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Originally posted by Nick_X
Wow, I'm surprised that over 5 pages of posts no one has found the article that completely debunks this FAUX news report
Complete Debunking of this horrible faux news reporter
Every word in the title is wrong but "physics". It's not freaky, doesn't prove anything we didn't already know, and has nothing to do with parallel universes nor does it shed any light the question of their possible existence.
Look past the details of a wonky discovery by a group of California scientists -- that a quantum state is now observable with the human eye -- and consider its implications: Time travel may be feasible. Doc Brown would be proud.
Quantum states are visible to the naked eye all the time. Neon signs, laser pointers, and all kinds of other devices show quantum behavior at the macroscopic level. What this UC Santa Barbara group has done is impressive and important - they've put a tiny but macroscopic object into a superposition of macroscopic quantum states. This is a big deal, but the difference between this and everyday single-atom quantum mechanics is just one of scale. It's not new physics. And time travel? It's a category error on the scale of a reporter watching the Ottawa Senators play hockey and writing an article claiming they were the new lawmaking body of Canada.
Originally posted by Primordial
So how does sucking the air out of the bell jar eliminate all vibration?
Originally posted by InfaRedMan
Originally posted by Primordial
So how does sucking the air out of the bell jar eliminate all vibration?
Yeah.. total BS with the vacuum and refrigerator. From my memory in relation to the development of super conductors; they could only eliminate vibration at absolute zero (−273.15°C ). Also, as ModernAcademia pointed out in the first page; it's near impossible to create a perfect vacuum.
Everyone reading this thread should be extremely skeptical of the claims in the Op. It's a bad trade to cash in your common sense for a slice of fiction.
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Originally posted by people=oooo
"I love how science varifies what i believe".....to that guy, in the article itself it says multi universes cannot be proven. and studying a human hair in a vacume has nothing to do with a multi universe. "What I believe"....should be "what i have found and physically proven" its still a theory, and a theory is not proof.
Originally posted by ExPostFacto
Too stretch this a little further...is it possible we are all the same entity playing out different aspects of our self?
Originally posted by willis7737
Freaky Physics Proves Parallel Universes Exist
www.foxnews.com
(visit the link for the full news article)
The strange discovery by quantum physicists at the University of California Santa Barbara means that an object you can see in front of you may exist simultaneously in a parallel universe -- a multi-state condition that has scientists theorizing that traveling through time may be much more than just the plaything of science fiction writers.
In quantum mechanics, quantum decoherence is the mechanism by which quantum systems interact with their environments to exhibit probabilistically additive behavior. Quantum decoherence gives the appearance of wave function collapse and justifies the framework and intuition of classical physics as an acceptable approximation: decoherence is the mechanism by which the classical limit emerges out of a quantum starting point and it determines the location of the quantum-classical boundary. Decoherence occurs when a system interacts with its environment in a thermodynamically irreversible way. This prevents different elements in the quantum superposition of the system+environment's wavefunction from interfering with each other. Decoherence has been a subject of active research since the 1980s.
Originally posted by MystikMushroom
I'm not a scientist -- and I will spare the details of how I "know" what I "know"
There is no "past" nor "future"
Everything that could happen, has happened, will happen on every "level" (sub-atomic to cosmic) IS happening all in the NOW.
There was no "end" to everything, because there was no beginning! It is like a mobius strip, or the symbol for infinity.
There is just "Now" ... everything that can/could/will/was all exists in a state of flux that is "now".
[edit on 8-4-2010 by MystikMushroom]
Originally posted by MystikMushroom
I'm not a scientist -- and I will spare the details of how I "know" what I "know"
There is no "past" nor "future"
Everything that could happen, has happened, will happen on every "level" (sub-atomic to cosmic) IS happening all in the NOW.
Essentially, if this finding holds true with further research, it would mean that we have complete control over our lives; truly 'creating our destiny' through our choices from moment to moment.