Ethernet TV

Whoa, dude. Check out those killer equations. Sweet. These realities are experienced separately by each individual. As far as either can tell, the other one doesn’t exist.

This seems weird to us, because each of us only experiences an individual existence, and we don’t get to see other branches. It’s as if each of us, like Schrödinger here, are a kind of coral branching into different possibilities. The mathematics of quantum mechanics tells us this is how the world works at tiny scales. It can be summed up in a single sentence: Everything that can happen, does. That’s quantum mechanics. But this does not mean everything happens. The rest of physics is about describing what can happen and what can’t. What physics tells us is that everything comes down to geometry and the interactions of elementary particles. And things can happen only if these interactions are perfectly balanced.

“This movie from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory shows a fast moving jet of particles produced by a rapidly rotating neutron star, and may provide new insight into the nature of some of the densest matter in the universe. The star of this movie is the Vela pulsar, a neutron star that was formed when a massive star collapsed. The Vela pulsar is about 1,000 light years from Earth, spansis about 12 miles in diameter, and makes over 11 complete rotations every second, faster than a helicopter rotor. As the pulsar whips around, it spews out a jet of charged particles that race out along the pulsar’s rotation axis at about 70% of the speed of light” (NASA).

“… and if anybody tries to steal your ukulele, let them take it.”

Collapse: Jared Diamond Interview (2005)

“It was my students who asked, ‘What do you think the (Easter) islander who cut down the last tree said as he was doing it?’ And then my students speculated:

• “Never fear, technology will solve our problems by finding a substitute for wood!”
• “This land and this tree are my private property and I can do anything with them that I please. Keep the Big Government of the Chiefs off my back!”
• “You lily-livered green environmentalists, you care more about trees than about jobs! We need more research a ban on logging would be premature!”

“I have 100% faith that we can make wiser choices. What’s up for grabs is will we make wiser choices?” Jared Diamond.