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| so...I'm #1 on the waiting list for physics at Cheiftan for next year. This would mean doing physics and chemistry(with Mrs. Ellis) next year. Don't know quite how I'll survive if I do ge in....but I really want to take it! I've pretty much decided that I'm no going to take piano anymore....sigh..... | | |
| | From the article: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.02/bigquestions.html?pg=3 [A Google search on “entangled subatomic particles” will reveal that this phenomenon is pretty well established.] How do entangled particles communicate?
One of the zanier notions in the plenty zany world of quantum mechanics is that a pair of subatomic particles can sometimes become “entangled.” This means the fate of one instantly affects the other, no matter how far apart they are. It’s such a bizarre phenomenon that Einstein dissed the idea in the 1930s as “spooky action at a distance,” saying it showed that the developing model of the atomic world needed rethinking. But it turns out that the universe is spooky after all. In 1997, scientists separated a pair of entangled photons by shooting them through fiber-optic cables to two villages 6 miles apart. Tipping one into a particular quantum state forced the other into the opposite state less than five-trillionths of a second later, or nearly 7 million times faster than light could travel between the two. Of course, according to relativity, nothing travels faster than the speed of light - not even information between particles. Even the best theories to explain how entanglement gets around this problem seem preposterous. One, for example, speculates that signals are shot back through time. Ultimately, the answer is bound to be unnerving: According to a famous doctrine called Bell’s Inequality, for entanglement to square with relativity, either we have no free will or reality is an illusion. Some choice.
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| Send some rain, would You send some rain?
'Cause the earth is dry and needs to drink again
And the sun is high and we are sinking in the shade
Would You send a cloud, thunder long and loud?
Let the sky grow black and send some mercy down
Surely You can see that we are thirsty and afraid
But maybe not, not today
Maybe You'll provide in other ways
And if that's the case . . . We'll give thanks to You
With gratitude
For lessons learned in how to thirst for You
How to bless the very sun that warms our face
If You never send us rain. (from Gratitude by Nichole Nordeman) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Must say...I would have never chosen this way.
‘Tis true...this isn't the path I thought I'd someday walk through
Seems like these are the things, that always happen to someone else.
Never thought it would be me. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ .the lines have fallen for me in pleasant places.
indeed (aka without a doubt, to be sure) I have a beautiful inheritance! | | |
| "An unknown number of new George Washington dollar coins were mistakenly struck without their edge inscriptions, including "In God We Trust," and made it past inspectors and into circulation, the U.S. Mint said Wednesday." -www.reason.com/blog The official statement from the U.S. Mint: The United States Mint understands the importance of the inscriptions “In God We Trust” and “E Pluribus Unum,” as well as the mint mark and year on U.S. coinage. We take this matter seriously.
On eBay craziness.....! | | |
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