Recent content by Ghouly0104

Probability control, why do I care about being naked when I can control reality on a quantum level? Take that Scrodinger!

I am graduating from University in 2 and a half weeks with a BA in math and physics and start on my physics Ph.D in the fall.

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The cosmic aether through which light waves propagate

How do you solve Shcrodingers Equation at the cutoff point? It seems like i*hbar*(dPsi)/(dt)= H Psi means that you need a continuous time derivative, which a step function violates, or would we have to assume that when the rules say "instantly" they mean "an arbitrarily short but...

You make a fine point, but because of the limits set on gods in D&D (even they look up to Ao who doesn't talk to anyone) there is still room to make these same sorts of arguments on science vs. magic. What really interests me with this sort of discussion is the attempt to fit something to the...

That might just work, but how would you incorporate that time dependence into the proabability distribution without having knowledge of when the object will interact with the SoA? That is, wouldn't you have to know what the probability distribution is first in order to find the expected value...

This is true only if you assume that the SoA doesn't shoot down thermodynamics in its current state as well, which it does. In fact thermodynamics falls down for a similar reason as quantum, you have probability distributions that can include the SoA and thus fall apart as any state that...

I was going under the assumption that the rules represented the actual state of the universe, and that when it says that things that go into a sphere of annihilation go into the void beyond the universe that they are just gone.

I was just contemplating the effect that the Sphere of Annihilation (SoA) would have on our current formulation of Quantum Mechanics (because "It's just Magic, deal with it" isn't good enough for me, and I'm crazy), and I think there are some serious problems here. In order to produce wave...

Discussing the effect that the Sphere of Annihilation item in D&D would have on the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics 2 minutes ago

Minsc is the berserker ranger from the country Rashemen in the Forgotten Realms with the miniature giant space hamster for a friend and the purple tattoo on his forehead.

Minsc from Baldur's Gate