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I do need 2 MW of heating power. This is a continuous open-loop system. 100 L/s in, 100 L/s out, operating 24/7. I should have made this more clear.

I want to design a water heating system for a special type of pool. The system is open-loop, where input water at 10 C has to be heated to 15 C, and then enters the pool and is eventually exhausted out of the pool. The flow rate is about 100 litres/second (6000 litres/minute). Simply heating up...

The sun has a very low ratio of surface area to volume, hence energy loss by radiation is limited. Thus temperatures in the interior of the sun can reach millions of degrees even though the rate of heat production is very slow (the rate of heat production in the human body, for instance, is much...

Nugatory: Hrm that sounds about right. bohm2: Yup, all those 5 points are valid, but the connection is still tantalizing :)

Yeah, that physorg.com article doesn't explain it very clearly I suppose, it was just the only non-technical summary of it I could find. You can check out the original paper (published in Physical Review Letters): http://people.isy.liu.se/jalar/kurser/QF/assignments/Couder2006.pdf They do both...

Devils: I'm aware that it needs two slits to work. That's why I referred you to that page. If you read it (and also check out the videos they made), they very clearly show an interference pattern. And yes, the interference pattern is produced by one droplet. They make it quite clear that what is...

I came here to be skeptical of this research, but it seems I'm the one defending it... Maui: You mean to say that in 1905 people demonstrated quantum behavior with **droplets** (not waves!) of fluid? DevilsAvocado: Are you referring to their 2006 work? http://phys.org/news78650511.html (ignore...

The only non-local property I can think of is the phase of the oscillator, and I'm not sure that really qualifies.

DevilsAvocado: Not so fast; the 2006 experiment involved two slits, and did indeed observe something akin to double-slit diffraction. I can't shake the feeling, though, that there must be some fundamental aspect of it that is not being reproduced. San K: That's what bothers me. The dynamics of...

So there's a new paper out by Yves Couder's group that observes quantum mechanical-like wave dynamics by averaging the long-term dynamics in a purely classical system. In other words, it's hidden variables. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/when-fluid-dynamics-mimic-quantum-mechanics-0729.html...

Alright, since no one seems to have answered, what about the converse scenario? I.e. 'reducing' a many-state node into several binary nodes?

Let's say we have a bayesian network G. Consider a subset A of this network consisting of a set of nodes and all the edges between them. Assume, for the sake of simplicity, that all nodes in A are binary (either true or false) and strongly anticorrelated i.e. if anyone of the nodes in A are...

DrChinese, again thanks for the wonderful explanation. I came here looking for a rigorous mathematical model of a 'superdeterministic' Universe. However, if I understood the discussion correctly, such a model either cannot be made or winds up being mathematically identical to the...

DrChinese: Thank you! Are you sure that's the right link, though? Most of those papers seem to have little, if anything, to do with Bell. Yes I've come to realize this myself; it is very hard to produce an exact definition for 'conspiracy'; I wasn't sure if this was due to my ignorance or...

I'm not presenting a model. I'm simply asking if someone has attempted to construct a toy Universe that is deterministic, local, and yet appears to produce 'nonlocal' effects like those that are seen in the Bell experiments. One's knee-jerk reaction might be 'but this is impossible!' Actually...