Interference

by Brad Parks

Entanglement is this seeming impossibility, predicted by the equations of quantum mechanics, that every now and then, two particles can be born with an intrinsic connection to one another.

Scientists have demonstrated that once you determine certain properties of one member of an entangled pair, you instantaneously and irrevocably change the other. And this mysterious coordination remains intact at every distance yet measured.

It raises all kinds of disquieting questions about the true nature of our universe and about the secrets it may be hiding,

My hourglass figure was sliding south such that it now more resembled a spoon.

Well, congratulations, Prometheus, you’ve stolen fire and now it’s burning you.”

You have to ask yourself: What’s more important, your work or your life?”

By demonstrating that light acts as both a particle and a wave, it neatly shows what’s known as quantum superposition—the head-scratching fact that a single particle can seem to exist in multiple places at the same time.

Time moves a lot faster when you’re sitting with a pretty girl than when you’re sitting on a hot stove.

We’re just about to get to one of the parts with Grawp. He loves doing Grawp.”

There are the things the brain anticipates, even if just in the dark crevices where the creepy things live, the things no one wants to talk about.

Few people realize how much we use our hearing to locate ourselves in space. It’s part of the reason old people fall so much—it’s actually their ears failing them as much as their legs.

“Quantum physics has become the new space race.

The moment Facebook views had dollar figures attached to them, he would start taking them seriously. Otherwise, he didn’t understand the fascination. If people needed attention so badly, why didn’t they just get a dog?

Only two kinds of people denied absolutely everything: Hardened criminals, who had already learned that everything they said to law enforcement would be used against them. Or the truly innocent.

College presidents now lived in fear of the social media mob turning on them.

Negotiations were all about perceived leverage. And you had to shift as much of it as you could into your own corner.

If a madman who wanted to murder your wife came to the door and asked if she was there, wouldn’t you say no? We’re all liars sometimes.

falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus—the Latin phrase that translated as “false in one thing, false in everything.”

In France, we are used to men like this. This is why when #MeToo happens in America, Brigitte Bardot, she comes out and says, ‘I found it charming when men said I had a nice backside.’ It is different with men and women here.

But that’s quantum superposition. Until you nail it down, anything that’s possible remains possible.

Facebook Portal. These things were essentially on all the time, weren’t they? Always listening. Always following you. Creepy.

That was the power of the quantum physics. It felt like magic, enough that everyone had started to believe in the impossible.