You have called the real-world implications of quantum physics nonsensical. What is your objection?
Quantum mechanics is an incredible theory that explains all sorts of things that couldn't be explained before, starting with the stability of atoms. But when you accept the weirdness of quantum mechanics [in the macro world], you have to give up the idea of space-time as we know it from Einstein. The greatest weirdness here is that it doesn't make sense. If you follow the rules, you come up with something that just isn't right.
In quantum mechanics an object can exist in many states at once, which sounds crazy. The quantum description of the world seems completely contrary to the world as we experience it.
It doesn't make any sense, and there is a simple reason. You see, the mathematics of quantum mechanics has two parts to it. One is the evolution of a quantum system, which is described extremely precisely and accurately by the Schrödinger equation. That equation tells you this: If you know what the state of the system is now, you can calculate what it will be doing 10 minutes from now. However, there is the second part of quantum mechanics—the thing that happens when you want to make a measurement. Instead of getting a single answer, you use the equation to work out the probabilities of certain outcomes. The results don't say, "This is what the world is doing." Instead, they just describe the probability of its doing any one thing. The equation should describe the world in a completely deterministic way, but it doesn't.
Erwin Schrödinger, who created that equation, was considered a genius. Surely he appreciated that conflict.
So Schrödinger himself never believed that the cat analogy reflected the nature of reality?
Oh yes, I think he was pointing this out. I mean, look at three of the biggest figures in quantum mechanics, Schrödinger, Einstein, and Paul Dirac. They were all quantum skeptics in a sense. Dirac is the one whom people find most surprising, because he set up the whole foundation, the general framework of quantum mechanics. People think of him as this hard-liner, but he was very cautious in what he said. When he was asked, "What's the answer to the measurement problem?" his response was, "Quantum mechanics is a provisional theory. Why should I look for an answer in quantum mechanics?" He didn't believe that it was true. But he didn't say this out loud much.
Yet the analogy of Schrödinger's cat is always presented as a strange reality that we have to accept. Doesn't the concept drive many of today's ideas about theoretical physics?
That's right. People don't want to change the Schrödinger equation, leading them to what's called the "many worlds" interpretation of quantum mechanics.
That interpretation says that all probabilities are playing out somewhere in parallel universes?
It says OK, the cat is somehow alive and dead at the same time. To look at that cat, you must become a superposition [two states existing at the same time] of you seeing the live cat and you seeing the dead cat. Of course, we don't seem to experience that, so the physicists have to say, well, somehow your consciousness takes one route or the other route without your knowing it. You're led to a completely crazy point of view. You're led into this "many worlds" stuff, which has no relationship to what we actually perceive.
The idea of parallel universes—many worlds—is a very human-centered idea, as if everything has to be understood from the perspective of what we can detect with our five senses.
The trouble is, what can you do with it? Nothing. You want a physical theory that describes the world that we see around us. That's what physics has always been: Explain what the world that we see does, and why or how it does it. Many worlds quantum mechanics doesn't do that. Either you accept it and try to make sense of it, which is what a lot of people do, or, like me, you say no—that's beyond the limits of what quantum mechanics can tell us. Which is, surprisingly, a very uncommon position to take. My own view is that quantum mechanics is not exactly right, and I think there's a lot of evidence for that. It's just not direct experimental evidence within the scope of current experiments.
In general, the ideas in theoretical physics seem increasingly fantastical. Take string theory. All that talk about 11 dimensions or our universe's existing on a giant membrane seems surreal.
You're absolutely right. And in a certain sense, I blame quantum mechanics, because people say, "Well, quantum mechanics is so nonintuitive; if you believe that, you can believe anything that's nonintuitive." But, you see, quantum mechanics has a lot of experimental support, so you've got to go along with a lot of it. Whereas string theory has no experimental support.
I understand you are setting out this critique of quantum mechanics in your new book.
The book is called Fashion, Faith and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe. Each of those words stands for a major theoretical physics idea. The fashion is string theory; the fantasy has to do with various cosmological schemes, mainly inflationary cosmology [which suggests that the universe inflated exponentially within a small fraction of a second after the Big Bang]. Big fish, those things are. It's almost sacrilegious to attack them. And the other one, even more sacrilegious, is quantum mechanics at all levels—so that's the faith. People somehow got the view that you really can't question it.
A few years ago you suggested that gravity is what separates the classical world from the quantum one. Are there enough people out there putting quantum mechanics to this kind of test?
No, although it's sort of encouraging that there are people working on it at all. It used to be thought of as a sort of crackpot, fringe activity that people could do when they were old and retired. Well, I am old and retired! But it's not regarded as a central, as a mainstream activity, which is a shame.
After Newton, and again after Einstein, the way people thought about the world shifted. When the puzzle of quantum mechanics is solved, will there be another revolution in thinking?
It's hard to make predictions. Ernest Rutherford said his model of the atom [which led to nuclear physics and the atomic bomb] would never be of any use. But yes, I would be pretty sure that it will have a huge influence. There are things like how quantum mechanics could be used in biology. It will eventually make a huge difference, probably in all sorts of unimaginable ways.
In your book The Emperor's New Mind, you posited that consciousness emerges from quantum physical actions within the cells of the brain. Two decades later, do you stand by that?
In my view the conscious brain does not act according to classical physics. It doesn't even act according to conventional quantum mechanics. It acts according to a theory we don't yet have. This is being a bit big-headed, but I think it's a little bit like William Harvey's discovery of the circulation of blood. He worked out that it had to circulate, but the veins and arteries just peter out, so how could the blood get through from one to the other? And he said, "Well, it must be tiny little tubes there, and we can't see them, but they must be there." Nobody believed it for some time. So I'm still hoping to find something like that—some structure that preserves coherence, because I believe it ought to be there.
When physicists finally understand the core of quantum physics, what do you think the theory will look like?


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Phnom Penh Post - New exhibition monthly at Chhan Dina Gallery
New exhibition monthly at Chhan Dina Gallery
Pann Rethea | Publication date 21 July 2022 | 19:55 ICT
Artist Chhan Dina is the owner of an art gallery newly opened in January, 2022. Hong Menea
Pann Rethea
After nearly two decades of experience as a painter exhibiting in other people's galleries, Cambodian artist Chhan Dina opened her own gallery in early 2022 as an easier way to show her own work and the work of others from the Phnom Penh artistic community.
The Chhan Dina Gallery has been drawing crowds of artists – both veterans and newcomers – on a regular basis since it first opened its doors on January 21 in the Khan Daun Penh district of the capital.
Chhan Dina said that on the opening day of her gallery she had 15 of her own paintings displayed as a solo exhibition that were all portraits of wildlife or people done on canvas using oil paints, with prices ranging from $900-$2,000 per painting.
"This is a good place to exhibit art work as the National Museum and the Friends Futures Factory are both around here, which is convenient for anyone looking for art," Dina tells The Post.
Dina has been holding a new solo or group art exhibition at her gallery every month since it opened and will continue to do so at least until the end of 2022.
January was Dina's solo exhibition to start things off. February was an exhibition of Chhim Sothy's artwork and March had Suos Sodavy. Between the three of them they've won the Honoured Artist, Venerable Artist and Young Artist awards at the CMLTV Contemporary Art Awards at Mahasarakham University in Thailand, with Dina winning the youth award in 2016.
Dina also won the Female Artist Award for her creative and educational ideas about advocacy for social issues through paintings on the ABC Extra Stout Cambodia-sponsored show The Exceptional Person that aired in 2021, which was when she first spoke publicly about her plans for a gallery.
"I want to do something special to show art to the public and the younger generations, so I will open a gallery to display mine and others' artworks and so people can learn more about the art of painting. It will be great to show the strength of Cambodian artists to foreigners, so they can see and better understand our creative ideas," she said.
Her gallery then held a group exhibition in May and in June there was a solo exhibition of Nou Sary's works. The latest exhibition by Meas Sokhorn titled Life with Arts opened on July 13.
Dina was born in Phnom Penh in 1984 and then spent her earliest years in a refugee camp near Poipet on the Thai-Cambodian border. She's one of just a few female artists with a high profile in today's Cambodian contemporary art scene and in the past she's participated in the Cambodian Living Arts Fellows Programme.
Her work often explores themes like women's roles in society and their experiences, but she's also partial to depicting nature and wildlife. Her exhibition titled On the Verge of Extinction was focused on endangered bird species in Cambodia and another called Drawing the Golden Thread at the Intercontinental Hotel was also nature-themed.
The nature or wildlife aspects of her work are inspired by her own experiences whenever she's gone on excursions to local rainforests and she says she then translates the imagery she encounters in that hyper-stimulating environment filled with flora and fauna onto her canvases using paint.
Dina's style has developed throughout the years across a range of mediums however but with each venture into a new medium she maintains a motif such as birds, drizzled enamel, profile silhouettes or psychedelic brushstrokes, which she then uses to explore themes like loss, family, loneliness, celebration and love and her later works tend to be more abstract in nature when compared to her earlier paintings and sculptures
She's also an art teacher who works with a number of NGOs and orphanages as a volunteer and at international schools on a professional paid basis and in the past, her artwork has been recognised and supported by the UN and at the ASEAN Women of the Future Awards in 2018. She has exhibited work internationally in Colombia, France, Singapore and the US.
A collection of 20 abstract paintings about a rare species of bird that holds an important place in Khmer traditions opened in the gallery of the Plantation Hotel in 2020, and Dina was interviewed about the goals of her work at that time.
"The aim is for the next generation of artists to gain an insight into the art of abstract painting, which focuses on the creation of their work in the future. It is important as an artist to be able to draw on something special from nature or the environment that we experience in our daily lives", she explained.
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This post will be a departure from my regular posts, but will aim to further give you insight as to how I like to edit my photographs—this post in particular will deal with my concert photography.
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This was an idea that spawned from my use of Periscope not too long ago. As a festival photographer, I have taken concert photos in the past, so one of my followers, Connor (@Mr_Kirkpatrick) was showing me his photographs that he had taken of Bruce Springsteen, and asked about what I would have done differently.
The original photo that was provided to me (resized in photoshop) is below. It's a great photo that captures the atmosphere well, in addition to the expression of Springsteen himself. Oh, to be able to be so close to him!
It's a great photo for sure, but Conner was interested in how to improve on it, so here are some things that I did to the photo.
The original photo is on a little bit of an angle. Normally for concert photography, this wouldn't be an issue as it brings more energy to the photo, but in this case, I prefer a more horizontally-aligned photo because of the composition, and the linear railings of the ceiling that are so visible in the backdrop. I rotated the photo so that it is straightened.
I felt the hands and finger on the bottom of the photo is a little distracting as my eyes tend to focus on them when I first see the photo. I cropped the hands and finger, but that left me with a photo cropped right at Springsteen's waist.
I always make it a point to not crop people at their limbs as it makes for an abrupt feeling for the viewers. Nobody wants a feeling of decapitation or amputation in their photos!
To get around this, I cropped slightly below his waist, and then had to clone in sections where the fingers were still visible.
I also cropped it at this location for another reason, which I will explain further below.
Springsteen's left hand was already cropped at the wrist so there's not a whole lot I could do with that. Ideally, I would have liked his whole hand in the photo, but since it wasn't in the original photo, I decided to leave the hand as it is.
A little more contrast would make for a more dynamic image, and will also bring out the fold creases of his t-shirt, and details in his facial expression. To achieve this, I used the Topaz Adjust plugin. This is one of my go-to plugins for some of my concert photography because it does such a great job at increasing micro-contrasts, or contrast at a finer level.
I added a vignette to the image to further emphasize the subject of this photo; vignettes are great for guiding the eye to where you want them to be in your photo.
Photo after removing distractions, and editing to heighten effects.
There is one more thing that I wish I could do something about, and that is that large spotlight on the bottom left of the photo. It's a large white light that acts more as a distraction than it does give value to the photo. However, seeing as it's placed where it is, there's not a whole lot I could do with this.
Earlier in this blog post, I alluded to the fact that I cropped this photo below his waistline for another reason. That reason is so make this white spotlight less noticeable. If I cropped Springsteen at the waistline, not only might it make for an awkward feeling, but there is also less of the subject matter in the photo, thereby allowing other parts of the photo to be emphasized. With more of Springsteen shown in the photo above, that white spotlight—as bright as it may be—takes less of a precedence in the photo, allowing the viewers to focus that much more on Springsteen. It's a small change, but one that I think makes a big difference.
Do you like the edits I did on this particular photo? Please let me know in the comments below if you would do something different, or if you have any ideas of your own. I'm always curious to see how others interpret images as well.


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HomeAn Aunt's Legacy Is Erased in Maine
An Aunt's Legacy Is Erased in Maine
Maia EfremApril 27, 2011Image by COURTESY OF ANNIE VALLIER...
Image by COURTESY OF ANNIE VALLIER...
As Annie Schneiderman Valliere drove south from her home in Woolwich, Maine, to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire's centennial commemoration in New York City, friends began calling her cell phone with disturbing news: Her aunt, activist Rose Schneiderman, was about to be scrubbed from Maine's labor history.
The state's pro-business Republican governor had ordered a public mural that told labor's story and was prominently displayed at the Labor Department to be dismantled and packed away in a secret location. Schneiderman's image was in the background of a panel that honored Frances Perkins, the U.S. secretary of labor under Franklin Roosevelt and the first woman to hold a Cabinet rank. And the agency's conference rooms — named for Perkins, Schneiderman and Cesar Chavez — would also lose their special designations.
"I think it's a sad commentary on what the future will bring, at least for this governor," Valliere told the Forward in an interview. She said she worried about "what we'll go back to when he's done. I think it's embarrassing for the state."
Governor Paul LePage, elected only last January, drew nationwide attention when he decided to remove the 11-panel, 36-foot mural. The work, by artist Judy Taylor, pays tribute to Perkins, Maine's first Labor Day celebration, shipbuilding by "Rosie the Riveters" during World War II, and other events in labor history. Commissioned in 2007 and financed in part by the federal government, the mural has been prominently displayed in the waiting room of the Department of Labor building in Augusta since 2008.
The governor said the artwork presented only labor's side of history and that it was out of line with his pro-business agenda. The mural was taken down the same weekend that thousands of people joined in commemorations across the nation to honor the 146 immigrant men and women who died in the Triangle fire in 1911, a tragedy that spawned major reforms in American labor laws, building codes and fire safety.
Those who challenged the governor's actions and sought a temporary restraining order lost a round in federal court on April 22, though the case will continue.
Numerous calls for comment to the governor's press spokeswoman were not returned.
His office announced its intentions in March, and it was planning to find a home for the mural before removing it. But the office acted more swiftly after more than 200 people protested the proposed dismantling, and apparently after some of the protesters talked about using nonviolent civil disobedience to prevent the move, according to the Bangor Daily News.
The governor's office had received half a dozen complaints about the mural's themes and released an anonymous fax by a "secret admirer" who called the artwork "union propaganda" and said it reminded him of "communist North Korea, where they use these murals to brainwash the masses."
Valliere countered that removing the mural was "exactly what the North Koreans would do, ripping down art."
A social worker at a middle school, Valliere, 55, remembers her aunt as a very strong-minded, "cute old lady who always made sure she was well dressed and had her lipstick on." Schneiderman, who never married, treated her nieces and nephews as if they were her own children. Valliere was 18 years old when her aunt passed away, and only as Valliere grew older and began to do family research did she learn about her aunt's activism.
Rose Schneiderman's shining moment came when she addressed a mass meeting of all strata of society at the Metropolitan Opera House after the Triangle fire. The meeting threatened to break up in disorder when she rose and challenged the crowd. "I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies," she said, "if I were to come here to talk about good fellowship. We have tried you good people of the public — and we have found you wanting."
Schneiderman fought for worker rights for the rest of her career. She never lived in Maine, and Perkins lived there only part time.
Valliere said that Schneiderman would have felt honored when the mural first went up, especially because she is in the background of the Perkins panel. "I'm sure she would have been… disillusioned that all this effort had gone to changing things in the United States… creating laws and unions able to negotiate with policies, and here we're turning downward," Valliere said.
On April 1, six plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against the governor in U.S. District Court in Bangor, claiming he infringed on the mural artist's First Amendment right to free speech. The plaintiffs also demanded that the mural's secret location be disclosed and sought a temporary restraining order to force LePage to return the mural to the labor department's walls. Taylor, the artist who created the painting, was not among the plaintiffs.
But on April 22, Judge John Woodcock Jr. agreed with LePage that the removal of the mural was a "permissible exercise of gubernatorial authority." The judge wrote in his opinion that "the resolution of this vigorous debate must not rest with judicial authority of a federal court. It must rest instead with the ultimate authority of the people of the state of Maine to choose their leaders."
The remaining issues in the suit include whether the governor should have held a public hearing before dismantling the artwork and the request for a permanent injunction that would return the mural to its first home. The attorneys for both sides will meet with the court for conferences on how to move forward with the case.
LePage has been a lightning rod for controversy, famously saying during the 2010 gubernatorial elections that President Obama could "go to hell." He also declined to attend a dinner given by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, honoring Martin Luther King Jr. He called the NAACP a special interest group and said it could go "kiss my butt."
LePage narrowly won election against Jewish independent candidate Eliot Cutler in a three-way race. An attorney, Cutler said he was flabbergasted when he found out about the governor's decision to remove the mural.
"I think that turning your back on any important part of Maine's history is a shortsighted thing for a governor to do," he said. "All of the attention that he has brought to the state by dismantling the mural… can't be described as moves that make the state a more attractive place for employers to bring business."
Even so, Cutler agrees with the judge's decision in the lawsuit against LePage. "This is not a free speech case, this is a simple matter of judgment, or lack of it."
Contact Maia Efrem at efrem@forward.com
Maia Efrem
Maia Efrem is the former research editor and assistant to the editor and was also responsible for the Forward's annual Salary Survey. Previously she served as the editor of Blognik Beat, a blog written by students who emigrated from or have ties to the Former Soviet Union. Maia is a graduate of Hunter College and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.


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Air Force's Gray Wolf Program Tests Game-Changing Small Low-Cost Jet Engine
The Air Force funded the development of the engine as part of a project to develop low-cost cruise missiles, but it could have wider applications.
By Joseph Trevithick March 20, 2020
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The U.S. Air Force says it has completed a round of tests of a first-of-its-kind small, low-cost turbojet engine. The experiments were part of a program called Gray Wolf, which has focused heavily on the demonstration of technologies that could enable the development of cheaper cruise missiles. The engine could also power other future expendable air-launched systems or unmanned aircraft.
A TDI-J85 engine from Technical Directions Inc. (TDI), a division of drone maker Kratos, powered an expendable test article from Northrop Grumman during the test flights. The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), which is responsible for the Gray Wolf effort, released a picture of an F-16 Viper fighter carrying the flight vehicle, which also bears the logo of Griffon Aerospace, along with its announcement on Mar. 19, 2020. AFRL first revealed Gray Wolf in 2017 and hired both Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin to supply testbed systems for the program in December of that year.
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"The success of this test greatly increases our confidence in the performance of the engine and weapon systems as a whole," U.S. Air Force Colonel Garry Haase, the head of AFRL's Munitions Directorate, abbreviated AFRL/RW, said in a statement. "Developing the TDI-J85 engine in parallel to the cruise missile has proved challenging, but the collaborative partnership between AFRL, TDI, and Northrop Grumman has been outstanding."
One of Northrop Grumman's TDI-J85-powered test articles under the wing of an F-16 Viper.
The TDI-J85 is 200-pound-thrust-class turbojet that weighs just 28 pounds. For comparison, the Williams F107 turbofan engine, which powers the AGM-86B Air-Launched Cruise Missile (ALCM) and variants of the Tomahawk Land Attack Cruise Missile, is in the 600-pound-thrust-class and weighs around 67 pounds.
The TDI-J85 engine.
"The TDI-J85 engine underwent a successful flight test campaign culminating in multiple inflight engine starts and operation at high altitude. The engine met performance expectations for thrust and surpassed fuel efficiency expectations," AFRL news release said. "The engines tested accumulated sufficient inflight operating time, building confidence in the design durability."
"The engine design focused on affordability and manufacturability, which enables increased production. Test results proved the engine capability," it continued. "It is the first engine in its class and price point to successfully operate at altitude."
AFRL did not give a unit price for the TDI-J85. As of 2014, each F107 was around $190,000.
TDI has been working on small jet engine technology, including for cruise missiles, since the 1980s. In 2013, it received almost $1.5 million from the Air Force for work specifically on "Low-Cost Propulsion System for Smart Munitions." That contract ran through 2016, the year before the Gray Wolf program, which you can read about in more detail in this past War Zone story, began.
Low-cost, fuel-efficient engines have been a core focus of the program, primarily to help drive the overall cost of individual air-launched cruise missiles. In its most recent budget request for the 2021 Fiscal Year, the Air Force said that the average unit price across its purchases of both AGM-158A Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) and AGM-158B JASSM-Extended Range (JASSM-ER) was approximately $1.266 million.
Needless to say, this kind of unit price makes traditional large scale cruise missile attacks an especially expensive proposition. The Air Force's plans to network such munitions together in the future to act together in swarms requires the ability to launch even greater numbers of weapons all at once or in coordinated waves for maximum effect.
Beyond simply helping to reduce costs, improved fuel efficiency could also translate into greater range for weapons without having to increase the total amount of fuel they carry, something that could be invaluable in the future as the range of hostile air defense threats continues to increase. With an engine such as the TDI-J85, the fuel load could also be reduced to make room for larger warheads or other payloads, without sacrificing existing range.
At present, the Air Force says it is aiming to demonstrate an experimental low-cost cruise missile design that can "cruise for distances greater than 250 nautical miles." This is roughly equivalent to the JASSM's range, but significantly shorter than that of the JASSM-ER or future AGM-158D JASSM-Extreme Range (JASSM-XR), as well as of the AGM-86B ALCM and Tomahawk.
The improved engines also wouldn't be limited to powering air-launched cruise missiles, either. Engines such as the TDI-J85 could help propel a new generation of other expendable systems, including decoys, as well as unmanned aircraft.
The Air Force's future plans for the Gray Wolf program are not entirely clear. In June 2019, the service announced that it was canceling additional phases it had planned to carry out and would be transitioning work on networked swarming munitions to a different project, dubbed Golden Horde, which you can read about more in this past War Zone piece.
A briefing slide outlining the original plans for the Gray Wolf program.
Even if Gray Wolf does wrap up soon, it's very likely that work on the potentially game-changing TDI-J85 will continue as part of other efforts. As noted, TDI has already been working on cost-effective and fuel-efficient engines, including for cruise missiles, under contract from the U.S. military for decades now.
No matter what happens, the Air Force has clearly made important progress toward developing potentially game-changing low-cost cruise missiles, achievements that will likely impact the development of other systems in the future.
Contact the author: joe@thedrive.com
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