Kinosian on Quantum Butterflies

Every now and then I come across a sentence or two of such breathtaking new-agey, pseudo-scientific gobblety-gook that–well, it takes my metaphorical breath away and I am rendered speechless.

Ecce:

We've all heard the adage if a butterfly flaps its wings in Hong Kong, there's a hurricane in Manhattan. Today, quantum physics says yes, the world is kept spinning by an unending energy spiral intermingled and never lost.

[from Janet Kinosian, "Wide Awake In America", Huffington Post, 4 March 2007.]

Posted on March 5, 2008 at 00.07 by jns · Permalink
In: All, Will Rogers Moments

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