Quantum Camera

[cliveh]

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

 

[Paul Howell]

Everything past, present, and future all at once.

 

[GregY]

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

 

[cliveh]

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.

 

[Kino]

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

 

[loccdor]

Depends in what context the word quantum is being used.

 

[grahamp]

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.

 

[Pieter12]

Strings.

 

[mshchem]

I've had one since next week.

 

[Dan Fromm]

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

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

 

[djdister]

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

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

 

[Pieter12]

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

 

[Don_ih]

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

Quanta.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Quanta.

Quantae, the plural.

 

[snusmumriken]

Things that might or might not have happened.

 

[koraks]

Quantae, the plural.

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.

 

[snusmumriken]

 

[MattKing]

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

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

 

[Sirius Glass]

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.

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.

 

[Harry Callahan]

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!

 

[koraks]

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

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.