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Rochelle @uberwensch.bsky.social · May 7

What is entanglement? Itamar Pittowsky claimed that these results brought us right to the precipice of logical contradiction--but not over. Abner Shimoney described it as a piece of "experimental metaphysics." I'm a nobody, but I think entanglement is the most interesting thing ever discovered.

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Rochelle @uberwensch.bsky.social · 2h

couplings?

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Rochelle @uberwensch.bsky.social · 2h

what are the graph connections indicating?

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Rochelle @uberwensch.bsky.social · 15h

Mom: we have a Black president at home,

Rochelle @uberwensch.bsky.social · 15h

[John Wick voice]: yeah, I'm thinkin I'm Black

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Rochelle @uberwensch.bsky.social · 23h

its hurting me right now!!

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Rochelle @uberwensch.bsky.social · 1d

cute!!

Rochelle @uberwensch.bsky.social · 1d

isn't 'vector' sort of unique for this? "group elements" don't have a special name either. or ring elements.

its probably cause physicists started off conceptualizing vector as a kind of property (thing what is an arrow) rather than as belonging to a structured set

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Rochelle @uberwensch.bsky.social · 1d

we did figure this out

but, thank you 🥰

Rochelle @uberwensch.bsky.social · 1d

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Rochelle @uberwensch.bsky.social · 1d

looks like an opportunity to suggest random unrelated canadian media check out Nirvana the Band the Show

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Rochelle @uberwensch.bsky.social · 1d

oops i meant to say associated to GL(nR) itself

Rochelle @uberwensch.bsky.social · 1d

the approach of many texts is to regard vector spaces as "associated to" a GL(n,R)-torsor by its action on frames. i.e. writing [1,2,3]_B where B is a basis and saying its equal to [1,0,7]_b for some other basis.

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Rochelle @uberwensch.bsky.social · 1d

makes more sense to me personally to wedge the two vectors together first into a surface area element and then feed it to a dual-of-such-things but it all shakes out the same

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Rochelle @uberwensch.bsky.social · May 13

when are two things equal? never. if they were equal, they wouldn't be two things. you're welcome.

boarders.bsky.social @boarders.bsky.social · May 12

it also points at the difficulty of equality - using Frege’s terminology, we have 1 and 0.999… denote the same real number; have the same reference, but have a different sense. Equality of real numbers is the _extensional_ equality of what they denote (e.g. Dedekind cuts).