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Seven questions that keep physicists up at night

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 Seven questions that keep physicists up at night 2009-11-01 16:35
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by Flemming Funch

That's in New Scientists. I'm glad there are questions that keep physicists up at night. That means that there are people doing science, of course, rather than just sticking with what they think they know. This is one of the questions:
What is reality really?

The material world may, at some level, lie beyond comprehension, but Anton Zeilinger, professor of physics at the University of Vienna, is profoundly hopeful that physicists have merely scratched the surface of something much bigger. Zeilinger specialises in quantum experiments that demonstrate the apparent influence of observers in the shaping of reality. "Maybe the real breakthrough will come when we start to realise the connections between reality, knowledge and our actions," he says. The concept is mind-bending, but it is well established in practice. Zeilinger and others have shown that particles that are widely separated can somehow have quantum states that are linked, so that observing one affects the outcome of the other. No one has yet fathomed how the universe seems to know when it is being watched...



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1 Nov 2009 @ 23:45 by ming : Science
I don't think real science ever lost touch with reality. But the word "science" has recently been sort of been hijacked by a materialist cult, and used in the same way as religious dogma, to prove that nothing exists which isn't already written up in the Big Book and interpreted by the Holy Priesthood.  


2 Nov 2009 @ 00:12 by mortimer : The riddle that raised Questions
do quantum experiments answer the age old philosophical question...
"If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"
According to Zeilinger...  



3 Nov 2009 @ 14:01 by mortimer : Blu Money
We need some type of newciv.org currency. Time to print our own money enit? Digital money. I be willing to back it with my art.  


3 Nov 2009 @ 14:21 by ming : Money
I was part of trying to make a local currency system once, but couldn't quite get the formulas right. {link:http://chalice.org/|Chalice}. The tricky part is how to make it move towards being more attractive than OldCiv dollars.  


3 Nov 2009 @ 14:37 by mortimer : Cook up one million
encrypted and with anonymous online tracking system. Have it check for forgery. No log accept for forgery's. Cook up one million digital certificates. Then email appropriations to all the active members.

Members can then begin offering goods and services.  



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17 Nov 2009 @ 18:39 by a-d : Reality check !...
The Good Life Parable
http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=3359
and the next... called : "Uncaged." Yes on Prop 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pTlNt36CJ4&feature=player_embedded  



17 Nov 2009 @ 19:03 by a-d : Ming, what do u think of this?

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27 Nov 2009 @ 08:54 by vaxen : Reality...
1550, originally a legal term in the sense of "fixed property," from M.L. realitatem (nom. realitas), from L.L. realis; meaning "real existence" is from 1647.

Real (n.)

"small Spanish silver coin," 1588, from Sp. real, noun use of real (adj.) "regal," from L. regalis "regal." Esp. in ref. to the real de plata, which circulated in the U.S. till c.1850 and in Mexico till 1897.

Real (adj.)

1448, "relating to things" (esp. property), from O.Fr. reel, from L.L. realis "actual," from L. res "matter, thing," of unknown origin. Meaning "genuine" is recorded from 1559; that of "actually existing" is attested from 1597; sense of "unaffected, no-nonsense" is from 1847. Real estate is first recorded 1666 and retains the oldest Eng. sense of the word; Realistic "true to reality" (in art, etc.) is from 1856; meaning "having a practical view of life" is attested from 1862. Noun phrase real time is from 1953; get real, usually an interjection, was U.S. college slang in 1960s, reached wide popularity c.1987.

"Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." [Margery Williams, "The Velveteen Rabbit"]

Realtor

1916, "real estate agent," Amer.Eng., coined by C. Chadbourn of Minneapolis, Minn.; patented as Realtor in 1948 by National Association of Real Estate Boards.

Realism

1817, from real (adj.), after Fr. réalisme or Ger. Realismus, from L.L. realis "real." Opposed to idealism in philosophy, art, etc. In ref. to scholastic doctrine of Thomas Aquinas (opposed to nominalism) it is recorded from 1826. Meaning "close resemblance to the scene" (in art, literature, etc., often with ref. to unpleasant details) is attested from 1856.

Unreal

1605, "not real," from un- (1) "not" + real (adj.). Slang sense of "wonderful, great" is first recorded 1965.

"Hence horrible shadow, Vnreall mock'ry hence." ["Macbeth," III.iv.107]

Solipsism

1874, coined from L. solus "alone" + ipse "self." The view or theory that self is the only object of real knowledge or the only thing that is real.

OMG!

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28 Nov 2009 @ 03:22 by a-d : Thanks,Dear..... : )
...that makes me feel beddahhh... ( "... "Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." [Margery Williams, "The Velveteen Rabbit"] Really... A very good Reality!...Indeed! ...see...I was little concerned 'bout that!;) OMG!... :-)  


28 Nov 2009 @ 04:38 by mortimer : The consequences of faking it
"The study involved asking people to wear real or fake designer sunglasses, when in reality they were all the genuine article. Interestingly, those wearing the supposedly fake shades behaved less honestly in subsequent tests and were more likely to suspect others of behaving unethically." ~ http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2009/11/the_consequences_of_.html  


29 Nov 2009 @ 21:23 by vaxen : Talk about real!?
ONLY THE TRUTH IS REVOLUTIONARY

The games that scam the most, win.

There can be only one reason Facebook and MySpace turn a blind eye to user protection; they're getting such a huge cut of revenue back from these developers in advertising. If they turn off the spigot, they hurt themselves.

Scamville: The Social Gaming Ecosystem Of Hell
Michael Arrington
TechCrunch.com
Saturday, October 31, 2009 8:10 PM

Last weekend I wrote about how the big social gaming companies are making hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue on Facebook and MySpace through games like Farmville and Mobsters. Major media can't stop applauding the companies long enough to understand what's really going on with these games. The real story isn't the business success of these startups. It's the completely unethical way that they are going about achieving that success.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/01/AR2009110100018_pf.html

And therein lies my point ~ Dubai is a dying monument to greed and excess, a crumbling sub-prime in the desert, and eventually the desert winds will reclaim it ~ for nature always outlives man's hubris and folly.

THE DARK SIDE OF DUBAI

Johann Hari / The Independent Tuesday, April 7, 2009 http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/the-dark-side-of-dubai-1664368.html  



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