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I would highly suggest trying to get to at least one of Dr. Fleisch’s presentations. He was probably one of the best teachers/professors I have ever had and I would not be surprised if everyone who took one of his classes does not say the same. I just never got Physics, did not enjoy it, and just did not make much sense to me. Of course physics was a requirement so I opted to take an Astronomy Class and I am very glad I did. I learned a lot. I really wish I would be able to make it out to some of these presentations and observation times. https://www.wittenberg.edu/new...0aGJDZjmQKp-zqMcjfWU
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I like physics and the universe. But, heck, if I'm going to stay up at night to listen to a lecture. Here's the last idea I came across: Can the Future Affect the Past? These Physics Experiments Demonstrate How I only completely grasp one of the three experiments described. The one where a particle acts as a particle or an energy wave depending on it's made to pass through one filter or two. They check the status after it passes through the first filter but before the decision is made whether a second filter will be used. In 100% of the cases where a second filter was randomly determined to be used, the particle acted like an energy wave before the decision was made. Somehow, the unthinking particle behaved according to its yet to be determined future. Very interesting, at least, to me. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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Quantum. It's of little solace that there is a spectre in the machine. I feel royally screwed, like I'm gonna die. Not that the sky is falling or anything. Why do particles make patterns typically exhibited by waves? There must be something else going on. For example, if you had a coherent beam of shotgun pellets forced to go through 2 slits, I'm thinking no wave pattern. Is it only electrically charged small elemental particles like electrons? What about protons? Neutrons? Anti-matter electrons. When do waves behave like particles? Or is it only that particles behave like waves? I have a headache. Got one 40 years ago. Getting another one now. I'm looking up the class - i'll check more later but couldn't figure out if this is north side or south side canyon. North side would be more convenient... "Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it." L.Tolstoy "A government is just a body of people, usually, notably, ungoverned." Shepherd Book | |||
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Wow .... awesome thread. Thanks men, thanks. I literally just commented in another thread that my Zen place is in my reloading room running my presses and listening to Lenny Susskind lectures. Now I've got a reason to fly to Vegas, visit a friend, and run out to the canyon ... wait, which rim is this on? ___________________________________________________________ In a nation where anything goes ... everything eventually will. | |||
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Thanks for the link I grew up in the shadow of Mt Hamilton observatory in San Jose, idiot got it quite often and my high school had a planetarium on campus. As a senior I got to take that class to give planetarium shows to groups of local school kids. Then I took astronomy for most of my college science classes so I’m kinda into it. Including an upper division class where I was pretty much the only non physics major in there but i muddled through. Also if you do happen be in the area of the Grand Canyon anytime check out Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. It’s where they discovered Pluto in 1930 | |||
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