Scientists Just Discovered an Entirely New Way of Measuring Time
Marking the passage of time in a world of ticking clocks and swinging pendulums is a simple case of counting the seconds between 'then' and 'now'.
Down at the quantum scale of buzzing electrons, however, 'then' can't always be anticipated. Worse still, 'now' often blurs into a haze of uncertainty. A stopwatch simply isn't going to cut it for some scenarios.
A potential solution could be found in the very shape of the quantum fog itself, according to researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden.
Their experiments on the wave-like nature of something called a Rydberg state have revealed a novel way to measure time that doesn't require a precise starting point.
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Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: ↑Tue Nov 01, 2022 11:36 am https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technolo ... r-AA13z9XK
Scientists Just Discovered an Entirely New Way of Measuring Time
Schrodinger was right. And now my head hurts.
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I wish people would stop discovering things I don’t understand
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I no longer feel like the Lone Ranger. That research is a puzzler. It's like "how can you say what time it is without saying what time it is." I sent it to my oldest brother and will get his input.
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And what does the cat look like here and then when he's there.
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good discussion.
I’m off and on reading Carl Jung’s autobiography. I lol’ed at the section where he describes his absolute inability, at 12, to grasp mathematics. He basically described it as you did, tek.
I’m off and on reading Carl Jung’s autobiography. I lol’ed at the section where he describes his absolute inability, at 12, to grasp mathematics. He basically described it as you did, tek.
…just an elaborate artifice that seems to hold together - based on other artifices.
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We are twinkies! I too, also, read his autobiography on and off! One of my good friend's husband has been participating in a Jung Dream Group for over twenty years!
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All this stuff is written on that little label on the inside of the door to the TARDIS that nobody ever reads.
The more I learn about this planet, the more improbable it all seems.
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Quantum purrs of Schrodinger’s Cat…
Not a bad description of interference at the quantum level of wave and particle characteristics. It gets resolved at a constant speed…
Not a bad description of interference at the quantum level of wave and particle characteristics. It gets resolved at a constant speed…
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“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat.
“I don’t much care where—” said Alice.
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O let not virtue seek
Remuneration for the thing it was
For Beauty, Wit,
High birth, vigor of bone, desert in service,
Love, Friendship, Charity, are subjects all
To envious, and calumniating, Time.
Remuneration for the thing it was
For Beauty, Wit,
High birth, vigor of bone, desert in service,
Love, Friendship, Charity, are subjects all
To envious, and calumniating, Time.
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Then there's time when your shitty NPD kid has stolen your grandkid from you for a year.
It's forever.
It's forever.