Is this the best of all possible worlds?

Peacocks in the Mojave Desert: Never dull here at all.
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"I feel that there is an angel inside me whom I am constantly shocking." Terri Guillemets
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Candide retweeted
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Oh and dis.
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Modern cycling is amazing. Note the top rear light that includes a radar linked to the cycling computer on the handlebars. The other lights are also cameras so my family can see how I died. 😛🤣😳
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Red Rock Canyon Overlook. Behold.
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More time above the newest neighborhood in Las Vegas. La Madre.#lasvegas #summerlin #dronephotography #naturephotography
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People ask me why I've been riding bikes for almost 6 decades. Honestly, it may be religious. Here's exclusive footage of me at The Holy Church of Paris Baguette. Praise be.
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Always be an ambassador on the bike. Old school cycling is where it’s at. Join us. Make new friends and ride with glee.
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Remember Extortion 17.
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Tonight’s sunset while flying over West Summerlin: A new construction neighborhood is taking shape all the way up to at least 4400 feet MSL. Little Red Rock is visible on the left.
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Candide retweeted
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Like dis?
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God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. - Voltaire
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Candide retweeted
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Whoomp. There it is.
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Photons Can Really Be in Two Places at Once, New Experiment Shows (Kind of) Physicists at Hiroshima University say they’ve cleared up one of quantum physics’ biggest mysteries: Can a particle really be in two places at once? Or is the particle only ever in one place, and it’s just that the quantum maths that assigns it two places? The researchers looked at this question with an interferometer, in which a photon (a quantum of light) gets split onto two paths which later recombine, according to the mathematics. The problem is that, while the maths does give a result that agrees with observations, there is usually no way to know that a single photon actually did take both paths, because the moment one measures which path the photon goes, the result collapses and no longer requires photons to go both paths. What they did in the new experiment is to very slightly change the polarization on each path in opposite directions. Only then do they measure the probability that the photons still interfere. If they have a different polarization, they should not. And, importantly, the remaining probability that they do interfere depends on whether the photon only experienced one polarization shift on one arm, or on both arms. The result is, unsurprisingly, that quantum mechanics is correct. They interpret this to say that, yes, the photon was really in both arms of the interferometer. And this is all well and good, except that according to their maths, photons can also have a negative presence in one arm of the interferometer, a fact that sheds strong doubts on their interpretation of the measurement results. Image: Illustration of the experiment. Figure: Fukuda et al, New J. Phys. 28 034515 (2026)
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We all wear a mask. Some of us two or three. - me
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"It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best...." Ernest Hemingway
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Sunset flight over Summerlin last night. “Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.” - Jane Austen
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By choosing limited war as a strategy, there is an implicit admission that the nation starting the war cannot win. Most adversaries can recognize that weakness quickly and exploit it willingly. But that's none of my business.
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Almost 6000 ft MSL looking down from the Spring Mountains into Little Red Rock and southern Las Vegas this morning complements of a mountain bike named Ben Kenobi and a drone that has yet to be named.
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Man is hungry for beauty: therefore he must be filled. There is a void; nature will fill it. - Oscar Wilde Exploring Little Red Rock, west of Las Vegas valley on the MTB. Lots of new home construction on the mountain. Around 4400-ft I saw the beginnings of neighborhood roads.
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My 2 milliseconds of fame. Woohoo! 😹 But seriously it’s great to share outdoor photography. 🌞
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