Talk:1580: Travel Ghost - Revision history

Nitpicking: Keycard

2022-01-12T16:19:21Z

Keycard

173.245.48.180 at 16:51, 24 October 2016

2016-10-24T16:51:44Z

141.101.80.78 at 01:15, 5 February 2016

2016-02-05T01:15:34Z

Davidy22 at 16:07, 28 September 2015

2015-09-28T16:07:15Z

173.245.54.105 at 13:49, 28 September 2015

2015-09-28T13:49:58Z

162.158.255.53: belatedly added sig

2015-09-26T23:41:30Z

belatedly added sig

162.158.255.53: Pilot Wave Theory is controversial but not disproven physics

2015-09-26T23:40:19Z

Pilot Wave Theory is controversial but not disproven physics

173.245.55.63: Reminds me of a movie...

2015-09-25T21:50:51Z

Reminds me of a movie...

141.101.99.12 at 14:29, 25 September 2015

2015-09-25T14:29:35Z

162.158.92.206 at 18:53, 23 September 2015

2015-09-23T18:53:55Z

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	Where in the comic does it say or reference that he lost his job?		Where in the comic does it say or reference that he lost his job?
	[[Special:Contributions/173.245.48.180\|173.245.48.180]] 16:51, 24 October 2016 (UTC)		[[Special:Contributions/173.245.48.180\|173.245.48.180]] 16:51, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
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		+	:Answering a six-year-old question: in panel 4, Cueball is using a keycard to gain entry to a building. Since most residences don't have keycard entry{{Citation needed}}, the explanation assumes this is his workplace. I was initially confused by that one myself. [[User:Nitpicking\|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking\|talk]]) 16:19, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

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	I don't get how that one ghost has replaced him in the bedroom, since the ghost comes faster than he does! HE HE. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.80.78\|141.101.80.78]] 01:15, 5 February 2016 (UTC)		I don't get how that one ghost has replaced him in the bedroom, since the ghost comes faster than he does! HE HE. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.80.78\|141.101.80.78]] 01:15, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
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		+	Where in the comic does it say or reference that he lost his job?
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	Now I want [https://www.reddit.com/r/SomebodyMakeThis/comments/3mp4kd/smt_goggles_that_render_a_red_line_in_front_of/ goggles that let me enter my running pace and let me race my ghost.] Forever alone. 09:43, 28 September 2015 (UTC)		Now I want [https://www.reddit.com/r/SomebodyMakeThis/comments/3mp4kd/smt_goggles_that_render_a_red_line_in_front_of/ goggles that let me enter my running pace and let me race my ghost.] Forever alone. 09:43, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
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		+	I don't get how that one ghost has replaced him in the bedroom, since the ghost comes faster than he does! HE HE. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.80.78\|141.101.80.78]] 01:15, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

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−	Now I want [https://www.reddit.com/r/SomebodyMakeThis/comments/3mp4kd/smt_goggles_that_render_a_red_line_in_front_of/ goggles that let me enter my running pace and let me race my ghost.] Forever alone. 09:43, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
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	Racing Ghosts is a refference to Mario Kart [[User:ẞ qwertz\|ẞ qwertz]] ([[User talk:ẞ qwertz\|talk]]) 12:50, 21 September 2015 (UTC)		Racing Ghosts is a refference to Mario Kart [[User:ẞ qwertz\|ẞ qwertz]] ([[User talk:ẞ qwertz\|talk]]) 12:50, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

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	I'm also thinking there may be a worthwhile pun in there about the movie {{w\|Ghost Dad}}, though I haven't found a suitable setup for that punchline. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.55.63\|173.245.55.63]] 21:50, 25 September 2015 (UTC)		I'm also thinking there may be a worthwhile pun in there about the movie {{w\|Ghost Dad}}, though I haven't found a suitable setup for that punchline. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.55.63\|173.245.55.63]] 21:50, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
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		+	Now I want [https://www.reddit.com/r/SomebodyMakeThis/comments/3mp4kd/smt_goggles_that_render_a_red_line_in_front_of/ goggles that let me enter my running pace and let me race my ghost.] Forever alone. 09:43, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

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		+	Now I want [https://www.reddit.com/r/SomebodyMakeThis/comments/3mp4kd/smt_goggles_that_render_a_red_line_in_front_of/ goggles that let me enter my running pace and let me race my ghost.] Forever alone. 09:43, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
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	Racing Ghosts is a refference to Mario Kart [[User:ẞ qwertz\|ẞ qwertz]] ([[User talk:ẞ qwertz\|talk]]) 12:50, 21 September 2015 (UTC)		Racing Ghosts is a refference to Mario Kart [[User:ẞ qwertz\|ẞ qwertz]] ([[User talk:ẞ qwertz\|talk]]) 12:50, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

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 [[Special:Contributions/162.158.90.249|162.158.90.249]] 11:57, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
 :Not really - or at least not real. There may be some "potential photons" in some attempts to describe some quantum-based theory ... but there will certainly be no investigation photons after wave collapse. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 12:12, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
-::Yes, really. He's doubtless talking about the Pilot Wave interpretation of quantum mechanics [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_wave]] -- which is controversial but still mainstream, not crackpot gibberish; it was proposed/championed by the illustrious Boehm and Bell. Feynman and his advisor also worked on a similar theory.
+::Yes, really. He's doubtless talking about the Pilot Wave interpretation of quantum mechanics [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_wave]] -- which is controversial but still mainstream, not crackpot gibberish; it was proposed/championed by the illustrious Boehm and Bell. Feynman and his advisor also worked on a similar theory. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.255.53|162.158.255.53]] 23:41, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
 ::"Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real." - Niels Bohr. (Whether or not he's ultimately right, it's an explanation.)[[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.12|141.101.99.12]] 13:48, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

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	I strongly suspect this also references the concept of the Oracle machine as it relates to the NP hardness of the traveling salesman problem. TSP is in the complexity class NP Complete, and part of the most common proof that it is NP hard involves showing that it reduces to a polynomial time algorithm (and hence potentially practically computed) if there exists an oracle that can tell you if a route is optimal (the fastest) in constant time. I have never edited here before and don't know all the etiquette, so I leave it to a more experienced editor to consider this in the main article. The "ghost" would then be related to the Oracle because many real world "oracles" (as in fortune tellers or weird tripping priestesses of Apollo) claim to get answers by talking to ghosts. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.173\|108.162.219.173]] 22:17, 22 September 2015 (UTC) tomb		I strongly suspect this also references the concept of the Oracle machine as it relates to the NP hardness of the traveling salesman problem. TSP is in the complexity class NP Complete, and part of the most common proof that it is NP hard involves showing that it reduces to a polynomial time algorithm (and hence potentially practically computed) if there exists an oracle that can tell you if a route is optimal (the fastest) in constant time. I have never edited here before and don't know all the etiquette, so I leave it to a more experienced editor to consider this in the main article. The "ghost" would then be related to the Oracle because many real world "oracles" (as in fortune tellers or weird tripping priestesses of Apollo) claim to get answers by talking to ghosts. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.173\|108.162.219.173]] 22:17, 22 September 2015 (UTC) tomb
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		+	I'm also thinking there may be a worthwhile pun in there about the movie {{w\|Ghost Dad}}, though I haven't found a suitable setup for that punchline. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.55.63\|173.245.55.63]] 21:50, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

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 :: This is an extremely easy algorithm to program (I have taught it while teaching AP (high school) computer science), however it isn't an algorithm that will likely be useful to you since it has exponential time complexity.  In other words, if there are more than a trivial number of possibilities to be examined, finding the solution through this algorithm would not finish before you were dead.  For those of you who are about to say that if we could run a huge bunch of these possibilities in parallel: merging the results, memory management, context switching, and similar things, even if they could be done in constant time would still mean a constant amount of time for each of an exponential set of possibilities. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.173|108.162.219.173]] 22:29, 22 September 2015 (UTC)tomb
 ::: Can anyone give me a (couple) Wikipedia articles to read, so I can understand this comment? I'm really interested. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.92.206|162.158.92.206]] 18:53, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
 Will his children have half-siblings that are fathered by the ghost that has replaced him in the bedroom?  Or are ghosts infertile?[[Special:Contributions/108.162.215.170|108.162.215.170]] 04:07, 22 September 2015 (UTC)