De-Coherence and a few other bits of randomness
So I'm feeling pretty good today. Which is good cause yesterday wasn't as kind. I've had to be up early everyday of this week and it took alot out of me. I meant to post yesterday and start a "tradition" of sorts. I'm going to start a glossary of terms that I will definately be using which may not make any sense to anyone. So since I'm in a good mood today I will post the first one.
DeCoherence:- It's what happens when you have a great idea randomnly and as soon as you go to write it down it disappears. It's one of the most annoying and agonizing things in the human psyche. And the funny thing is it actually an observed phenomenon in quantum mechanics. As soon as you go to measure a quantum system it changes behavior so you can't measure what you wanted to. So your interaction with it disturbs it. For a more scientific definition check: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_decoherence.
Decoherence is important cause i want post a list of things i'm gonna try this year and a couple of em went that way. It was like Eureka!!! - tick, tick tick - Oh DAMN!!!! Anyway stay tuned the list is still to come.
1 Comments:
Ah ha, now I know what that is. My friend's uncle says "memory shredded." My parents call it a "senior moment." Now I can say de-coherence the next time it happens to me. Assuming I can remember the term...
October 1, 2004 at 10:04 AM
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