Daily Archives: January 13, 2011

仁智同一 2

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根據 Stephen Covey 的講法，「才幹」和「品德」同樣重要，缺一不可。兩者的任何一方過差的話，會令到另一方都差。

如果一位醫生才幹高而品德差，會為了自身利益，而不把最好的醫療方案提議給病人的話，他的行醫成功率自然會低。那樣，我們也不會認為他「才幹高」。相反，如果一位醫生品格高而才幹差，只有行醫的意圖，而嚴重缺乏對應的醫術的話，他的行醫成功率都會很低。當一位醫生沒有足夠的才幹，有效把「善意」轉化成「善行」時，我們也不會認為他「品德高」。

— Me@2011.01.13

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White hole

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In quantum mechanics, the black hole emits Hawking radiation, and so can come to thermal equilibrium with a gas of radiation. Since a thermal equilibrium state is time reversal invariant, Stephen Hawking argued that the time reverse of a black hole in thermal equilibrium is again a black hole in thermal equilibrium. This implies that black holes and white holes are the same object. The Hawking radiation from an ordinary black hole is then identified with the white hole emission. Hawking’s semi-classical argument is reproduced in a quantum mechanical AdS/CFT treatment, where a black hole in anti-de Sitter space is described by a thermal gas in a gauge theory, whose time reversal is the same as itself.

— Wikipedia on White hole

2011.01.13 Thursday ACHK

Inception 10

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The film cuts to the end credits from a shot of the top wobbling ambiguously, inviting speculation about whether the final sequence was reality or another dream. Nolan confirmed that the ambiguity was deliberate, saying “I’ve been asked the question more times than I’ve ever been asked any other question about any other film I’ve made… What’s funny to me is that people really do expect me to answer it.” The film’s script concludes with “Behind him, on the table, the spinning top is STILL SPINNING. And we — FADE OUT”

However, Christopher Nolan also said, “I put that cut there at the end, imposing an ambiguity from outside the film. That always felt the right ending to me — it always felt like the appropriate ‘kick’ to me… The real point of the scene — and this is what I tell people — is that Cobb isn’t looking at the top. He’s looking at his kids. He’s left it behind. That’s the emotional significance of the thing.”

— Wikipedia on Inception (film)

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2011.01.13 Thursday ACHK