JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 10/15/2006 11:09 PM
But this morning, I was thinking again about that plot element to “Back To The Future.” The time machine component of the car required 1.21 gigawatts of power to function. As I was brushing my teeth this morning, I suddenly started thinking
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave%E2%80%93particle_duality
Wikipedia
Wave–particle duality
Wave–particle duality postulates that all particles exhibit both wave and particle properties. A central concept of quantum mechanics, this duality addresses the inability of classical concepts like "particle" and "wave" to fully describe the behavior of quantum-scale objects. Standard interpretations of quantum mechanics explain this paradox as a fundamental property of the Universe, while alternative interpretations explain the duality as an emergent, second-order consequence of various limitations of the observer. This treatment focuses on explaining the behavior from the perspective of the widely used Copenhagen interpretation, in which wave–particle duality is one aspect of the concept of complementarity, that a phenomenon can be viewed in one way or in another, but not both simultaneously.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat
Wikipedia
Schrödinger's cat
Schrödinger's cat is a thought experiment, sometimes described as a paradox, devised by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935. It illustrates what he saw as the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics applied to everyday objects. The scenario presents a cat that might be alive or dead, depending on an earlier random event. Although the original "experiment" was imaginary, similar principles have been researched and used in practical applications. The thought experiment is also often featured in theoretical discussions of the interpretation of quantum mechanics. In the course of developing this experiment, Schrödinger coined the term Verschränkung (entanglement).
Interpretations of the experiment
Since Schrödinger's time, other interpretations of quantum mechanics have been proposed that give different answers to the questions posed by Schrödinger's cat of how long superpositions last and when (or whether) they collapse.
Copenhagen interpretation
Main article: Copenhagen interpretation
The most commonly held interpretation of quantum mechanics is the Copenhagen interpretation. In the Copenhagen interpretation, a system stops being a superposition of states and becomes either one or the other when an observation takes place. This experiment makes apparent the fact that the nature of measurement, or observation, is not well-defined in this interpretation. The experiment can be interpreted to mean that while the box is closed, the system simultaneously exists in a superposition of the states "decayed nucleus/dead cat" and "undecayed nucleus/living cat," and that only when the box is opened and an observation performed does the wave function collapse into one of the two states.
However, one of the main scientists associated with the Copenhagen interpretation, Niels Bohr, never had in mind the observer-induced collapse of the wave function, so that Schrödinger's Cat did not pose any riddle to him. The cat would be either dead or alive long before the box is opened by a conscious observer. Analysis of an actual experiment found that measurement alone (for example by a Geiger counter) is sufficient to collapse a quantum wave function before there is any conscious observation of the measurement. The view that the "observation" is taken when a particle from the nucleus hits the detector can be developed into objective collapse theories. In contrast, the many worlds approach denies that collapse ever occurs.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: posted by H.V.O.M at 7:29 PM Friday, September 02, 2005
On the road again
Well, they are kicking me out this place in a couple weeks so I guess that settles that. Something about me not having the kind of problems a typical resident would have and I have to have the kind of problems they know how to find solutions for.
Maybe tomorrow is the day I get some answers. I still can't understand why no one has responded to me. I always tell people what I know and what I don't know when they ask me a question. With all the weird stuff going on around me these past few years, I can only conclude that they will not respond because they have something to hide.
It feels like I am taking on the Mafia. It doesn't matter how right I am. They are still going to make me bleed just for standing up to them.
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: posted by H.V.O.M at 1:53 PM Saturday, September 24, 2005
Epilogue: Last Day
After some delay, I am finally down to my last couple hours in this place. They have a new place for me to go, but my condition is only a tiny degree removed from being on the street, with its danger and privacy and frustration. A long time ago, in another life, I once felt resentment for those that would not speak out but now I understand why they would not and I can't really blame them because they were obviously smart enough to know that doing so would only lead them to this point I am at now. I certainly couldn't blame the ones with kids to support, with nothing really to lose myself in terms of that kind of responsibility, I don't even really think of the risks, although up to this point, I have never really lost so badly as now, I have never lost so much. I wonder if I will be alive this time next week, or even this time tomorrow. When I would wake each day and wonder if today would be the last, will today be the last. It used to be a question, not so much wondering if it would be the last, but a question of what I would use that day to accomplish. But now, it is just a matter of surviving, because I still expect it to turn around at some point. At some point, one day, it will turn around and start getting better but for now it just keeps getting worse.
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
To: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Thu, May 4, 2006 3:12:00 PM
Subject: Re: Sleep journal 5/4/06
And imagine your absolute worst roommate you ever had. Then imagine someone a million times worse. Then imagine having to live with 70 of them. Then imagine having to cope with all of you every where I go. Then imagine having not one single moment or shred of privacy where every minute, every second of the day, every day, every week, every month, every year, every single sound you make is heard and recorded by someone. It is worse than unbearable. I cannot begin to articulate how unbearable is this. It is a waking nightmare that is so captivating and so oppresive and I just can't wake up from it.
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
To: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Mon, February 13, 2006 6:45:51 PM
Subject: I gotta get the F out of here
Another day, another "don't call us, we'll call you" letter, this time from the V.A. I don't get it. This other guy was at the same meeting with me already has a meeting scheduled. He said he didn't even have to go to the Gulf. Amount of water from a combat ocean I have flushed: a lot. Him: None.
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http://www.cswap.com/1995/Twelve_Monkeys/cap/en/25fps/a/00_52
Twelve Monkeys [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
:52:12
Now my time machine
is ready for experiments.
:52:20
Ah, the woodpecker ! Ja !
Yo-hoo, Woodpecker !
:52:50
You were in my dream just now.
:52:55
Your hair's different.
Different color.
:53:00
I'm sure it was you.
:53:04
What was the dream about ?
:53:08
About an airport...
:53:11
before everything happened.
:53:14
It's the same dream
I always have.
:53:17
When I was a kid.
:53:20
And I was in it ?
:53:22
What did I do ?
:53:24
You were very upset.
:53:29
You're always very upset
in the dream.
:53:32
- Just never knew it was you.
- It wasn't me before, James.
:53:36
It's become me now because of
what's happening.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_propaganda
Wikipedia
Nazi propaganda
Propaganda, the coordinated attempt to influence public opinion through the use of media, was skillfully used by the Nazi Party in the years leading up to and during Adolf Hitler's leadership of Germany (1933–1945). Nazi propaganda provided a crucial instrument for acquiring and maintaining power, and for the implementation of their policies, including the pursuit of total war and the extermination of millions of people in the Holocaust.
As to the methods to be employed, he explains:
"Propaganda must not investigate the truth objectively and, in so far as it is favourable to the other side, present it according to the theoretical rules of justice; yet it must present only that aspect of the truth which is favourable to its own side.
1996 film "Star Trek: First Contact" DVD video: [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
Starfleet Commander William T. Riker: Only got an hour to go, Doc. How are you feeling?
Dr. Zefram Cochrane: I got a four alarm hangover, either from the whisky or your laser beam, or both, but I'm ready to make history.
Starfleet Commander Deanna Troi: Troi to Commander Riker.
Starfleet Commander William T. Riker: Riker here.
Starfleet Commander Deanna Troi: We're ready to open the launch door.
Starfleet Commander William T. Riker: Go ahead.
Starfleet Commander William T. Riker: Look at that.
Dr. Zefram Cochrane: What, you don't have a moon in the 24th century?
Starfleet Commander William T. Riker: Sure we do. It just looks a lot different. There are fifty million people living on the Moon in my time. You can see Tycho City, New Berlin, even Lake Armstrong on a day like this.
Dr. Zefram Cochrane: Uh huh.
Starfleet Commander William T. Riker: And you know, Doctor -
Dr. Zefram Cochrane: Please! Don't tell me it's all thanks to me. I've heard enough about the great Zefram Cochrane. I don't know who writes your history books or where you get your information from, but you people got some pretty funny ideas about me. You all look at me as if I'm some kind of a saint or visionary or something.
Starfleet Commander William T. Riker: I don't think you're a saint, Doc, but you did have a vision. And now we're sitting in it.
Dr. Zefram Cochrane: You want to know what my vision is? Dollar signs. Money. I didn't build this ship to usher in a new era for humanity.
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:53:38 -0800 (PST)
From: "Kerry Burgess"
Subject: starve
To: "Kerry Burgess"
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=starve
starve
die of food deprivation; "The political prisoners starved to death";
deprive of food; "They starved the prisoners"
deprive of a necessity and cause suffering
"They sat there listening in to Kerry's privacy and they had no problem with doing nothing with Kerry starved for those 9 days because they were going to continue to let Kerry starve because they wanted to hear him take his last breath as he died from starvation and then they were going to call someone in to collect his corpse and then they would stick a band-aid on his corpse so they could say they did something helpful."
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