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GeekNights 091019 - Use Your Tech!
Tonight on GeekNights we discuss people not using technology they already have. In the news, Droid does what iDon't and reverse doomsday at the LHC.
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The thing that confuses most people is that you can "fiddle" with the photons, i.e., you can decide in which orientation you measure the polarization. You hear about "wave functions collapsing" and "spooky action at a distance" but all this does is add a level of mathematical complexity, it does not change the applicability of the "paper" analogy above. Also, moving only one of the boxes will not magically make opening the boxes retro-causal.
And while I'm on the subject, reverse causality is verboten on the same level as breaking the second law of thermodynamics. This does not mean that it doesn't have applicability, it has been used to explain, e.g., the existence of positrons, the anti particle of the electron. Invariably better explanations crop up, and in that case, what initially was classified as particles with negative energy moving backwards in time become anti-particles moving forward in time. If you have reverse causality (or "stuff going backwards in time") in your theory (as e.g. some string theory models have) it just means that there is something that you haven't yet fully understood.
More important than all of this, is to understand that he playground of all these ideas are exotic theoretical situations and gedanken experiments which have little if nothing to do with anything that could even theoretically exist in nature (intersecting ring shaped charged black holes anyone?). And the problem is that sometimes these things get picked up by the mainstream media and presto: "The LHC Destroys the Universe Because it can Create Strange Matter False Vacua!"
And I wish I had a programmable thermostat, but...20 year old apartment.
Also, no firearms on amazon.
On a side note, since I've stopped driving on a regular basis, my tolerance for stupid driving has diminished significantly.
If I had any sort of say in government I would start by sending out engineers to optimize existing infrastructure while I made plans to upgrade.
Personally I do not really like cruise control. My right leg grows very uncomfortable after 10 to 20 minutes of turning on the cruise control compared to never having problems when driving without it for hours. My leg just cramps up doing nothing but pointing my foot up and hovering above the pedals.
Don't do that.
When using cruise control, I just put my foot flat on the floor, as if I were sitting in the passenger seat.
Also, why has no one seen the new Droid yet? Why can't they market it and sell it at the same time? I want one now!
Why is it crazy not to, anyway? Doesn't seem like something that really effects things that much, except for your own comfort and ease, which is a purely subjective measurement.