JPOW! Dec. 24, 2005

Created By: books
Last Modified: 12/20/05
Summary: Jetpaks of the Day || December 18 to December 23, 2005.
Jetpak: Checks & Balances
http://www.jeteye.com/jetpak/e219982e-3b33-1029-86c1-00304880af2fSummary: BushBungles: CIA renditions, the infamous CIA leak ...no exit strategy and now domestic spying ... Is everything about to come tumbling down?
JPODs Of the Week, from December 18 to December 23, 2005
- Need to do any Holiday Shopping for Guitarists
?
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Some of the best politics blogs
on the net
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Nip/Tuck: who is the Carver??
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The Bush Bungles continue mounting up
- Brace yourself for some Quantum Theory
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TiVo and commercials, together at last in your favorite tv shows
Jetpak: TiVo causes surge in product placement
http://www.jeteye.com/jetpak/e2198096-3b33-1029-86c1-00304880af2fSummary: What's a greedy TV executive to do? TiVo lets people skip the commercials! Well then, we'd better turn every show into an infomercial, quick!
Jetpak: nip/tuck
http://www.jeteye.com/jetpak/e20cf40c-3b33-1029-86c1-00304880af2fSummary: Bisexual surgeon Quentin Costa: The Carver
Jetpak: Christmas Ideas For The Budding Guitarist
http://www.jeteye.com/jetpak/e20c8512-3b33-1029-86c1-00304880af2fSummary: Got a guitar player on your Christmas shopping list?
Jetpak: Best Blogs
http://www.jeteye.com/jetpak/e211aace-3b33-1029-86c1-00304880af2fSummary: Several of the most popular blogs on things political.
Jetpak: Quantum Theory
http://www.jeteye.com/jetpak/e20c56e6-3b33-1029-86c1-00304880af2fSummary: Quantum theory is one of the strangest collection of ideas in physics. It describes reality on the subatomic level as being sometimes particles and sometimes waves. However these waves are not made up of energy, but describe the actual particles themselves. In this way, one cannot think of individual particles as “things” having substance (like we normally think of matter) but instead as “waves of probabilities”. Other parts of quantum theory include (1) nonlocality, in which separate particles seem to communicate faster than the speed of light, (2) the Uncertainty Principle, in which you may never know the complete information about a particle (say goodbye to determinism), and (3) quantum tunneling, in which particles seem to “tunnel” through a barrier that they do not have the energy to penetrate. After 70 years, the reason quantum theory remains a popular topic today is that we still do not fully understand the implications from quantum theory. Subsequently there are still many competing interpretations of quantum theory, the strangest of which may be the parallel worlds interpretation.


