(20201020) Commented on the article:
"Healthy forests do more than just prevent wildfires"
https://www.popsci.com/story/environment/restoring-california-forests
IMHO, poor forest management (going back decades) is the MAIN cause of wildfires of CA; NOT climate change as some (shamelessly) claimed!
Also, "frequent small controlled fires" (which some advocate) is still a really bad/harmful/damaging solution (to animals for example)!
Best solution would be, cut/remove excess biomass & also try to find a good use for it (like producing biofuel and/or some useful material(s))!
Also, it would be a really good idea to do R&D (maybe by a government institution) to create a fully automated drone patrol system that can constantly tour over all forests & automatically detect all wildfires at very beginning (well before they can go out of control)!
(20201020) Commented on the article:
"Quantum Tunnels Show How Particles Can Break the Speed of Light"
https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-tunnel-shows-particles-can-break-the-speed-of-light-20201020
IMHO, to solve/understand all mysteries of QM, its only true interpretation/meaning needs to be understood/accepted first:
Our whole reality itself is a (certain/new kind of) quantum computer!
For example, what is the meaning/effect of measurement for a quantum computer? & an (conscious) observer is really necessary for a quantum computer measurement/computation?
Realize, this viewpoint would also imply, all particles are actually like moving clusters/variables of quantum data/information!
(For example, realize, electric & color charge & rest mass state of any particle could be hold/represented by just 1 qutrit each!)
What needs to be researched is, how many qutrits each particle has?
How exactly their data used/processed when a particle decays/collides?
(20201021) Commented on the article:
"The World Needs Nuclear Power, And We Shouldn’t Be Afraid Of It"
https://www.patreon.com/posts/world-needs-and-42984867
WELL SAID Ethan!
IMHO, total energy usage of humanity is keep increasing exponentially (true?) & humanity keep going towards covering most of land/sea surface of Earth w/ solar & wind power plants would not be a really good/efficient idea! (& neither would be keep trying to force humanity to use little energy!)
IMHO, total energy usage of humanity is keep increasing for really good reasons/advancements/improvements & what we really need to do is, try to make it happen as best as possible!
IMHO, the ultimate goal should/must be humanity using only fusion power someday (& so no more any land/surface area waste for solar & wind power plants)!
But, in the meantime, we should/must keep building better & more advanced (& safer & less wasteful) fission power plants & solar & wind power plants as well! (& we also should/must try to produce biofuels (like bio-diesel) (using waste biomass from cleaning up forests for example) that can be used in many kinds of land/sea/air vehicles!)
IMHO, nuclear power plant tech (especially) is really a kind of tech that takes many decades to truly mature/improve! & as such, we should/must not get discouraged because of limitations/shortcomings of old tech we have seen/used!
Also, IMHO, all spent nuclear fuel created in the past, could be really useful in the future w/ right tech! Like, for example, by turning them to fuel for new tech nuclear power plants or even using them to produce nuclear batteries:
https://newatlas.com/energy/nano-diamond-self-charging-batteries-ndb
I think the main argument against building advanced nuclear reactors which could use the spent nuclear fuel waste (& turn it to harmless easily disposable kind waste), was that, "they would start/cause nuclear proliferation"! But IMHO the evidence shows, not building such reactors never stopped countries like North Korea & Iran!
Imagine that, (back in the 70s for example) if some people said "Cars/trucks are causing so much pollution! We should/must stop using them!" & so today we did not have autonomous electric cars/trucks, because whole world had switched to using horse carriages long ago!
(20201026) IMHO, the actual problem is not understanding/explaining (rest) masses of elementary particles but their energies!
Because, mass & energy are equivalent & (rest) energy of an elementary particle is the same, regardless of having a rest mass or not! & so, having a rest mass or not, for any elementary particle, is just like having a (quantum) number (state variable) that can be +1 (positive rest mass), 0 (no rest mass), -1 (negative rest mass)!
(& so it can be represented by a single qutrit (just like electric charge (+1, 0, -1) or color charge (R, G, B) also)!)
& for attempting to understanding/explaining (rest) energies of elementary particles, these should/must be done first:
1: What are the ratios of (rest) energies of all elementary particles against Planck (particle rest mass) energy (as integers)? (round((Planck (particle mass rest) energy) / ((rest) energy of the elementary particle)))
2: What maybe the discrete quantum/unit of energy itself? (Quite possibly Landauer limit of 0.0175 eV (2.805 zJ))
& what are the (rest) energies of all elementary particles in terms of the discrete quantum/unit of energy (as rounded integers)?
3: Is there any discernible order among the (sorted) integer sequences/sets from 1 and/or 2?
(20201027) For Elementary Particles of Standard Model:
Spin: 0, 1/2, 1 (same value/sign for anti-particles)
=> 1 qutrit is enough to represent spin state!
Charge: +1, +2/3, +1/3, 0, -1/3, -2/3, -1
=> 2 qutrits needed: Q0: 1/3, 2/3, 3/3 ; Q1: +, 0, -
Color Charge: +R, +G, +B, 0, -B, -G, -R
=> 2 qutrits needed: Q0: R, G, B ; Q1: +, 0, -
(20201031) IMHO, "spooky action at a distance" (in an instant) of quantum entanglement is actually just another (huge) evidence for our reality/universe being a quantum computer!
Is there really physical space/distance in a (quantum) computer simulation reality? (Realize, anything can instantly effect anything else, anywhere, in a (quantum) computer simulation reality (only depending on its (programming/computation) rules)!)
(20201104) Commented on the article:
"Using quantum properties of light to transmit information"
https://phys.org/news/2020-11-quantum-properties-transmit.html
IMHO, it is important to realize:
1: Quantum Computers are more powerful than Turing Machines (Classical Computers) because they can (really) instantly find the/a solution among all possibilities in certain situations (which Turing Machines cannot do in any situation)!
2: Our whole reality/universe itself is a certain type/design of quantum computer (which processes/computes (real/virtual) (elementary/composite) quantum particles like its qubit/qutrit registers! (& that is actually the only true meaning/interpretation of Quantum Mechanics!)
(20201105) Commented on the article:
"No, Stephen Hawking’s Black Hole Information Paradox Hasn’t Been Solved"
https://www.patreon.com/posts/no-stephen-black-43557085
IMHO, the core problem causing "Black Hole Information Paradox" is, true (quantum (information)) nature of energy still being unknown!
If all forms of energy should/must be discrete/quantized, then, what is quantum/unit of energy itself?
I had read about various experiments in the past which were showing heat, vibration etc are actually quantized!
The huge question is this:
Can we really design any kind of experiment to show/prove quantum nature of energy itself?
(My guess is "Landauer limit" maybe the quantum/unit of all forms of energy!
From Wikipedia:
"the Landauer limit represents an energy of approximately 0.0175 eV, or 2.805 zJ")
(Realize that, if all forms of energy is quantum information (& also since energy for Hawking Radiation particles surely coming from the BH), then, there would be no "Black Hole Information Paradox" anymore!)
