Oh great, who are they? And yeah then define: space
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sorry to keep asking so many questions
So ‘quantum’ is related to electron energy (quanta) not nuclei splitting ?
Yes. The forces holding atoms together may share some of the same rules, but I don't know to be honest. Quantum gravity would imply that.
Has this had any discernible impact on any areas of Japanese society?
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What is there not an anglo prejudice against right now? I hate this place
Virilio said time's already overrun space via technology. He said people's conception of space was being polluted by instantaneous communication and the acceleration of things like trade and transport.
There's a bit in that Bataille thing on the medieval economy I posted elsewhere where he says space was man's domain, time was God's.
Too difficult to know what space and time mean in such a sentence that includes man and god and even without these words also. The words need defining.
So we have been conceptually led to believe that the atomic bomb rent a hole in the fabric of space time which left fallout layers discernible in never melting Arctic ice and it was all just a lie, the bomb was merely the biggest meanest continuation of mechanical war and the supposed chasm was just more modernist fear of alienating death without a place for the spirit to go to any more?
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Another interesting bit in that Virilio book is him talking about the limits of experimentation.
He says without experiments science is back in the realm of magic, but that we've progressed so far we're risking catastrophe by actually attempting some of them, e.g. the first nuclear test at Trinity when the scientists didn't know how far the chain reactions would go and whether space wouldn't just disintegrate, also CERN switching on the LHC.
He says without experiments science is back in the realm of magic, but that we've progressed so far we're risking catastrophe by actually attempting some of them, e.g. the first nuclear test at Trinity when the scientists didn't know how far the chain reactions would go and whether space wouldn't just disintegrate, also CERN switching on the LHC.
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Decisions decisions
Spielberg warned the world with his films - fucking round with close encounters, then nazis fucking around with the Ark
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Spielberg warned the world with his films - fucking round with close encounters, then nazis fucking around with the Ark
You know who had an ark? Noah.
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It's more boring than that. If there was an Italian futurist thing going at least the aesthetics would be good.
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Clinamenic
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Don't know how accurate it is, re: nuclides (pretty sure its 238, don't know the child nuclides), but yeah it doesn't involve quantum theory, to my knowledge, just a mass of uranium 238 that I guess is thermodynamically precarious enough to be destabilized by a single neutron, and split into some number of smaller particles including I believe two free neutrons, which then collide with neighboring U238 atoms, energy being released upon every collision.
Not sure how quantum mechanics could be engineered into a bomb, or what kind of tactical ballistic advantage could be derived from quantum theory.
Clinamenic
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One thing I haven't been able to understand here is how electrons move across their energy levels, by absorbing a photon of a sufficient energy? But then re: units of energy I'm lost, but I think planck's constant is how we go between wavelength and energy.
Mr. Tea
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I've never heard anyone use the phrase "quantum bomb." Chemical and nuclear processes are both quantum-mechanical in nature, so I don't think one is "more quantum" than the other. But an understanding of QM was necessary for the design of nuclear weapons, no question, whereas chemical explosives we obviously used for centuries before QM was developed.
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Mr. Tea
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Correct. Energy is Planck's constant times the frequency, which is inversely proportional to the wavelength.