Friday, 19 April 2013

Quantum physics: The devils'pitchfork seems fitting

Science is an awesome thing. Thanks to science we can cure diseases that use to automatically kills us, we know what gravity is and why we don't just fall off the planet and go hurtling off into space, and we can slack off at work playing Candy Crush and pinning pics of horrible outfits to our "Fashion, you are drunk" Pinterest boards. My problem with science is a) I only understand enough of it to make me completely paranoid (like the gravity thing, because what if gravity one day just stops and we do all fall off the planet??), and b) the stuff I don't understand makes my head explode from all the wtf.

Quantum physics falls squarely in the latter category. It has something to do with discrete units of energy (as opposed to energy that has a facebook page filled with TMI-type statuses like "I'm totally constipated today...fibre here I come!!"?? How the fuck can energy be discrete???), particle waves and how the atomic world is nothing like the world we live in. Which makes no fucking sense to me because doesn't the atomic world MAKE UP our world?

Another strike against quantum physics is it's chock-full of abstract mathematical equations, and if you were here for my "M" post, you know exactly how much I hate math. Especially math that involves the alphabet. Not only does quantum physics equations have  letter-math, it also have a bunch of hieroglyphics in it, which makes it even more wrong
It seems fitting that this equation contains a devil's pitchfork, and proves math and quantum physics are indeed in league with Satan
So what have we learned about quantum physics today? Absolutely fuck-all, except that it sucks

Quantum physics earns 4 flaming middle fingers on the Hate-O-Meter. It would earn 5 but any science that incorporates a devils pitchfork is sort of bad-ass



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  1. Just Keepin It Real, Folks!19 April 2013 at 04:00

    In high school physics my friend and I never could get it and used to score zeros on tests. We became so fond of those zeros we nicknamed them goose eggs.

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    1. Maple Syrup Land19 April 2013 at 08:01

      I can't remember if we studied quantum physics in school...either I'm so old that quantum physics hadn't been invented yet, or I'm blocking it out due to some physics-related trauma. If I did learn it, I'm sure I was in the goose egg club too

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  2. Rhonda Albom19 April 2013 at 05:57

    I am married to a rocket scientist, so I couldn't give any flaming fingers to any science, although I don't have a clue about quantum physics.

    Rhonda @Laugh-Quotes.com

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    1. Maple Syrup Land19 April 2013 at 08:02

      Science is awesome, but most of it I don't understand. Plus the gravity thing makes me super paranoid

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  3. Anonymous19 April 2013 at 06:56

    All I know about quantum physics I learned from Quantum Leap and I'm not even sure that was about physics AND that guy was totally screwed. In conclusion, quantum physics is an asshole.

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  4. katie eggeman19 April 2013 at 06:59

    Physics is something that is often explained to me by my son in law and I understand a concept when he explains it to me, but it is gone a half second later.
    Katie atBankerchick Scratchings

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    1. Maple Syrup Land19 April 2013 at 08:03

      I think my boss tried to explain it to me once, but I'm pretty sure I went into a coma and stopped listening about 5 seconds into it

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  5. Summer Ross19 April 2013 at 07:28

    Not for everyone- including me- I despise math, and while I sometimes find small pieces of science fascinating- I do not wish to do it...
    New follower.
    ~Summer
    My A-Z

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    1. Maple Syrup Land19 April 2013 at 08:04

      Exactly...it's really interesting shit, just as long as I don't have to do it. Or understand it.

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  6. Anonymous19 April 2013 at 10:53

    huh?? Lucky for me I dumbed myself down so sufficiently in high school that this kind of stuff wasn't even expected of me. When I went to college, I was really screwed because I had to take all sorts of prerequisites that I dodged in high school. dumb ass!

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  7. Unknown19 April 2013 at 11:23

    "So what have we learned about quantum physics today? Absolutely fuck-all..." LOL! That has to be the sentence of the week. :)

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  8. Wayne Assiratti19 April 2013 at 13:33

    Hey there. I have always been of the opinion that math with the alphabet in it is the work of devils and as such cannot be trusted. I don't look forward to the time that my son and daughter come home from school with algebra homework that they need help with. I'll be found in the garage doing all the things I have been putting off all year.

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  9. Kinley Dane20 April 2013 at 16:27

    Lalalalalala (while I'm sticking my fingers in my ears.) I hate math and physics! I took Astronomy in college for a pre-req, thinking it would be easy, but it turned out to have physics in it. Oh, lord, I barely passed that class, even though much of it was interesting, but anything we had to do that required calculating...forget it!

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