OT: The Gods of the EEE.

Kamog · #1 November 27th, 2002, 09:22 AM

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!

mlmbd · #2 November 27th, 2002, 09:34 AM

I am glad to hear, it helped!

mlmbd

capnq · #3 November 27th, 2002, 11:42 PM

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

mlmbd · #4 November 28th, 2002, 05:28 PM

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!

mlmbd

Kamog · #5 December 2nd, 2002, 08:50 AM

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!

mlmbd · #6 December 2nd, 2002, 04:02 PM

Kamog, NAH, you wouldn't want one!

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.

mlmbd

Kamog · #7 December 3rd, 2002, 08:31 AM

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.