I have seen the fnords.

[iceowl]

So I was at orangeblosxom's unhousewarming party the other night, and as is likely to happen when I start talking, the subject of quantum physics came up. I think I broke chinchilathehun's brain. He seemed to have difficulty with the knowledge that everything is everything, and everything is the same, even if it's different. I suppose this is not knowledge that can

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[manmademonster]

ya know breaking brains does not make for good party activities.

[iceowl]

Yeah, I know. It was kind of an unexpected reaction, though. I'm just not that good at small talk, y'know?

[chinchilathehun]

No no, it wasn't so bad. I enjoyed it, I just probably wasn't in the best headspace to be enlightened that much all at once ;)

[iceowl]

Well, it's like when you're moving to a new apartment, but still have stuff at the old one. You're kind of living in two places at the same time. It's the same thing with electrons. It's really hard to tell exactly where an electron is, because it can appear to be somewhere you didn't expect it to be, disappear and reappear somewhere else, or even be in two places at the same time. This leads to the question of whether this happens because that's how electrons behave, or whether it happens as an act of observing that electron

[lacerda]

R.A. Wilson is indeed excellent, and is more than capable of holding his own despite a way array of vaginas proceeding him.

(this is kind of an inside joke that I've put here)