OT: The Gods of the EEE.
 

Hey, I found a picture of the EEE gods at http://www.digitalblasphemy.com/dbhome.shtml
Here's a picture of them.
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1037724138.jpg

That site has a few awesome pictures of planets and different stuff. Check it out.
But I just thought I'd post what I believe the EEE gods would look like. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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It could also be the Worldship for the EEE shipset.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">True. I didn't even think of that one.

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Dang, I belong to digitalblasphemy. I never even thought about looking through the gallery there. For pics and ideas! What a dumb-***!!

Thanks for the idea rags!

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif No problem mlmbd. Glad I could be of service. That is a pretty nice site and they got some really nice images.

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Wow, I just took a quick look at that site, and there's some spectacular images there! Some of the graphics look like they can be used for special system pictures for nebulae, black holes, and so on. Very nice!

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yup, I downloaded a bunch of images. And a few of the images I downloaded came from small animations they made with those images. One is a swirling black-hole looking deal. It's pretty neato.

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Rags, now you went and did it. I have about 10,000 ideas about images racing around in my head.

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Sorry man.. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Does anyone know when http://www.cognitivedistortion.com/ turned into a pay for images site? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif It used to be a great source for images, but now they are greedy. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

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Imperator Fyron ,
Probably when the cost exceeded any other source of revenue. In life as in Physics, "There Ain't no Free Lunches".
you can still get free images at www.corbis.com which is owned by Micro$ponge.

[ November 21, 2002, 13:11: Message edited by: Gryphin ]

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rags, I WILL GET YOU!!

Fyron, maybe the cat wants to buy New imaging software. At least some of the site is still free. And out of the goodness of your heart, you can still u/l your images. On second thought it could Greed!!

Gryphin, in all of my time in Physics I have never heard that! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif There goes that doctoral thesis. Thesis; How lunch effects the dynamics on a quantum field, in respect to (but not limited to) Light Front Dynamics and Light Front QCD (Quantum Chromo Dynamics)'s. Ofcourse the entire thesis is based of the fact, or so I thought, that lunches are FREE!!

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Well, of course lunches affect quantum fields. Lunches are composed of atoms, which are made up of subatomic particles, which have electromagnetic / gravitational / strong / weak force fields that can act on other particles. All right, suppose you have a system composed of N subatomic particles. Inherent to that system will be a certain set of dynamic quantum fields that have particular probability density functions. Now introduce an outside influence - a lunch - and the quantum fields of the lunch particles will interact with those of the system.

Let's look at the electromagnetic forces as an example. Lunches are more or less balanced electrically, meaning that the number of positively charged particles composing the lunch is roughly equal to the number of negatively charged particles. Of course, it is unlikely for a macroscopic object such as a lunch to be exactly neutral, so there will be slight positive or negative charge. Anyway, we all know that like charges repel each other and opposite charges attract. Each of the protons in the lunch atoms will repel the protons in the system, and each of the electrons in the lunch atoms will repel the electrons in the system. Simultaneously, each of the lunch protons are attracted to each of the electrons in the system, and vice versa. The resultant force on the lunch, and the opposite (equal magnitude) reaction force on the system is a superposition of all the component forces made of up each possible particle-pair.

This is where Light Front Dynamics come in. The forces are not instantaneously transmitted from one particle to another, but the information has a speed of c. Therefore, when the lunch is introduced to the system, multiple propagating wave fronts are generated, in which the influence from the lunch particles travel as a waves to the particles in the system. In the case of electromagnetic forces, electromagnetic waves are generated, of course, and therefore in certain frequency ranges we get light front dynamics.

As for quantum chromo dynamics, it depends on the relative motion and speed of the lunch with respect to the system, and how that causes a change in frequency of the wave. ('chromo' refers to color, which is a function of the frequency.) Of course, when we say the lunch is free, we don't mean that you didn't pay money to get it, it means that you can't produce it out of nothing - well, there is a very tiny but nonzero chance that a lunch will appear out of vacuum, but for all intents and purposes, we can say that it never happens.

[ November 22, 2002, 08:18: Message edited by: Kamog ]

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Kamog, yes exactly. Wait a minute. How is it that you know so much about what is in my doctoral thesis? You or anyone you know been around Irving, TX, lately?

Hmmm!!! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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No, I have not been around Irving. A couple of months ago I read in the news that some physicists at Caltech have succeeded in teleporting a light beam across a room, so I started reading up on it to try to understand how they did it. I read a bunch of stuff about Alice and Bob, squeezed light, quantum states, entangled photons, and so on, which was fascinating, but sadly, I must admit that it is over my head and I still don't comprehend it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif I haven't given up yet, though, I figure that if I keep learning about quantum mechanics I'd eventually figure it out.

Wow, mlmbd http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif ,you're working on a doctoral thesis in quantum mechanics! Can you explain what is squeezed light and how does entanglement work?

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Kamog, Quantum mechanics holds that a beam of light, even laser light, exhibits small energy irregularities (shot noise) owing to the effects of vacuum fluctuations (electromagnetic fields in the vacuum whose omnipresence is sanctioned by Heisenberg's uncertainty principle). Over the past ten years physicists have been able partially to overcome this problem by reducing the noise in either the phase or the amplitude of the light at the expense of the other. The resultant "squeezed light." Does that cover it? I can give you a summary of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. If you need.
As to how entanglement work? I am assuming you are referring to "Quantum Entanglement." Yes?
Quantum entanglement is a physical resource, like energy, associated with the peculiar nonclassical correlations that are possible between separated quantum systems. Entanglement can be measured, transformed, and purified. OK?

Kamog, phyisist are confused by physic. More particularly Quantum Mechanics. So, don't be discouraged. As you stated, <font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Just keep learning!

Hope that helped, a little.

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Thanks for the explaination! Yes, that helps.

I only took a third-year quantum mechanics course in university, and mostly what we did in that course was to study electrons trapped in different kinds of quantum wells, solving the Schrodinger equation for these simple cases and for the hydrogen atom. We also learned about the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, de Broglie wavelengths, wave-particle duality, the energy of photons, tunneling and so on. But we didn't learn anything about quantum entanglement or quantum teleportation!

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I am glad to hear, it helped!

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I've seen bumper stickers that say, "Heisenberg may have slept here."

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capnq, I've seen those, too. Your post reminded me of, the first time I did. I was at Berkley, in a parking lot. I did find myself smiling with the thought of Heisenberg blanching precariously on that bumper. Anyway as I got closer to this car, I could see there was other writing on the bumper sticker. I got to the car, it read; " so did Copernicus, Euclid, Pascal and that other FAMOUS mathematician guy, AH Einstein!". I almost hurt myself LOL. That laughter was soon modified when the owner of the car exited the book shop. Complete with pocket protector, a small slide ruler in it, and a copy of Einstein's "Collected Papers of Albert Einstein Vol 2". I had to find a toilet. Before I embarrassed myself, by urinating right where I stood. I still chuckle, anytime I am reminded of that!

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Speaking of pocket protectors, I have never figured out where people buy them. Nowhere have I ever seen pocket protectors on sale, in any store, even though I see guys wearing them all the time (I suspect that they get them for free when they go to some sort of convention.) Not that I want one, or anything!

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Kamog, NAH, you wouldn't want one! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif They hand them out at every convention/conference I've ever been to. On average at a convention, you could pick-up eight(8) or nine(9). Two(2) or three(three) really nice ones. At a conference, one(1) maybe two(2). Cheap! The real dilemma is, just which one to use. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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If you can't decide which one to use, maybe you can wear a shirt with a pocket on both the left and right sides. Then you can use two pocket protectors.

Left pocket: mechanical pencil, blue pen, slide rule, red pen, x-acto knife, tweezers, circles/electronics drawing template, 3.5" diskette containing some MathCad files.

Right pocket: calculator, black pen, black Sharpie marker, screwdriver, mini note pad, second blue pen, small mag-lite.

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Not a bad idea Kamog! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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