Radio Beograd Oktobar 2008.

My favorite color, Tyrian Purple (Imperial Purple) (Hex: #66023C) (RGB: 102, 2, 60)

Αριστοτέλης

ΑΠΑΓΩΓΗ. Λέγεται: , αντί “διά τής εις άτοπον απαγωγής”. Η απαγωγή δέν είναι άτοπος …

Nikola Tesla’s baptism certificate reports that he was born on June 28, 1856 (Julian calendar) or July 10 in the Gregorian calendar, and so today I found some more interesting information connected to Nikola Tesla. It is important to mention that this year, 2006, is the 150th anniversarry of his birth and is being celebrated both in Serbia and in Croatia. The following text in Serbo-Croatian explains the origins of the family name:Porodica je nosila prezime Draganić, a tek je kasnije postala Tesla, jer je navodno jedan od predaka imao velike prednje zube koji su nalikovali na tesarski alat, pa je po tome dobio nadimak “Tesla”.

“Always the Great God applies Geometry to the Universe”.

Pythagorean motto and mnemonic for π:

Ἀεί =3, ὁ=1, θεός=4, ὁ=1, μέγας=5, γεωμετρεῖ=9,τό=2, σύμπαν=6 gives a rather precise value of π=3.1415926…

This sequence starts with a view of the southern part of the Milky Way. As we zoom in we can first see the globular star cluster NGC 6752 and then the spiral galaxy NGC 6744, lying about 30 million light-years from us in the constellation of Pavo (The Peacock). We also catch a glimpse of the small irregular galaxy NGC 6744A, which lies close to NGC 6744. The final detailed view shows a new image of NGC 6744 from the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile. Credit: ESO/S. Brunier and Digitized Sky Survey 2.

On my 39^th birthday April 12, 2011!

Michael J. W. Hall shows that locality and reality can be retained with a 14% reduction of the experimenters’ “free will”.

J.S. Bell proposed a solution to the EPR superdeterminism problem. If one had real backward causation it might be counted as a discovery greater than supersymmetric partners or the Higgs boson. Backward causation effects might end up being huge in much the same way as the famous forward causation of the butterfly effect.

Superdeterminism involves absolute determinism in the universe, the complete absence of free will. Suppose the world is super-deterministic, with not just inanimate nature running on behind-the-scenes clockwork, but with our behavior, including our belief that we are free to choose to do one experiment rather than another, absolutely predetermined, including the ”decision” by the experimenter to carry out one set of measurements rather than another, the difficulty disappears.
There is no need for a faster than light signal to tell particle A what measurement has been carried out on particle B, because the universe, including particle A, already “knows” what that measurement, and its outcome, will be.

There is a way to escape the inference of superluminal speeds and spooky action at a distance.  But it involves absolute determinism in the universe, the complete absence of free will. Suppose the world is super-deterministic, with not just inanimate nature running on behind-the-scenes clockwork, but with our behavior, including our belief that we are free to choose to do one experiment rather than
another, absolutely predetermined, including the “decision” by the experimenter to carry out one set of measurements rather than another, the difficulty disappears. There is no need for a faster than light signal to tell particle A what measurement has been carried  out on particle B, because the universe, including particle A, already “knows” what that measurement, and its outcome, will be.

The only alternative to quantum probabilities, superpositions of states, collapse of the wavefunction, and spooky action at a distance, is that everything is superdetermined. For me it is a dilemma. I think it is a deep dilemma, and the resolution of it will not be trivial; it will require a substantial change in the
way we look at things.

I was born on April 12, 1972 which is in fact March 30, 1972 Julian Calendar, or March 30, 7480 EK, the date the orthodox faithful celebrate St John Climacus. We are in the year 7519 EK.