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.]