Comment Re:TFA! Read it! (Score 1) 249
Please mod the parent down, the claim is not correct and not supported by http://code.google.com/speed/webp/docs/webp_lossless_alpha_study.html
Submission + - Google launches a replacement for PNG format (blogspot.com) 1
more writes: Google introduced today a WebP extension to compress translucent images either lossy or losslessly, claiming file size savings of 28 % in the lossless mode and more in the lossy mode.
Submission + - Neutrinos break Light speed AGAIN (bbc.co.uk) 2
An anonymous reader writes: Repeat of Experiment — same results
Submission + - Quantum wavefunction is a real physical object aft (nature.com)
cekerr writes: Nature reports:
Quantum theorem shakes foundations
The wavefunction is a real physical object after all, say researchers.
"... the new paper, by a trio of physicists led by Matthew Pusey at Imperial College London, presents a theorem showing that if a quantum wavefunction were purely a statistical tool, then even quantum states that are unconnected across space and time would be able to communicate with each other. As that seems very unlikely to be true, the researchers conclude that the wavefunction must be physically real after all.
David Wallace, a philosopher of physics at the University of Oxford, UK, says that the theorem is the most important result in the foundations of quantum mechanics that he has seen in his 15-year professional career. “This strips away obscurity and shows you can’t have an interpretation of a quantum state as probabilistic,” he says.
Quantum theorem shakes foundations
The wavefunction is a real physical object after all, say researchers.
"... the new paper, by a trio of physicists led by Matthew Pusey at Imperial College London, presents a theorem showing that if a quantum wavefunction were purely a statistical tool, then even quantum states that are unconnected across space and time would be able to communicate with each other. As that seems very unlikely to be true, the researchers conclude that the wavefunction must be physically real after all.
David Wallace, a philosopher of physics at the University of Oxford, UK, says that the theorem is the most important result in the foundations of quantum mechanics that he has seen in his 15-year professional career. “This strips away obscurity and shows you can’t have an interpretation of a quantum state as probabilistic,” he says.
