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[super_pig]

That's not Quantum mechanics though WHF - you can know it's velocity but cannot pinpoint where it is - actually that sounds far more like our midfield than your duality comment

so we need to implement some kind of Monte Carlo method to find out what our midfield is doing?? we have the answer

 

[Kenilworth]

Almost every galaxy.

There are estimates of ~100m black holes just in our galaxy.

For clarity: Not all stars become black holes, some become white dwarfs or neutron stars for instance.

They actually believe every galaxy has a super-massive at the heart of it.

Yep - could quite easily be 100m black holes in the Milky Way - they just can't count em as they just can't see em. Cos they are black and emit no light - the only view is of an X-Ray trace, a kind of halo effect, since the temperature beyond the event horizon would be very very high - thing is we cannot see it as any radio telescope that would have the resolution sufficient to detect that would have to have a dish the size of North America. They are currently looking to rig up a virtual version - taking data from loads of radio telescopes (like Jodrel Bank) and extrapolating the data - thing is it takes a couple of months to process data from a weeks worth of a collection of rad tels, using the existing computing power they have.

Yup - not all dying stars end up as a BH. It's one of the most intriguing puzzles in the Universe, though. Probably holds the key as to what happened at the big bang and if they can get the maths to fit they will be able to predict all sorts of other amazing stuff about the Universe and all that shizz.

 

[Kenilworth]

so we need to implement some kind of Monte Carlo method to find out what our midfield is doing?? we have the answer

Quite - but it's more like regression testing for our midfield than a series of random inputs to a simulation of a predictive model, don't yer think?

 

[super_pig]

yes correct.. the subtle joke was Richard Feynman using MC methods to find particles that he couldn't see

 

[William Henry Foulkes]

That's not Quantum mechanics though WHF - you can know it's velocity but cannot pinpoint where it is - actually that sounds far more like our midfield than your duality comment

Really?

I thought this was part of the Copenhagen interpretation.

Schrodinger's Cat. Our midfield has the potential to be everywhere - until you look at it.

 

[Kenilworth]

Really?

I thought this was part of the Copenhagen interpretation.

Schrodinger's Cat. Our midfield has the potential to be everywhere - until you look at it.

Unfortunately not - Schroedinger's cat could be alive or dead, i.e. in one of two states. Since it was in the box you knew where it was but not whether it was alive or if it were dead. To find out you had to look in the box but once the box was closed again it could be in either state.

Come to think of it that is just like our midfield - apart from it being in the box