Evan Tummillo

Former Candidate for #Ward4 Parkdale - High Park. No you cannot book me for birthday parties. Tweets may include sarcasm

[Evan Tummillo @Etummillo]

@FAFO_TV Jane and Alliance Tim Hortons is always a party.

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

A band called Cor64 plays Nintendo 64 video game theme songs live and their GOLDENEYE cover is fantastic 🔥

[Evan Tummillo @Etummillo]

@zpaikin @RobynUrback @atRachelGilmore I don't think there is ever a justification for killing or injuring of civilians, full stop.

The graphs below are sourced from OCHA (2008-26), and omit statistics from Oct 7/War in Gaza.

They are not flattering.

https://t.co/TKVSEQgP2g

[Evan Tummillo @Etummillo]

@zpaikin @RobynUrback @atRachelGilmore When people offer justification for dropping nuclear bombs on Japanese cities, I so rarely see Pearl Harbour as the single focal point; it is the culmination of the nearly 4 years between that is cited, rightly or wrongly.

A lot has happened since Oct 7, 2023.

[Evan Tummillo @Etummillo]

@zpaikin @JesseBrown I think the average person is trying to wrap their head around why criticism against Isreal and its policies are inherently antisemetic and should be rooted out, but criticism against Iran and its policies aren't inherently anti-islamic.

[Evan Tummillo @Etummillo]

@WayneMathison @sarobertson_ did chatGPT write that for you?

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

A 10-year-old wrote MAGA Congresswoman Virginia Foxx for a school project.

He chose to write about an electric vehicle tax credit. Something he thought was good for the environment.

Virginia responded by attacking him and his teacher for being propagandized.

Her words: “your teacher will not be able to give you a good education as they are too interested in indoctrinating you... How sad.”

An 80-year-old woman. Attacking a 10-year-old. For doing his homework.

These people have power over your life.

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

Trump explaining the reason why he started a war with Iran.

[𝕸𝖔𝖗𝖌𝖊𝖓𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖓 @Morgenstern616]

Andy Serkis czytający tweety Trumpa głosem Golluma. Umarłem.

[Evan Tummillo @Etummillo]

@ExnerPirot I understood it as this wealth fund being some form of institutional investor in projects?

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

This is still the greatest SNL sketch Norm MacDonald ever did 😂

[Guitar Gods Unleashed @gguworld]

"Ramble On" is 56 years old and Robert Plant just walked onto The Late Show and made it sound like he wrote it this morning.

[Roddy 🇨🇦 @RodKahx]

Wondering about MP's crossing the floor? Perhaps this had something to do with it.

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

So after all this:

- The Iranian regime remains in place
- The enriched uranium remains in place
- Iran remains in control of the Strait of Hormuz, though it agrees to let ships through, for now
- The US agrees to talks based on Iran’s terms, including an end to all sanctions and Iran gets to charge $2 million a ship for passage through the Strait, in perpetuity.
- Meanwhile NATO is in ruins, the US and Israel are at odds, the Gulf States know they cannot depend on the US to protect them, etc etc etc

“Another such victory and we are undone!”

[Catherine Rampell @crampell]

Quite the midterm message: we can afford wars and ballrooms, but not your “daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things”

[𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐊𝐨𝐦𝐬𝐚 🇪🇺🇵🇱🇺🇦 @Tweet4AnnaNAFO]

🇫🇷🇺🇸 French Gen. Richoux on Trump begging Europe for Hormuz help:
“He can go fuck himself.”

[The Curious Tales @thecurioustales]

The double slit experiment has haunted physicists for over 200 years.

When you shoot a single photon through two slits in a barrier, it doesn't choose one hole. It goes through both simultaneously, interferes with itself, and lands on the screen as a wave pattern, as if the particle somehow knew both paths existed and took all of them at once.

The moment you place a detector to watch which slit it goes through? The wave pattern vanishes. The photon suddenly behaves like a solid particle. The act of observation collapses the quantum superposition into a single definite reality.

Physicists called this "wave-particle duality" and for generations, we treated it as a quirk of space. A particle's relationship with physical barriers, physical gaps, physical measurement.

What just happened changes the entire frame.

Researchers didn't use slits carved into a material. They used slits carved into time itself — ultra-short switching windows in the electrical properties of a material, flickering on and off at trillionths of a second. Light passed through these temporal gaps the way it would normally pass through spatial gaps. And the interference pattern still appeared. Not across space. Across frequency.

Sit with that for a moment.

The wave behavior of light, the phenomenon we always associated with light spreading through physical space, reproduced itself in the time dimension. The photon interfered with its own past and future states the way it normally interferes across left and right positions.

What this quietly confirms is something theoretical physicists suspected but had never demonstrated: space and time are not just mathematically symmetric in quantum mechanics. They are physically interchangeable in ways that produce identical quantum behavior. The "slits" are interchangeable coordinates. The universe doesn't distinguish between a gap in space and a gap in time when it decides how reality should unfold.

The implications of that sentence are almost impossible to absorb without stopping completely.

We built our entire intuition about quantum mechanics around the geometry of space — particles passing through openings, waves spreading outward, interference happening across a physical screen. Every textbook, every lecture, every thought experiment uses spatial metaphors because that's the dimension we experience as "real" and navigable.

Time, by contrast, we experience as a river we're trapped inside — always moving forward, never able to go sideways in it. We don't experience temporal gaps the way we experience physical ones. A door has two holes, you can walk through either one. A moment in time doesn't seem to have "holes."

Except for a photon, apparently, it does.

The temporal slit experiment forces a deeply uncomfortable update to how we model light, matter, and information. If wave-particle duality operates across time the same way it operates across space, it means quantum superposition — that strange state of "being in multiple states simultaneously until observed" — is not just a spatial phenomenon. A particle can exist in multiple temporal states simultaneously. Its wave function doesn't just spread left and right. It spreads forward and backward in time.

This connects to something that's been sitting at the edge of quantum mechanics for decades: the block universe theory. In Einstein's relativity, past, present, and future all exist simultaneously as coordinates in a four-dimensional spacetime fabric. "Now" is just the slice of that fabric you happen to occupy. Physicists who take this seriously argue that the reason quantum mechanics is so strange is that particles already operate in the full four-dimensional block — they're not choosing a path through space, they're tracing a path through spacetime, and what we call "probability" is our limited three-dimensional perception failing to see the complete trajectory.

The temporal slit experiment edges us closer to that picture being literally, physically, measurably true.

And then there's the measurement problem. The original spatial double slit experiment breaks your brain because the act of looking destroys the wave behavior. Nobody has fully agreed on why. Some say the observer collapses the wave function. Some say the detector entangles with the photon and creates decoherence. Some say the universe splits. The temporal version of the experiment opens a new front in that war. When you measure a temporal slit — when you try to determine which moment the photon passed through — does the interference across frequency collapse the same way interference across space does when you watch it?

That experiment hasn't been done yet. The answer will either confirm that time and space are truly symmetric at the quantum level, or it will break the symmetry and reveal that time has a fundamentally different relationship with observation than space does.

Either outcome rewrites something important.

We think of physics experiments as things that happen in laboratories, relevant to scientists with particle accelerators and cryogenic equipment. But every foundational shift in quantum mechanics eventually rewires technology. The photoelectric effect sounded like a curiosity in 1905. It built every solar panel and digital camera in existence. Quantum tunneling sounded abstract. It gave us the transistor, and therefore every computer.

Wave-particle duality operating across time opens the door to temporal interference as an engineering tool. Controlling how light and matter interfere across time gaps — not space gaps — could produce entirely new forms of signal processing, photonic computing, and quantum communication that don't currently exist even theoretically.

The universe keeps revealing that the constraints we assumed were fundamental were just the limits of our instruments.

Time always looked like a wall.

Turns out it was a slit all along.

[Evan Tummillo @Etummillo]

No notes. Struggling to think of a better Muppet to pull this off.

10/10

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

In 1976, Joe Cocker performed as SNL's musical guest but surprised the live audience when John Belushi came out to duet as his famous SNL impersonation of him 🔥😂 so good

[Evan Tummillo @Etummillo]

@Mikeggibbs In 2018, I decided to attend Finch West LRT public meeting being partially led by Mammo. I have been to my fair share that were contentious, but that one was different.

His input elevated chaos to a realm that can best be described as Jerry Springer adjacent; chaos squared.