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02-20-2009, 12:25 PM
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02-20-2009, 12:48 PM
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I'm in little rock. If my TT swap is done and i'm not gone doing marine corps stuff i might swing down there. is there a website?
*Pie symbol* movie was crazy. wish there would of been a little more color though, but the b&w did add some nice aspect to it and kind of change the perception a little.
*Pie symbol* movie was crazy. wish there would of been a little more color though, but the b&w did add some nice aspect to it and kind of change the perception a little.
02-20-2009, 01:11 PM
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haha i did notice that in futurama. i didn't think anything of it though. good stuff. where's another good read on the introduction of quantum physics? i don't have time to make a hobby of it, but i'd like to see where the research is focused right now.
02-20-2009, 01:45 PM
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Honestly, I don't really know of any... other than the occasional documentaries that discuss it on Discovery and Science channels. The problem is, an "introduction to Quantum Physics" is still very high level physics... you could try wikipedia articles though.
To demonstrate the level of math/physics background you need to have to understand some of the stuff, here's some of my own work in Quantum Information Science (this is a proof of the Quantum Harmonic Oscillator Hamiltonian):
To make any sense of that, you have to know that p is momentum, q is position, a is the annihilation operator (matrix, lowers energy), a-dagger is the creation operator (matrix, raises energy), h-bar = h/(2pi), and you need to recognize that [a,a-dagger] = a*a-dagger - a-dagger*a = 1 (a whole other proof). And of course, since we're dealing with matrices, you need to know the rules of linear algebra (such as that matrices do not commute).
Without a decent understanding of the computations, it'd likely be difficult to understand a lot of what you'd be reading... but like I said, the wikipedia articles might have good explanations.
Btw, if you want to know where current research is heading, the answer is Quantum Information Science (basically Quantum Computing). One Qubit (Quantum bit) can hold twice as much information as a classical Bit (regular old computer bit). Imagine what could be done with twice the computing power.
To demonstrate the level of math/physics background you need to have to understand some of the stuff, here's some of my own work in Quantum Information Science (this is a proof of the Quantum Harmonic Oscillator Hamiltonian):
To make any sense of that, you have to know that p is momentum, q is position, a is the annihilation operator (matrix, lowers energy), a-dagger is the creation operator (matrix, raises energy), h-bar = h/(2pi), and you need to recognize that [a,a-dagger] = a*a-dagger - a-dagger*a = 1 (a whole other proof). And of course, since we're dealing with matrices, you need to know the rules of linear algebra (such as that matrices do not commute).
Without a decent understanding of the computations, it'd likely be difficult to understand a lot of what you'd be reading... but like I said, the wikipedia articles might have good explanations.
Btw, if you want to know where current research is heading, the answer is Quantum Information Science (basically Quantum Computing). One Qubit (Quantum bit) can hold twice as much information as a classical Bit (regular old computer bit). Imagine what could be done with twice the computing power.
Last edited by ZLover4Life; 02-20-2009 at 03:32 PM.
jk but yeah, the thread wasn't going anywhere anyways. besides... what happened to the motor crap
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