I will put in my vote for most beautiful writing system as Tibetan.
Here are some of the phonetic histories: The French j and Spanish j, although pronounced differently, are ultimately descended from the same noise,...
I actually do have access to a library of valuable books on linguistics via my university, but still I am stumped as to a detailed study into this...
Cheers Fraggle, that bit about Hawaiian, cold air, vowels and temperature, and about the acoustic environment was really the sort of thing that I was...
Is there a study that correlates environmental areas / climates / etc. with phonetic features? For example, are uvular consonants or fricatives,...
Thank you, Alphanumeric. You have provided me with a very clear way of seeing how it is the that a computer would handle these things, and I think...
So post-selection of a full set of results is not a special circumstance of post-selection but is something different altogether? Why is it so...
Right, but my confusion is that in the delayed quantum erasure experiments that I know of, there was always a 50% chance that the idler photon would...
No it's not. You made up a situation that can't exist. Maybe you need to write the situation more carefully. Where are the observers, for example,...
With the relativity of simultaneity, from one frame of reference E1 precedes E2, and from the other, E1 and E2 are simultaneous. But E2 never...
MD, when you say that you have split the pie into two pieces, and therefore you say that you have 1/2 of the pie, you are being incorrect. You do...
I have been reading about the Scully-Druhl experiments where the photons are directed to down-converters, which create a "signal" photon and an...
Well, if you saw a computer running a program that it was impossible for that computer to run - let's say that you saw a classical computer running a...
Helloo. I've been reading a Paul Davies book, and in it he suggests that human's ability to do maths is related to the physical structure of their...
If consciousness could compute things that have been proven to be uncomputable, then this would imply that consciousness looked like it was...
What about this - at the "beginning" there was just a quantum field, and then spontaneously out of that field appeared a Boltzmann brain. The...
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