07 July 2010

oooh yooou dooon't say...

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Excuuuuuse me, all my bragging this evening... punchy... but, heh, even before I learned about this scalar/torsion physics stuff, I had some monster objections to what the particle physicists were trying to put out there, those quantum mechanics who go wild when I call them that. They, of course, and maybe even should, take umbrage when someone who hasn't a clue what she's talking about pokes holes in their elaborate, abstruse, so-lofty-as-to-be-intergalactic-sounding theories. I've found myself having to side with Einstein in these matters and it pisses them off. They try to dismiss it as me just having a crush on Einstein. Since most of how I know they're off it is contained in that no-language zone and so I must say I do NOT sound like I know what's involved. I refuse to do the jargon... not the least because the jargon is only about making stuff that isn't that hard seem insurmountably imposing. I am no physicist, but I can figure out when they're full of shit pretty darn quickly. They get steamed about it. How dare I? It's swiftly apparent that I really do make myself clear-enough to them, though. The steam. Then their only advantage is the ability to save face with paternalistically-toned gibberish, sounding to lay persons who may be within earshot as though they MUST be expert. This can leave them seeming as though they may have just won an argument with me when what they're actually doing is akin to picking burst bubblegum bits from their whiskers... and everyone is vexed why I'm the one laughing.

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4 comments:

  1. So is it 200 times smaller?

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  2. It's not "there". It's not "matter".

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  3. Try bending your mind around the neutrino link in that article.

    Strings baby, strings!

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  4. I am too sick to bend a pinkie... I think the strings are just math trying to describe itself... maybe even grasping onto the hem of the shape of spacetime... or not... I think quantum mechanics are lost in a neural net of communal error, don't grok that what feels solid to something that isn't solid itself isn't solid either. They're all wet. They're wasting our time.

    This might be ebola.

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