Comments on The Odds Are One: Particle/Wave

I am so psyched that the stoat and calvino are bac...

2006-01-21T05:55:00.000-08:00

I am so psyched that the stoat and calvino are back. we missed you lot. I also enjoy that the posts were moving into more comfortable terrain (buffy) and away from the less comfortable (math [rock]).

moderator = historical Buddha. very meta. let me break my tusk off for you.

Oh no!!!!

The transient gadflies have NOT ...

2006-01-20T14:52:00.000-08:00

Oh no!!!!

The transient gadflies have NOT seen that episode, and it is one of the very BEST!!!

Ya'll's are more creative than mine. I, at first, ...

2006-01-20T11:04:00.000-08:00

Ya'll's are more creative than mine. I, at first, was certain that "that one episode of The Twilight Zone" was going to read "that one episode of Buffy."

And then I couldn't help thinking of the episode Normal Again, when B experiences that other universe, where she's simply crazy, but her mom and dad are alive, she never had a sister named Dawn, and all over her wacky adventures where just the result of a psychotic disorder. The way that episode ends...oh! Gets me right here.

Hmm...I hadn't thought of the two Xanders episode....

2006-01-20T09:00:00.000-08:00

Hmm...I hadn't thought of the two Xanders episode. I was thinking that one was the "Out of Sight, out of mind" episode, where the girl becomes invisible because everyone stops, "observing her."

A. There's a moderator?!!!
B. OK, one of the ep...

2006-01-20T02:52:00.000-08:00

A. There's a moderator?!!!
B. OK, one of the episodes is certainly 'Two Xanders'. But what's the other? 'The Gift'? A Buffy-bot episode? 'Tabula Rasa'?

Reading this made me think of TWO Buffy episodes. ...

2006-01-19T22:06:00.000-08:00

Reading this made me think of TWO Buffy episodes. Anyone care to guess which two?

Being a person who cannot grasp most math despite my efforts, I still have this comment: I feel like the fuzzy universe is only deceptively simpler, even speaking in the metaphor of programming. I say this because the fuzziness allows for unpredictability, whereas the more precise “many universes” situation would have to involve an algorithm that had the potential to evolve into every possibility until its trackable end. That possibility and that trackability possess some sort of predeterminism, don't they?

Within the model of "no fixed reality," trackability, or the conceptualization of an end, occurs when there is an observer making an observation. This suggests to me that the former, seemingly complex, model actually exists within the fuzzy model as one particular instance of the observer.

Furthermore, I'm struggling with how to read the character of the Moderator. I sense that there is more "under the surface," if you will, which might be illuminated by following the narrative up to [the moderator's] presence at this particular point in the conversation, just following the explanation of the SWF: "a particle actually doesn't have one state or the other until it is observed." The moderator as observer becomes present just in time to freeze the discussion in "mid air," much like the penny tossed, which never lives up to its probabilistic possibilities. Clearly, this is a sexual metaphor.

Also, just my two cents [hee hee!]: I think that "Heisenberg Certainty Principle" is not especially marketable, even in such a...um...narrow genre. I propose that it be shortened to the Certainty Principle, or, perhaps, expanded to Heisenberg and the Certainty Principles. Now THERE'S something I can see on my iTunes! (Well, not MY iTunes...)