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Comment Re:Anybody really surprised? (Score 0) 290

IMO, Google has spent most time and money on the one resource that really matters most..

People.. They hire the brightest and then give them a free rein. That's why they have a lot of stuff that's cool but maybe not that profitable.

They could, of course start building and maintaining a product line that is focused on generating revenue rather than creating newer, cooler stuff.

I'd hate if that happens. I don't need Google to turn into Microsoft.

Math

If We Have Free Will, Then So Do Electrons 610

snahgle writes "Mathematicians John Conway (inventor of the Game of Life) and Simon Kochen of Princeton University have proven that if human experimenters demonstrate 'free will' in choosing what measurements to take on a particle, then the axioms of quantum mechanics require that the free will property be available to the particles measured, or to the universe as a whole. Conway is giving a series of lectures on the 'Free Will Theorem' and its ramifications over the next month at Princeton. A followup article strengthening the theory (PDF) was published last month in Notices of the AMS." Update: 03/19 14:20 GMT by KD : jamie points out that we discussed this theorem last year, before the paper had been published.

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