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I ask the above question, what are best colleges for learning to become a physicist, a philosopher, or even, both?

"Inside the Wavefunction" Hi, I was thinking about the wavefunction when I intercepted an interesting thought experiment that I couldn't quite formulate the answer to: Say that we imagine a small particle that is small enough so that it is about the size of an electron (the particle...

Pascal's Wager is pointless. If you've read Thoughts, you'll understand how Pascal wastes most of the book by complaining about atheism and the way he thinks being irreligious is completely irrational. He makes too many assumptions, specifically about God and how he would act after death. In...

Anarchy would theoretically be the finest form of 'government', because the establishment of total anarchy means that all people have moral discipline and ethical virtue so much to the point that a government system would not be necessary.

AnssiH, When you say the motion is not real, doesn't that also direct one to conclude that energy is not a real quantity either? To start, this is always what I've thought of motion: 1. Physical human movement is caused by contractions or dilations of muscular tissue. 2. Muscular tissue moves...

Hello everyone, I am in high school and I really enjoy reading about physics, math, and philosophy. I have read some books about quantum computing, and I find it rather interesting. I do have an interest in engineering, so I figure that quantum computing is something I want to do. Does anyone...

Vanesch, Can you interpret how MWI solves the measurement problem in QM?

But why and how do correlations happen?

I believe you said this earlier: So, if entanglement, or the property that two 'things' have a more uncertain eigenstate, is simply LOOKING for correlations, why is there such a strong influence with entanglement? In other words, you seem to be implying entanglement is human made, but if it...

Um, I don't know why I remembered this. Just a question that's been bugging me: How does the type of correlation of EPR tie in with this definition: ntanglement is a specific case of "non-intuitive pure states". Entanglement is that set of pure states, when we look at PURE quantum states of...

If you mean 'strong force,' then no. If you mean "at all" then yes in a sense because electrons do feel the electromagnetic force shared by protons, and thus affect the nucleus in a sense.

If catalysts increase the probability of a reaction occurring, why do they happen? If the definition of energy is the potential to do work, then why do things change if energy is another measure of probability? What causes things to change?

I believe that if nuclear power is taken to be the ONLY source of power, natural uranium will run out in 50 years. Reprocessing usually gets a lot of what the input amount of fuel was. 96% of spent uranium is still fissile, and can be used again; which saves 30% of raw uranium from being used...

I personally don't like the Copenhagen interpretation, and I suppose if I had to choose an interpretation, it would be closest to the many-worlds interpretation. Thanks for sharing your views.

One thing I am failing to reconcile in my head is the idea of the entanglement seen in EPR. Accordingly, are things 'correlated' in nature, or are they only correlated when one wishes to observe correlations? Also, if entanglement is simply something being in a state like Schroedinger's cat...