There’s No Place Like 127.0.0.1

I love all things tech and I work in Hollyweird supporting a large specialty health-care organization’s enterprise network system for a living. Hey, it’s better than growing alpacas for a living!  ;-)

And no, you should not care…

In case you were wondering what the heck is a “Quantum Zeno” hoosiwhatsit, here you go:

The quantum Zeno effect is a name coined by George Sudarshan and Baidyanaith Misra of the University of Texas in 1977 in their analysis of the situation in which an unstable particle, if observed continuously, will never decay.[1] One can nearly “freeze” the evolution of the system by measuring it frequently enough in its (known) initial state. The meaning of the term has since expanded, leading to a more technical definition: time evolution can be suppressed not only by measurement: The quantum Zeno effect is the suppression of unitary time evolution caused by quantum decoherence in quantum systems provided by a variety of sources: measurement, interactions with the environment, stochastic fields, and so on.[2] As an outgrowth of study of the quantum Zeno effect, it has become clear that application to a system of sufficiently strong and fast pulses with appropriate symmetry also can decouple the system from its decohering environment.[3]

The name comes from Zeno’s arrow paradox that, since an arrow in flight is not seen to move during any single instant, it cannot possibly be moving at all.[4]

~Excerpt from Wikipedia

Now what the heck did all that word vomit mean??

For years, scientists have been scouring the cosmos for some kind of bizarre hypothetical anti-gravity bullshit they’re calling “dark energy”. And they’ve had some success with it … perhaps at the expense of our mortal souls.

To grossly simplify it, on a scale smaller than atoms, the quantum level, everything suddenly turns into a goddamn circus. Quantum physics is to regular everyday physics as a David Lynch film is to a mainstream blockbuster. We’re talking particles popping in and out of existence, being in two places at the same time, and generally acting like assholes. No doubt the strangest part is the Quantum Zeno effect, which points out that simply observing and measuring particles changes them (specifically, changing the rate at which they decay). How? No one knows. It appears to be the closest science has ever come to proving black magic exists.

~Distilled from the explanation from Cracked.com

Why name my blog this? Because like the Quantum Zeno Effect, objects in this blog could appear closer in the mirror than they really are…or can they?  Muaaaahhhh!  (yes, I can be a ‘tard sometimes)

Who is this site aimed at? No one, just me. A place to store random bits of trivia that amuses, or otherwise, interests me. If someone else stumbles upon this pages and manages to glean even an ounce of interest and/or usefulness/amusement, then all the better. Everyone else that doesn’t care for the fodder sandwiched between these hyperlinks, just keep movin’ on and sling the haterade elsewhere. It’s time to find your “happy place” and wallow in it just as I’m doing here.  :-)