"For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream."
I claimed that my last post was not going to be foundational, and then I went an wrote about pretty much everything which lies at the foundation of classical mechanics. Now it’s time I feel to distill all that down to the bare fundamentals, without the wrapper of a falling coin that my previous post provided.
Read MoreIn my last post, I shared a bit of my history with the "Mars Spectacular," and I encourage you to take a look at that if you have not already.
But, alas, I can't just stop at refuting this claim by demonstrating that it's been made before. No, I have to refute it with math!
Read MoreI am busily working on another post called The Problem with Payloads, within which I make that claim that for any positive numbers \(A\), \(B\), and \(C\), where \(A>B\), \begin{equation} \frac{A}{B} > \frac{A+C}{B+C} > 1. \label{081117frac} \end{equation}
Read MoreIn my previous post, I used my latest invention, quantum playing cards, to give specific examples of entangled and non-entangled quantum systems. I recommend reading that article if you have not already done so, or reread it if it has been a while, for today I am going to expand upon that example and use it to introduce a bit of mathematical formalism, which is necessary for our ultimate goal of understanding quantum teleportation.
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