Interesting. A Brief History Of Possibly Obsolete Time Travel Paradoxes
There is a theory (involving quantum mechanics) that says if you travel back in time, you don't need to worry about any time travel paradoxes like "what would happen if you kill your grandfather, making your own existence impossible" because quantum mechanics would prevent any such paradoxical action.
With some help from another quantum oddity, teleportation, a person or particle should be able to go back in time without running into the many damning snags that come out in “classical” ideas of time travel. This works because the time travel is occurring in a quantum system and in a quantum system, probabilities rule all. So, anything that could be caused by time travel has at least a very tiny probability of happening, some things have bigger probabilities and, importantly, some have zero probability of happening—like, say, killing yourself in the past.
The whole thing is really interesting....
grr today is so frustrating and there is no coffee and grrr
did we invoke an entire week of Mondays?
Sparky, have a great time - sorry I can't be there. Happy dental-work Perkins.
I just got back a copy of my background check. Epic fail. Which is kind of comforting. And discomfiting. Apparently my sister didn't respond to the check WRT my research assistant job with her, I got my dates wrong for my previous job, the titles didn't match for *any* of my jobs (because I used human readable ones, and my most recent ones), and my longest job can't be verified because they went out of business and McGill never verified my degree.
Yet, somehow, I got a job.
Huh.
did we invoke an entire week of Mondays?
It's beginning to look that way. I just wish it FELT like Monday instead of being like one. Sadly, it feels like Friday, and...IT'S NOT!!!
*weeps bitterly*
Yet, somehow, I got a job.
Good thing you weren't applying at the CIA....
Is anyone else watching President Obama on The View? About five minutes ago he referenced the lizard brain. Okay, he said "there's still a reptilian side of our brain..." but still!
Lizard brains rule!
(Sorry, my lizard brain made me write that.)
I saw the article and the latest study to show that Climate Change is happening along 11 lines of evidence. From other articles I think 300 climatologists are involved.
Study: Climate change 'undeniable'
The article, apparently to be fair, quotes skeptics. One of them seems to have some qualifications, an ex-professor of Environmental Scientists (also a fellow of Cato). Here are the descriptions of the others: Member of Competitive Enterprise Institute, a blogger, and the financier, who follows climate science as a hobby.
Not that any of this will matter as far as policy goes. Nothing significant will be done.
Wired asked its readers to show BP the right way to use Photoshop. The results are here: [link] .
