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Talk:Quantum Darwinism

message: did he say you could apply this to anything? What about a history model? Jared Diamond makes an attempt at it in Guns, Germs and Steel.
:If by "this" you mean Quantum Darwinism, the topic of this article, then no, it cannot be applied to every observable phenomenon. This is a specific theory relating to the "collapse" of superimposed quantum states into a classical state during observation by one or more instruments. There is currently no evidence that macroscopic superimposed quantum states exist and are significant in real-world events such as human decisions at the roots of historical events. David spector (talk) 00:48, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Applicability 

message: as it was clearly not appropriate.  Archelon 21:10, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  OR tag removed 

message: The original text was confused. Heredity is the same concept as replication. As yet, I don’t know how the orginal following text can be corrected to make it conform to the principles of Darwinian Evolution.
Darwinian Evolution is based on the following 3 properties:
:1 Selection
:2 Random variation
:3 Replication
e.g. see http://www.kevinaylward.co.uk/replicators/index.html
Kevin aylward (talk) 14:34, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Darwinian Evolution

message: Few (if any) theories have ever been proposed in quantum mechanics that haven't garnered some measure of criticism from peers of the theorist.  Yet I see no section here devoted to "criticism".  Is Quantum Darwinism the exception?  Is this therory really universally accepted by essentially all contemporary physicists?  Do they really reagard the measurement problem as having been solved?  Are there no flaws, or even possible alternate interpretations of Zurek's mathematical derivations?
If the answer to any of these questions is "yes", it seems like Quantum Darwinism would have made more of a public splash than it seems to have done.
If the answer isn't "yes", then this article dearly needs a section delineating major critiques of this theory, identifying the critics, and linking to critical articles.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.95.43.249 (talk) 20:16, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Critique? 
Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers/Archive 35

message: This hasn't been mentioned on this page before, but it was listed at wikipedia:current surveys, village pump, etc... some months ago. In the mean while several suggestions were incorporated, and others answered at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (numbers and dates).
So, proposing the updated Wikipedia:Naming conventions (numbers and dates), to be accepted as guideline  in a week or so - unless there are still fundamental alterations required.
Note that this guideline proposal absorbs wikipedia:naming conventions (years in titles) (which would become a redirect). Also this is about the last wikipedia:naming conventions topic that doesn't have a "naming conventions" guideline yet, separate from the more general MoS, which doesn't discuss many "page naming" specifics. --Francis Schonken 21:35, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split off "page naming" topics in [[Wikipedia:Naming conventions (numbers and dates)]] 

message: The style of Eras should be changed to distictly prefer BCE and CE considering they are the more appropriate abbreviations for an encyclopedia.  Scholarly works have long since changed to the Common Era format as well as many other publications.  If Wikipedia wishes to be concidered more than an slightly reliable webpage then it should act the part.
David618 20:33, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: This is a very controversial issue, and there are many Wikipedians who strongly oppose BCE/CE on the grounds that it is little used outside of US academia.  See Wikipedia talk:Eras for a tiny sampling of the controversy.  Essentially, there is no hope of achieving consensus for what you say, however correct you may be. -GTBacchus(talk) 20:35, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eras 

message: Recent discussions about date links makes it clear that some editors believe that the Manual of Style is not sufficiently clear.
Disputes have been quite intense and unproductive. I propose that we debate updates to the Manual of Style. For example:
*image caption. This image shows an explosion in 2004.
*birth/death. Joe Bloggs (1960-2005) wrote a book in 1998.
*weekly events (newspaper published on Thursday
etc. As I understand it, these are the sort of examples where some editors think linking is essential. I do not fully understand the guidelines that they want (which is why I am calling for the update). Please correct this if I am wrong. Bobblewik 19:37, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed discussion on update to the Manual of Style
Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers/Archive 36

message: Sorry — little Mystery Science Theater 3000 joke there....
RE: Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_%28dates_and_numbers%29#Dates_of_birth_and_death:   As someone who in the course of work often needs to check biographical facts, I find it wayyyyy more useful and practicall to have the birth & death locales right upfront with the birth & death dates, rather than having to hunt for them in an article. I guess one could do a word search for "born" or "died", but that seems an unnecessary extra step. Virtually every biographical reference I've seen elsewhere includes this pretty basic information together with the dates. 
I'd like to suggest we look at the Will Eisner entry, which gives his birth & death dates/locales upfront, and concludes with the cause of death at the very end (which also, narratively, gives a sense of completion to the piece, as opposed to a sudden-stop ending. But that's secondary concern.) — Tenebrae 14:52, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposing a slight change in layout 2: Electric boogaloo
Talk:Newham Sixth Form College

message: Needs toning down. Full of puffery, it reads like a promotional flier. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 23:23, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed, it's all a bit too technical. The results section is particularly meaningless, instead of such a list of results it would be much more meaningful to say how it compared to the national average. I note there are several contributions from users name "SarahHeathwood" and "Sheathwood" and this also happens to be the name of the college's marketing officer.--Shakehandsman (talk) 19:22, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tone 
Talk:Monster Rancher 2

message: The Japanese version of the game uses PocketStation? It's not mentioned in the article. If yes, what it does? --200.103.117.40 16:20, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: PocketStation
Talk:James Freedman

message: Freedman is more pickpocket than magician. Page should be renamed to James Freedman (pickpocket) or James Freedman (entertainer) to reflect this.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.19.245.25 (talk) 15:29, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move 
Talk:WGTW-TV

message: The latest edits are the best edits I've seen to this article.  I originally contributed WKBS-TV (long before the article's current form; now it is appropriately about the Altoona station) and WGTW-TV as seperate articles, but then merged them, and the current revision is the best revision I've seen.  Thank you very much. -John 11:27, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Thank you to those who are helping

message: According to the FCC file on the station, WGTW is a brand-new construction permit, dating from July 14, 1988.  This means that WGTW is legally a separate station from the old WKBS, so I started a separate article for the old channel 48. Blueboy96 18:45, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Not the same license as WKBS

message: I just got to creating the article on Chris Regina who's currently the Vice President of Programming for the Sci Fi Channel. However, he did used to work as Programme Director for this channel and I was wondering whether someone here could include more information on his work. DrWho42 02:59, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Chris Regina]] article. 

message: I'm j/w b/c I remember going on it but I don't remember the URL.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.99.120.203 (talk) 06:58, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  What was WGTW's website? 

message: When will WGTW — TV be sold the longport media as part of a TV version of WOND radio 1400?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:80:4200:3910:152A:7C28:A819:7213 (talk) 00:41, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sale to longport media
Talk:Neutrino oscillation

message: Regarding a particular class of beyond-SM proposals, the text stated that "These models have little predictive power and are not able to provide a cold dark matter candidate but they are considered interesting since they would be compatible with new observable signals in particle colliders." Since "they are considered interesting since they would be compatible with new observable signals in particle colliders" seems confusing and more or less meaningless, I removed it. (If it means "would be testable", then the models would have predictive power.)Harold f (talk) 16:17, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Interesting because they would be compatible...?

message: @ For verification purposes, how are you pulling "between -2 and -178 degrees" out of the referenced Science paper? Rolf H Nelson (talk) 04:08, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "between -2 and -178 degrees" 

message: From what I have seen, the convention seems to be that 
: \left| \nu_\alpha \right\rangle = \sum_{i} U_{\alpha i} \left| \nu_i \right\rangle,
: \left| \nu_i \right\rangle = \sum_\alpha U^*_{\alpha i} \left| \nu_\alpha \right\rangle,
instead of
: \left| \nu_\alpha \right\rangle = \sum_{i} U^*_{\alpha i} \left| \nu_i \right\rangle,
: \left| \nu_i \right\rangle = \sum_\alpha U_{\alpha i} \left| \nu_\alpha \right\rangle,
as it is written in this article. If someone can confirm this, please change it.
:Please sign your posts.  You couldn't be more wrong. Go to the PDG, equation (14.35), instead of "what you've seen". You are most probably confusing states with the quantum fields annihilating them.    Cuzkatzimhut (talk) 19:32, 10 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  PMNS Matrix: U and U* 

message: Physicist-turned-lawyer here. I'm working on an infographic, just for fun, and was hunting around for the neutrino oscillation lifetime, but couldn't find it anywhere in anything published. Then I noticed that the neutrino oscillation function on this page is given as an energy-dependent wavelength of around 1,067 km/GeV. I also noticed that this page gave some exemplary measurements of neutrino velocities relating particle energy to the measured speed deviation from c. Curious, I calculated the oscillation wavelength for each of the exemplary neutrino energies and then solved for the oscillation period in coordinate time. Then, using the Lorentz factor for each, I solved for the oscillation period in proper time (think atmospheric muon experiment)...and they all came out to the exact same time, 5.01e-12 seconds.
This seems to very strongly suggest that the neutrino oscillation has a constant period, and that period is readily ascertainable as 5.01e-12 seconds. It seems like a very, very obvious thing that ought to be noted on Neutrino, but I couldn't find it anywhere on the wiki or anywhere in anything published. I don't want to break WP:OR, though, by adding this without some sort of backing. Does anyone have any idea where I could look for confirmation of this?
Sevenperforce (talk) 20:57, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrino oscillation timeline
Talk:X-ray tube

message: This article is surreptitious advertising and not a scientific paper!
Take this page with a pinch of salt!
It is also highly limited in scope; to medical imaging.192.25.144.225 15:32, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

message: It is not clearly stated, that Röntgen used a Crookes' Tube when he discovered X-rays. In fact, he stated in his very first letter here, that all kinds of discharge tube are equally suited. Dschoni (talk) 17:09, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: You're right.  I screwed up the description when I added the picture.  Thanks for catching my dislexia!  --ChetvornoTALK 16:23, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Crookes' Tube

message: Hi, it will be a great value add for having a section covering Grid Controlled X-ray tubes in this article. This technique is useful in reducing continuous X-ray dosage to patients in Fluoroscopy. I will be grateful if someone knowledgeable looks into this.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by SirajIssani (talk • contribs) 05:29, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grid Controlled X-Ray Tubes 

message: What is the purpose of the rotating anode type? Probably it's a better thermal restistance, but it is not mentioned.
So we rather should explain the benefits of this setup, then how a induction motor works. 46.5.54.206 (talk) 17:20, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rotating Anode Type 
Talk:Grande Armée slang

message: The authors and contributors are fully aware that Wikipedia is not the Wiktionary. Hence the following article contains no pronunciation guides or etymologies. The alternatives to placing these terms in a single, convenient place would be to create a mass of confusing stub articles, which would violate the letter and sprit of the "rule" even more, or (worse still) not to include them at all. The latter course of action would violate the spirit of the Wikipedia itself; To Be Bold in collecting all knowledge and making it open, avalable and free. This being said, if you still have objections to this article or would like to see it merged or deleted, please take it up on this page first. Thanks--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) 11:33, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Well in the name of consistency it really should be deleted or something. Most of the other slang pages, particularly military slang, have all been deleted(except the US ones). And in some cases those pages were far more encyclopedic than this one, precedent has been set so delete them all i say. 81.152.196.37 11:26, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Concerning "Descendre la Garde (Drop One's Guard)" The french common expression for Drop one's gruard is "baisser sa garde", "descendre" cannot be used in that context in french nowdays, but i don't know about Napoleon's time. This requires confirmation or correction by someone with access to authentic documents.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.195.254.76 (talk) 01:23, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please note
File talk:Sydney Airport (2004) By Air.jpg

message: :From User talk:Mathieumcguire#Image:Sydney Airport (2004) By Air.jpg
:and User talk:Wangi/archive 01#RE:Image:Sydney Airport (2004) By Air.jpg.
Hi, I noticed you uploaded :Image:Sydney Airport (2004) By Air.jpg and tagged it "fairuse". Where did you source the photo from? Thanks/Wangi 14:53, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Source
Talk:Dictys Cretensis

message: F. Noack is likely Ferdinand Noack 1865-1931. Charles Matthews 11:47, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Lozi language

message: hey its a thing 2607:FB91:1A39:895E:E927:E3A:D440:C65E (talk) 01:29, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  external links modified
Talk:Network Voice Protocol

message: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0741.txt?number=741
is dated 1977 not 1973. 192.246.69.102 18:55, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

message: Which, if any, Voice-over-IP software/hardware available today (in 2014) can still use NVP? Which codecs can the protocol be used with? How widely is it used today? These are all questions that, adhering to WP:MOS, need to be answered in the main article. MXocrossIIB (So, you were saying?);  18:57, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  NVP today?
Talk:Qatar SC

message: my name is Abiona Paul, wishing to play for Qatar sports football club, my email address is fabec96@yahoo.com please contact me for the full procedure.
:I don't think a Wikipedia article on the club is really the place to send this sort of enquiry.  Try looking for their official website or something.... ChrisTheDude 09:31, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

message: Ze appears to have left for good Антон васильков (talk) 14:52, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  gaffer
Talk:Covington and Ohio Railroad

message: The article states that West Virginia achieved statehood after the end of the Civil War, but this is not correct. West Virginia joined the Union on June 20, 1863, less than two weeks prior to the Battle of Gettysburg.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.233.113.215 (talk) 05:30, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  An interesting article, but one glaring error
Talk:Okinawa soba

message: It is a shame to point out that the Do you know? column is wrong. Here I summarize the main points in order to avoid further misunderstanding.
*First of all, Okinawa soba is a modern product. There was no such thing in Ryūkyū.
*Ryūkyū's records contain some fragmentary references to some kinds of noodles, but no one proves that they evolved into Okinawa soba.
*No source was cited by the original author  in 2006. I suspect that s/he, or his/her unspecified source, misunderstood a historical source in which its author, who was a very distant relative of the king, stated that he ate soba. Soba in this context refers to buckwheat noodles, not Okinawa soba.
--Nanshu (talk) 13:15, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Do you know? column is wrong 

message: The entire name section is missing sources and seems like hearsay. SquallyZ06 (talk) 14:09, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name section sources?
Talk:Barnstaple Town railway station

message: The article text does not agree with the infobox. --Redrose64 (talk) 15:25, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: fixed - the infobox was wrong. regards, Lynbarn (talk) 17:40, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opening 

message: Why is it necessary to give the gridref to a 10 metre precision, when the platforms are likely to have been more than 100m in length? --Redrose64 (talk) 15:25, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: not necessary, but it doesn't do any harm. I haven't checked it, but the grid ref. may be that of the stop block on the bay platform - terminus of the L&B. Regards, Lynbarn (talk) 17:42, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Gridref
Talk:Dunsmuir Tunnel

message: The external links are in dreadful condition.  I flagged the links in the hope that someone is taking care of this page, rather than just deleting them.  YouTube is a much better video player for WP articles, rather than trying to persuade viewers to load a special plug-in. Santamoly (talk) 16:16, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: External Links
Talk:Pub game

message: can i just ask, what the image of a yard of ale has to do with pub games, aside from being alcoholic and available in pubs? i dont know any pub games that involve yards of tasty beverage... downing a pint isnt really a game, is it? 88.108.146.129 (talk) 01:19, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Did you not read Yard of Ale? Its quite a challenge to drink that much beer in one go, and a s the article suggests, drinkers could compete for fastest times Lovefist233 (talk) 14:00, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: unrelated point

message: What the USA calls checkers is called draughts in real english, as far as I am aware, it is never referred to as chequers, as this is the British spelling, and British people would call it draughts, if that makes sense, so it should either be linked as Draughts or Checkers, preferably the former as pub games are more British than American Lovefist233 (talk) 13:55, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Chequers

message: You are having a laugh?  First, this is drinking game and games such a  boat race are much more common.  Secondly there is no verification of its popularity - I have never heard of it.  Martin Hogbin (talk) 15:09, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dwyle flunking 

message: Can someone please explain the criteria used to determine the style of sub-heading attributed to each Pub Game. Why, for example, is the popular game of darts given such a small heading, whilst games I've never even heard of ('Devil among the tailors' and 'Ringing the Bell') given such a prominent heading? Obscurasky (talk) 21:53, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sub-headings 

message: This article is a real mess. I'd like to have a go at tidying it up, but would appreciate some comments/suggestions before I do. It's pretty clear that we can't list, for example, all the card games played in pubs, so surely the best approach is to have a brief explanation of what a card game is, and a link to the card games page?
Separating out 'sports' and 'games' also seems overly complicated. Some activities are both sports and games, some can be either, depending on the context of how they're played. Ideas anyone?  Obscurasky (talk) 14:37, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Article is a mess
Talk:Pilton railway station

message: The entry for Pilton railway station should read Pilton Depot or Pilton Yard.
There never was a Pilton station — Preceding unsigned comment added by Steamybrian2 (talk • contribs) 18:52, 2 July 2013‎
:According to Butt (1995), p. 185, the station was originally named Pilton Yard, and renamed Pilton Halt circa 1904. It closed with the line, 30 September 1935. --Redrose64 (talk) 20:55, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The mention of "0" for platforms in the infobox appears to indicate that there were no (regular) passenger services here. Lamberhurst (talk) 09:34, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Can also confirm that  p. 312 states that the station was named "Pilton Yard" and that services operated from November 1898 to May 1904. Lamberhurst (talk) 19:44, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Station name
Talk:Snapper Halt railway station

message: I'm not sure that the new section on the origin of the name stands up well to scrutiny.  Snapper was never more than a few isolated houses - never  a Village, although the Inn may have once existed.  Also, the road generally slopes down towards Barnstaple along this section, not up. I know - I've walked it! Any comments, regards, Lynbarn 13:20, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Snapper origin
Talk:Bastien und Bastienne

message: The article alleges Franz Mesmer commissioned the parody.  Does the reference really say that or provide evidence?  Because certainly the opera "Les Amours de Bastien and Bastiene" (of Favart and HanrY), as a parody of "Le Devin de Village", already existed a year after Rousseau's original. The copy at googlebooks was published in 1754 (Bastien & Bastiene) and says it was performed in Brussels in November 1753.  Mesmer would have been only a teenager at the time and, by his biography, seems to be nowhere near Brussels (nor likely to have any linkage with a royal theater).  If article merely means that to say Mesmer commissioned the later adaptation that  Mozart used in 1768, then the article should make that clear. The way it is written makes it appear that Mesmer commissioned the whole thing from scratch.  But the parody itself existed well before that. Walrasiad (talk) 04:48, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mesmer?
Talk:Russian

message: When I moved this page to Russian (disambiguation) I had intended to to redirect Russian to Russia but apparently failed to get it done. As Mikkalai points out this is a "very linked page", and since links to disambiguation pages are generally undesirable, redirecting to Russia seemed to be (based on a review of those links) the best way to handle it. Ewlyahoocom 05:53, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If this was unintentional, why does in still exist over 7 years after the fact? The Russia (disambiguation) page is far more comprehensive. This should either be amalgamated or deleted. --Iryna Harpy (talk) 02:50, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  This page to [[Russian (disambiguation)]]