A Boring but Interesting Denunciation of Quantum Mechanics

     You've probably heard of Quantum Physics sometime in your life, maybe it was in that Sci-Fi movie that tried to make an illusion that they were dealing with advanced stuffed and just included the name because it sounds really really complicated or maybe you heard Stephen Hawking or Richard Dawkins talk about it during an interview. However you found it, you're probably dying to know about it, maybe you even searched it up, but you didn't get what you read. Well I am here to tell you that I actually learned it in 5th grade so you really aren't smarter than a fifth grader, but also to educate you on this mysterious branch of physics that can unlock more than you ever imagined.                Basically Quantum Mechanics focuses on the communication between molecules and atoms. Sounds simple, but when you put in all the real world applications it gets a hell of a lot more complicated. Indeterminacy theory proposes that a particle could be in two states at the same time, and this you've probably heard of more, this is where Schrodinger's cat comes into play. If you don't know what that is it is simply a hypothetical explanation to explain this theory. It states that if you put a cat in a box with a poison of a 50% chance of it killing the cat, that, at the end of the our, it has an equal chance of being dead or alive and since you can't see the state, it is both dead and alive, until you open it up. Seems far off, I know, especially if you aren't familiar with Quantum Physics at all, but trust me this situation gives a great explanation on Indeterminacy.
     Quantum Entanglement is also another section, and for that part, the most bizarre faction. It suggests that two totally different objects can be related in a way. Like imagine Jack and Jill, they are both related and if Jack gets in a car crash then Jill, through Entanglement would realize it, say 1/10 of a second before it happened. Not very useful as she wouldn't have time to do anything, but it is pretty interesting none the less. Another fascinating but rather futile category is Quantum tunneling, the slippage between universes. An easy way to picture it is someone trying to run into a brick wall over and over again. Now remember that the structure of an atom is 99.9% emptiness. Tunneling allows a singular atom, keyword singular, to pass from point a to point b. Unfortunately we're made out of a whole lot more atoms than just one so it would take a couple billion years so you'd only have a few broken bones or sprains.
     Ok, so this post is getting pretty long and even keeping in mind my amazing writing skills it is beginning to be pretty boring. I could go on for another few paragraphs and I still wouldn't cover 1% of what there is to know about Quantum Mechanics, that's how vast it is, so I'll leave you with how it can help you in you're life. It can...

• Map a million amino acids to create drugs to cure diseases
• Make sense of the barrage of data constantly inserted in the internet
• Keep military secrets safe
• Finally secure you're bank account
• Develop sophisticated robots

     Lastly there is a Quantum Computer being built that can be done 3600 as fast as normal, which is the source that helps achieve all of the bullets I have listed and furthermore answers a question that has puzzled astronomers, scientists, and people for generations: are we alone in this universe?

A Cantankerous Injuction

     It's the biggest current battle in Technology and Automobiles, things are on and starting to speed up. This isn't supposed to be a news base. This is me presenting you, an idiot who doesn't understand the diction of CNN or The Huffington Post, with some facts, but mostly opinions and banter on the presented rulings. And here goes, and I should say, it kinda feels like a live soap opera.
     So basically Uber was trying to develop some self driving cars (probably) after looking at Google's self driving cars but couldn't nail the technology down, but they wanted to so badly because who wouldn't feel so scared and elevated when riding a self driving car, people would probably just call a self driving uber to get to the next block just to see how it feels.
     Former Google Employee Anthony Levandowski of Waybo, Google's self driving sub-section, stole 14,000 "top secret" files and quit right after only to find his own self driving truck company, which was bought out by, guess who, Uber. There was a preliminary hearing by Waybo to delay the shutter their self driving program, and from it a lot of interesting things arose.
     Firstly, Levandowski seems to have stolen the files as reported, Uber hasn't made any claims denying that. The first piece of evidence in this case (note when I say evidence here I don't mean like actual evidence that the attorney uses, they may or may not be using the pieces that I''m referring to) is that Levandowski is stock high: he received 5 million shares of Uber worth 250 million the day he left Google. That's pretty coincidental. Whats more is that they blocked the release of 3500 documents related to the acquisition of Otto, the truck company. This is crucial because in the agreement there could have been some lines detailing that Levandowski has traded the files for the stock. Lastly there have been repeated sayings by google's lawyers that all the answers can be found on Levandowski's laptop but he has pleaded the fifth which some say can directly be evidence that he is in fact guilt of the crime, and that some also includes me. I'll leave you with one last line that sums up the entire case, "They're really trying to be cute here... We're not hiding anything here."

The Most Novel Idea in the History of Ideas and Books

     So just the other day in a class that shall go unnamed, I had a really interesting conversation where my teacher proposed the idea that if we took all the money the really rich people had and redistributed it to an active economy that it would boost our nation. Ha ha ha ha, no. The main endpoint here is social ownership and democratic control, which always results in no ownership rights as well as no sight of a free market.
     Lets check out real world examples of macro experiment of this. Belarus made in 1920. East Germany made in 1949. Benin made in 1975. Grenada made in 1979. and Albania formed in 1944, 1946, and once again in 1976. Surprise, surprise, they were all astronomical fails. First thing you should realize is that their money is already in an active economy, who the heck do you think is paying everyone's salaries and taxes? What do you think they're doing? Sitting around wiping their ass with golden toilet paper, eating silver coated hamburgers, and riding their private jets made out of diamond? No.
     Guess what furthermore than that fact that a mass inflation would ensue which would send the economy in a downward spiral. And you know what? The rich know that better than anyone. Besides their wealth is largely exaggerated, they are sometimes just propaganda numbers that are used to push socialist agendas. Heard of North Korea? Cuba? Venezuela? Now not to be insensitive, or rude, or anything but what words do you associate those countries with? Depleting, lagging, failing? 
     While all countries, societies, and governments eventually craft out to fail, it matters the specific way in which their collapse was brought on. The common trend between these dictatorship countries that I have been talking about is that it begins to subsidize and redistribute the newfound wealth. Then the currencies is debased, debt is greatly increased, and the military gets stretched to the limit.
     The Roman Empire is a perfect example for this. Here is one of the greatest of the ancient civilizations, perhaps the best of them all. There are many factors that equivocate it as such an amazing country, it united almost all of the known world with military prowess even losing four major battles and still winning a far, unparalleled infrastructure in their vast network of towns cities and roads, and also their superior legal culture but I don't need any of that to convince you how great they were. This should just about sum up their awesomeness: after the fall of the Roman Empire "The Dark Ages" ensued which lasted for 500 years. Ok, now if you aren't convinced how amazing the idea of taking rich peoples wealth and giving it to the government, a very trusted corporation who should without a doubt be trusted to distribute large sums of money, is with this... essay then I don't know what I can tell you.

An Ironic Recantation

    

There is a popular legend about the small country of Liechtenstein that I think best summarized both their meekness as well as a great example of situational irony, when you expect one thing to occur but instead something completely different does. The saying goes that in 1886 during the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, Prince Johann II placed his soldiers at the disposal of the Confederation but only to “defend the German territory of Tyrol”. The Prince refused to have his men fight against other Germans. The Liechtenstein contingent took up position on the Stilfse Joch in the south of Liechtenstein to defend the Liechtenstein/Austrian border against attacks by the Italians under Garibaldi. A reserve of 20 men remained in Liechtenstein. When the war ended on July 22, the army of Liechtenstein marched home to a ceremonial welcome in Vaduz.

    Popular legend claims that 80 men went to war but 81 came back. Apparently an Austrian liaison officer joined up with the contingent on the way back. Though this may seem stupid, unbelievable, and like a myth which it very well may be, it presents a basis of a situation going on today, in many different apparent cases.

    For example as a middle schooler who likes to think he has many friends, I have noticed a lot of my buddies playing with fidget spinner, which, if you only watch Fox and aren't aware of the real world news, is a toy that you basically spin that also makes a whoosh sound as it turns. Many people like teachers and kids who focus on their academics are annoyed by this "helpful" pretense. As for me, I think its great that kids are using these addictive devices to briefly distract them from other addictive devices, which is a great unforeseen pro.

    Also as someone who first hand views the sweetness of the school lunches we're given I can truly say that the new USDA Chief's decision to make school lunches made of more fat and added salt is a truly innovative idea, to combat the trashcan, the place where the lunch ladies steal the food to serve with even more unhealthy but just as bad tasting food will probably combat obesity among kids, after all a negative with a negative equals a positive, right? In all honestly there's nothing that bad about our school's cafeteria, but if I had to pick the worst thing about it, then I would probably say the food, so not that bad of a service.

    Lastly while watching the TODAY show on channel five I noticed, something really weird breaking out, a group of three New Yorkers were in their terminal waiting for their plane to board when receiving the news that their flight would be majorly delayed. The tensions grew between them and not long after a riot broke loose inciting disorderly conduct, and resisting arrest. The fight between these people and the authorities wasn't the crazy thing about this, it was that the police officers were even arresting them! After all isn't this just normal in New York? It even has a name to it, some people call it "commuting."

A Drairy Story

     Like how parents influence their children through everything they do which the kids in turn take take for granted in truth adverting in media is just as powerful and just as dangerous. It is no surprise that the media greatly influences what we think about certain things and in so shaping our view. But what seems crazy to me is the sheer number of the things I took at first glance to be true when they were really only made to compensate money.
     One example is milk, not special milk, not "almond milk", or even skim milk which is water pretending to be milk, I'm talking about plain old milk, like the one you put in your cereal every day. The same exact milk that we're told will help keep us healthy and strengthen our bones and help us grow. But the fact of the matter is that thinking is false. So then why do people thing that milk is so good for them and necessary to lead a healthy lifestyle? Marketing.
     In the first world war the government of the United States gave soldiers a lot of milk in order to stop cases of malnutrition from sprouting up. Due to this a lot of farmers decided to focus solely on dairy cows, and I mean a lot. After the war had ended it turned out that there were too many bottles of milk and too few people who wanted them. At this point farmers were too far into the dairy industry and put so much into it that they could not go back so to help the Government tried to step in.
     They tried to tell the general public that it was great and they should have it but that fell short. Next they made it a rule embedded in the National School Lunch Program requiring every school to include milk as a part of their lunch but they still had too many bottles left. After this the government started buying the milk for two billion each year and distributed it to schools, armies, and as food aids to people in places of need but most of it was unused, abandoned in underground storage facilities.
     Ronald Reagan finally decided enough was enough and stopped this federal spending which in turn greatly offended dairy farmers. In response they created a "dairy fund" which took donations from a small percentage of farmers incomes to fund a mass campaign for dairy. This led to the "Got Milk" ads and restaurant partnerships and more cheese dishes as well as milkshakes came up on menus to the modern food we know today.
     So why not just change the guidelines? The dairy farmers bribe politicians with thousands of dollars each day to raise encouragement for the milk industry even though they know it is such a scam. So just remember that next time you drink milk to "grow taller" you're really participating in a nation wide scam to compensate with a centuries old waste.

The Forer Effect

     In 1967 a man with the last name Forer paid random strangers he got off of different avenues in New York City to come into his psych lab to conduct an social experiment he had hypothesized in theory that he desperately needed to be proved. He asked all of the participants to write their full name, birthday, and various favorite of different kind of genres (color, pet, movie) and hand there recordings back to him when they were done. 

     He then went back in his laboratory and in five minutes he came back out with a document of information that he handed to each of them saying that he has learned each of their personalities just through those pieces of information. As all of them read their own parcels they all admitted that his deductions were spot on. Little did they know until later, that they were all given the exact same document. What did it say? I give you the Forer Effect.

     You have a great need for other people to like and  admire you. You have a tendency to be critical of yourself. You have a  great deal of unused capacity which you have not turned to your  advantage.

While you have some personality weaknesses, you are generally  able to compensate for them. Your sexual adjustment has presented  problems for you. Disciplined and self-controlled outside, you tend to  be worrisome and insecure inside. At times you have serious doubts as to  whether you have made the right decision or done the right thing.

You prefer a certain amount of change and variety and become  dissatisfied when hemmed in by restrictions and limitations. You pride  yourself as an independent thinker and do not accept others’ statements  without satisfactory proof. You have found it unwise to be too frank in  revealing yourself to others.

At times you are extroverted, affable, sociable, while at other  times you are introverted, wary, reserved. Some of your aspirations tend  to be pretty unrealistic. Security is one of your major goals in life.

      This is the reason that some people believe in horoscopes, palm readers, and their zodiac signs to be true. This is so generic that it applies to anyone and also the source in which many personality tests develop from such as the Meyers-Briggs, Lawrence Kolhberg's moral development test, and the multiple personality test. The strange thing is that first two of these tests come from before the development of this test but still apply to the rudimentary basics of it.

     So what does this all mean to you? Well in the philosophical sense it teaches you that inherently all people are the same and that everyone is not so different as they may seem. But in the practical way of things all this teaches you is where they get the results of Buzz Feed quizzes from.