Thursday, May 17, 2007 @8:59 PM
the last lecture today was econs, 530-630, and i never felt more awake.
mr? was a lefthander and he kept blocking the projected notes as he wrote. and he was practically reading out the words as he wrote them and i lost his train of thought at some point and so i turned to pheara with my scrunched up gonna cry face that was
so unbelievably hideous that she burst out laughing in the middle of lecture.
mr fong just finished the first chapter on quantum physics.
there was this portion of the topic, talking about how fired electrons showed interference when passed through a two slits, but with the simple act of observing the experiment, the electrons passed through like matter. two plain lines. because the wave function collapsed upon observance.
then we started talking about how an electron orbital in an atom wasn't really an orbital but rather a probability ring of where the actual electron could be found. so theoretically you study a cloud of electrons, but practically one whole ring is just a dot. and when all things are observed all a single instant, we finally see that everything around us is mostly space.
and the beauty in this is when such a practical concept is just as true in relationships.
we've gotten so used to banking our hopes on whole rings of possibilities, despite knowing that only one of all probable outcomes can really come true. we've gotten used to laying out all possible paths of life before deciding to embark on one, despite knowing that our true path of life was planned even before we were born, and
no amount of excogitation can change anything.
not that we shouldn't think things through before acting, just that we shouldn't always worry so much.
and isn't it strange, that some people can feel so infallible and act so tough,
but all it takes is one person to try and understand a little of what the person is going through at some point.. for the former person to reveal exact positions of what's going wrong.
just like how the huge electron cloud was reduced to a single point charge.
it's so encouraging sometimes, that when a friend realises your problems, they also see a clearer picture of the possibilities you have to overcome them.
of course, there's the minus side to the collapse of this wave function, and that comes in the space discovered by the friend.
because space without friend.. is vulnerability.
if you didn't understand, you dont have to.
because i dont have time for vulnerability at this point.
haha.
AHHHHHHHHH.
someone tell me there's still 2 months of band to look forward to.
cos i dont want band to end just yet. studies are wonderful stimulation for eyebag growth.
