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eriador

I have no idea.
What are you thinking of as a use for 3-way entanglement?

eriador

No, that doesn't work. I was assuming one-way communication the whole time. The problem is this: The state of the particle is 1, but we don't know that, so we test it and find out that it's state is 1, however, in the process, we change its state to 5, so we no longer know it's state. If the bit is ...

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Dear You,
Now that I've puzzled through some of my thoughts I realized that I can't blame you. All I want to do is talk and explain myself. Maybe then you'll see what I was doing. Maybe then you'll open up. Maybe then I would be afraid.

-/me

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Laughing out Loud mr_thebrain.

Of course Pluto is a planet, it's just not a Planet. It will always be a (dwarf) planet to me, but I also see that it isn't defined as one and I can accept that dichotomy.

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Well, I'm set.

(thank you peterlocke for proving I'm sane)

That is a great quote.

My favorite quote, as of now is in my signature.

v--check it out--v

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Thanks for the support mr_thebrain. peterlocke, the [/disgust] tag was meant to convey a toungue-in-cheek attitude, in other words I WAS JOKING. Please, don't be so sensitive. However, I will make it more obvious so that nobody else is offended by what was intended as good-natured humor. Edit: I was...

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It may just be me, but I seem to think of most American teens as extremely irresponsible. It may be the teen's personality that makes them irresponsible, but I think it is also, partially, the parent's lack of morals in upbringing them. Or, it could be a perception you have based on media experienc...

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I don't know about genius. I'm probably wrong, but thank you anyway. Edit: I just realized why I am 100% completely wrong. How would you know when it changes: by measuring it and changing it again. To find a change you would have to measure once, then measure it later to see if it's different, but b...

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I just think that if you're going to mention "other theories", you have to mention the definition of what a theory is. That seems to me like the important peice of the story.

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Okay, the reason we can't use the state of an entangle particle as a 1 or zero is because when you measure the state, you read the state, but then it changes. However, if you used the change of the states to represent a bit (1 or 0) then you could trade information. The problem is that you would nee...

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Yebra, thanks for the clarification. Mahatma, I think you're making an excellent point. In my earlier post I was pointing out the pervasiveness of the stereotype you mentioned and I hope I didn't offend anybody. Overall, what I'm seeing is that the drinking age law is just like any other law, right ...

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I think that's what he's saying. You can't measure the state of a particle w/o interfering with it. That grounding in reality kinda burst my bubble. However isn't it possible to do this another way?: say we have two sets of entangled particles (set A contains P(a,1) and P(a,2); set B contains P(b,1)...

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Well, if everybody was in an enchanted sleep....

jk

If the disease didn't kill, but rather just undetectably infect, everybody would be both infected and infected, but yes, the observer principle should stay intact.

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And cars are....

It's a slippery slope.

eriador

I'm guessing here, but I think that during prohibition there was no drinking age, because the production, transport, marketing, etc. of alcohol was illegal.

BTW, what do you mean by "once you're a citizen, you're a citizen,"? You lost me there.

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Even though the powers may have been somewhat stale, I loved how fresh everything else was. The idea of superheroes as normal people with somewhat special ablities, but no different (really) from everybody else was wonderful. The entire plot, acting, visuals, everything was really fresh and entertai...

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mr_thebrain, I totally agree with you. The fact is that ID is religion and school is not where religion is taught. Yes, religion can be studied in school, but that doesn't mean that it should be preached, which is what most backers of ID want. However, it is a valid point that evolution should be ta...

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<...So you destroyed all but me. Now I understand you better. I've had all these years to study you. You are not as terrifyingly brilliant as wet thought.>
"Too bad. Terrifying brilliance would be useful right now."

-Hive Queen and Ender in Xenocide

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Yep, pretty much. However, that does not mean that I don't have moral beliefs that I follow, it's just that I don't have any spiritual beliefs (that affirm the existence of something, I have plenty of spirtual beliefs affirming the non-existence of deities). To answer your second question, no, I don...

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Ditto Virlomi.

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I'm saying that I (personally) get a certain picture of drinking. If that image were not present it might be okay to lower the drinking age. As it is now, I agree with you that if we change it, it should be increased. And no, I get it from the over-abundance of commercials for alcohol and the popula...

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In the US, drinking has become something which is self contained, you drink to get drunk. i disagree on the basis that that is a generalization. not everyone here drinks to get drunk. not any more than in any other country. i drink beer, but i don't drink beer to get drunk, i drink microbrews and s...

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Yes, teleportation requires that information is transfered using standard equipment (e.g. copper wire). However, the big deal is the ability to entangle matter. This is what we're looking at, because that is the mechanism they use to transfer the quantam states to and from particles, which is instan...

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I know that every time I've heard about evolution (at my religious high school) its been in the context of "this is what 'theory' means" and sometimes, the teacher also mentions that ID is not a theory. But yes, it is assumed we know the ideas behind evolution.

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No, I am not an atheist.

I am a reasonable person who holds no beliefs about the existence of a divine something-or-other.

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Well, you have a point, but before humans knew about the dangers of radioactivity, we acted like toddlers, killing ourselves and others with the radiation (case in point, Madame Curie). Just like a toddler, we eventually learned that radioactivity was dangerous. It seems like a great analogy to me.

eriador

Good answers.

I like your point about different establishments catering to different people.

I also agree on the rape laws.

eriador

No, ^--that--^ is the problem. In Europe, where the drinking age is much lower (16, 18, sometimes lower), drinking is seen as a social activity, where somebody would have a glass of wine with dinner with friend or family. In the US, drinking has become something which is self contained, you drink to...

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Setting aside questions about specifics, I think anonshadow has a good point about stree prostitution. However, If the industry was well regulated, it would be easier to regulate street prostitution.

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I like your point. The real benefit of legalizing prostitution would be to clean it up and provide a clean, healthy and safe environment. I also think you're right about the "forbidden fruit" factor. However, even if it does prove to be important, the idea of cleaning up the institution of...

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I ask myself the same question all the time...

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Yes, an atheist can believe in a "divine clockmaker"

Thank you for clarifying.

eriador

Well, given many people's belief of God as a supreme being, it seems like an apt analogy.

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http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/05/danish-scientists-achieve-advanced-quantum-teleportation/ This article should explain a little bit. Some choice quotes: "a breakthrough in the wacky world of quantum teleportation by transporting quantum information over a distance of half a meter (1.6 feet)....

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yes, the forbidden fruit aspect is an important thing to consider.

the other thing is that it might not be all bad if more people got involved in prostitution, especially if it was safer, the good (safer, less spread of disese) would outwigh the bad.

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