Interesting Links for 08-10-2022

[andrewducker]

1. How does the Russo-Ukrainian War end?

(tags:russia ukraine civilwar viaDanielDWilliam )

2. National Galleries of Scotland issues closure warning over growing cash crisis

(tags:museums scotland doom )

3. Here's someone who knows exactly what the picture will look like before the pen touches paper

(tags:art video impressive )

4. The Universe Is Not Locally Real, and the Physics Nobel Prize Winners Proved It

(tags:nobel physics reality viaSwampers )

5. Where does "British people don't eat spicy food" come from?

(tags:food history uk )

6. Miami man hopped a bus to start a new life. His parents got a court order.

(tags:autism parenting OhForFucksSake USA )

Comments

[nancylebov]

1. Zelensky has said he won't negotiate with Putin. I think this increases the odds of Putin being out of power.

[bens_dad]

5. I have heard it said that Britain doesn't have the fanciness of French cuisine because we were able to keep meat better (it isn't so hot) so better quality meat was available to a much larger class of people.

If true, this theory is saying that British cuisine does not need spices.

The Universe Is Not Locally Real, and the Physics Nobel Prize Winners Proved It

[jack]

OK, interesting. I believe that this experiment took some genius to make happen. But I'm confused by the "not real" framing. I think this refers to what we already thought about quantum mechanics, which I don't think anyone was very happy with, but I think is just how things are..

And I'm confused about this final final final nail in the coffin of local hidden variable theories. It seems like the possibilities to explain quantum weirdnesses are:
1. Something even weirder but more correct we haven't thought of
2. Something like many worlds, which is consistent with everything, but lots of people don't like it
3. Something where quantum weirdness is explained by subatomic particles having some property which we can't detect directly but determines what happens to entangled particles in apparently random events. This would be the obvious answer but is disproved ages ago by statistics and Bell's Inequality.
4. Some mysterious "spooky" force reaches out from one entangled particle and "affects" how the other entangled particle reacts, even if it's meters (or light-years) away. As far as I can tell, no-one *seriously* believes this happens. It's just not how physical particles usually work. But something like this is the one answer which would in theory avoid quantum weirdness, so everyone wanted to rule it out *for good*. It sounds like this experiment goes a step further in showing, conclusively, that if this "spooky force" exists, it would have to travel between distant stars instantaneously much faster than light, which everyone agrees is impossible. But I seriously find it unbelievable that people seriously thought this spooky force might exist and can find the "other" entangled particles after travelling a few feet but not longer distances.
5. Just don't think about what it means too hard, use quantum physics for "small" scales and ignore it for "large" scales, and don't try to pick at the difference. [This theory is running in second place]

[cmcmck]

5. The medieval English actually had a reputation for loving highly spiced food. I suspect the reputation for plainness is a post Victorian thing as many a Raj anglo also loved it hot.

[rhythmaning]

I liked Snyder's logical, rather upbeat take; but I've just read this much more depressing piece in the New Yorker...

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/how-the-war-in-ukraine-might-end