I am not interested in Many Worlds Interpretation because I think it’s mental and after some personal research I found out that it wasn’t (despite some claims otherwise) popular among physicists  at all.  But in the orthodox interpretation, what does being in a superposition mean. Does it mean it isn’t in any position yet before it is measured and has several possibilities. Or is it actually in multiple states/places at once. In the talk of Serge Haroche it seems like the latter  also the way David Wineland’s research is being described here www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2018/06/popular-physicsprize2012.pdf seems to say it’s in multible states at once. But I’ve also seen it described (for instance by David Mermin) as being nowhere untill measured. Which one is it?
Is  purely conceptual or does it represent some real "thing"?  Said another way, is superposition thought to have some tangible physical manifestation or is it simply the lack of physical determinism, except as defined by a wave function?  It seems like my question might be semantic.  For example, it is said that   superposition is obeyed, like a law superposition can be observed, like a phenomena superposition describes behavior   I guess my question is, can superposition be measured like an electrical charge, or is it simply the lack of knowable position.
Trying to find the original story (I read it in Russian translation, original was most likely English unless it was Lem).  The story plot had artificial birds designed to serve as cops. The birds started attacking humans who were percieved as being aggressive towards anything alive. So they created more advanced birds to protect against the first ones. This worked for a while until the second kind started attacking humans as well. It ended with the idea that they would need another generation to attack the second-generation birds.  The story wasn't very long. I read it a while back (mid-1980s, which means the original was written even earlier, probably before 1980).  Despite a somewhat Asimov-like "misbehaving robots" topic, I'm pretty sure it wasn't Asimov. Edits that shadow a suggested edit inconsistently reject but include the suggestion Can I have multiple Schengen visas for future travels in my passport? I'm a citizen of Ukraine planning on visiting Italy early in October for tourism. Later that month I'm accepted as a speaker at the conference in Prague, Czech Republic. Both countries are members of Schengen agreement and a visa is required for me to visit them. Therefore, I need to visit Schengen countries 2 times and I need to get my visas ASAP (to confirm my talk to the conference organizers, as well as to avoid overpaying for hotels/flight tickets).   I've heard a number of times that a single person can't apply for a Schengen visa if already in possession of one, but I'd like to clarify this. Say, I've got a visa from Italy for the period of October 1st - October 14th. Can I get another one from Czech Republic for October 25th - October 30th before I visit Italy? Would the answer be different if I were to visit the second country (CZ) on October 13th - October 20th, thus, having a single day overlap between these visits. It would be of a tremendous help if you could link to the official documents that prove your point, but I'd certainly appreciate answers even without such links.  Both times I'm going to apply for a short-term tourist visa covering the dates of my travel. If the answer to both questions above is no - would several visits to multiple Schengen countries over a short period of time be a valid reason to apply for a single multiple-entry visa that covers the whole period from October 1st to October 30th from Italy? Get the raw HTML of selected content using javascript Prove that: area of triangle $S_{ABC}=p \cdot R$, where p is half perimeter of triangle $DEF$ Prove that: area of triangle $S_{ABC}=p \cdot R$, where p is half perimeter of triangle $DEF$. $AD,CF, BE$ are altitudes. Is there a simple way? I'm trying to compile a kernel for a 32bit single-core Intel Atom machine. Needless to say, the compile is taking inordinate amounts of time. It's been going for 2 hours and it's still only halfway through the driver modules.  Compiling a kernel on my main desktop only takes 15 minutes but it's a 64bit machine. Can I cross compile to generate a 32bit kernel package from the better machine? Submitting a form by pressing enter without a submit button Well I am trying to submit a form by pressing enter but not displaying a submit button. I don't want to get into JavaScript if possible since I want everything to work on all browsers (the only JS way I know is with events).  Right now the form looks like this:  &lt;form name="loginBox" target="#here" method="post"&gt;     &lt;input name="username" type="text" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;     &lt;input name="password" type="password" /&gt;     &lt;input type="submit" style="height: 0px; width: 0px; border: none; padding: 0px;" hidefocus="true" /&gt; &lt;/form&gt;   Which works pretty well. The submit button works when the user presses enter, and the button doesn't show in Firefox, IE, Safari, Opera and Chrome. However, I still don't like the solution since it is hard to know whether it will work on all platforms with all browsers.  Can anyone suggest a better method? Or is this about as good as it gets? Checking for valid floating point number Clipping a figure to content Is it possible to clip a figure inserted with \includegraphics to contents? That is, remove all surrounding whitespace. VSE isn't multi-threading Whenever I render a video using the blender video editor only one core is ever used at any time. I have an 8 core CPU(FX-9590) yet regardless of whether blender is set to auto detect or a fixed 8 threads only one core ever sits at 100% at any given time. The rest of the cores sit and really low usage as if blender is completely ignoring them. I'm running blender 2.77a on Linux. I'm using Theora as the codec with an ogg container and Vorbis audio. How do I get blender to use all my cores? How to Count Duplicates in List with LINQ Good day guys, i have to something like this, any idea how is this picture made ?  so it looks like negative i did invert it in photoshop but the bright side of his face was blue, so there been negative effect and smting been used to change his face to blue before nagative or smting that changed his face to normal skin color after negative ? what can it be ? what do you guys think ? THANKS ! for help. Convergence of Ratio Test implies Convergence of the Root Test In Elias Stein and Rami Shakarchi's Complex Analysis textbook, we have the following exercise:     Show that if $\{a_n\}_{n=0}^\infty$ is a sequence of complex numbers such that $$\lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{|a_{n+1}|}{|a_n|}=L,$$ then $$\lim_{n\to\infty}|a_n|^{1/n}=L.$$    I've been trying to prove this with no luck. The only thing I've thought of doing is $$\lim_{n\to\infty}\left(\frac{|a_{n+1}|^n}{|a_n|^n}\right)^{1/n},$$but this hasn't lead me anywhere except dead ends. Will someone provide a hint for me about how to proceed? Thanks!  Minor update: I don't know if it's helpful yet, but I know we can write the limit as $$\lim_{n\to\infty}\left(\frac{|a_{n+1}a_n\cdots a_0|}{|a_n\cdots a_0|}\cdot\frac{1}{|a_n|}\right).$$This reminds me a lot of the geometric mean, which even has the exponents I'm trying to get... Capturing screenshots on the Mac has gotten very slow recently.  It used to be nearly instantaneous but now it is taking more than 10 seconds for the image to appear on the desktop.  I seem to recall having this problem years ago. The workaround was to delete a large accumulation of log files that the os had built up. After I deleted these log files, the screen capture worked very fast again.  Problem is that I cannot remember where these log files are. Searched for quite some time and could not find the information. Javascript custom button stopped working, Synchronous XMLHttpRequest is deprecated We have a custom javascript button on the quotes object in our org that has been working for several months that someone has noticed today is not working.    I'm not sure if there was an update that broke it or what day exactly it stopped working.  I'm hoping someone has an idea of where I can even begin to look.   Here's the code:   javascript:location.href= 'mailto:emailaddress@ourdomain.com?SUBJECT='+ escape("{!Quote.Name}")+' - '+ escape("{!Quote.Contact_s_Account__c}") + '&amp;BODY=Please convert ' + escape(location.href)+ ' into a proposal and send it to the email address on the quote.  Thanks!';   Using developer tools in chrome, I see this error after I click the javascript button:   presence: onFailure in event parser ={"status":-5,"statusText":""}page load happens value=true           umps1w4.salesforce.com/umps/UMPSWidget_184/js/dist/umps-min.js?cflag=184.36:14 presence: onFailure in event parser ={"status":-5,"statusText":""}page load happens value=true   I changed my code to something simple:   javascript:location.href= 'mailto:emailaddress@ourdomain.com?SUBJECT='hello'    and got this error in the developer tools in chrome:   Synchronous XMLHttpRequest on the main thread is deprecated because of its detrimental effects to the end user's experience. For more help, check http://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/.   This lead me to the conclusion that I'm having XSS issues.  I do remember a SF update not too long about about protecting against XSS issues.  I guess I'll have to figure out a different way to implement this functionality. 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I know malloc() keeps track of how much memory it has allocated, and that's why it knows the length; perhaps there is a way to query for this information? Something like...  int length = askMallocLibraryHowMuchMemoryWasAlloced(p) / sizeof(mystruct)   I know I should just rework the code so that I know n, but I'd rather not if possible. Any ideas? What's the use/meaning of the @ character in variable names in C#? I discovered that you can start your variable name with a '@' character in C#.  In my C# project I was using a web service (I added a web reference to my project) that was written in Java. One of the interface objects defined in the WSDL had a member variable with the name "params". Obviously this is a reserved word in C# so you can't have a class with a member variable with the name "params". The proxy object that was generated contained a property that looked like this:  public ArrayList @params {     get { return this.paramsField; }     set { this.paramsField = value; } }   I searched through the VS 2008 c# documentation but couldn't find anything about it. Also searching Google didn't give me any useful answers. So what is the exact meaning or use of the '@' character in a variable/property name? How will old M42 lenses work on a Nikon camera?