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I've become a huge fan of these things.

Available from Asian groceries for making Vietnamese (iced) coffee.

Takes just a few minutes for a fresh brewed cup, require zero sharing with coworkers, easy to wash regularly, no paper waste from the filters, no glass pot to be broken (of course, we all know decent coffee makers use metal carafes anymore), and they're made doubly awesome if you work in an office with a point-of-use water heater on the water cooler.

I can MAKE that sort of luck, if need be.

Then it wouldn't really be "luck," would it?

I'm just glad you're so obsessed with this retarded thread. Hopefully it will keep you from spewing your verbal diarrhea on the rest of the place.

Poor aspie.

Could you be that lucky?

How great a response is that?  :)

Also, fuck off and die, Ch3mist.

Eventually sweetie-pie, eventually.

How many is too many?

Exhibit A.

Xzibit, eh?

Why does everyone hate this thread so much?

Because it's OCD crap.

Isn't it actually even worse than that?

I hate this fucking thread so much it should hurt.

You say it should, but does it?

Someone's in a mood...

Someone's given me just about all the data I need to conclude he's a misogynistic little prick.

What do you tell a woman with two black eyes?

Was she talking to us?

Do you think she is from Pittsburgh?

How could she not be?

Yes, that is a summary of how quantum mechanics relates to the reality we perceive. When the dimensionality of the wave packet is negligible you get the special case of quantum mechanics known as classical mechanics... Or as LMNO just stated:

Hold on... You're saying that as if there are two separate mechanics.  There aren't. There is only QM.  That is the only level of reality.  All others are approximations brought on by the limitations of our own perceptions.  In other words, the "dimensionality of the wave packet" is never negligible.  You just can't tell the difference.


Don't personalize QM.  It doesn't care.

It seems like one hell of an assumption to claim that anything is "the only level of reality." Prior to the 1900's Newtonian mechanics was considered a complete description. QM showed that this classical mechanics was only a special case of a more complete description. Why assume that QM is complete when it could just as likely be another special case of an even more complete description?

QM accurately describes phenomena that the classic mechanics fails to describe. Before the atomic revolution we simply lacked the ability to observe such phenomena and thus failed to recognize the failings of our physics. As we continue to observe more and more fundamental levels of reality we may well begin to observe phenomena that QM in its current state fails to accurately describe.

The shortest summary of quantum mechanical reality I know of would be this: The dimensionality of the wave packet is not always negligible, although it often is.

That's not a summary, that's someone pretending they know what the hell they're talking about by using big words they found in some book.

Someone's in a mood...

Yes, that is a summary of how quantum mechanics relates to the reality we perceive. When the dimensionality of the wave packet is negligible you get the special case of quantum mechanics known as classical mechanics... Or as LMNO just stated:

"When shit gets really small, shit gets really weird."

The shortest summary of quantum mechanical reality I know of would be this: The dimensionality of the wave packet is not always negligible, although it often is.