Recent content by JohnLuck

The way I understand Hawking radiation is that black holes decay by sucking in anti particles from the virtual particle pairs that are created right at its event horizon. I also understand that these anti particles reduce the mass of the black hole instantly when crossing the event horizon? And...

First I want to mention that I am not super good at maths and that I wasn't even sure if this was the right sub forum to post in (please move this to another one if that's the case). I am working on a 2D game in python where the player plays on an infinite map. Of course that means that the...

You are right, I misinterpreted stevendaryl comment (sorry stevendaryl). I am not quite sure what your point is here, if you are asking why Bell thought it was an issue if a hidden variable theory wasn't Lorentz invarent, he probably means to say that some variables propagate faster than...

I agree but I don't think I implied that anywhere. What I am saying is that if you have two theories equally descriptive of nature (ie same math) and one is more intuitive, I would default to trust that one. That is not the same. I don't think this is true. Here is a direct quote from the...

Intuitively it seems more plausible that there should be a hidden variable influencing the path of particles when they travel, than having a fundamental mechanism of nature be truly random, but what do I know. I just don't understand how you can ever completely rule out a hidden variable. I know...

According to Leonard Susskind the "finetuning" of the constants of this universe is evidence of many universes with different random constants. The most remarkable of the constants he says is the energy of empty space because of its tiny size (10^113 J/m) and the fact that we couldn't live...

Actually why is the Planck length thought to be the smallest meaningful measure of length? I would also love to know this. I know that the Planck constant is the ratio between the energy and the frequency of a photon and I know that the Planck time is the time it takes a photon traveling at the...

That was very informative! Thank you. Probably so. I obviously meant to say that matter condensed enough to let light through. Anyway thanks for all the answers. This might be dumb but it is just a thought. If we say the universe was infinitely small at the big bang, it should never...

So I read everywhere that everything was packed into an infinitely small space at the big bang. But then after some thousands of years the universe condensed enough to let electromagnetic waves travel through and these waves have been traveling 13.7 billion years to get here. The problem here...

Sorry, my reply was worded unnecessarily arrogant sounding. What I meant was something like "What is your understanding of how entanglement works?" It was not meant to be so condescending. This is probably why it wouldn't work then! My machine would require us to only send photons with a...

I see your point. But actually this is just one indication that the infinite "pairing up" method is wrong, even if this example doesn't hold, I might still be right. Secondly this method is used to prove for example that 1=0.999... X=0.999... 10X=9.999... 10X-X=9 X=1 The trick is here 10X...

A) It is not obvious to me that filtering breaks entanglement. It depends on whether the filtering interacts at all with the photons that pass through it. Do you know the properties of all types of polarization filters? B) You are wrong. Measuring the angle B would set the angle A at random...

I do not know whether measuring polarization would destroy entanglement. Further, I do not know if filtering the photons counts as measuring. I will have to look at other experiments to find this out.

So the rules for when you can use the pairing up method is when the series is infinite, but does not go towards infinity? That rule sounds too arbitrary, I would like to see the proof behind it. You make a good point, you cannot calculate with infinity as it is used right now. In other words...

All particles interact with the world like particles, but if you want to know where it will move between interactions, you will have to calculate it as a wave of probability. That means that when you send an electron through a plate with two holes in it and it has an equal probability of going...