Whether an electron acts like a wave or acts like a particle depends on what experiment we do to observe it. The so-called "paradox" of wave particle duality isn't really that surprising at all ( Read more... )

Okay, everything is going according to plan... B.

LJ Interests meme results

1. bad decisions:
   I make a lot of bad decisions, and often I know that they are bad decisions at the time. I am interested in why I do that.
2. cosmos sort:
   Cosmos sort is perhaps the most inefficient sort possible for data on a computer. The idea is that you store the data to be sorted in poorly shielded memory, exposed to ( Read more... )

When I was a kid I heard that the sun was about eight light-minutes from Earth. I realized that if she sun mysteriously vanished, or exploded, or befell some other calamatous event, we would not know about it for several minutes. At any given time, our fate could be already be sealed, the sun having gone nova, and we wouldn't even know. This ( Read more... )

This is probably the biggest idea I've ever had. I feel like I just found out I had the winning lottery numbers and I have to wait to cash them in, worrying about my ticket all the while ( Read more... )

I killed a fly today. There were a lot of dead flies in the display cases in my store, so I took it upon myself to pick them up and throw them out. A couple of the flies were still alive, and when I picked up a living one in the tissue I was using to pick up the dead ones, I crushed it. It was no accident, I realized that I was holding a living ( Read more... )

I went to a wedding on Friday afternoon. Having resolved some internal issues regarding goings on in my life and at the wedding I can now say without reservation that I had a good time there and that it was good all-round ( Read more... )

I shook Bruce Campbell's hand tonight. I was very excited to meet him, because Bubba Ho-Tep is one of my favourite movies of all time. Unfortunately I didn't really think ahead, so I just got him to sign a book for a friend rather than buying a copy of the movie to have him sign ( Read more... )

I work in the customer service/sales business. I deal with customers by listening to their problems and trying to find solutions, or listening to what they want and giving it to them in exchange from currency. There are a lot of crappy things about that business, not the least of which is being a big phony all the time ( Read more... )

I was watching a TV show today about a man who uses dolphins to treat depression. He used to be a pharmaceutical researcher, but had an experience with dolphins that led him to start using this alternative therapy. The voiceover was asking whether this therapy could really work: it compared his current methods, which are only shown to work ( Read more... )