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myridium

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    Comment #29622535

    It may be inadequate, but the consequences of quantum theory still apply without having to add new postulates. Among those consequences is many worlds.

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    Comment #29622528

    Except we do observe interference effects. I'm not sure what you mean.

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    Comment #29620964

    Guess that's what happens when you shut down safe, cheap, emissions-free sources of electricity for nonsense ideological reasons (nuclear power plants).

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    Comment #29620808

    I'll have to look into those derivations. Thanks. > There is an additional postulate, namely that the state vector is the real world we inhabit. Well, yes, it's a model for the phy…

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    Comment #29620770

    In QM, evolution is unitary. The Born Rule is an empirical observation that is adequately explained by the decoherence of a quantum system into entangled states of observer, enviro…

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    Comment #29620739

    Of course. I assume that in those papers, she demonstrates a similar lack of understanding of the details. Or that she doesn't research on quite the same things she talks about in …

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    Comment #29620708

    I didn't commit an ad hominem fallacy. I did not say that her blog is invalid because of her character. I was just commenting on her character (actually more so on her work tbh). i…

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    Comment #29620700

    Nobody does that. We follow the math and the experimental results. There is friction against accepting what the results tell us, which is the odd thing.

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    Comment #29620363

    You're exactly the target audience for her content :) .

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    Comment #29620336

    Why is GR required? Already in standard QFT (Minkowski metric; flat spacetime; special relativity) the propagator 'violates causality'. Although that phrasing is misleading; it doe…

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    Comment #29620257

    > Superdeterminism, arguably misnamed, simply argues that QM is deterministic This is incorrect. QM is already deterministic. Where oh where do people get the idea that it is not?

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    Comment #29620213

    Well if they insist on expressing the dynamics of the universe as the minimisation of a global (or local) action functional, then they are already throwing in the towel because tha…

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    Comment #29620196

    Totally agree. It's therapeutic to read this. Last I checked, many-worlds is a consequence of current quantum theory, not a postulate or additional axiom. Yet people treat it like …

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    Comment #29620135

    Well if you're doing fermionic thermal field theory sure (where the `integral' on Grassmann numbers is just some linear operation which satisfies certain properties). But apart fro…

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    Comment #29563548

    Nice concept, but the sounds are audibly not Poisson-distributed. Rookie mistake.

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    Comment #29425839

    Badge of honour I'd say. What was your transgression?

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    Comment #29338367

    Any ideas on how to short the economy for the inevitable repeat of the GFC?

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    Comment #29338336

    Whatever benefit you perceive in gaming the current inflation rate is most likely cancelled by the massively inflated house prices from everyone else having the same idea. Market i…

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    Comment #29316320

    You should be using the accepted FIDO2/WebAuthn standard https://github.com/passwordless-lib/fido2-net-lib

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    Comment #26411444

    Ah, so a US citizen living in the middle of nowhere learned something by seeing civilisation. This is an example of why the OP asked for more details. Now I know that your experien…

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    Comment #26411362

    I mean they're not wrong, even today.

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    Comment #24697167

    Okay, where can I find a summary of the relevant legislation, or is something to this effect written in the T&C?

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    Ask HN: Tool to download scientific journal archives?

    Given organisational or personal access to a scientific journal (e.g. IEEE publications, Physical Review Letters, Proceedings of Symposia in Applied Mathematics, etc.), I assume it…

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    Comment #22985186

    > if there's something I really want then I will do what it takes to get it. Ominous...