It's a Bose-Einstein condensate. Just a bunch of really cold atoms huddled together in a ball.
OK, well, just don't jostle it or anything.
He doesn't travel well. He's like fine shrimp.
Anya ,'Touched'
What Happens in Natter 35 Stays in Natter 35
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
JenP - May 02, 2005 3:34:34 pm PDT #705 of 10001
Cashmere - May 02, 2005 3:38:12 pm PDT #706 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Cindy, that's some deep stuff there. And I get *most* of it. It's just that I think religion in general must fill a need within an individual. If that individual hasn't the need or doesn't perceive the need--the religion becomes more of a chore and less of a path to enlightenment or salvation or whatever.
But mostly, I like to keep my Sundays free.
You people MAKE your own salad dressing???
WTFF?? Oh. Right. "expires 04/05."
Doesn't your bank send you a new one before the old one expires?
Just a bunch of really cold atoms huddled together in a ball.
Poor, cold atoms. We should knit them a little sweater or something.
Nutty - May 02, 2005 3:38:50 pm PDT #707 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I have no take on god(s). I am all Occam's Razor about that sort of thing.
I do remember, in the 9th grade, being required to read a couple of books from the Bible (Genesis, Exodus, one or two others). I got to the end of Exodus, where Moses (the author) dies before the end of his book, and was like, Ripoff! Soooo ghost-written. Somehow my teacher did not find this a respectful approach, but then, I continue to labor under the impression that a respectful approach, in English class, can be a hindrance sometimes.
Still, it was useful to have read at least some of the Bible (although, it was sad how little of it I recalled; in college, someone had to remind me that Jesus was crucified in Jerusalem, not in Rome), because it's a cultural competence for reading so many other works. Dante's line "I am not Aeneas; I am not Paul," makes no sense unless you know who Aeneas and Paul are.
Jesse - May 02, 2005 3:41:21 pm PDT #708 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Doesn't your bank send you a new one before the old one expires?
It sure does. Which new card was sitting safely here at home. Der.
JenP - May 02, 2005 3:41:28 pm PDT #709 of 10001
Poor, cold atoms. We should knit them a little sweater or something.
OK, now I feel selfish. I didn't even stop to consider how the atoms were feeling.
Steph L. - May 02, 2005 3:43:24 pm PDT #710 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
We have the big bang in a trap about 10 feet to the left of me, or so they tell me.
Do NOT cross the streams!
tommyrot - May 02, 2005 3:49:14 pm PDT #711 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Quantum physics and cosmology are the closest things I have to a religion -- there is some massively weird and powerful shit out there, and it awes me.
This.
Also, the human brain, the human mind is the most amazing thing to me....
erikaj - May 02, 2005 3:51:19 pm PDT #712 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
wrod.
Steph L. - May 02, 2005 3:52:56 pm PDT #713 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Quantum physics and cosmology are the closest things I have to a religion -- there is some massively weird and powerful shit out there, and it awes me.
This.
Also, the human brain, the human mind is the most amazing thing to me....
DNA, and the functioning of the human body at the most microscopic, most minute levels, is absolutely awe-inspiring.
Kat - May 02, 2005 4:19:36 pm PDT #714 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Almost?
Robin, well almost because I probably will resist the Restoration Hardware sale (and reading what Betsy wrote almost clinches it for me). The book sale is Another Thing Entirely.
I'm sick. I had the chills and then the sweats all day. It's hard to teach from 7:30 on when you feel like crap. So I left early and came home and slept for a while. I was feeling better, but now I'm getting all roogey again.
Which would be no big, let me wallow, blah blah blah EXCEPT for this problem: I have to take my kids on a field trip tomorrow.
Seriously? Field trips seem to screw up my timing more than anything else.
Please let me get better before tomorrow.