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Look Loop

Yesterday I was looking out the window, nothing in particular. Maybe I was looking at the sky, just looking over the clouds to see if it was going to rain. But since there are too many buildings around I thought it would be better to look for the weather forecast on the internet instead. I was almost ready to look up for one of those websites, when I saw someone in front of my window looking at the sky. It looked like he was doing the same thing. Should I tell him to look into the internet? I thought. Or maybe I should look it up and then tell him the news?. So I looked for it on the internet, walked towards the window and shouted: "Hey, look out!! is going to rain!!". Too late, he was already gone.

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DON'T WISH TOO MUCH

Es lo único que se me ocurrio escribir, "No desees demasiado". Toda la semana buscando el momento adecuado para faltar al trabajo. Toda la semana pidiendo por favor, me gustaría sentirme un poquitito, solo un poquitito enfermo para disfrutar de un dia en casa. Pero parecía que mi destino era seguir llendo a trabajar día tras día.
Claro, todos sabemos que el mejor dia para faltar es el viernes, o el lunes en su defecto. Que mejor que hacernos de un fin de semana largo?. Y Parece que mi estomago entendió la idea, y el viernes por la mañana finalmente tuve la excusa perfecta, de hecho no era una excusa, verdaderamente no me sentia bien y mi ausencia estaba justificada. Asi que pensarán ustedes que finalmente pude disfrutar de un dia libre. No, lo que mi estomago no logró comprender es que tenía que ser algo leve. Parece que esa acumulación de deseos no ayudó mucho y en consecuencia estuve 14 horas en la cama y las otras restantes deambulando por la casa como un zombi que necesita sangre para sobrevivir, blanco y debilitado, hasta que me volví a rendir y me sumergí en las sábanas nuevamente. No recuerdo si soñé con mi caminata de la noche previa en las calles de San Telmo invadidas de humo o con la película SurCoreana pro Marxista-Socialista-Anti Americana o con la futura boda coreana o con mi desesperante indecisión. Lo que sí estoy seguro que voy a recordar, es que, la próxima vez que desee algo lo voy a hacer con cautela.

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PRETZELS

I’m gonna write this one in English as well. I just feel like writing in English, maybe it is because sometimes I feel embarrassed about writing this things in Spanish. Any way, here it goes…

Today is Yesterday’s future, and today is Tomorrow’s Past. But yesterday can be Tomorrow’s future as well. Today can be the result of unaccomplished wishes, of a doubtful past.

You may think that I am actually writing this based on a personal experience, and that could be true. Actually it’s pretty likely to be true, this kind of thinking usually comes before a decision has been made or perhaps, sometimes, on the opposite side, from a great indecisiveness. But if you give it a second though, this could also be the fruit of Random thoughts in a particularly inspired moment.

So, if you have been able to follow me in this “pretzel liked” logic, yesterday, today and tomorrow becomes relative. You can place yourself in a straight line, and choose a single point to be Today’s time, and following this reasoning, indecisiveness can persist in the future. But it may also come from yesterday, being today a continuation of yesterday's indecisiveness.

If I haven’t lost you already, let’s consider the following: been indecisive is the result of the lack of information, that unable us to be sure about a certain thing, causing both options (usually yes or no choices) to be likely, of course, with different degrees of probability, but still uncertain. It is here that we can use the previous idea on the last post, about Schrödinger's conjecture. The only way to assure what would happen is to actually make a decision. By making a decision we are opening the box, to check whether the cat is alive or not. But according to some theories, we are doing a lot more than checking the state of the cat, we become entangled with our decision, we are building our future. There’s no possible way to figure that out rather than choosing one or the other. In Schrödinger's paradox if you don’t open the box you will never get to know what has happened, but in our case is much worse. By not making a decision at all we are not only projecting our past in an endless line but bringing all the odds in favor of the ‘0’ Boolean option (meaning the negative or inactive decision, as 0 is false and 1 is true in Boolean Logic)
which will cause us to actually make an unconscious decision, decreasing the likeliness of success of the second option in a future time.

So what is what I want to say? There’s nothing worse than living a life that we did not choose, a life that has been built under the basis of hesitation and unconscious decisions. The only way is to place ourselves in Today’s moment and make it different from yesterday, and build our tomorrow.

Enredo Quántico

Quantum Entanglement

Este va en inglés porque el diálogo original está en ese idioma y si se traduce pierde un poco de encanto.Y además porque toda la información que le sigue también está en ingles y es demasiada como para traducirla, a menos que los miles de visitantes se pronuncien a favor de la traducción...que por el momento no creo que suceda, porque el unico visitante soy yo.

- Larry: Don, Are u familiar with the term "Quantum Entanglement"?.

- Don: I dont think so..

- Larry: Well, is a theory that holds that photons come in pairs, which are separated by space-time, but they are always in instantaneous,inexplicably communication with each other. Einstein called it "spooky action at a distance". You know, I find that notion farly romantic.

- Don: How's so?

- Larry: Well, we affect each other , even when we don’t have the intention to do that. Even when we don’t want to do that, we are still connected. Can u see? Even when we try to be unaffected.

- Don: Why I get the feeling that you are talking about my love life?

- Larry: Don, The universe is accelerating at such a rate, that someday eventually everything will fly apart, and all matter will just drift alone and will become disconnected. How sad would be if human beans would behave in a similar fashion. And after a considerable inner debate, I find that the risks of human contact are more than compensated for by the rewards.

Theory:

Quantum theory has serious conceptual problems, which one can choose to tackle using the concept of information. An example is the effect called 'entanglement'. Two systems are said to be entangled if they are correlated in a stronger way than is possible in classical physics models. The existence of such correlations raises questions as to whether the world is 'real' and/or 'non-local'. Beyond that entanglement is now also viewed as a resource and studied as such using information theoretical concepts.
(cuote from here)

There is a popular example that shows this concetps, called
Schrödinger's conjecture" :

One can even set up quite ridiculous cases. A cat is penned up in a steel chamber, along with the following device (which must be secured against direct interference by the cat): in a Geiger counter there is a tiny bit of radioactive substance, so small, that perhaps in the course of the hour one of the atoms decays, but also, with equal probability, perhaps none; if it happens, the counter tube discharges and through a relay releases a hammer which shatters a small flask of hydrocyanic acid. If one has left this entire system to itself for an hour, one would say that the cat still lives if meanwhile no atom has decayed. The psi-function of the entire system would express this by having in it the living and dead cat (pardon the expression) mixed or smeared out in equal parts.

When does a quantum system stop existing as a mixture of states and become one or the other?

If the cat survives, it remembers only being alive. Our intuition says that no observer can be in a mixture of states, yet it seems only cats can be such a mixture. Are cats required to be observers, or does their existence in a single well-defined classical state require another external observer?

In the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, which does not single out observation as a special process, both alive and dead states of the cat persist, but are decoherent from each other. In other words, when the box is opened, that part of the universe containing the observer and cat is split into two separate universes, one containing an observer looking at a box with a dead cat, one containing an observer looking at a box with a live cat.

Since the dead and alive states are decoherent, there is no effective communication or interaction between them. When an observer opens the box, they become entangled with the cat, so observer-states corresponding to the cat being alive and dead are formed, and each can have no interaction with the other. The same mechanism of quantum decoherence is also important for the interpretation in terms of Consistent Histories. Only the "dead cat" or "alive cat" can be a part of a consistent history in this interpretation.