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A Video Exposition: Quantum Theory, Waves, and the Bulbous Bow of Confusion

By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com

The “Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle” is a mathematical law of the universe involving “trade-offs”.  In fact, it could be summarized as the law of having your cake but not being able to eat it too.  Or, as applied for the sake of this article, it means either position or momentum can be measured at any given time, but not both simultaneously; at least not accurately.

I, personally, favor the rows or columns example of the Uncertainty Principle because of its simplicity in explaining Quantum Mechanics intuitively; if that were possible.  The point is when studying columns the definitions of the rows disappear, and when focusing on the rows the columns vanish.

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‘BIRD BOX’: Christianity, The Great Awakening 2.0, Transhumanism, and the Neo-Feudal Order

NOTE TO READERS (from Doug / Uncola):  This piece was NOT written by me, but is a response to my earlier “Bird Box” article.  The following essay was e-mailed to me by Plato Publius, a regular commenter here on The Burning Platform.  Other than cursory proof-reading adjustments for punctuation and formatting Plato’s selected headings, photos, and links, this article is posted on behalf of Plato Publius and at his request:

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Guest Post by Plato Publius

I find it intriguing that my observations of “Bird Box” mirrored Uncola’s, particularly his description here:

In spite of its viral buzz during the final days of the year, as we watched ‘Bird Box’, we were mostly underwhelmed, except for the ‘B-movie’ satisfaction of our ‘Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K)’commentary as the scenes unfurled.

WARNING: SPOILER ALERT!
FAITH, LOVE, HOPE

Uncola’s analysis of the “faith” and “courage” aspects of the film were amazing and VERY true, but didn’t go far enough.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

– Hebrews 11:1 King James Version (KJV)

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Bizarre Particles Keep Flying Out of Antarctica’s Ice, and They Might Shatter Modern Physics

Via Scientific America

Bizarre Particles Keep Flying Out of Antarctica's Ice, and They Might Shatter Modern PhysicsThe balloon-borne Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA), pictured here shortly before a launch in 2014, is a physics experiment that has detected mysterious emissions from deep within Antarctica’s ice. Credit: NASA and Balloon Program Office

There’s something mysterious coming up from the frozen ground in Antarctica, and it could break physics as we know it.

Physicists don’t know what it is exactly. But they do know it’s some sort of cosmic ray—a high-energy particle that’s blasted its way through space, into the Earth, and back out again. But the particles physicists know about—the collection of particles that make up what scientists call the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics—shouldn’t be able to do that. Sure, there are low-energy neutrinos that can pierce through miles upon miles of rock unaffected. But high-energy neutrinos, as well as other high-energy particles, have “large cross-sections.” That means that they’ll almost always crash into something soon after zipping into the Earth and never make it out the other side.

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Innerspace (NMF part 5)

With the interior skeleton largely in place it is time to turn my attention to putting some skin on these bones–the inside bones anyway.

So to begin, first we have to ensure that there is a layer of dampening material between each layer of the structure.  In this case I’m using an underlayment foam.  It is relatively inexpensive, easy to come by (the flooring isle), and effective in covering a large surface area.  This is partly to dampen the wall surface and partly to help create another layer to seal one side from the other.  It isn’t much of a barrier to sound, but it does help.

Beginning with the roll foam:

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A Fine Errection (NMF part 4)

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2017/02/17/its-not-my-fault-part-3/

The title of this section was carefully designed to get Stucky to at least open this post.  He may not read it, but while NickelthroweR inspired me to get started, Stucky’s equally amazing DIY narratives encouraged me nearly as much.

So here begins the part where it gets really hard…really.

Just not this way:  (Stucky at home reading TBP)

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It’s not my fault…. (Part 3)

Laying the Foundation

For the backstory see:

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2017/02/12/its-not-my-fault-part-1/

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2017/02/17/its-not-my-fault-part-2/

As with nearly any building project, big or small, you build the base and work up from there.  This project is no different; however, we want our base to have a few interesting and unusual properties.  In this case we want our base to provide access for ducting, we want it to be as isolated as we can make it, and we want it to be easily portable.  Easily portable?  That is absolutely essential.

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