Is the uncertainty principle culturally deranging?

[Keith Davis]

Prashant, are the interaction free measurements subject to the HUP because
they only measure one thing at a time, allowing for a change of state
between measurements, or is there more to it?

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Prashant Kumar <
siva.prashant.kumar at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is that Sergio de la Pava? I'm reading his *A Naked Singularity* at the
> moment. Excellent, but I can see why the major houses bounced him a couple
> of dozen times.
>
> P.
>
> On 3 August 2012 01:28, Madeleine Maudlin <madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I don't, yeah, I mean if that's the case.  I think of it as, printing out
>> your manuscript in the form of a book, replicating it numerous times, then
>> buying it for people and sending it to them, probably without them asking
>> for it first.
>>
>> There's some fellow out of Chicago who got picked up by some big real
>> house with a giant contract because of his own book though, so maybe that's
>> what happens.  Publish it yourself, send it out, then get published?  I
>> guess as opposed to just emailing it to people.  You get to make your own
>> cover.  Which might be cool, I don't know, having a book you wrote in book
>> format with your own designs, inside and out.
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Prashant Kumar <
>> siva.prashant.kumar at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Isn't it the literary equivalent of masturbating in public?
>>>
>>> P.
>>>
>>> On 3 August 2012 00:16, Madeleine Maudlin <madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've not looked into self-publishing.  That's what AuthorHouse is isn't
>>>> it?
>>>>
>>>> It says it's free, what's the problem there.  I mean, how does one go
>>>> wrong with self-publishing, how can that ever go wrong?  You take your
>>>> manuscript to a printer, basically, or is there more to it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> De range hand say: DO NOT EVER PUBLISH WITH AUTHORHOUSE.
>>>>>
>>>>> You're welcome.
>>>>>
>>>>>   *From:* Madeleine Maudlin <madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com>
>>>>> *To:* Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
>>>>> *Cc:* pynchon-l at waste.org
>>>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 1, 2012 4:33 PM
>>>>> *Subject:* Re: Is the uncertainty principle culturally deranging?
>>>>>
>>>>> Oh der*anging*.  Mr. Kohut is certainly *that*.  I would never use
>>>>> that word though, or any deranged derivative there, hem, of.  If I did it
>>>>> would be in the best sense possible, which for me would be exceedingly
>>>>> *good*.
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anybody write here?  I just got an email, who knows why I'm on
>>>>> their list, I haven't tried to publish anything in years, from a place
>>>>> called AuthorHouse, subject says Publish today and get a no-cost bump-up.
>>>>>  So I guess it's free, today, if you want to get published.  I'm currently
>>>>> stuck on page 400 hell with no end in sight.  432.  What is it about 400?
>>>>>  The Moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun and 400 times closer to it than
>>>>> the Earth, or something.  Bumping-up, m
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  On 8/1/2012 10:23 AM, Prashant Kumar wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> but not pejoratively so I hope
>>>>>
>>>>> P
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> P.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 1 August 2012 23:52, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1976/oct/28/plastic-fiction-3/
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>


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