Comments for Why Dont You Blog?

Comment on Requiem for a Dream by heather

heather — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:20:34 +0000

If the blog absence has even come to the notice of Alabama business brokers, I guess we owe it to our public….

Comment on Requiem for a Dream by Alabama Business Brokers

Alabama Business Brokers — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:56:13 +0000

Where are you? Come back and start posting!

Comment on Requiem for a Dream by Parsimonius

Parsimonius — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:03:03 +0000

Hey – please come back and blog! We miss you.

Comment on Requiem for a Dream by Xanadu

Xanadu — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:48:18 +0000

Is this blog still being updated?

Comment on Requiem for a Dream by Larry Wallberg

Larry Wallberg — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:00:22 +0000

Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.
Michael Foot

Comment on Quantum physicality by Sabio

Sabio — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:21:56 +0000

I just had a coffee-shop talk with a Christian who brought up quantum stuff. Fortunately I am a little versed but only enough to see through the jumps in logic.
This was a great post — made me think. Thanx

Comment on Quantum physicality by Heather

Heather — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:01:00 +0000

desertscope

Thanks. I’ve taken the link off his name.

Good math formulation.

Comment on Quantum physicality by desertscope

desertscope — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:48:11 +0000

The Barefoot Bum should note that the tiny little difference between “barefootbum.blogspot.com” and “barefootbum.com” is the difference between reasoned anti-theism and hardcore pornography. Check your link. No worries, but try to fix it, eh?

Anyway, when I was in my last year of undergrad and taking quantum mechanics, I read “The Dancing Wu Li Masters” by Gary Zukav. At that time, what amazed me most was that so much of the amazing reality of quantum mechanics was simply tossed aside in favor of vacuous bullshit by someone who did not really grasp any of the concepts of the theory. I can sum it up in a single mathematical sentence:

Pretend QM << QM

Comment on Quantum physicality by Heather

Heather — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:12:01 +0000

Larry
Who wouldn’t, like, be?

Comment on Quantum physicality by Larry Wallberg

Larry Wallberg — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:43:50 +0000

Well, I’m a lifelong atheist and have always dismissed all religions as being stupid. But after hearing Peaches’s eloquent words, I’m, like, y’know, like sold on scientolo … zzzzzz.

Comment on Quantum physicality by Heather

Heather — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:57:56 +0000

Barefoot
Thanks. I’ll look at these.

Comment on Quantum physicality by The Barefoot Bum

The Barefoot Bum — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:16:15 +0000

You don’t need hard maths to understand Quantum Mechanics, just like you don’t need organic chemistry to understand evolution. You just have to understand that your intuitions about big things such as rocks and trees don’t apply to very small things such as electrons. (Just like you have to understand that your intuition about things that people design and build don’t apply to evolved organisms.)

There are a number of good books that you can read to get a better sense of QM, including (but not limited to) The Cosmic Code by Heinz R. Pagels, Quantum Reality by Nick Herbert, and Schrodingers Kittens by John Gribbin. None of these books require mastering any maths.