So, as it happens, Malus’s law is all that’s needed to break Bell’s inequalities and the like, as Spreeuw discovered in the late 90s. The conclusion that was drawn from this work is however wrong and has unfortunately prevailed since: It appears that one distinguishes “local (or clas...
The ethical ideal of Democritus is that of a serenity of mind reached through moderation and balance, by trusting in reason and not allowing oneself to be overwhelmed by passions.believing that everything that happens has a purpose; very misleading for understanding the ways of natureThe smaller ...
This is where the population of the pretransition flexible native state reaches a maximum. Hyperfluorescence of a fluorophore is only observed when its native fluorescence quantum yield is fairly low. Increased conformational flexibility also affects other fluorescence observables, such as the anisotropy....
Everything in the universe is steadily sliding down the slope toward the supreme equality of wasted heat and maximum entropy. We see the slope all around us in many ways. Because of entropy, fast- moving things slow down, order fizzles into chaos, and it costs something for any type of ...
[It] just happens that the boulders too large to be to be carried, to be carried out. And this irate woman then said, of course, this is your story, but I know that you fancy her anyway, because she’s prettier than I, and she should play the role of the jealous housewife, she...
One reason I think earlier use is better is that, at least with covid, most of the real damage happens when the virus reaches the lungs. If iodine gargles can form a firewall that prevents an upper respiratory infection from becoming a lower respiratory infection, you’ve prevented most (...
When analyzing the sequences of statesCSandQSwe have alluded to the past, present and future, which would be an emergent concept determined by the evolution of the entropy of the system. This seems clear in classical reality. But as reasoned, the sequence of quantum states is indistinguishable...
In a certain way, what happens with the growth of the difference principle in a rule of three that is the maximin criterion is the same as what happens with Adam Smith’s argument in the analogy of the invisible hand. Although it is John Rawls himself, in Political Liberalism, who realise...
It often happens that the small fluctuations in financial time series are noise whereas the medium and large fluctuations carry meaningful information. It was reported in the literature that cryptocurrencies can also show such asymmetric 𝑓(𝛼)f(α) spectra [6,14]. From the perspective of ...
So what happens when the electron field is disturbed by a passing photon is that a disturbance is set up that has some electron-like disturbance with net negative electric charge, and some positron-like disturbance with net positive charge, but the disturbance as a whole, like the photon ...