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Comment Re:Uhhhh (Score 1) 204

Don't worry, just skim the article again because the claim isn't making temperatures go below absolute 0. Negative temperatures mean something completely different. My understanding is with negative temps, reverse what happens to water when you add energy. In other words, it's like heating up water but then the water starts to freeze. As you add energy to a negative energy system, it becomes more organized.

Comment Re:Serenity's Core Planets (Score 3, Interesting) 174

I'm not so sure about that. Politicians have gotten to be pretty effective at distracting the general populace with issues that don't have a very big impact as far as governance is concerned. Wether or not stuff like marijuana or gay marriage is allowed won't directly impact the government in any way that will matter for how this country is ran but they seem to be some of the bigger issues discussed. Personally I don't care too much for those issues but no matter my opinion I think that stuff like the internet is a far more important issue. tldr; People getting involved isn't enough, it's people getting involved in the right issues that will truly make a difference.

Comment Re:Hacking fun (Score 1) 79

The idea behind this is that the information is stored in a quantum state and any attempt to read (observe) the data breaks the quantum state. If someone were trying to do any intercepting then they would end up garbling the data on the other end thus tripping an alarm that something is wrong. In other words, this is really exciting because right now, there's no way to secretly intercept a quantum communication.

Comment Re:I'll believe it when I see... (Score 1) 867

What I mean is you're not moving and when you aren't moving you won't be breaching the light speed barrier. Think of it like this, space expands ftl. If it were effected by time travel than I think that we'd see some stranger stuff than a more/less orderly expansion. This is an excerpt from the wikipedia page on "alcubierre drive". "If this is so, conventional relativistic effects such as time dilation would not apply in the way they would in the case of a ship moving at a very great velocity through flat spacetime, relative to other objects. This method of propulsion would not involve objects in motion at speeds faster than light with respect to the contents of the warp-bubble; that is, a light beam within the warp-bubble would still always move faster than the ship."

Comment Problem Solving (Score 1) 767

I think that a way to sum things up is if anybody applied themselves enough they can learn the mechanics of programing. However, a very important part of programing is problem solving. This is a natural ability that can be learned to a small extent but only so far. It's just like how a lot of people say that you have to be good at math to program. There's a lot of programing now days that don't involve much if any math but problem solving is central to both math and programing. The way I see it is knowing and understanding how to program requires a certain way of thinking. An example of this would be the scientific method. Anybody can learn the steps but a lot less are able to make it a natural way of thinking.

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