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Comment: Re:No Unity? (Score 2) 141

by tjwhaynes (#40144963) Attached to: Fedora 17 Released




Comment: Fricking Right On (Score 5, Interesting) 257


Comment: Re:Avant (Score 1) 357

by Chemicalscum (#38470476) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Assembling a Linux Desktop Environment From Parts?
I use Standalone Compiz with Xfdesktop to manage the desktop. Compiz is is actually fast and lightweight because your 3D viedo card does all the heavy lifting. It actually consumes no more memory than most 2D window Managers'. I have been using GLX-Dock which like Avant has an OSX look and feel:


Comment: Re:The License (Score 4, Informative) 96


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Comment: Re:Proof by disbelieving .. (Score 1) 373

by Chemicalscum (#38106028) Attached to: Study Says Quantum Wavefunction Is a Real Physical Object
<quote><p> the idea that un-entangled states would be able to communicate with one another is a bit more problematic than the idea that entangled states would be able to communicate with one another.</p></quote>

I imagine Valentini would have an explanation. In fact he has argued that something similar should occur as remnants of entanglements from the early universe before matter became close to equilibrium and the quasi-classical domain emerged and that should give rise to non-local effects potentially observable today. OK it is due to entanglements but not to recent experimentally prepared entanglements as in EPR ad the Bell theorem.

Comment: Re:Wait, what? Copenhagen is nonsense? (Score 1) 373

by Chemicalscum (#38105948) Attached to: Study Says Quantum Wavefunction Is a Real Physical Object
Einstein and Schr&#246;dinger also regarded the Copenhagen solution as effectively superstitious and nonsense. Bohr and Heisenberg won that round but they are loosing now, this paper shows that the Copenhagen interpretation is of necessity non-local something Einstein tried to prove with the EPR thought experiment. David Bohm and his supporters were prepared to loose locality to provide a hidden variables/quantum potential alternative to the Copenhagen interpretation, however I doubt the supporters of the Copenhagen interpretation and its modern variants are about to embrace non-locality.

Everett and quantum reality rules.

Comment: Re:Oh man, University flashbacks (Score 1) 373

by Chemicalscum (#38105810) Attached to: Study Says Quantum Wavefunction Is a Real Physical Object
Yes one of the implications of this paper is that if we are to have a local theory of QM consistent with relativity is that then Everett and the many-worlds interpretation of QM is right. Hilbert space then becomes real, not just a mathematical vector space, and is filled with orthogonal real worlds with each world as real as any other.

I read the preprint over the weekend after I saw a reference to it on Cosmic Variance. The implications of it are still just beginning to sink in.





Comment: Re:Siggraph 2008 (Score 1) 251




Comment: Siggraph 2008 (Score 3, Interesting) 251



Toby Haynes

Comment: Power users and GNOME (Score 1) 181









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