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SH9DOW
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[2010-05-18 20:05:20 +0000 UTC]
"Rabid Pelican Artworks"
(United States)
# Statistics
Favourites: 8268; Deviations: 177; Watchers: 102
Watching: 238; Pageviews: 33631; Comments Made: 4402; Friends: 238
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: Nebezial and ChimeraSynxFavorite movies: District 9
Favorite TV shows: "Lie To Me", "Burn Notice", "Full Metal Alchemist", "Soul Eater", "Assassination Classroom"
Favorite bands / musical artists: Muse, Arctic Monkeys, Hans Zimmer, Hecq
Favorite books: The Time Machine, 1984, Watership Down
Favorite writers: George Orwell, H.G. Wells,
Favorite games: OVERWATCH, Call of Duty 4, Mass Effect, Titanfall
Favorite gaming platform: Xbox One
Tools of the Trade: Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, MediBang Pro
Other Interests: Physics, Soccer, Lacrosse
# About me
Theodore "Dori" BrandesB.S. Physics, Mathematics Minor
Professionally, I am currently a graduate student at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania for teaching, after which I hope to continue my studies towards a physics doctorate. My areas of expertise include quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics (thermodynamics), and strategy/game theory. Specifically, I am currently investigating the nature of statistical mechanics in combat/game strategies to verify the entropy-based warfare model, while also developing a new strategy from these findings.
As for my artistic endeavors, I have some experience in digital art and writing, including an orginal spec titled "Resist" (novel/film series) Other original titles currently in the works include "March of Life" (novel), "Robotik" (film), "Bionic" (Bionicle film), "Geijutsu gekkou" (manga/anime), "Fear No Evil" (dark comedy, short film), and more.
# Comments
Comments: 1567
March of Life is part of your Resist series correct?
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"Sh9dow"? Huh? Care to explain the random numeral in your new name?
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Lucky number (and every other form of "shadow" was taken)
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I think it is because 'Shadow' is not available.
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Yep, and its my lucky number ^^
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Now I just have to change this profile name....
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Oh dear, my finger appears to have slipped... how awful it is that you have the ability to change your user name now!
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I need to tape yours and Lauren's fingers so they stop trying to slip XD
Thank you again
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Hey Shadow I saw this and thought of you.
fav.me/d7jbi4w
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Hey you, thanks for faving the inks for our comic!
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Apologies for the list of correspondence messages, by the way. 
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Oh, no worries 
If you ever want your own folder in the Multiverse gallery, just say the word, because your work deserves well more than it is getting by magnitudes! Animus will always be one of my favorites.
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Awesome, thank you for letting them in. :]
Well, given Animus doesn't exist anymore, that'd be rather difficult. 
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D:
Nuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh
But but but all the fluffy Vath!?
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Not much more to it, I'm afraid. I mentioned it before, you forgot? The characters still exist and such, but they're kind of just floating around in my headspace now.
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*grabs her head* grow GROW GROW like the super-cancer that you must become!
and I remember... but I was hoping there was still... something
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thanks for the fav, watch for more
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Huh, you're a physics major?
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Another science major!
Hey, microbiology is my worst science, so props for being able to have that as your major! Trust me, I'm a physics major and I find it to be confusing sometimes (mostly the mathematical aspects), so I understand haha.
Seriously, if you ever wanna talk science, or anything in general, hit me up with note
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Woot!
It's a lot of fun, and actually pretty gross. 
And will do! I see you're a D9 fan, so that sounds like a fun talking point.
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The theories that comprise QM are actually super-cool, but solving those partial differential equations is a BITCH. My specialty is statistical mechanics and philosophy, but I also have gotten into some cosmology, so I've had to read a few QM related papers.
As for the bacteria, unfortunately yes
Oh my God, D9 is one of my obsessions 
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Oh yeah, they're pretty fascinating. I can imagine. 
"Last online: 5 weeks ago" :c
Yeah, I liked it mostly for the sci-fi stuff. xD I love insectoid aliens. I only just managed to get my character design on paper, and only because I commissioned it from someone... I can't draw very well, strictly speaking.
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All that fun mathematics is in there, definitely XD. And yep, the ideal gas law can be derived via thermodynamics, but here's something that will blow your mind. The laws of thermodynamics can be generalized to any feasible system via information theory, hence it is not just specific to heat transfer. For example, we have entropy in thermodynamics (defined as S=k*log(W), k=Boltzmann constant & W=# of microstates) and then "Shannon Entropy" for information theory (similar equation), and there is even a generalization of that form. Fun stuff!
Oh, and no worries, she's on more often than that indicates (she's my significant other
It's okay, all it takes is some scribbles a day
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As long as you don't have to do integration by parts 7 times, like someone I knew who took differential equations told me. I remember integration by parts; probably my least favourite technique. I much preferred u-sub. Now that I didn't know. That's actually really cool, since I actually did assume that thermo primarily applied to energy transfer. That's pretty awesome! I heard something about quantum entanglement being applied to information transfer as well, but I'm not entirely sure on the details.
Oh, awesome! I can understand, haha. I've been really busy, too. Taking two labs in one semester. D: Not something I'm going to do again, most likely.
Most of what I scribble is notes, lol. So yeah, I see you like insectoid aliens, too. Awesome!
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Entanglement is a tricky thing. Unfortunately, conventional entanglement doesn't yield superluminal (that means faster-than-light if you didn't know) information transfer, however Japan supposedly figured out a little cheat. I never read the paper though, so I can't stand by that, but under established physics, even quantum teleportation can't break the barrier.
Insectoids are amazing indeed!
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Kind of an old article, but I saw this headline a while ago: www.livescience.com/27920-quan… Also there IS the Alcubierre drive. I read that the equations actually work with all the established physical laws. The only thing we don't have is the energy to bend space time around an object. So.. warp drive might actually be a possibility, which I think is awesome. I really wish that we could get practical interstellar travel in our lifetime, but I guess it's just wishful thinking... At the very least, there IS now a space probe in interstellar space. Who knows, maybe someone will find it.
Haha, yeah. I'm assuming you've heard of Ender's Game?
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Yep, key statement: "Whereas the result may sound like a way to send faster-than-light messages, it isn't, really, because you can't know the state of the entangled photon pair before it's measured; so there's no way to control it and make the photon at the other end take on certain states and use it like a Morse code telegraph."
As for the Alcubierre Drive it isn't actually superluminal from a technical standpoint, but simply sidesteps the rule through a little spacetime trickery. I spent a lot of time studying propulsion science, including the Alcubierre Drive, and though it would make a great device for NASA to get around our solar system, getting to those distant realms of neighboring stars systems with other planets would still take years if not centuries. The Alcubierre Drive has been reduced in energy requirements to a feasible size already, but the problem right now isn't the energy, it's the "cement" so to speak. Alcubierre Drives have a curious effect of forming singularities within the confines of the vehicle if exotic matter is not used, and exotic matter isn't called exotic for shits-and-giggles. We've yet to find a way to produce such matter in any applicable quantities, hence hindering the effort. If it is any consolation, NASA currently has a warp drive project underway, so we'll see how long it takes.
Ironically I never heard of it until a couple years after I made my guys, but I read it and didn't really like it, so I guess it didn't matter in the end lol
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Yeah... but what about wavefunction collapse? Couldn't you.. I don't know, detect it and make the probability density collapse down to that state that you want? I know I'm probably not that qualified to speak on QM, but it's still fun to discuss. lol On the subject of QM, if there are only allowed energy levels, why is there fine and hyperfine splitting? Doesn't that sort of go against the "only certain energy levels can be occupied" thing?
I always saw the Alcubierre drive as sort of like a "baby" warp drive; the first step to a faster system. Something that could then get us to those other star systems like you said. Something I really wish we could do is visit other galaxies, but.. well, I guess you can dream. There should be some sci-fi stuff that takes place in another galaxy besides the Milky Way or Andromeda. A few off the top of my head would be M81, M87, M64.. maybe one of the NGC galaxies. Think of how awesome that'd be; you'd get to make up all new constellations because you'd be seeing stars never before mapped.
That works, I guess. lol
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Well, the energy levels are not necessarily a primary consequence of their wave nature, but a combination of electrons' properties. Wavefunction collapse is indeed a possible route and is one I have investigated personally (you might find a really, really, really old version in my scraps depicting the infancy of my hypothesis). However, wavefunction collapse itself is limited by information transfer, hence creating another barrier. For us to increase the probability in another location (as of now) requires an observer in that location communicating back to point B in some way. That's actually why we have things like Copenhagen and MWI, because, despite the quantum nature of the particle (its non-local behavior) the observer remains classical (the observer adheres to local behavior). It's one of MWI's hits against Copenhagen and conventional wavefunction collapse, in that one cannot treat the observer as classical unto themselves, but acknowledge that they may just appear classical from within the system.
The Many Worlds Intepretation may inevitably hold the key to superluminal travel when the time comes, but I haven't familiarized myself with derivations yet, so I can only add my loose hypotheses to the cause. Right now, I am trying to gather data on dark matter distributions for the Milky Way in ratio to the amount of matter in expectation that the extra mass is a "residual" effect wavefunction related characteristics of our galaxy.
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Which properties?
MWI is Many Worlds Interpretation, right? Forgive my ignorance, but is Copenhagen another theory of QM? I mean, I know it's the capital of Denmark, too, but.. xD I also sort of suspected that even if you CAN collapse the wavefunction, who says you'll get the state that you want? You might get a completely different state. I think the image on the site showed photons with different spin states? I had no idea that you could actually see that; that was pretty cool!
Would it be something like: in another universe you would already be in the location you wanted to reach?
And speaking of dark matter, the astronomy research I did freshman year focused on dark matter halos and the re-ionisation epoch of the early universe. We crunched a whole bunch of numbers from an n-body system with billions of particles and came out with some promising conclusions. Our group all focused on different things. Someone did density dependence on angular momentum, I did density dependence on triaxiality (shape, basically), and I forget what our other partner did, lol.
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Copenhagen is the interpretation of QM that stipulates observation leads to wavefunction collapse. MWI stipulates the wavefunction does not collapse, but that the observer is a part of the wavefunction, hence splits into two observers upon measurement of the quantum state dichotomy. It isn't the state that is the problem, but the time to communicate the actual measurement. Think of it from Schrodinger's Cat, we are confined to this finite space and are aware of the cat's general location. The speed of light plays no factor. For entanglement as well, the change may be instantaneous if one observer measures the one, and another measures the other, but for their to be information transfer, both would have to be aware of one another's measurements, which cannot be done.
Parallel universes have a variety of "flavors" and we don't know for sure which flavor our multiverse is. Max Tegmark wrote a nice article on the various kinds of mulitverses if you're interested (should take a simple Google search). The manner MWI can be utilized doesn't necessarily come from the parallel universes themselves, but the fact that now both the observer and the particle in our Schrodinger's Cat scenario are quantum entities. Hence, take entanglement for example, one could hypothetically couple the possible states of the observer(s) so to remove that locality we would get under a Copenhagen and classical entanglement setup. The problem is that there is not full description of such a scenrio, because Ph.D. Hugh Everett III was unable to elaborate upon his doctoral thesis due to depression and heaving alcohol consumption (due to the ridicule he faced for introducing the subject of parallel universes).
Do you know where I can find values of a similar nature without having to derive them myself? Is there an almanac or encyclopedia I could look at? I'm a theoretical physics major, so all I get is a green book with general solutions to integrals and differentials
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Ohh, I see. This rapidly seems to get very complicated. xD No wonder there's so many issues with FTL communication and travel.
Hmm.. flavours? As in, the way that quarks have flavours? Or a different kind? haha Hmm, I think I'll check that paper out sometime; sounds interesting! Has there been any more research done on the parallel universe ideas?
Huh... not really sure, haha. They were simulated anyway; remember that it was an n-body computer simulation. Only general solutions? Sounds like you get into some pretty seriously complicated things with theoretical physics, though.
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There is the Big Bounce model in which parallel universes are separated by time via singularity/Big Bang events, the system extending to infinity without end. We do not consider the collapse and re-expansion of a universe as being the same universe, since the re-expansion will be defined by different parameters.
There is the budding model, in which parallel universes "bud" from ours like a sponge reproduces. Some hypothesize this occurs via black holes, but there are various means this could occur.
There is the bubble model, of which we now associate with M-Theory. Universes act like soap bubbles in a bathtub, sometimes colliding to create big bang events of their own in each universe.
There is the "mathematical" model in which the multiverse has a more abstract nature. It would have physical influence, but technically not exist (much like how we consider the wave-function of an object in mainstream physics).
There is the horizon model in which we live in an infinite "universe," however, because sections of the universe would be completely separated from one another, and because an infinite universe would encompass all possible events simultaneously, sections of our universe would create doppelgangers and variations that we can consider parallel universes. Entirely new physical laws can arise in these other sections too, so they really aren't much different from your everyday concept of parallel universes.
There is the wave-function model, which is the original model constructed by Ph. D. Hugh Everett III (his son is the lead singer of the Eels, fun fact). The wave-function model is directly correlated to the Measurement Problem, and stipulates that a parallel universe occurs when an outcome arises from a quantum choice, and such choices would occur at all levels of reality.
And yep, theoretical physics can be a doozy sometimes XD
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I think I've heard the first theory discussed in cosmology contexts as a possible fate of the universe.
The others I haven't heard of, but they sound pretty fascinating... and exceedingly complex, haha. I might have heard something related to the wave-function model: is that the one where every choice you make also generates multiple alternate realities where you made different choices?
The most theoretical I've ever gotten is with chemistry... which is really just applied quantum electrodynamics.
Sorry for my short responses; I'm still reading everything! :c
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That is because they are one and the same (both products of Sir Roger Penrose).
And yes, that is the one. No worries; I've mostly been concerned with myself being a bit long-winded XD
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Ohh, cool! And yeah, there's also the infinite expansion, Big Crunch, Big Rip, and whatever else you can think of, haha. I actually didn't know about the matter, radiation, and dark energy epochs until I actually did the research, so that was cool.
Sweet! Nah, it's fine; you seem pretty interested in it! I'm big on astronomy, myself. One day I want to buy myself a huge telescope. 18 inch, maybe.
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Pretty decent movie, great book, but also...
FORMICS.
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Would it surprise you if I said I didn't like the book? I first read it right before the film came out because I figured I might as well see what all the fuss is about, especially since they have an alien species called the Formics. Read it, and thought it was one of the most predicable books I had ever read, to the point where it was almost annoying.
Still, FORMICS. Wish they were employed a bit more creatively though :/ . About the only impressive thing in the book was Ender's psychological details, but that was really the only entertaining aspect to me.
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AH.
I see your point. I enjoyed it for what it was, like the new Trek movies, didn't get all tied up in knots over it. I still wish they had emphasized more of the other side's point of view, shown more deep space clashes, and less about what was going on in his head. Didn't care for that, myself. Show me the war! Tell me about the war! But they didn't, they followed the book and well.... derp.
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