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Friday, November 18, 2011
Quantum waves real? SOPA reality distortion field?
Eugenie Samuel Reich
17 November 2011
www.nature.com
At the heart of the weirdness for which the field of quantum mechanics is famous is the wavefunction, a powerful but mysterious entity that is used to determine the probabilities that quantum particles will have certain properties. Now, a preprint posted onlineon 14 November1 reopens the question of what the wavefunction represents — with an answer that could rock quantum theory to its core. Whereas many physicists have generally interpreted the wavefunction as a statistical tool that reflects our ignorance of the particles being measured, the authors of the latest paper argue that, instead, it is physically real.
read the full article below....
http://www.nature.com/news/quantum-theorem-shakes-foundations-1.9392
It is interesting to note ... what is SOPA were law today?
If the author of the above quote (or someone claiming the intellectual rights, no actual proof required) filed a complaint with the domain holder of blogger.com (Google) that I had exceeded their intellectual property guidelines, and Google failed to respond within 5 days by removing my post (quite possibly not enough time to investigate the legality of the post or the 1st amendment ramifications), the filer could have the domain blogger.com banned in the USA, administratively, without judicial review, and with no process for reinstatement.
Wow, that's good business sense.
Note: in this case, I am abiding by the intellectual property guidelines of the rights-holder, who's online payment calculator determined that I was liable for 0.00 cents to republish in this way.
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