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Quantum Biology deals with how evolution works through quantum processes. Stuff that speeds up the evolution. Again no, speeding up evolution is one part of it. To give some examples, enzymes in your body, and your ability to smell, are using quantum effects right now (the second one is questionabl...

Ok, maybe it's not so beside the point. If (big if) there is something to things like twins feeling each other's emotions, or people sensing a loved one's death, then I think it probably works via all this "leaking out", degrees or remnants of entanglement even after "wavefunction co...

(*or more like in some form it "leaks out" into the surroundings, and we can't track it anymore, but that's beside the point) Ok, maybe it's not so beside the point. If (big if) there is something to things like twins feeling each other's emotions, or people sensing a loved one's death, t...

"Is measurement/observation and the resulting collapse crucial to have obtained information about a particle's state of entanglement? Or can a particle's uncertainty somehow be measured without collapse?" Start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entanglement_witness You are going to have...

I think it's because you would need to monitor the particle at the receiver end, in order to be able to determine the time of the collapse. However, monitoring it would also collapse it. Makes sense, as my question regarding the entanglement-information can really be boiled down to this: "Is m...

I think it's because you would need to monitor the particle at the receiver end, in order to be able to determine the time of the collapse. However, monitoring it would also collapse it. Makes sense, as my question regarding the entanglement-information can really be boiled down to this: "Is m...

Entanglement says that two particles can have their spin properties shared, so when one measures the other, it changes the other in an instant (faster than light). Though according to Bell's No-go-theorem you cannot send information faster than the speed of light. But itsn't the spin-property or an ...

Why do you want me to assume that this "God thing" is a 'he'? Do you have some bias to the male of a species? Most people refer to "god" as a male-deity, I'm only playing on the terms of "most people". It really doesn't matter to me. Feel free to replace "he"...

Assuming God exists, and ignoring the lack of evidence for said deity: If God is almighty, can he make a rock so heavy he cannot carry it? Obviously this is a contradiction and therefore we must assume that Logic is above God, and God is subject to the Rules of Logic. It also answers a lot of the qu...

The low-wage, underpaid factory worker can quit their factory job, start their own factory and compete with their boss. No he can't. Starting your own factory requires lots of money. If you don't have it, you're at the mercy of the banks. And they won't neccessarily lent you money. Even if he succe...

What is meant by "my money" is "I get to keep the value I created". Now we're getting to my point: What about the workers working in factories? They produce the values which the big boss gets all for himself (nearly). The workers are paid low wages in return. That's also known a...

I could be completely wrong but I think that the point being made here is you can not print money. You are literally legally prohibited from making your own money. If I am wrong I would like to be corrected. No, you are totally right. I meant printing money, sorry I couldn't find the right word for...

Pro-capitalists make the claim your money is... your money. But the monetary system is the domain of the state. Only the state can make money. So in essense, what you're doing is to borrow money from the state. You are prohibited from making your own money. Then the pro-capitalists claim that your m...

Your mind is locked to your body. That's weird. I'll explain below: When you change your personality (for a variety of reasons, damage, drugs - whatever) you will still see the world through the eyes of that very same body - even though the body has replaced all the atoms over many years. I find tha...

The parliamentary democratic system in Scandinavian countries (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland) are by far the only democracies which forms governments representing the people they are about to govern. In the U.S. when electing representatives, ie. the president or senate members, you vote for cand...