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Comment Re:It's the measurement (Score 1) 136

Using a somewhat related example: all "measurements" we perform on macro objects are identical to those on quantum objects, but the relative scale of effects are drastically different. How do you "measure the color of grass"? Fire a few photons of different wavelengths at it, and see which photons come back. At a macro scale, we may not thing we changed the grass, but you can be sure we did. We changed the momentum of the blade of grass, the position, etc by a small but finite degree.

You have attempted to complicate the quantum world, while leaving the macro world alone, when in fact the same thing happens at both scales. Yes, there is still some hand-waving to relate the too, but to say that "measurement" is not valid at the quantum level, only at macro level is just hogwash. You may as well say that "measurement" doesn't apply at macro levels either.

Comment It's the measurement (Score 5, Informative) 136

If you attempt to measure it in the way you would measure a wave, it will present itself as a wave.

If you attempt to measure it in the way you would measure a particle, it will present itself as a particle.

Light doesn't choose to be a particle or a wave at any given time, the measurement we use defines the characteristics it has. Nothing more, nothing less.

Comment Can't Get 1 Year Predictions Right (Score 4, Informative) 393

You have a computer prediction (and a software one at that) that is attempting to look 5 years into the future. Yeah, good luck with that. Any article talking about the future in such a way is simply a marketing ploy. Nothing more. Nothing less.

A reasonable road map demonstrating how this could possibly be achieved on the other hand would have some credibility.

Compared to this article, the Mars folks look a little less crazy.

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