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Quoting LonelyPilgrim from 08:57, 8th Aug 2008 An electron can only be in one place at a given time. The problem arises because we can not observe the electron in that place without changing its behaviour, and hence, its place. So, for purposes of calculation, the electron has a probability of bein...

Quoting Power_Metal_Dom from 19:18, 7th Aug 2008
Doesn't this just raise the impossibility of something existing but not having a position?

No. What is the position of a wave? Position is need not be a fundamental quantity associated to objects.

Quantum mechanics does not say particles can occupy two spatial locations simultaneously. What it says is: 1) Electrons and other "particles" can exist as delocalised waves over a given spatial volume. 2) The act of measuring the "position" creates a definite spatial location of the particle. Prior ...

Quoting Haunted from 15:46, 24th Jul 2008 GR has thrown up alot problems that seem to generate bizarre explanations. Dark Matter for example is just a consequence of GR not being able to explain gravity on the largest of scales i.e. it predicts there should be much more matter than we are seeing er...

Quoting Haunted from 13:57, 24th Jul 2008
My money is heavily on general relativity being wrong.

Sorry if this is too much of a detour from the actual topic, but why? Do you mean that you think that GR is just a low energy effective theory to something completely different?

If the topology of the space is compact (like a cylinder) then just keep going to the left and you will appear on the right and you can eat the cake.

Not once did I say you need faith to commit evil (reread the Weinburg quote). What I did say was that in order to believe your doing gods work (i.e. the "right" thing) by doing something like a suicide bombing, does take faith. Do you contest that? And that such suicide bombers may be genuinely goo...

Quoting Hennessy from 14:55, 11th Mar 2008 Back on the farm in London, the area around our closest tube station has been nicknamed "Mogadishu" locally because of the huge number of muslim shops and businesses that have opened there. In fact walking down the main street of what, in the far distant p...

In this argument there is a hidden assumption about climate change. He initially states that he does not consider the source of the climate change thereby including all the possible theories (man-made, natural cycles, influence of the sun, etc, etc..). However, he also assumes that no matter the mec...

Quoting exnihilo from 11:48, 30th Nov 2007 There's no sense whatever in which that represents a problem. Simply because the conclusions would be the same in a different scenario does not make them invalid in this one. To be clear, I'm not suggesting that the argument is wrong. Its just that the mod...

The problem is that the argument suggested here is not specific to climate change only - i.e. replace global climate change with any other catastrophic event and you will obtain a similar conclusion.

Quoting kiwi from 17:08, 8th Nov 2007 The reason homeopathy works isn't known yet. There's a theory though that although the substance has been diluted to such a degree that not even a molecule of it will be present, there will be 'imprints' left in the water molecules which lead to the paradoxical...

I'd wait for independent confirmation before getting too excited. Have they published their results in a scientific paper?

If its true, then its awesome.

It appears that we are being paid by cheque this quarter. It was bloody nice of the university to tell us.

Really? Is that official or just rumor?

Quoting Frank from 00:10, 24th Aug 2007 What if God is the observer (in the QM sense as was discussed above)? [/i] It is important to note the difference between interpretations of quantum mechanics and the quantum mechanical formalism itself. In the latter, there is no axiom defining what actually...

[quote] An interpretation, obviously. As I have been arguing for nigh on 10 pages now. [quote] If the question of God's existance is purely interpretational and not answerable by appealing to physical evidence then doesn't it make the concept somewhat impotent? To say that God is an interpretation r...