QED

Or maybe they're refering to a half-dozen "ladies of the night". ;)

Is this a bad chicken joke?

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 01:16:43 GMT, Gary is alleged to have written:

Well worth the read, though, wasn't it?

I happen to *love* Quantum Electrodynamics, because it's a great example of an area of study where we know exactly how to calculate results, with very good accuracy and precision, but have absolutely no clue *why* things work that way, and it's almost completely counterintuitive.

I find it supremely amusing, and more than a little bit comforting for some reason, to know that the universe really is that strange.

Richard Feynman, the same guy who wrote _QED_ and _Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman_. One of my favorite authors.

- Rick "Damned entertaining" Dickinson

Great book. It was a major motivator in my continuing, self-defeating program of degree changes; from EE to CIS to MATH to Physics.

I just finished a general QM course last spring. The bright ones in the class had no end of fun in trying to get the prof to explain the relationship between a wave function and physical reality. Led to some interesting discussions, but little insight. The time spent on those discussions were a poor quantum choice for me; my personal wave function was always collapsed by testing methods at points of low probability of passing. ;)

Rick Dickinson wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Who needs QED? That's pretty much gravity, except for the intuitive part, and the only reason gravity's "intuitive" is because we evolved in it.

Yeah, we evolved in QED too, but...

len.