OK, more specific question
(x-posted from IM)
I'm pretty sure they've produced technology using quantum stuff but I just can't make the connection how saying "how the fuck should I know?" helps them to arrive at such goals.
Like you got Newtonian physics and that basically tells us, among other things, that the earth sucks so if you build a bridge a specific (read suction defying) way then you can run trains across it and shit.
Fine! I'm down with that - Speed = distance over time, makes sense to me.
Then Einstein comes along and says "Yo, Newton was useful but I gots better shit for y'all" and lo and behold the new model lets us build space ships and Ipods and all sortsa cool shit.
Fine! I'm down with that - E=MC2 Dunno what it means but I believe smart people who tell me they do.
But then The dalek guy comes along and says "fuck that einstein shit I gots new shit that basically says 'we can't work anything out', 'it's all just bullshit', 'our maths doesn't even know if a cat is alive or dead'"
And fucking what?? Apparently some apeshit new microelectronics developments in storage and processing. How?? I got no fucking idea where protons are either and it don't make my PC any faster
(x-posted from IM)
I'm pretty sure they've produced technology using quantum stuff but I just can't make the connection how saying "how the fuck should I know?" helps them to arrive at such goals.
Like you got Newtonian physics and that basically tells us, among other things, that the earth sucks so if you build a bridge a specific (read suction defying) way then you can run trains across it and shit.
Fine! I'm down with that - Speed = distance over time, makes sense to me.
Then Einstein comes along and says "Yo, Newton was useful but I gots better shit for y'all" and lo and behold the new model lets us build space ships and Ipods and all sortsa cool shit.
Fine! I'm down with that - E=MC2 Dunno what it means but I believe smart people who tell me they do.
But then The dalek guy comes along and says "fuck that einstein shit I gots new shit that basically says 'we can't work anything out', 'it's all just bullshit', 'our maths doesn't even know if a cat is alive or dead'"
And fucking what?? Apparently some apeshit new microelectronics developments in storage and processing. How?? I got no fucking idea where protons are either and it don't make my PC any faster