I am just going off the abstract, but they do not claim and I see no reason to believe that the parameter they constructed has a straightforward relationship with wall-clock time. It’s just a number where you can construct equations that make this number “look like” time. There is no claim that this number is related to “true” time.
Put another way, I see no reason that an interval over this parameter should correspond to any interval of “real” time.
Yes, that seems like a rough analogy at least
So they are not actually measuring time. If you look at the actual article (which I linked in another comment), what they did is experimentally assign a number to the different states of their system just based on that state, but in such a way that these numbers naturally order the states. Then they did the math to predict how their system behaves using this number as if it were time, and those predictions match what they experimentally observed.
The point is that in this experiment the “time” is an emergent property of the system, and not something presumed. So this a stepping stone towards determining if the real time that we all experience is a similar emergent phenomenon, or at least helps other physicists investigate this possibility.
The “mini-universe” stuff is pop-sci BS.
So here is the actual article and not the pop-sci woo: https://journals.aps.org/prresearch/abstract/10.1103/1h9j-df4k
What’s interesting to me from the abstract is the fact that they experimentally construct an ordered parameter, derive an effective Schroedinger equation that uses this parameter as if it were time, and then show that this equation actually does properly describe the experimentally observed evolution of the system.
I don’t understand what the issue is/could be. “Respectively” is clearly functioning syntactically as an adverb, and the sentence “Bob, Alicia, and Siobhan are a teacher, plumber, and electrician” without the “respectively” is a valid sentence where its two noun phrases happen to be conjunctions of other nouns.
A sentence like “Bob, Alicia, and Siobhan are a teacher, plumber, electrician, and astronaut, respectively” is equally valid syntactically, it’s just invalid semantically.
https://github.com/processone/fluux-messenger is an XMPP client by the ejabberd people that seems aimed at being a Discord alternative. I think it is intended to support voice and screen sharing eventually, though it looks like they want to focus on getting text chat worked out for the time being.
You don’t need separate disks like people are saying. You can have two separate EFI System Partitions (ESP) on the same disk, the one Windows makes and one that you make for just Linux so Windows isn’t ever messing with it.
I’ve run Windows 10 & Linux on the same disk through many Windows updates without issue.
And actually, if you’re never going to update Windows, then there would be no reason you can’t have them use the same ESP.