Naive physics

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While our impassioned parable is admittedly naive, it is also the most straightforward depi( tioii of the heartfelt idea that maybe - just maybe - there is something much, much simpler than what we normally think of as fundamental physics lurking on tinier, Planck-longth, scales. The question is whether this much simpler something owes anything to CA-like formalisms. 

The idea that a catalyst remains unaltered by the reaction it catalyzes is naive and misleading. Physical and chemical changes can and do occur either during or as a result of the catalytic... 

We have shown that the vector mesons in the CFL phase have masses of the order of the color superconductive gap, A. On the other hand the solitons have masses proportional to F%/A and hence should play no role for the physics of the CFL phase at large chemical potential. We have noted that the product of the soliton mass and the vector meson mass is independent of the gap. This behavior reflects a form of electromagnetic duality in the sense of Montonen and Olive [29], We have predicted that the nucleon mass times the vector meson mass scales as the square of the pion decay constant at any nonzero chemical potential. In the presence of two or more scales provided by the underlying theory the spectrum of massive states shows very different behaviors which cannot be obtained by assuming a naive dimensional analysis. 

The lack of dynamic models and rigorous mathematics makes nineteenth-century chemistry a different science from physics, but it is no less methodologically sophisticated. Chemists employed varieties of signs, metaphors, and conventions with self-conscious examination and debates among themselves. Nineteenth-century chemists were neither militant empiricists nor naive realists. These chemists were relatively unified in their focus on problems and methods that provided a common core for the chemical discipline, and the language and imagery they used strongly demarcated mid-nineteenth-century chemistry from the field of mid-nineteenth-century physics and natural philosophy. 

Release data related to the SCADA network only on a strict, need-to-know basis, and only to persons explicitly authorized to receive such information. Social engineering, the gathering of information about a computer or computer network via questions to naive users, is often the first step in a malicious attack on computer networks. The more information revealed about a computer or computer network, the more vulnerable the computer/network is. Never divulge data revealed to a SCADA network, including the names and contact information about the system operators/administrators, computer operating systems, and/or physical and logical locations of computers and network systems over telephones or to personnel unless they are explicitly authorized to receive such information. Any requests for information by unknown persons need to be sent to a central network security location for verification and fulfillment. People can be a weak link in an otherwise secure network. Conduct training and information awareness... 

As the evening wore on, our conversation drifted toward and around the possibility of violating normal physics, discussing it in terms of a psychological versus a naive/realist view of shamanic phenomena. We were especially interested in the obsidian liquids that ayahuasqueros are said to produce on the surface of their skins and use... 

The older and more naive application is to N actually existing physical systems in actual physical interaction with each other, e.g., gas molecules. .. The N of them together represent the actual physical system under consideration. This original point of view is associated with the names of Maxwell, Boltzmann and others. 

An important experiment carried out as recently as summer 1982 by the French physicist, Aspect, has unequivocally demonstrated the fact that physicists cannot get round the Uncertainty Principle and simultaneously determine the quantum states of particles, and confirmed that physicists cannot divorce the consciousness of the observer from the events observed. This experiment (in disproving the separabilty of quantum measurements) has confirmed what Einstein, Bohr and Heisenberg were only able to philosophically debate over - that with quantum theory we have to leave behind our naive picture of reality as an intricate clockwork. We are challenged by quantum theory to build new ways in which to picture reality, a physics, moreover, in which consciousness plays a central role, in which the observer is inextricably interwoven in the fabric of reality. 

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