.html#jCp
alwyn:
fuck this is like so cool
"And there are many practitioners in this field of quantum physics who are proposing that the second law doesn't apply to systems that are in a state that's far from equilibrium, but we show that it does."
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I think what he is talking about here is trump. entropy, yep disorder even without equilibrium, but this is an occurrence true. I just...
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two sticks which, when rubbed together, produce a fire, are themselves burned up in the blaze. Just so, the dense wood of all conceptual bearings of both existence and non existence will be totally consumed by the fires of wisdom of ascertaining that all phenomena lack true existence. To abide in that primal wisdom in which all concepts have subsided-this is indeed the great madhyamaka,...
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