Quantum Physics!

Right now my knowledge of quantum physics is lacking. For those of you who do read this: I apologize for my lack of knowledge on the matter. I intend to gain more knowledge about this subject as I progress.

Generally, I do not think, "I wonder what quantum physics involves!" I actually had no idea what it really was before today. This morning, while on the phone with my boyfriend, he told me to look up a YouTube video to explain Schrodinger's Cat. He had tried to explain a t-shirt he found and I did not think it was funny, nor understand it. Being a curious person, I just HAD to know so I could understand. "Curiosity killed the cat right?" Literally, this involves that saying! I had no idea where that saying came from and now I do!

For those of you who don't know Schrodinger's Experiment, I will explain it to you the best I can. If I am wrong, I will come back and make changes, but this is how I have come to understand it.

The idea begins with putting a cat in a bunker with some gunpowder that has a 50% chance of blowing up and a 50% chance of not doing anything after 1 minute. The gunpowder was actually Einstein’s idea, but Schrodinger used poisonous gas. The point is, until we look in the bunker, we do not know whether the cat is dead or alive. When we finally look in the bunker either the cat is dead or alive. If we do this experiment enough times, you'll eventually see that half of the time the cat survives and half of the time, the cat dies. This seems self-explanatory, but the next part is where it becomes tricky.

The quantum interpretation is that before we look the cat is both dead AND alive. Our act of looking forces nature’s decision. Our "curiosity kills the cat." Then there is the cat prospective that comes into play. Either the cat doesn't see the gunpowder explode and lives or sees it explode and dies. The cat’s reality becomes entangled with the experiment. "It is our observation of the experiment that forces nature to collapse into one option or the other."

"We're like the cat too, either the cat dies and we see it dead, or it lives and we see it alive. So who is observing us to force nature to collapse to one reality? Or do both possibilities happen in parallel within a larger multiverse?"

I had to quote the YouTube video for the harder stuff. I couldn't explain it any better than that! Here is a link to the website: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOYyCHGWJq4

Anyway, this caught my attention today, and my boyfriend and I have been debating it. I thought maybe it would spark the mind of others out there. I hope to write more on this later!

Lost Art

Where did it go? I know I left it around here somewhere!!! Where did my speech for composition class go? Okay, so I didn't actually lose my writing assignment, but I do believe America is losing the ability to fluently speak and have that ability to sound intelligent. For the remainder of this post, I am going to attempt to use improper language. (Which will be quite a challenge!) I will also freeform write and my thoughts may not be cohesive within a paragraph.

Taday in America we gots uh problem with the speach. No one can speek write, and they can't right well either. Whut has happend to us an why did our language gets o sloppy. What whent wrong? Wuz it in the skool system that stewdent faled? I dont think it was our skool system that faled us, I think its jus my generation. Lazeeness has koorupted our society and generation.

Perhaps it began with the use of teknology more n more. Txtng lingo strtd the prblm n then frm thre it escalated dwnwrd. I dunno whut happened but we became lazy, and thats uh fact. Maybe the use of computers didn't help, but we cannot blame it totally on technology. At some point we have to take responsibility for our actions.

I have heard so many people state that they didnt need to kno how to spell write because they have spell check. Let me address the public with this: SPELL CHECK DOESN'T CATCH EVERYTHING! In fact, it doesnt catch a lot of what people believe it should. We stil need to lern to right intellegently and it is importent to lern what is and aint proper grahmer. It drives me nuts wen peple cant or dont spell things write, or put them in a sentence write. Wat even bugs me more than that is wen peple give me there paper to read and then their sentence jus.

Wat also relly cuncrns me is the fact that prety soon our skool sistems are going to stop teaching cursive. Where is our society headed?! It achally makes me sad that im not uh hundred purcent shure on how to form strange cursive leters like "z". im shure its not hard to learn, but if our skools wont even be lerning the students that any more i gess it dont matter.


Writing, reading, and speaking well are now all becoming a lost art. They're all going to be gone soon for Americans. It's not just our school systems messing up, nor our technology use; we must take on some of the responsibility. It is so hard for me to proof read papers that are not well-written. I have tried to proof papers that are written as I wrote above. People don't seem to capitalize, "I," nor use proper punctuation. I have a friend, who is now in college, which cannot spell to save his life. I'm not sure how we are getting away with this in our society. When did we stop caring about speech?

If you do have any thoughts on this, I am all ears to your suggestions on where this art form went.