Thursday, June 14, 2007

one of those things i do...

...when i need to interrupt my thought process and insert a new trajectory is google search for random fragments/phrases/questions and see what comes up.

today:

1. what if i had a banana for a right foot?
2. how many times can I do this?
3. lizards are benevolent.
4. languid pools of pudding

and then this one:
"furtive glances" which among other items, popped up an article written in Harvard University Press in 2000.

QUANTUM PHYSICS:
Furtive Glances Trigger Radioactive Decay

Charles Seife

Common sense says you can't keep an atom's nucleus from decaying simply by looking at it. Quantum mechanics says you can. Now two Israeli physicists have come up with a way in which watching a nucleus might make it decay faster.


You have to be a member to read the whole article... I don't care to read the whole thing, rather like the out of context places you can take this. The title is like some kind of poetry.

2 comments:

Biddie said...

Strange stuff ... bigger implications than "drop a pebble into the pond and the ripples will reach throughout the pond". Be careful when you wave your hand at the moon.

Anonymous said...

For further furtive glances read

Hats by Hilary Jerrill Steinitz. ;)

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