psychic chess masters

You are totally over-reacting.  I acknowledged much of what you did, and went onto tell you, that the flamewars that were persisting beyond the helpful aspects of what you did had a lot to do with your abraisiveness, oversensitivity, and egotism.  Do you honestly believe I was wrong, or that's a big insult and a total refutation of everything you've ever done?  Put it into perspective.

Reflectivist, I really think that if this unfortunate name calling continues, your thread is going to get locked. It's gone on for pages.

I think you should step in and take action. 

What kind of action can I take?  Aren't they free to post whatever they want and only the moderator can fix it?

I think corrijean may be suggesting a block.

I think it's past the mods bedtime.

It is possible for me to block a poster from a thread I start?

There was a psychologically interesting thing that happened in this thread. It reminded me of how some chess players wish to have their opponent submit to them. Submission seems to excite some people. In this case, physics was the subject which compelled an aggressive competition for the aim of submission. I believe submission is at the root of anger towards those who don't rematch in chess, or don't continue arguments, for example. The desire for submission is not an attractive characteristic of a person, in my view. 

Reflectivist: Yes, though only from that point forward. It has no retroactive effect.

Man when i cometo  your city can we play for money any game and i will not come with nothing but will leave with everything.

Example #1 Ask and Good boxer or Black Belt in martial arts about this. Watch the fighters hands and you will be waking up in the hospital.

Example #2 Street Hustlers love your type. Ever heard of a game called 3 Card Molly. The game with 2 Black cards and 1 Red card. The guy moves the cards around and you have to find the red card. But you have to put $20.00 dollars done next to your choice.

Example #3 is the shadow game. My friend is a Ninja and all of us used to hide and seek. Well he was creative in creating moving shadows that look like it belonged to a person at that spot.

Example #4 The steak. I like my food well done. Well you have to sometime cut it to make sure the cook did not do it medium rare as i do not like it bloody at all.

Example #5 Daughters first cake. Well that should be enough. Since it is you..... Well kids know their dad will eat whatever they make as not to hurt their feelings and smile. The trick is to not swallow as you know something is wrong. Well lets just say hard candy and it was not made with the ingredients of a cake except the icing which was great. She knew it was not a cake cake but her version and wanted to see if i would eat it and laughed.

Example #6 which nails the point home. I went to the Art Institute and took Video classes and Image Manipulation. My first week i was garbage at the end of the semester i was almost at the Pro level. Anything can be made to look authentic on a photo/pic. Same for videos. Cooperfield used to fool people for years. Illusions!

Example #7 Real basic. If i am standing with you and go on the other side of the wall am i still their after 1 minute. If so what am i doing on the other side. But what if after 2 minutes of you standing at the wall i am tapping you on your shoulder and you did not see me coming. Hey genius your eyes saw the facts but not the truth. For this reason in the court of law they say tell the truth and the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

When do you get paid again? Sound like you have a lot of money.

I think i will introduce you to all my friends at the poker table as all us will be leaving very happy except one person.

???? We haveat least three.....by an advanced civiliazation.

How did you come up with the magical number. Reading too many comics. Wizard World fan #1.

I would have to say the planets are not randomly created and neither is the entire system. If we are in like a Matrix then the limitation is ourselves. We think to reach a planet is has to be by using space as a medium. Like Photoshop what if there was a layer on top of space that allows one to travel instantly and safely from one point to another and then leave that layer and return to space.

With so many people monitoring space no body has seen them coming or going in space but plenty in the sky.

Feel a strong desire to watch Star Trek. Warp factor 5.1 to reach the Vulcan. Capt Kirk or Capt Picard?

If aliens do come and want a human i will suggest you are the human they are looking for. Must be an alien lover. Enjoy 100 years with them and come back and tell us all about it. Man with his ego he will teach them how to play chess. And have several openings named after him.  His top to threads #1 Life on earht playing chess. #2 Bishop vs Knights.

Imagine a town called Valleville on an alien planet. Plus they increas his brain and knoledge by their .....  By then you know he will return to Earth with his new GM title and go undefeated for 10 years and break Carlsen record of 3020 by ranking 4502.

Let's leave the lingo to the physicists. Maybe we can get Steven Hawking to type out some answers for us... wait, is Carlsen's record really 3020?!

Well he have our anwser end of thread! He figured it all out.

I love rage posts. 

This thread has now fully left the galaxy...

Lets all have a Master_Valek inspired giggle fest about the nearest star system being millions of light of years away.

I tried to start catching up on this thread a few pages back and I can't do more than skim - its just gone off the rails with, I don't want to say "psuedo intellectualism" because that is too dignified a term, but just imagined puffery that can't possible be interesting to anyone not writing it.

"Psychic Chess Masters" -- Up, Up, and Away!

The "Doctor in In."  Point well taken.

Apparently the thread about men and women GMs being unequal (for all time) became too tame.  So the protaganists migrated to this lovely thread.  Whatever.

@Master Vapid leads the way, yet again.

I will answer this.

That's misunderstanding of quantum mechanics. But that's one of the most difficult points, so I cannot blame you. Wiki linked here (very wonkish). Einstein and his colleagues thought it refuted quantum mechanics.

Answer : no information can be transmitted faster than light, although you can acquire knowledge about the state of a point far away in the universe. Details below.

Quantum mechanics predict intricated states of particles, which means that you have two particles that exist in a "superposed state". To make things simple, if you measure the state of the particles, if one is up then the other is down and reversly ; but the fact that the first measurement gives (a up b down) or (a down b up) is random. If you measure them again, you will have the same results as at the first measurement.

(already two strange quantum things appear here : 1-you cannot measure the "spins" simultaneously, you have to do it sequentially, and the result of the first measurement has influence on the result of the second ; 2- the result of a measurement is not determined before the measure, but takes one value or another randomly.)

Once you have created a pair of such particles (not that easy, but forget about that part), you send them light-years apart.

The paradox : if you measure one of the two particles, you know immediately the state of the other which is at the other side of the universe. Hence apparently, the far away particle communicated his state at infinite speed, or the particle at hand sent a signal to the other one at infinite speed too - any case, supraluminic transmission was achieved.

The flaw is that this is not communication in the usual sense. There is no signal travelling from one particle to another, and you cannot use the properties of that system to transmit information - once the particles are separated, there is no way to change the state of one and make it known to the other. As such, you have no way to use this to transmit information : when you measure one spin, you know the result someone else will obtain at the other end, but you cannot influentiate on that result.