Update: After a mere ten hours, I've already decided that this dream journal thing has to go. Too many weird, semi-lucid dreams last night, punctuated by me half-waking up and being like, "Oh, shit, what was that I was dreaming again?!" before drifting back into sleep. I should've known better than to mess with dreamland. This is what I get for trying to plan out my summer's course at 1 AM.
1) "just in case a half-dozen..." should really be when 2) you obviously don't sufficiently appreciate the awesome power one wields in the voting process. and if you want to check out a very disturbing article in the National Review which shows how concerned conservatives are about liberal swatties and the like: http://www.nationalreview.com/derbyshire/derbyshire052803.asp
Alex, I completely agree with you--I've been feeling the exact same way, like I'm not making the most of my time. Especially after freshman year went by so fast, I feel like I need to do something important every minute. Instead, I sleep till 1. I think I need to make a list like yours. Much meh. We really are soulmates.
(To copy Greg's formatting) 1) It's not so much that you change the electron's fundamental nature when you measure it, it's more that you make it choose what state it's in. Because when you don't measure it, it kind of exists in a probability grid (the cat is both dead and not dead). Obviously, though, you can't observe both of those possibilities so the event resolves itself.
2) This videotape (if you don't know what I'm talking about please ignore this comment) is not so much embarassing because I didn't win, although that is still the source of major annoyance. It's more because I was a rather awkward middle-schooler. Nobody needs video evidence of those years. Especially videos that your mother tries to haul out in front of your friends. *sigh*
Good luck being productive, and you can spend all that free time pitying me. I'm getting up at 6:15 every day. Bah.
Re: chem majors shouldn't try to talk physicsqueylaMay 30 2003, 20:11:46 UTC
hey - I didn't see anybody else weighing in with answers (particularly a certain physics minor who'd already commented). While I understand that you may be too bogged down in the "details" of your "physics" approach, *some* departments like to provide reasonable simplifications that can be easily related and understood. Feel free to post any corrections to my explanation if you like.
Re: chem majors shouldn't try to talk physicsaleadersMay 30 2003, 20:27:56 UTC
Geez, the two of you, can we NOT turn my LiveJournal into a forum for debating the merits of various natural sciences? I guess now I know better than to make any passing references to chemistry in the future. Emily, thank you for your relevant and helpful information, on both accounts. Greg, it's not nice to bait people, unless you're going to at least be relevant and helpful yourself. *sigh* Now back to... um... whatever it is I do around here nowadays.
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1) "just in case a half-dozen..." should really be when
2) you obviously don't sufficiently appreciate the awesome power one wields in the voting process. and if you want to check out a very disturbing article in the National Review which shows how concerned conservatives are about liberal swatties and the like: http://www.nationalreview.com/derbyshire/derbyshire052803.asp
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1) It's not so much that you change the electron's fundamental nature when you measure it, it's more that you make it choose what state it's in. Because when you don't measure it, it kind of exists in a probability grid (the cat is both dead and not dead). Obviously, though, you can't observe both of those possibilities so the event resolves itself.
2) This videotape (if you don't know what I'm talking about please ignore this comment) is not so much embarassing because I didn't win, although that is still the source of major annoyance. It's more because I was a rather awkward middle-schooler. Nobody needs video evidence of those years. Especially videos that your mother tries to haul out in front of your friends. *sigh*
Good luck being productive, and you can spend all that free time pitying me. I'm getting up at 6:15 every day. Bah.
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