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    Under what conditions is a photon a particle?

    I read about the wheeler experiment been done in Australia. But one thing I don't understand. If the particle (but let's use a photon) goes through the two slits (or one) and the screen is removed after it already went through, how is it measured? Does it stop after the measurement? My...
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    Solar power and power loss over distance

    So in theory you could put enourmous solar farms in the midwest then? And sell it to large surrounding cities within a 1-2k mile radius? If those panels become cheap enough.
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    Solar power and power loss over distance

    I was having a discussion with a friend, and my side of the argument was that for solar to work you also need a lot of fossil fuel running in the back ground just during the day, making it very expensive. Let's take New york as an example. Let's assume they have enough solar panels to produce...
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    What happens when monochromatic light travels for eternity?

    By the counter I mean the entity counting from two to three in exp smaller steps. Because if you add in a counter in that context plus element of time, three does not exist.
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    What happens when monochromatic light travels for eternity?

    Where do I get it wrong?
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    What happens when monochromatic light travels for eternity?

    So I shoot a light beam out in space of monochromatic light, it would spread out right? So over time it should spread out over a infinite distance? If we assume the universe is finite? And since the light beam has a finite amount of energy, that means it will be reduced to zero. If this is so...
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    We colonize an Earth-like planet with 2 million people....

    I actually thought about building in a simple RTS element lol. Like rome total war, but a lot simpler. There are actually a whole bunch of prebuilt RTS games in those engines. You could download, edit and attach them. With very overpowered weapons in the beginning and cool sound effects and...
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    We colonize an Earth-like planet with 2 million people....

    I like your idea on economics. What do you think about three factions? Also like your idea of a lot of tiny factions (preferably with different specialties) How about starting with three factions, the militant, science focused, building (hivemind type) focused. Like I mentioned already. But...
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    We colonize an Earth-like planet with 2 million people....

    How about this, you control 3.5 by 5.5 km tiles of city centres (or strategic places). And for the area's around that, you use a brush tool. So where industry is allowed and high rise vs low rise. I just like the idea of building stuff up close with more details. I missed that in civ (+ having...
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    We colonize an Earth-like planet with 2 million people....

    Yeah you seem to have more experience on the practical side. If you look at google maps, our planet is really massive. It could be that some satellite did a quick fly over. But satellites only last for so long, and have limited fuel. Current lifecycle is about 15-20 years. Ofcourse at first a...
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    We colonize an Earth-like planet with 2 million people....

    Im making some concept art now, ill show it later. Why do you think factions are too simple? The idea was that they all have a strenght and a weakness. And that the world is at first very dangerous because of the fourth faction with their guerilla tactics living in the mountains. So at first...
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    Conditions for interaction in the quantum world

    What are the conditions necesairy to collapse a wave function of a electron, photon or an atom (alpha particle mostly?). Wavelength? Asking because I cannot understand why in this video the wave function does not collapse in this box. Seems like in the outside there should be massive...
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    We colonize an Earth-like planet with 2 million people....

    Hey thanks for commenting. Seems like you put some thought in this already! I recommend this book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003TO5838/?tag=pfamazon01-20 Basically the premise is that most people are sort of in the middle. And few people at the extreme ends (like liberal vs conservative). And...
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    We colonize an Earth-like planet with 2 million people....

    Thanks for the comments! Some details if you care for it (or have any feedback :) ). It will be like a civilization type game, but I want to make it more realistic, with markets and a political aspect (yeah v ambitious i know). The idea is to split up in roughly 4 factions at first, the...
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    We colonize an Earth-like planet with 2 million people....

    Posted it here because I wanted answers from engineers. Since it seems like an engineering question? If that EM drive is really a thing, an we have reusable rockets, the posssibility of doing such a thing could only be a few decades away?
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