истории Гура Сочинителя

чуть ли не единственный отдых на работе - это посиделки с Гуром Сочинителем. сегодня Гур рассказал замечательную историю, как он работал в каком-то телекоме и им нужно было запатентовать свой протокол, что напрямую сделать было нельзя, и поэтому они написали хайку, первые две строчки которой, соответственно, служили handshake и handshake ack, а третья - заголовком запроса. хайку же они затрейдмарчили ®, так что все, кто хотел использовать протокол, должны были лицензировать использование трейдмарки.

кстати - забыл сказать, что этот свой пост я объявляю source кодом, лицензированным в соответствии с Affero General Public License (AGPL), так что теперь, поскольку вы прочитали этот пост, содержание вашей головы is legally tainted и все ваши последующие посты обязаны быть, во-первых, public, а во-вторых, тоже распространяться по AGPL.

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From light's point of view — and this after all must be the most appropriate perspective from which to consider the nature of light, not our matter-bound mode of experience — it travels no distance and takes no time to do so.

This reflects a unique property of light. In the spacetime continuum, the interval between the two ends of a light ray is always zero. How can we interpret this? We probably should not even try to interpret it.

ближе к концу статьи, правда, совсем кисло становится.

а вот объяснение экспериментов Аспекта (quantum entaglement, Bell's inequality) с помощью голографического принципа:

Imagine an aquarium containing a fish. Imagine also that you are unable to see the aquarium directly and your knowledge about it and what it contains comes from two television cameras, one directed at the aquarium's front and the other directed at its side. As you stare at the two television monitors, you might assume that the fish on each of the screens are separate entities. After all, because the cameras are set at different angles, each of the images will be slightly different. But as you continue to watch the two fish, you will eventually become aware that there is a certain relationship between them. When one turns, the other also makes a slightly different but corresponding turn; when one faces the front, the other always faces toward the side. If you remain unaware of the full scope of the situation, you might even conclude that the fish must be instantaneously communicating with one another, but this is clearly not the case.

This, says Bohm, is precisely what is going on between the subatomic particles in Aspect's experiment. According to Bohm, the apparent faster-than-light connection between subatomic particles is really telling us that there is a deeper level of reality we are not privy to, a more complex dimension beyond our own that is analogous to the aquarium. And, he adds, we view objects such as subatomic particles as separate from one another because we are seeing only a portion of their reality.

опять, ближе к концу статьи становится кисло, вплоть до LSD:

In particular, Stanislav Grof feels the holographic paradigm offers a model for understanding many of the baffling phenomena experienced by individuals during altered states of consciousness. In the 1950s, while conducting research into the beliefs of LSD as a psychotherapeutic tool, Grof had one female patient who suddenly became convinced she had assumed the identity of a female of a species of prehistoric reptile. (Принцесса превратилась в древнюю жабу. Хмм... в сказках обычно наоборот. Must be a true story.)