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  Physicists experimentally realize a quantum Hilbert hotel Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-10-21 15:30 -0500
    Re: Physicists experimentally realize a quantum Hilbert hotel jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-10-21 20:36 +0000
      Re: Physicists experimentally realize a quantum Hilbert hotel Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-10-21 16:29 -0500
        Re: Physicists experimentally realize a quantum Hilbert hotel jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-10-21 22:06 +0000

#527246 — Physicists experimentally realize a quantum Hilbert hotel

Physicists experimentally realize a quantum Hilbert hotel
> http://phys.org/news/2015-10-physicists-experimentally-quantum-hilbert-hotel.html

> (Phys.org)—In 1924, the mathematician David Hilbert described a hotel
> with an infinite number of rooms that are all occupied. Demonstrating
> the counterintuitive nature of infinity, he showed that the hotel
> could still accommodate additional guests. Although clearly no such
> brick-and-mortar hotel exists, in a new paper published in Physical
> Review Letters, physicists Václav Potoček, et al., have physically
> realized a quantum Hilbert hotel by using a beam of light.
>
> In Hilbert's thought experiment, he explained that additional rooms
> could be created in a hotel that already has an infinite number of
> rooms because the hotel manager could simply "shift" all of the
> current guests to a new room according to some rule, such as moving
> everyone up one room (to leave the first room empty) or moving
> everyone up to twice their current room number (to create an infinite
> number of empty rooms by leaving the odd-numbered rooms empty).
>
> In their paper, the physicists proposed two ways to model this
> phenomena—one theoretical and one experimental—both of which use the
> infinite number of quantum states of a quantum system to represent
> the infinite number of hotel rooms in a hotel. The theoretical
> proposal uses the infinite number of energy levels of a particle in a
> potential well, and the experimental demonstration uses the infinite
> number of orbital angular momentum states of light.


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#527254

Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:

As normal, not a damn thing other than a cut and paste.

Have you ever wondered what your life might have been like if you had
the competence to do more than just copy the words of others, spamming
piece of shit?


-- 
Jim Pennino

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#527262

On 10/21/15 3:36 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
> As normal, not a damn thing other than a cut and paste.
>
> Have you ever wondered what your life might have been like if you had
> the competence to do more than just copy the words of others, spamming
> piece of shit?


   Ho boy, jimp, you are a piece of work. Your jealousy is obvious, your
   language inappropriate, and your absolute contempt and total disgust
   are addressed in these Anger Management classes. You, jimp, need
   these services:
> http://www.yellowpages.com/rancho-cucamonga-ca/anger-management-classes



Physicists experimentally realize a quantum Hilbert hotel
> http://phys.org/news/2015-10-physicists-experimentally-quantum-hilbert-hotel.html

 > (Phys.org)—In 1924, the mathematician David Hilbert described a hotel
 > with an infinite number of rooms that are all occupied. Demonstrating
 > the counterintuitive nature of infinity, he showed that the hotel
 > could still accommodate additional guests. Although clearly no such
 > brick-and-mortar hotel exists, in a new paper published in Physical
 > Review Letters, physicists Václav Potoček, et al., have physically
 > realized a quantum Hilbert hotel by using a beam of light.
 >
 > In Hilbert's thought experiment, he explained that additional rooms
 > could be created in a hotel that already has an infinite number of
 > rooms because the hotel manager could simply "shift" all of the
 > current guests to a new room according to some rule, such as moving
 > everyone up one room (to leave the first room empty) or moving
 > everyone up to twice their current room number (to create an infinite
 > number of empty rooms by leaving the odd-numbered rooms empty).
 >
 > In their paper, the physicists proposed two ways to model this
 > phenomena—one theoretical and one experimental—both of which use the
 > infinite number of quantum states of a quantum system to represent
 > the infinite number of hotel rooms in a hotel. The theoretical
 > proposal uses the infinite number of energy levels of a particle in a
 > potential well, and the experimental demonstration uses the infinite
 > number of orbital angular momentum states of light.



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#527284

Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
As normal, not a damn thing other than a repeat of the cut and paste.

Have you ever wondered what your life might have been like if you had
the competence to do more than just copy the words of others, spamming
piece of shit?


-- 
Jim Pennino

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