hi!

Nope, Estonian. (See also the address of the non-functioning homepage attached to the post ;) )

hi!

I don't. I don't own any apple products either, because I don't like the closedness of the system. I also run a TOR node on my home server. I try to use open-source applications whenever I can and provide patches for any bugs I find.

I just don't like it when people believe the hype. By EITHER side.

Look at this picture in the article: http://english.sina.com/technology/p/2012/0128/435327.html (yes, it's a chinese paper, but whatever)

these people, crawling over each other are trying to get a job in Foxconn! What does that tell you? That they are forced into it? Doesn't seem that way to me.

Suicide rate? Way less than chinese average.

Workplace accidents? Way less than average workplace accidents in factories in the USA!

Come on, people. Please try to see the forest for the trees and realize, that wealth and well-being is not absolute, it can only be compared and stop comparing it to yourself. Compare it to conditions on site. It's not really that hard.

And never, EVER forget that newspapers exist to sell you advertising. Provocative headlines sell a whole lot of advertising via more readers or clicks. (This also applies for slashdot btw.) so, please try to think about what they are actually selling.

The best thing you can do to help these people to better living conditions? Buy more apple products, so a part of your money will go to better the lives of people in china.

thanks for the explanation, it is good and clear, but this whole thing is just teeming with questions.

How have we actually measured that this particle swaps between matter/antimatter states or is that just a theory?

Also, as I understand that all particles are actually just probabilities for something existing somewhere at some time. Would this not infer that the probability of this particular particle being matter or antimatter is just extremely close to 50%, or, actually 49% antimatter, 51% matter?

Again, I have probably misunderstood something, but I don't pretend to be a physicist anyway, just curious..

yes, the great Stephen has said it, therefore it MUST be true!

Right, of course you are correct. After having read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_particle I actually understand that the question was rather silly. sorry about that. Although, if everyone read the correct wikipedia entries before asking things, there would be very few questions indeed ;)

thanks.

I'm probably misunderstanding something here, but it seems that they have discovered that when the big bang happened, then because of this property, a bit more matter was created than anti-matter out of wherever they came in the first place, the rest of it annihilated with each other and everything else is made up from the "extra bits". This seems fairly reasonable.

Now, it is also known that new matter-antimatter element pairs are being created and annihilated all the time everywhere, this is where Hawking radiation comes from.

Does this new discovery mean, that it would be possible, that instead of an antimatter-matter pair a matter-matter pair is created sometimes instead and therefore the amount of matter in the universe is increasing (even if by a tiny amount)? Or are the conditions needed for this to happen too extreme to ever take place outside of big bangs and accelerators? Although as I understand some cosmic rays have far greater energies than accelerators.

Real physicists - please help me make sense of it all!

so this is the way the world ends
so this is the way the world ends
so this is the way the world ends
not with a bang, but wth a story in /.