I was always a fan of de Broglie and Bohm’s “pilot wave” idea. This is a fully deterministic theory of quantum mechanics which physicists don’t like because “le hidden variables” (also it isn’t yet relativistic I guess). The original pilot wave idea didn’t work out because de Broglie couldn’t calculate scattering cross sections, though Bohm […]
An airplane is a giant tin can. Unlike a beer can, it’s big enough it has to be riveted together. What is a rivet you might ask? It is a permanent fastener with a thicker piece on one end. You drill a hole on the thing to be fastened, stick the rivet in it, then […]
I’ve gone through Khrennikov’s “Beyond Quantum” book and write some notes for the crowd. I’ve also had a look at his book “Contextual Approach to Quantum Formalism,” and at least glanced at his more fruity books. Mostly this is a review of Beyond Quantum, which is a presentation of a group of “sub quantum” ideas. […]
One of the interesting things to contemplate is the scale of the internal combustion engine. It’s a very human scale device; pistons the size of fists, Valves about as wide as knuckles. It’s the kind of thing a man with normal sized machine tools can make. Most internal combustion engines in the world are on […]
There are many amusing stereotypical personalities in Silly Con valley. Steve Sailer coined the phrase “Silicon Valley Adventuress” for the very obvious type of women who try various kinds of shakedowns on tech firms and their executives. There’s the more obvious “Divorce Tick” kind of woman; someone who marries a clueless but rich nerdoid and […]
I’m a modest LLM skeptic. It’s not that I don’t believe in LLMs, I am aware that they exist, I just know that they’re not doing what people do when we think, and that they’re not going to hockey stick up and replace everybody. If it helps people, they should use them: I do. ask.brave.com […]
Conditional probability is something physicists have a hard time with. There are a number of reasons I know this is true. Primarily I know it is true from my own experience: I had a high-middling to excellent didactics experience in physics, and was basically never exposed to the idea. When I got out into the […]
About 3/4 of our management expertocracy is optimizing for old battles. It’s a pattern which is pervasive in Western Civilization, which is one of the reasons everything is so weird right now. Gather together a group of bureaucrats to solve a real problem, it’s still there 50 years later doing …. things. Things which are […]
The Kaufmann Protocol Sandra Kaufmann. I saw this lady on youtube somewhere, and she seemed half nuts, so I bought her book. Mostly it’s a rough explanation of some of the human biological system and a list of supplements that good for stuff that breaks down as you get older. It listed some things I […]
Contra Professor Katz, I have known more people ruined by drugs. Mostly because I didn’t spend my life as a physics professor as he did. But I can see why he said it, because you’d see a lot of ruined lives in gradual school. It is an essay that should occur to people in […]
