As If Millions Of Physicists Suddenly Cried Out In Terror
Our beloved state broadcaster brings tidings of intersectional joy:
Reading about quantum physics has really helped me understand my queer identity… It is in this model of space-time as a series of entanglements that I’m able to piece together all of the fragmented sects of my identity – being able to identify as British and Iraqi, as queer and Muslim, as someone of many genders and potentially no genders at all.
Readers may wish to imagine the faces of, say, Erwin Schrödinger or Max Planck on hearing their field being compared with the staggering intellectual heft and rigour of “queer theory.” By a chap with blue eyebrows, fake boobs and voluminous pink acrylic hair.
Via sk60.
What, again? Crackpots and charlatans have been peddling bullshit justified by Quantum Mechanics inspired jargon for many decades.
To paraphrase: “If reading about quantum has helped you understand anything, you haven’t understood either quantum or anything else.”
Bloody hell. And that can’t be unseen. Pass the mind bleach, please.
Can you just imagine how glorious it is to get all made up and get on cam-er-ah?
According to physicists, the Narcissus Particle is thought to give all the other ghey particles their properties.
Mr Al-Kadhi seems to equate quantum mechanics with a lack of physical rules or definable properties, a lack that allegedly “shows us that reality is just a set of contradictions.” Which suggests that he hasn’t quite understood the subject.
Bloody hell. And that can’t be unseen.
It’s not a look that would work for everyone, no.
reality is just a set of contradictions
To be fair, boss, there is a lot of duality down in the realm of the very small.
It’s there where things indeed get strange.
Mr Al-Kadhi seems to equate quantum mechanics with a lack of physical rules or definable properties, a lack that allegedly “shows us that reality is just a set of contradictions.” Which suggests that he hasn’t quite understood the subject.
Quite!
And yet we’re supposed to oooh and ahhh at those shiny new clothes the Emperor has.
Argh!!
Or perhaps – Harrumph!
as queer and Muslim,
Does he/they wear the wig and make-up at the local mosque?
To paraphrase: “If reading about quantum has helped you understand anything, you haven’t understood either quantum or anything else.”
Quite. Studying quantum physics doesn’t even help you to understand quantum physics… not really anyway. You can do the math, and get the right answers, but you’re still utterly confused by the results.
When I took my first class on modern physics in college, General Relativity, I quickly came to an important tool for double-checking my work. When I finished an assignment, and I went over it all, and everything fit together and made perfect sense… I knew I had done something wrong. It wasn’t until ONLY the math made sense that I felt confident I had the right answer.
The reason modern physics, both quantum mechanics and relativity, are so hard to understand is because they do not map to anything we experience in our medium sized, low speed world. Trying to use the concepts of modern physics to describe our lives is a sign of someone trying to appear smart, but revealing themselves to be foolish.
Although, admittedly, with a getup like that, I’d have assumed he was a clown in the first place, so it wasn’t really a ‘reveal’ that he was foolish. Just a reveal that he didn’t himself think that he was foolish.
Which suggests that he hasn’t quite understood the subject.
Yeah, go to a mosk in Mecca (or Luton) dressed like that and let us know how it works out for you. I think this is another subject he fails to grasp.
The unfortunate thing about the insane is that they rarely realize that they are.
Um, so he/zie/they/zem is gay *and* non-binary? How does that work?
“BBC Ideas”
How does that work?
I believe it means this:
The BBC is horribly derivative. IIRC, Judith Butler, in one of her profound, easily understood think pieces, made the connection between Quantum Physics and the illusion of the binary sexual matrix. She even through in the phrase “Möbius Strip,” for heaven’s sake, and that was years ago. Really, these people need to keep up with the literature.
“Threw in the phrase . . .”
Damn auto-correct.
I love the “Wigs” tag. Not often used, I noticed, perusing the archives.
Not often used, I noticed,
I do apologise for the shortage of wig-related content.
@Rafi
Um, so he/zie/they/zem is gay *and* non-binary? How does that work?
Obviously, these are superimposed quantum states. The wave function just hasn’t collapsed yet.
Obligatory XKCD link: https://xkcd.com/1240/
Over 20 years since the Sokal affair, and nothings changes. If anything, its got worse.
A quick observation of its nether regions would be sufficient to collapse the probability wave and resolve once and for all whether its pussy is alive or dead.
So to speak.
Well, there is a “charmed” quark. Maybe that has something to do with it.
Oh FFS. I know you link to these idiots to scorn and mock, but we really need to stop giving them the attention they crave. NOBODY GIVES A SHIT WHERE YOU PUT YOUR DIRTY BITS is the proper response.
On the subject of quantum physics, I recently saw someone wearing a t-shirt with the slogan “Wanted dead AND alive – Schrodinger’s cat”. Made me smile anyway.
Back to the original subject, I bet real quantum physicists are fed up to the back teeth with this sort of thing.
I’m pretty sure the physic involved were solved in less than an hour in an alternate universe, which totally exists as one of an infinite set of same.
As proof:
“technobabble”
That’s a direct quote from an original Star Trek script.
That’s a direct quote from an original Star Trek script.
I like “doubletalk generators”, as in “If we cross-connect the doubletalk generators with the frammis couplers we can whatsis the gonkulators.”.
Hey, this is pretty good!
http://www.technobabble.biz/
We still have CP Snow’s Two Cultures, but in place of the classically-educated Oxbridge graduates who are frankly ignorant about science, we now have multidisciplinary blue sky thinkers with the “I Fucking Love Science” pose – a lot of talk about particle accelerators from people who couldn’t explain the physics of a 100g weight on a pulley, and an overemphasis on Schrondinger’s cat type metaphors, because they did metaphors in college, and they certainly didn’t do the kind of math you’d need to understand Schrondinger.
A quick observation of its nether regions would be sufficient to collapse the probability wave and resolve once and for all whether its pussy is alive or dead.
I nearly spit out my tea all over the keyboard when I read that. Thanks – I needed that laugh in the face of all the ridiculousness.
Landlord! A drink for the Gov, please! On my tab!
Landlord! A drink for the Gov, please! On my tab!
One Smoker’s Cough coming up.
You’re too kind. No, really.
Smoker’s Cough recipe
1 1/2 oz. Jagermeister
1 tsp. May — WHAT?!?!
(o_O)
1 1/2 oz. Jagermeister
1 tsp. May — WHAT?!?!
I believe the custom is down in one.
I believe the custom is down in one.
Not to put a damper on the festivities, but 30+ plus years ago, my now wife was confronted with a bunch of Americans doing “Jagy” shots ostensibly to welcome her to this country. She remarked to me, “My grandmother drinks that so she can poop later.”
Carry on.
Smoker’s Cough recipe
1 1/2 oz. Jagermeister
1 tsp. May — WHAT?!?!
(o_O)
Ye gods, man – where do you find these things?
On the other hand, I bet that would go down a treat with one of those pickled eggs…
[ Unveils bowl of dried figs. ]
I’m taking the place upmarket.
Apparently, the sap can be used to soften callouses.
[ Slyly fishes stray nail clipping out of bowl. ]
Ooooh dried figs!
[Reaches for one, then slowly withdraws hand after seeing what else was in the bowl…]
One Smoker’s Cough coming up.
You jest, but Coffee & Cigarettes is an actual cocktail.
You jest, but Coffee & Cigarettes is an actual cocktail.
[ Nudges jukebox. ]
@David
[Unveils bowl of dried figs.]
Livia Augusta would not approve.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmdJBS_Cr8Y&feature=youtu.be&t=2573
Livia Augusta would not approve.
Heh. The clip is “unavailable” here in the UK, but I can guess the scene.
I still remember the one where Livia is tending to a mysteriously unwell Marcellus, who thanks her for being so good to him. To which she replies, quite honestly, “Goodness has nothing to do with it.”
Nudges jukebox
Pours cigarettes and coffee into jukebox coin slot
OK, either I have one caught in the spam filter (note to self: zip up more slowly), or I boofed the html.
‘What quantum physics taught me about queer identity’
This is a BBC Ideas video from the The videos we just can’t get enough of playlist.”
Strange. I had enough after about 37 seconds.
Pours cigarettes and coffee into jukebox coin slot
Pretty much how I fix my computer, too.
[ Unveils bowl of dried figs. ]
I’m taking the place upmarket.
And now there is no one who can complain that you don’t give a fig . . .
Nudges jukebox
Pours cigarettes and coffee into jukebox coin slot
. . . . and just what result were you going to get with that???
Try this instead . . .
He doesn’t give a fig.
But he’ll be happy to sell it to you.
“note to self: zip up more slowly”
Thanks for the visual.