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Nikola Tesla is a Wizard

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-24 9:20

See: http://i.imgur.com/KbjMf.jpg

Interesting how Nichola Tesla knew at the time that the neutrino could travel faster than light. Now it has come to pass. "Neutron" was the original word used for the Neutrino.

>Pauli originally named his proposed light particle a neutron. When James Chadwick discovered a much more massive nuclear particle in 1932 and also named it a neutron, this left the two particles with the same name. Enrico Fermi, who developed the theory of beta decay, coined the term neutrino in 1934 as a way to resolve the confusion. It is the Italian equivalent of "little neutral one".

Perhaps the mechanism behind the neutrino could be exploited to open up a portal to Gensokyo?

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110922/full/news.2011.554.html

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-24 17:00

>>18
You can. But not with Hermitian operator. Basically, everything you measure is real. You can't measure complex quantity. You can maybe measure two different real quantities and treat them as two parts of imaginary number, but this is not possible in single measurement.

And you need to capture this mathematically. For that you need scalar product of two functions within some Hilbert space, which is widely used in QM. It's defined as <f|g> = \int (*f)*g ((*f) is complex conjugate of f).
Hermitian operator is defined P such that for every f,g: <f|P(g)>=<P(f)|g>
Now, let's say that f=g=f_n
<f_n|P(f_n)>=<f_n|p_n*f_n>=p_n*<f_n|f_n>
=<P(f_n)|f_n>=<p_n*f_n|f_n>=(*p_n)<f_n|f_n>

so p_n = (*p_n) which is only possible if p_n is real.
(<f_n|f_n> is always nonzero (usually 1 makes most sense). |f|^2 is probability distribution of particle location. If the above integral was 0 the particle wouldn't exist.)

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