First off, thanks for the reply.
>>But actively removing CO2 from the atmosphere is not the way to solve global warming.
>>Basic thermodynamics dictates that this would require more energy than we got from >>producing the CO2 in the first place, rendering it pointless
So how do...
I've been reading "Programming the Universe" by Seth Lloyd, a quantum computer scientist. He goes on and on about the power of quantum computers and their ability, for example, to factor large numbers using massive parallelism. He also states that quantum parallelism is different than classical...
I am a software engineer of 20 years and would love to use my skills to somehow help work on the Carbon Dioxide problem (or other problems that could help the environment).
I was wondering if simulation software might be written that would allow one to model various processes that attempt to...
Alxm said:
>>If you erase the information then you can't determine (in principle) which path
>>the particle took at the time it hits the screen"
Notice the phrase "you can't determine" when talking about a system response.
What is doing this "determination"?
In other words, I am getting...
Thanks for the replies. JesseM said:
>>what seems to matter is whether information is recorded by the outside world
>>about the electron's path, the interference pattern would disappear
What if the detector is partially disabled? It's photon emitting part still works but its recording part...
Okay so we have a series of electrons going through the famous 2 slits and the wave-nature of the electron causes an interference pattern to emerge on the back plate.
So far so good. But now we put a detector behind slit-A and the interference pattern goes away. Now I have 2 questions.
1)...