Why You're Here:

You've said to yourself, "beauty walks a razor's edge, someday I'll make it mine."

You've often thought about what it would have been like to drop acid with Groucho Marx.

You know that until you measure it, an electron is everywhere, and your mind reels at the implications.

You'd like to get drunk on the wine from my sweet, sweet mind grapes.

Friday, August 28, 2009

Quantum Mechanics In Pop Culture

Catching up on Nurse Jackie episodes last night (I'm referring to the episode from two weeks ago), Eddie, the hospital's pharmacist and Jackie's paramour-slash-opiate hookup, used a moment of post-coital bliss in the pill storage room to posit that--due to the tenets of quantum physics--he and Jackie might exist in a separate, parallel universe where they wouldn't have to hide their relationship.

Specifically, he used the ol' one-electron-can-be-in-two-places-at-the-same-time gambit. Eddie, you sly dog, you. You know the ladies can't resist such mind-bending pillow talk!


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