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Woo hoo! Almost done with Physics! If I get to the end of oscilliatory motion tonight, which will of course be in the wee hours of the morning since I was distracted by many things, I'll just have the chapter on waves left before I'm completely finished! Bwahahahaaa!! Then to finish my main classes this year I'll just need to complete Calculus II...and gag-me-fake-math-economics.
Those distracting things I mentioned started with electron spin after the professor said that there was nothing in the universe that was faster than the speed of light, in the context of transmitting information/signals for clock calibration. I remembered hearing something about electron spin where even if the pair was separated large distances, if one particle was observed, and that collapsed the dual state and forced it to have this spin, then across space the other instantaneously had the opposite spin. But I guess that's not so much transmitting information instantaneously than collapsing probabilities that retroactively affect information across space. But it would be pretty cool...if we could control the direction of electron spin, then using a binary kind of mechanism we could easily transmit information instantaneously across unlimited distances (if you had several halves of electron pairs and someone in the Andromeda galaxy had the other halves of the pairs, you could make yours go up down down and theirs would go down up up, which could mean something just like it does in Morse code. Can you imagine instantaneous transmission of information? Heck, if we refined the technique, we could use it here on Earth and my internet connection would be even faster. Instantaneous, actually). That would get rid of that annoying delay between shuttles, satellites and the like, and Earth. And of course, we could have real-time communications across thousands of lightyears. Of course, we'd have to have ships that could travel that far, but details, details. The other thing that distracted me was string theory, and then the Calabi-Yau manifold which is sooo cool.
Anyway. Back to schoolwork.
Those distracting things I mentioned started with electron spin after the professor said that there was nothing in the universe that was faster than the speed of light, in the context of transmitting information/signals for clock calibration. I remembered hearing something about electron spin where even if the pair was separated large distances, if one particle was observed, and that collapsed the dual state and forced it to have this spin, then across space the other instantaneously had the opposite spin. But I guess that's not so much transmitting information instantaneously than collapsing probabilities that retroactively affect information across space. But it would be pretty cool...if we could control the direction of electron spin, then using a binary kind of mechanism we could easily transmit information instantaneously across unlimited distances (if you had several halves of electron pairs and someone in the Andromeda galaxy had the other halves of the pairs, you could make yours go up down down and theirs would go down up up, which could mean something just like it does in Morse code. Can you imagine instantaneous transmission of information? Heck, if we refined the technique, we could use it here on Earth and my internet connection would be even faster. Instantaneous, actually). That would get rid of that annoying delay between shuttles, satellites and the like, and Earth. And of course, we could have real-time communications across thousands of lightyears. Of course, we'd have to have ships that could travel that far, but details, details. The other thing that distracted me was string theory, and then the Calabi-Yau manifold which is sooo cool.
Anyway. Back to schoolwork.