[extropy-chat] funky frink function

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> To: .9 c
> Result: 
> 0.035648925264461071933

But why just .9 c ? 

Lucien Hardy has already shown that the first 
signal principle of SR does not work if we 
insert a particle and an antiparticle in a 
peculiar (double, or nested) Mack-Zehnder 
interferometer. According to Hardy (and David 
Bohm, and the Geneva quantum optics group, and 
many others) it is well possible that
there is a - cosmic - preferred reference frame.

Abner Shimony introduced the expression
'passion-at-a-distance' for a subtle form of
nonlocality, namely that it is possible to
think in terms of FTL causation between two
space-like separated events. It is only the
'uncontrollability' resulting from indeterminism
that stands in the way of FTL uncontrollable
communication via 'passion-at-a-distance'.
So this kind of FTL communication, or FTL 
causation, actually is an 'uncontrollable 
nonlocality', which produces no conflict with 
the first signal principle of SR, just because 
of that 'uncontrollability'.

Evidently a cosmic preferred reference frame
would - should - avoid causal paradoxes.

http://www.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0408153
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0410160
- Abner Shimony: 'Controllable and Uncontrollable
Non-Locality'in 'Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
in the Light of New Technology', Tokyo, Japan
Physical Society, (Kamefuchi et al. eds), 1984;
- Abner Shimony: 'Events and Processes in the
Quantum World', in 'Quantum Concepts in Space and
Time', (Penrose and Isham eds), Oxford U.P., 1986.

(Frink calculator already knows all that!).

s :-) 

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intently watching the pages of the Physical Review, waiting for 
updates on one of the century's greatest revelations: fission, the 
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of energy. But they waited in vain. Because of fears that Germany 
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most important nonevent in the history of the Physical Review." 
(G. T. Seaborg et al., Phys. Rev. 69, 366; G. T. Seaborg et al., 
Phys. Rev. 69, 367; and J. W. Kennedy et al., Phys. Rev. 70, 555)
Links to the papers: 
http://link.aps.org/abstract/PR/v69/p366/s2
http://link.aps.org/abstract/PR/v69/p367/s1
http://link.aps.org/abstract/PR/v70/p555
Focus story at http://focus.aps.org/story/v14/st17