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A Quantum Leap in Thinking

I LOVE THIS STUFF

Quantum Mechanics is one of those wierd things where you don't get it so much to the point of completely understanding it. It's fantabulous. I'm ridiculously pumped to learn more about this (scuse me my nerd is showing). Einstein was awesome but you gotta respect the quantum kids. It really takes an "outside the box" thinker to see the world in such a messed up way. In a great messed up way. This is probably the most interesting thing I'm ever going to learn in chem, in fact, the only thing that comes close to this is the flame test. (Green and Magenta fire? So cool.)

I've read about quantum mechanics somewhre before. My elementary school in New York had to read a Wrinkle in Time for class and I took a look at the other books in the series. They gave this crazy example:

Say there's an ant walking along a string. To get from point A, to point B, he would have to walk across the string by Classical Mechanic standards. (Einstein etc. all the old school guys) But by Quantum Mechanic standards, the ant wouldn't have to do all that walking, instead, if we just folded the string together so that point A was touching point B he wouldn't have to move at all to get to point B. That's totally confusing but it's the first time I've ever heard of Quantum Leaps and all that so I was kinda amazed.

It doesn't take a lot to amuse me.

Re: Did You Know

Wow, this video's a little confusing. A lot of the facts are very simply stated but have multiple meanings so I'm not too sure what some of the slides are really getting at. However, the overall mood of the piece is pretty clearly presented. We're the age of technology and advancement, and we're growing at such an exponential rate, pretty soon we might not be able to control our ideas anymore. It seems like this whole video is a warning, "don't get too ahead of yourselves guys". It's ridiculous looking at all those statistics, and a little disappointing too. (Apparently India has many honors students as we have students?)

I think it's great we're advancing so quickly but it's scary at the same time. How far is too far? Is there ever a limit to what we should know? Ignorance is a silly notion when there is so much available to us. If we want to understand something, we've pretty much attacked the problem until we come up with a plausible solution. I like our growth, I like knowing things. I'm just wondering where all this is going to take us. Nuclear weapons? Supercomputers? Maybe I'll buy a condo on mars in the future.

Anymore, it seems like anything is possible.

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