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That's a very nice explanation. As a general question i'd be curious if something were elaborated on, is there any difference between vacuum and two photons canceling each other out?

Best explanation ever. lol @ table/pillow duality.

As far as a ruler, we have found no particles smaller than the so-called elementary particles, but this doesn't absolutely mean they have no subcomponents. However, it's a perfectly practical to assume that they are indivisible. For space-time itself, there is no evidentiary reason to think it...

Ahh. So no matter how much you control the setup for an experiment, every property will deviate at least a little between runs. And the closer you fix one property to a ##\sigma = 0## deviation, the more the other will vary, if the product of the deviations is sufficiently small? (for pairs like...

Oh. Not accuracy then.

A more correct reading would be that infinite accuracy in measurement or prediction is not possible. But people don't have goals like that in ordinary life. The human race wants to build taller buildings and faster computers and the like. There are infinite ways to do these things; Physics...

Well, among locality and classical realism, the other idea that could be disproved by the experiments is the idea that the detectors are not forcing the particle into a certain state. The idea of a measurement changing the particle is a pretty common one in QM. Exactly what is really happening...

Do you understand the following?

I've never had any error that google didn't tell me the answer in a few seconds.

I suppose I prefer to use one VCS, and git can do anything. In addition to making massively parallel development much easier, as you say, simple workflows are easy too. And someday I might work on a huge project and i'll already know git.

Well, if someone doesn't care about performance, easy merges, or not needing a server, I don't know exactly why they're using git. If you don't write a lot of code, and someone else does your merges, and someone else has a server for you, why don't you use cvs or something? If git has what you...

Pretty sure git and all version control programs can do all of that.

I don't know how you use it, but I've never had a problem. 1. git init 2. git add . 3. git commit -a 4. (repeat 3 as necessary)

One way to think of it is that the difficulty in classifying light with other phenomena comes from that those other phenomena have mass, and light does not. So it is actually in a category of it's own. Although the single particle double-slit experiment is so suggestive of a wave interfering...