Vincent Bolloré from France:
Owner of Groupe Canal+, various French media where he pushes his agenda, Vivendi, Universal Music, Lagardère…
Basically created the worst nazi in the last presidential election from scratch, owner of what is basically French Fox News.
I believe the only reasons MATLAB persists are Simulink and a C code generation engine that outputs embeddable code that conforms to some regulation or other in the engineering world. Does gnu octave have similar features? I’ve spent a while looking fruitlessly for python-based alternatives…
Ah so I think I sort of conflated RQM and MWI because I thought it was all about Everett’s other paper “relative state formulation of qm”.
I thought on top of an ad hoc rehabilitation of physical realism, the universal state also did something for the consistency. Something like all the density operators may be expressed as partial traces of the operator describing the their systems’ union, in order for everything to be consistent, and the ‘largest’ operator describes the state of the universe or something.
I’ll check out your sources next insomnia, thanks
My understanding might be a bit superficial, but I thought the whole point of the MWI was to make explicit the fact that states are relative? To me the rationale was that states are relative and if we simultaneously describe relative states and their observers we can translate the shrödinger+born-rule in a density-operator+partial-trace-rule and make the wave function collapse physical (aka unitary) through branching and decoherence, even though that’s mathematically tedious and in practice people will keep using projectors (1). States being relative means their physical reality is somewhat broken but locality is mostly saved (2), so then we postulate that they derive from a universal wave function to rehabilitate some form of physical realism (3). As to (4), isn’t it solved if you assume that Schrödinger’s equation is actually the less fundamental formalism since it’s only valid for systems that are unrealistically isolated?
I don’t understand how solar geoengineering is even on the table. Wouldn’it fuck up agriculture – and plant life in general – even more than it already is? Isn’t it a choice between a famine because of the climate or a famine because the sun is blocked off?
Nope, that’s the red strip on the left.
Reverse image search gave this pop-sci article from 2009:
https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.1283
Slightly different though. No grey part, though the legend argues that deutérium is unstable below the horizontal line, and “We are here” in smaller font
What the fuck? Its elbow is equivalent to pour wrist??
The generalization of the concept of “life” beyond earth-style carbon-based biochemistry is still in active debate. As far as I’m aware, the most consensual definition is the one called “lyfe” (to distinguish from the aforementioned carbon-based chemistry, a concept formulated by Stuart John Bartlett and John L Wong in 2020). It has four characteristics: