Tag: science
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“Does God Play Dice With The Universe?”: An Intuitive Explanation of Quantum Superposition, Differentiated from the Uncertainty Principle
Firstly, it is worth differentiating quantum superposition from Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle- the former representing the non-classical simultaneous occupation of two (seemingly exclusive) states, and the latter being a constraint on the measurement of a system or state. The most well known example of superposition is Schrodinger’s cat, but I think I can do one better.…
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Principia Primordia – Meditations on the Structure of the Universe – Quantum Phenomena Part 2: Superposition, Entanglement, Quantum Gravity and Dark Matter.
So, to revise what has been previously said: Things exist locally to a frame (the same general area) over a duration, by spinning about an axis or around a point; things either fly through space linearly- into the distance and away, or they orbit around a common point (stars around the galactic centre, planets around…
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The Intersection of AI, Free Will, and Ancient Philosophies
What wisdom can 3000 year old scripture shed on AI and consciousness? Whilst the rest of the old world tried to investigate the nature of reality by studying the objective world, there were a group of people who understood that this endeavour had limits. Given that we experience the world through the subjective lense of…
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Principia Primordia – Meditations on the Structure of the Universe: Quantum Phenomena – Part 1: Superposition of Spin States and Entanglement
Most of us have heard of the famous cat in the box- both dead and alive; a thought experiment intended to highlight the unintuitive behaviour of physics at a quantum level. Well, a cat being dead and alive is a very strange and unintuitive way of describing it as far as I’m concerned- and there’s…
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