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One of the living scientists I admire most. Well, behind Freeman Dyson of course....

Le Duc Anh's son just wrote a post on Facebook to rember his mother who passed away two years ago. According to Google Translate, Le Duc Anh is "winning against illness". Neverending story.

Plane has an incredible delay as usual.

US version of Dilip Kumar.

I read he is improving. It won't be so soon, I think...

Wasn't expecting it now. Well, that will help me a bit in the DDP.

Le Duc Anh's son has posted an old photo of his father on a military plane and the post content is "Good flight". That either means the old general is taking flying lessons or the end is very near, you be the judge.

Her family delibeerately decided not to announce it. An obit will never appear.

French obituary.

TV actor Wayne Maunder died of a heart attack on November the 11th according to edits on his page. Also reported here, but no source has picked it up yet.

Balbir out of ICU and expected to make a full recover. Immortal fucker.

Yes but the plane had not took off yet, so he's fine.

Actually it's not him. My man is still alive, though very ill. Anyway Goldman is a big death!

A year since coup brought down Mugabe. Meanwhile he has spent almost two months in Singapore. Wish they had shot him when they had the occasion.

1)The double slit experiment was brought forward by OP as an example of how things act differently if we observe them. 2)This is not true. The problem with the experiment is that every possible measurement changes the sytem's state as we take it. But no one gives a fuck if we "are watching"! It's only measurement can only, by definition, give us a specific value and not the totality of the system (wave or particle here, never both).

Oh, the double slit experiment... if only I had a penny... I'll try to explain it simply. We have a double slit where the distance between the single slits is very short. We send to the slit electrons, one by one. We put a screen behind the slit and when an electron hits the screen it leaves a sign. If we send only one electron it seems to behave like a bullet and hits the screen in a random point. We send an infinite number of electrons. Surprisingly we will find on the screen behind a whole interference figure typical of waves and not of particles. Bullets would distribute on the screen with a simple (double) Gaussian probability. So electrons are waves, we think. Now we want to know which of the two slits was crossed by the electron. We put a simple measurement system, a lamp that lights the electron (physically it sends a photon to the electron) whenever it passes through a slit. Well we use the goddamn lamp and obtain a Gaussian curve, exactly as if electrons were bullets! So we think it's the energy of light that changes the system. We use a low intensity lamp. If we do that we obtain the interference pattern but can t say where electrons passed because there are not enough photons. So we try to keep intensity constant and use a large wavelenght (red for example) for the lamp. We do obtain the pattern but now d<<wavelenght with d distance between slits so we can't distinguish slits anymore as the detector sees them as an only slit. Conclusion: we can see only the pattern (wave aspect) or from which slit they passed (corpuscolary) but never both together. This is because the measurement system changes the system! You may know measurable properties of a quantic system are associated to Hermitian operators known as Observables. The eigenvalues of this observables are the possible result of a measurement. The system is not usually prepared in an eigenstate but in a linear combination of the eigenstates as they are a complete (and orthonormal) base. Every eigenstate will have a coefficient Ci that expresses its contribute to the complexive state. Ci^2 is the probability to obtain the eigenvalue related to that eigenstate |i> of the observable. Sum of Ci^2=1 if the state is normalyzed. Now we can imagine electrons are the combination of two states |wave> and |particle > with ci= √2/2 obviously for both. Measurement will NEVER restitute the complexive state but only one of the two states (in form of the eigenvalue). That' s the exact point. Measurement makes the system collapse into a single eigenstate. And after the system collapses if you repeat measurement you only obtain that eigenvalue. I don't introduce the concept of expectation value but I hope you at least understood why the double slit experiment does not fucking mean things behave differently if you watch them.

TMZ updated. Perry to be released today, a little breathing difficulties, but nothing serious. In this fucking period you don't die even if they shoot you twice in the head.

Ok, from what I understand there won't be any notable death from now on as the Reaper himself has copped it. So we have to organize: *msc goes to Chandigarh and Balbir Singh will be only a bad memory *Sir Creep goes to Managua and lights a candle for Violeta Chamorro *joeyruss has a difficult task: he has to go to New Dehli and send Dilip Kumar out of space *DI goes to Bejing and puts away Li Rui *gcreptile visits Siddaganga Mutt *I go for the most difficult mission: take out General Anh. I can show you a clip which illustrates how I will work. If everyone has understood you can start now! P.S. For police officers, *THAT'S A JOKE* THAT'S A JOKE* THAT'S A JOKE* It was completely unpredictable they would all be killed on the same day, officer!

Don't report here Radar Online bullshit.

I don't care how many people have their voices on Wiki and how many redlinks are added to Deaths on a day. Since the beginning November the Reaper has sucked. Notable deaths (people I knew existed before): November 1: Carlo Giuffré November 2: Raymond Chow (death of the month so far!) November 3: No one November 4: Jeremy Heywood November 5: Absolutely no one November 6: Bernard Landry, José Lothario, Ted Mack (average at best) November 7: No one November 8: Come one, absolutely no one died! November 9: No one... WTF is happening with Death? I think the Reaper suffered a massive heart attack after taking Aznavour and Do Muoi in the same day, while he was presumably chasing Dilip Kumar in New Dehli streets. Hope he's recovering, really....

90 yesterday!

According to his son, José José is being poisoned using rat poison. I guess even that is not enough.

Please some fucker outta there die now! I can't stand one more deathless day!

And what's the message? You need two good guys with two guns!

Last communist dictator of Czechoslovakia Milos Jakes is in serious conditions as he battles pneumonia and complications from a fall he suffered in May 2018. Tough, he's tough, but will it be enough to overcome this?