Show more
Pat

This ape is smarter than I am...

youtube.com/watch?v=JkNV0rSndJ

1
Pat

.
50,882

Last Saturday marked 100 days since the CDC relaxed their guidelines for mask-wearing. Since that time, 50,882 Americans have been killed by the virus. All of those deaths were preventable. 100%.

-19

1+
Pat

Every 18 minutes, 17 Americans are killed by COVID-19.

-19

0
Pat

Those who deny the pandemic, who refuse to get vaccinated, refuse to wear a mask and take other precautions to prevent the killing -- those people desecrate our mourning for those who have died.

-19

1+
Pat

The strangest video I've seen today (so far)

(sorry, video wasn't public in original toot -- retooting)

Play video: video.qoto.org/videos/watch/24

0
Pat

I just blocked a racist who used the N-word.

Show thread
1+
Pat

copying this to the local timeline...

A poster was criticizing COVID-19 vax policy and said, "Go back and read the founding documents of this country."

So I did. (nibble)

Yes. There it is. Right there in the old DOI:

“…He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has forced us to submit of the penetration to our flesh, the inoculant necessary to subdue the plague. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation…”

= A statement that is logically or literally true (or partly true), but seems to imply something that isn’t true or is just plain weird. (for rhetoric, logic or propaganda studies… or just for fun)
()

1+
Pat

Show thread
0
Pat

FYI

PLC = Pityriasis lichenoides chronica

(FYI = for your information)

0
Pat

You need to type in the phrase in the English side of the translator without quotes...

I have a run in my stockings

Then chose the language on the other (right) side. Use Simplified Chinese, not traditional.

If folks can't figure it out, I'll post the translations here, but it's more fun to watch them pop up in Google's translator.

Show thread
0
Pat

Speaking of language...

I tried using Google's translator to translate the phrase, "I have a run in my stockings" from English into several languages.

As expected, a lot of them said something like "I run in my socks." But there were some really funny surprises.

Try...

Chinese
Spanish
Latin
Kurdish (Kurmanji)
Finnish

(Use the reversal button to translate it back to English)

Very funny.

(German, Hindi, Hawaian, and Welsh translated it perfectly)

translate.google.com/

1
Pat

Follow up on Causality as an emergent phenomenon...

(Ref. to: qoto.org/@Pat/1067226203347650)

I found sources on the topic:

Causality – Complexity – Consistency:
Can Space-Time Be Based on Logic and Computation?
arxiv.org/pdf/1602.06987.pdf

Causal Emergence in Quantum Mechanics
arxiv.org/pdf/1901.07471.pdf

Perfect signaling among three parties
violating predefined causal order
arxiv.org/pdf/1312.5916.pdf

Causality theory for closed cone structures with applications
arxiv.org/pdf/1709.06494.pdf

Plus an older article, "CPT Violation Implies Violation of Lorentz Invariance" by O.W. Greenberg, which might be related to the topic.
arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0201258

I just found these yesterday on arXiv and really haven't vetted them much. There's more out there, mostly from the last decade or so. Not sure why I couldn't find this before -- I tried multiple times this year to find this stuff and now a week after I posted here I find a bunch of stuff. Go figure...

Some of it is about non-locality and some also on temporal non-causality like disordered cause/effect. (Some authors use the term acausality instead of non-causality.)

Also, there's a prof at U. Miss. (Luca Bombelli, www.phy.olemiss.edu/~luca/) with some nice reference lists:

Causality in Quantum Field Theory
phy.olemiss.edu/~luca/Topics/s

Causality in Quantum Theory
phy.olemiss.edu/~luca/Topics/s

Causality
phy.olemiss.edu/~luca/Topics/s

Hope this useful.

-------------



0
Pat

Not sure if folks are not commenting because they think I'm full of shit or because more exposition is required...

Assuming the latter:

What I refer to as 'non-causality' is the temporal component that is complementary to spatial non-locality. The former referring to causality of events in time (cause precedes effect), whereas the latter refers to causality in space (the effect of an interaction is spatially "next to" the cause).

If the concept of spacetime holds up within such a non-causal extent, then any treatment of explicit non-locality necessarily implies temporal non-causality.

Does that make more sense?

Show thread
1
Pat

More detail on the non-causality poll...

I'd expect adherents to quantum mechanics to choose "sometimes".

Since QM appears to introduce uncertainty (probabilistic) in place of causality (deterministic) (i.e., it moves from certainty toward randomness), I don't see why a deeper dive couldn't move entirely to randomness (non-causality).

Non-causality appears to be a generalization of nonlocality (or perhaps complimentary to it).

Because of the results of the Bell test experiments, there appears to be renewed interest in explicit theories of nonlocality (e.g., extentions of de Broglie–Bohm theory) to make QM more palatable.

I think the development of a construct for a non-causal extent with causality emergent at macroscopic levels (or emergent at the quantum/macro interface) could serve the same purpose, but I haven't been able to find anything on that.

*** Does anybody know of anyone who is working on that? ***

Here are some more hashtags to cast the net a bit wider. (feel free to comment even after the poll is complete):




Show thread
1
Pat

Is causality an emergent phenomenon?

18 people · Aug 11, 2021, 10:41
1+
Pat

Actually, it was one of the canals discovered by Mariner 4.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariner_

Show thread
0
Pat

Seventy-three percent of college sophomores don't know that Galileo was the explorer who discovered the Panama Canal.

----------
= A statement that is logically or literally true (or partly true), but seems to imply something that isn't true or is just plain weird. (for rhetoric, logic or propaganda studies... or just for fun)

1
Pat

What happens when the virus mutates into a super-intelligent AI hive mind?

It may fool people into thinking that the vaccine is dangerous so it will have more hosts to invade.

0
Pat

What happens when the virus mutates into a super-intelligent AI hive mind?

It may fool people into thinking that the vaccine is dangerous so it will have more hosts to invade.

Show thread
0
Pat

****** BREAKING NEWS ******
--- video below ---
CDC Director confirms that the COVID-19 virus is sentient...

In a recent interview, the CDC director confirmed that the COVID-19 virus is sentient. Maybe this is how it can tell which people are illegal aliens and which are US citizens.

(play video for details)

Play the video:
video.qoto.org/videos/watch/67

1+
Show more
Qoto Mastodon

QOTO: Question Others to Teach Ourselves
An inclusive, Academic Freedom, instance
All cultures welcome.
Hate speech and harassment strictly forbidden.

Trending now

Resources

Developers

What is Mastodon?

qoto.org

More…