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If it was ever possible to produce a quantum camera, what could it capture?

 

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• Monday at 5:46 PM

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Everything past, present, and future all at once.

 

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.....the leap......

 

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Such a machine would make a good subject for a fiction book. I would imagine that instead of setting aperture and shutter speed, you could set a date for past, present or future to record the scene in front of the camera.

 

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I assume it would have an "auto spatial coordinates system" or most of your exposures would be empty space...

 

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Depends in what context the word quantum is being used.

 

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Fundamentally (!) probably just collapsed superpositions, like any other camera at the instant of exposure. Quantum entangled - something happening somewhere else at the exact same instant?

Not sure this is ethics or philosophy, but more a case for advanced (too advanced for me) physics.

 

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Strings.

 

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I've had one since next week.

 

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cliveh said:

If it was ever possible to produce a quantum camera, what could it capture?

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I have several. Some capture photons on film. Others capture photons, as it were, on silicon.

 

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cliveh said:

If it was ever possible to produce a quantum camera, what could it capture?

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A cat, neither dead nor alive, or both dead and alive...

 

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A photo, neither exposed or unexposed until you open the back.

 

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Quanta.

 

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Quanta.

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Quantae, the plural.

 

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Things that might or might not have happened.

 

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Sirius Glass said:

Quantae, the plural.

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No, quanta. Quantum is the singular. The plural is quanta for the neuter form in Latin. "Quantums" is technically also correct, but kind of ugly if you ask me.

quantum - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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The 'ae' would be the plural for a feminin singular; e.g. "flora --> florae."

Six years of Latin in school has very little practical use - except in rare cases like this one. Thanks for listening to my presentation.

 

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koraks said:

Six years of Latin in school has very little practical use - except in rare cases like this one.

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It is always interesting to see what various people deem to be "practical".
res ipsa loquitur

 

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koraks said:

No, quanta. Quantum is the singular. The plural is quanta for the neuter form in Latin. "Quantums" is technically also correct, but kind of ugly if you ask me.

quantum - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

en.wiktionary.org

The 'ae' would be the plural for a feminin singular; e.g. "flora --> florae."

Six years of Latin in school has very little practical use - except in rare cases like this one. Thanks for listening to my presentation.

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I was going for the feminine plural.

I took two years of Latin and all I learned was 500 root words for destroy or devastate a village or a town thanks to J Caesar and his Gallic Wars reports.

 

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And how to conquer, occupy, suppress, beat down, mangle... i wonder why they (still) have children translate Caesars great works. Why not translate a text on how to build an aqueduct or built a house, cultivate land... collect stamps (made of stone, because were talking about ancient stamps here)...
... but i guess there only can be one! Caesahahahaha!

 

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Harry Callahan said:

i wonder why they (still) have children translate Caesars great works.

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It's already a few decades since I went to school and back then the translation of war-related texts was already only a tiny fraction of the curriculum. Of course you get to translate a little Caesar at some point due to the historical and cultural significance. I don't recall we specifically translated any texts that described war or violence by his hand, though.

Although sometimes, things worked out differently than expected; I do recall a passage we had to translate for our exam that involved burning of books. Since the Latin for book resembles the word for child, quite a few of my classmates were appalled at being confronted with a text in which children were being chucked onto a pyre. You might argue that burning books is bad enough, of course.

I think in our last two years we focused mostly on Catullus (but it's been a while). If you want to warm up a bunch of teens for a dead language, be sure to throw some sex into the mix, hence the choice, I guess.