Friday, 27 July 2012

The Quantum Conspiracy: What Popularizers of QM Don't Want You to Know




Richard Feynman once famously quipped that no one understands quantum mechanics, and popular accounts continue to promulgate the view that QM is an intractable mystery (probably because that helps to sell books). QM is certainly unintuitive, but the idea that no one understands it is far from the truth. In fact, QM is no more difficult to understand than relativity. The problem is that the vast majority of popular accounts of QM are simply flat-out wrong. They are based on the so-called Copenhagen interpretation of QM, which has been thoroughly discredited for decades. It turns out that if Copenhagen were true then it would be possible to communicate faster than light, and hence send signals backwards in time. This talk describes an alternative interpretation based on quantum information theory (QIT) which is consistent with current scientific knowledge. It turns out that there is a simple intuition that makes almost all quantum mysteries simply evaporate, and replaces them with an easily understood (albeit strange) insight: measurement and entanglement are the same physical phenomenon, and you don't really exist.

Or put another way. If  A observes B. What is observing A observing B? A meditation expert first asked me that question but it applies to the notion of quantum information theory.

Thursday, 26 July 2012

International Nazis, The Vatican & CIA




The key Nazi that Joseph Farrell draws our attention to is Martin Bormann. He was most trusted by Hitler and went missing with around 700 million dollars plus diamonds and gold that nobody could find even though the people chasing the cash were organising post war visas for top Nazis to work in the US through Project Paperclip. We can reasonably assume they didn't work too hard at that or that the gamekeepers got into bed with the poachers.

I've gone off the boil with Farrell recently. His love of books means he misses out on history rocking oral testimony popping up on the net like Douglas Dietrich's account of the flight to Antarctica of some Nazi elite and even use of a nuclear bomb against the Russians. However this is an early but recently uploaded Nazi International interview and is still a good introduction to his work for the beginner.

None of the world makes sense unless the researcher has a grasp of the whitewashed history of post war Nazi embrace. 

In a nutshell Germany lost the war. The Nazis won it.

The Doors - LA Woman



I could write a long review of this very special (to me) album with a few insights I've not come across elsewhere but instead I'll just add two small points that I always wanted to know and learned the answer to recently. 

The first is a description of Jim Morrison's voice in one of his biographies as brass and leather and I realised the reviewer came up with this genius line from a television appearance The Doors made; Jim in leather and with a full brass line-up behind him. Great expression. The other question I had is the car he is driving in a the same documentary where he appears on television (below) and where I discovered just now on Tumblr that it's a 1967 Shelby GT 500 Mustang he named "Blue Lady".

The documentary is posted below. It's very good. (Update: The original was removed from Youtube so I've embedded a replacement).