Mid-morning. You had another night of poor
sound sleep caused by fits of coughing. A beautiful Autumn morning in the
neighborhood however. – Amorella
0929
hours. I don’t know why the capital letter beginning Fall is not acceptable by
Microsoft Word? Spring, Winter and Summer should also be capitalized as they
were when we were learning our letters and reading. I remember when in grade
school older people complained that we used too many contractions and stopped
using ‘shall’ as in ‘I shall leave the state soon.’ Today people in the media
say, “more wet weather” rather than “wetter weather” and the like, and I am the
old person complaining.
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23 September
2014 Last updated at 03:42 ET
Brian Cox: 'Multiverse' makes sense
The
presenter and physicist Brian Cox says he supports the idea that many universes
can exist at the same time.
The idea may
sound far-fetched but the "many worlds" concept is the subject of
serious debate among physicists.
It is a
particular interpretation of quantum mechanics - which describes the often
counter-intuitive behaviour of energy and matter at small scales.
Prof Cox
made the comments during an interview with Radio 4's The Life Scientific
programme.
In a famous
thought experiment devised by the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrodinger, a cat
sealed inside a box can be both alive and dead at the same time. Or any
combination of different probabilities of being both dead and alive.
This is at
odds with most common perceptions of the way the world is. And Schrodinger's
experiment was designed to illustrate the problems presented by one version of
quantum mechanics known as the Copenhagen interpretation.
This
proposes that when we observe a system, we force it to make a choice. So, for
example, when you open the box with Schrodinger's cat inside, it emerges dead
or alive, not both.
But Prof Cox
says the many worlds idea offers a sensible alternative.
"That
there's an infinite number of universes sounds more complicated than there
being one," Prof Cox told the programme.
"But
actually, it's a simpler version of quantum mechanics. It's quantum mechanics
without wave function collapse... the idea that by observing something you
force a system to make a choice."
Accepting
the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics means also having to accept
that things can exist in several states a the same time.
But this leads to a another question:
Why do we perceive only one world, not many?
Schrodinger's
thought experiment was designed to illustrate problems with one interpretation
of quantum physics
A single
digital photograph can be made from many different images superimposed on one
another. Perhaps the single reality that we perceive is also multi-layered.
The laws of
quantum mechanics describe what happens inside the nucleus of every atom, right
down at the level of elementary particles such as quarks, neutrinos, gluons,
muons.
The weird
and wonderful world of quantum mechanics reveals that nature is at heart
probabilistic. Nothing can be predicted with any certainty.
"Everybody
agrees about that" says Prof Cox. But where physicists don't agree is
about how these facts should be interpreted.
For decades,
the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, which allows for only one
universe, dominated particle physics.
But Brian
Cox supports the many worlds interpretation and, he believes, more and more
physicists are now subscribing to this view.
Brian Cox is on The Life Scientific
on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday, 23rd September at 09:00 GMT.
Selected and edited from BBC
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1210
hours. Back to Schrodinger's cat and the earlier
added concept of ‘Being and Not Being’ at the same time. Both concepts blend in
well with the fiction in the story – how else could one be conscious of being
dead? Very funny in a dark humored way; it certainly works in the storytelling.
Now we must take care to continue tailoring
the work for an added purpose. – Amorella
1217 hours. What purpose is that?
If an Angel is going to ask a recent member
of the Dead to tell her/his story, what would be the purpose? – Amorella
1218 hours. To show that the individual has all herorhis
ducks in a row, so to speak. I have no problem speaking to an Angel directly as
I once thought I was having the experience for a period of several months back
in 87-88. Even though I eventually came to the conclusion that the experience
was not real, I felt it was at the time. I cannot imagine any reaction other
than that I already had. I have no fear of Angels, real or not. So, that
behavior/experience counted for, telling one’s story outright seems the way to
go – like I state in the Introduction, I would rather tell my dreams while they
are still fresh. This is the story I have been working on for at least
twenty-five years of my life, perhaps more. It is my story. It is who I am
while telling it – a storyteller. Ironically or not, being a storyteller is my
dream and I am living it. I feel well blessed in the circumstance. (1225)
By whom? – Amorella
1227 hours. Being an agnostic, and this after many years
of soul-searching, is who I am. I have my doubts even when I thought that Angel
was perhaps real I had my doubts, so I wasn’t devastated when I came to that
conclusion, but ironically, with my doubts intact I do not know. I have no idea
what a real Angel would be like meeting as I don’t know that I have met one
or not. Met one or not is somewhat akin to Being and Not Being at
the same time in my heartanmind. Thus, the dark humor rises a bit more into
consciousness much to my delight. To answer your question – blessed by a
good-humored Creator of All Things and Beyond (as one of my marsupial characters
might say). Why would I care why an Angel asks anyone to tell herorhis story?
Some might feel that means to talk about their life but I don’t. I figure an
Angel or G---D or who or whatever already knows what my life or anyone else’s
conscious and unconscious life already is.
Don’t you consider the fact that you might
be misinterpreting the Angel’s question? – Amorella
1239 hours. If I were, that is, if my story is not what
the Angel is looking for then I assume SheanHe or whatever would tell me. My
experience with an Angel was not all that polite. I was told ‘No’ in fewer
words than one several times. I learned to live with it. I was not beyond
learning from the experience, real or not.
You had a late lunch at Panera/Chipotle and
presently you are in the Tylersville Kroger lot waiting for Carol to pick up
ground steak for meatloaf or chili – her pleasure. While at Panera one of your
former student’s (who owns a floor company in VOA Centre) came up and said his
wife, also a former student, bought GMG.One. So, you made a sale. Plus, earlier
you received a friending from Mike M. an assistant professor in Florida who
also said he was buying your book. You were concerned about the price but as
you told your student at Panera – ‘If she doesn’t like it she is only out
two-ninety-nine.’ You both laughed and you are happy that is all you are asking
so curious readers didn’t waste that much money if they don’t like it. –
Amorella
1432 hours. Aunt Ruthie said she was buying one for her
Kindle so I have three books sold and I haven’t bought one yet. I am feeling
better about putting it out there, but part of me would be just as comfortable
keeping them on the MacAir on in iCloud.
You are at the far north end of Pine Hill
Lake Park facing west, sitting in the shade of trees on the hill while Carol is
taking her walk. Before noon you did your forty minutes of exercises for the
first time in a couple of weeks and are feeling better for doing so. – Amorella
1511 hours. It is still a wonderfully pleasant day. I am
more comfortable in the slightly cooler than summer air. Now to Brothers 6. I
have no idea what it is about but I hope to detect why ‘Transparency’ is being
used as the word title. This makes the task part of the fun.
You have six hundred and sixteen words
mostly by elimination. – Amorella
1552 hours. I think it is interesting but you are right I
haven’t gone through the whole 1597 words in the original draft. Maybe the rest
of it is interesting too.
Orndorff, this is not about your interests
now, it is about focusing on the revision. – Amorella
1554 hours. I tend to forget that. Maybe it would be
better to begin here and with the rest of the draft create another ‘now’ draft
then choose between the two.
Do as you will. Carol has returned and is
reading Lee Child’s The Enemy, page 146. – Amorella
1620 hours. I read and deleted the rest of the original
draft and have some 200 words left. I should be able to narrow that down and
finish Brothers 6 this evening.
Carol is on page 158 of her book. Take
another break and enjoy your surrounding nearby natural world, boy. Later,
dude. Post when it is convenient. – Amorella
1625
hours. Lots of car noise from Kings Mills Road but between I am hearing mostly
the vibrations of cricket legs. This is what I find in Wikipedia Offline.
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Cricket chirping
The sound emitted by crickets is commonly
referred to as chirping; the scientific name is stridulation. Only the
male crickets chirp. The sound is emitted by the stridulatory organ, a large
vein running along the bottom of each wing, covered with "teeth" (serration) much like a
comb. The chirping sound is created by running the top of one wing along the
teeth at the bottom of the other wing. As he does this, the cricket also holds
the wings up and open, so that the wing membranes can act as acoustical sails.
It is a popular myth that the cricket chirps by rubbing its legs together.
There are four types of cricket song: The calling
song attracts females and repels other males, and is fairly loud. The courting
song is used when a female cricket is near, and is a very quiet song. An
aggressive song is triggered by chemoreceptors on the antennae that detect the
near presence of another male cricket and a copulatory song is produced for a
brief period after a successful mating.
Selected and edited from Wikipedia Offline –
Cricket (insect)
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You had left over soup for supper and Carol froze the
rest. You watched NBC News and the first part of ABC News. Then Carol pulled
two personally coded individually wrapped Jennifer cookies out of the freezer,
quickly thawed them and you ate the scrumptious dessert watching “The Blacklist”.
She went upstairs to read. – Amorella
2137 hours. I completed Brothers 6 in 798 words.
That’s all for tonight boy. Post. – Amorella
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