Saturday, January 29, 2011

Classical Guy vs. Quantum Girl

Guys are classical mechanical systems and Girls are quantum mechanical systems.

Guys:
1) Unless under the influence of other external pressures and stresses, a given force has only one reaction i.e. guys generally are deterministic systems.
2) Resistance and friction are forces that just try to return guys to their original state of inertia i.e rest. It has been termed as laziness by girls. Corollary: A guys state of mind at rest continues to be at rest unless and until acted upon by an external force.
3) In the presence of girls, guys can boil, melt, freeze or vaporize. In the presence of their fields of force guys can be malleable, ductile or brittle.
4) Guys show stochastic behavior, turbulence, hysteresis, lattice defects, coherence, entanglement, tunneling etc and other anomalous or non-classical phenomena only when under the influence of strong fields of force produced by girls.
5) With guys, only the statistical average of various micro-states (events, forces, thoughts or actions) show more complex dynamics but each individual micro-state can be represented as as 0-1, yes-no or true-false i.e. binary logic.

Girls:
1) Girls exhibit uncertainty. The thoughts and actions of a girl can never be simultaneously predicted i.e. measurement or prediction of one alters the other. Corollary: Girls can never do nothing i.e. due to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, no thoughts implies infinite actions and vice versa.
2) Girls show transient growth i.e. sometimes in the presence of opposing forces, their amplitude grows with time instead of decaying. Guys view this phenomena as girls being adamant to have their way.
3) Girls exhibit quantum coherence. Each thought or action is the resultant of superposition of many causal (related through cause and effect) or non-causal (unrelated) thoughts or actions from the past, present and at times future i.e. each thought or action is the resultant of putting together many related and unrelated thoughts or actions.
4) Girls exhibit quantum entanglement. The effect of any change in the state (of a person, object, event or thought) occurring anywhere in space (and sometimes even in the future) is immediately detected and brings about a change in the girl. Commonly referred to it as a girl's intuition, girls sometimes just know certain things.
5) With girls, every micro-state (events, forces, thoughts or actions) is a probability density function i.e. nothing is binary logic. Due to uncertainty of thoughts and actions, only probability density of each micro-state can be calculated, hence no statistical averages can be computed. But, if the micro-states are allowed to evolve over time, guys can observe beautiful patterns, fractals, symmetries and ordered chaos.

FAQ:
Q: Would learning quantum mechanics help in more accurate calculation of probability densities?
A: Not Really!
     In quantum mechanics either the operators (forces) that act upon a state or the effects are know, so the unknown quantity can be calculated. But with girls the operators are always unknown before they act upon anything and finding them out after they have had their effect would be too late (the quantum girl paradox)!

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Latent Smile


Evanescent rain weightlessly drifting,
Impalpable push of a benign breeze.
The warmth of shimmering skies
Rekindle the shriveling embers within.

The changing colours of the skies,
A lucid reflection in your eyes.
Life bereft of its mundane throes;
Every passing thought silently echoes.

Aging leaves float across the street,
Like sailing ships in tranquil seas.
Into the depths of the night;
Forever lost amongst the stars.

Shining dust and their mysteries untold,
As you join the dots the stories unfold.
Listening to their tales in wonder,
Resting your head on my shoulder.

Slowly cede to your heavy eyes,
And lapse into a gentle sleep.
Your pensive face melts away,
To leave behind a latent smile.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Smoke Stacks

A tainted window, a solemn door.
Dull monochrome, a place so old
Faded pulchritude, of forgotten times.

Dingy light, ash on the floor.
Another dusty soul, growing cold
In indolence, in blissful ignorance.

A dusky sky, bereft of light.
Of invisible stars, many stories told
Of a lonely sun, in decadent times.

In the future, light shining bright.
Fake hopes, progress foretold
Of changing ways, in changing times!

A million smoke stacks in sight.
Their morbid clouds corrode
A lonely existence, its last chance...

Saturday, January 01, 2011

The Change Monger

    At the end of every year, three simple questions, at times inadvertently, cross our minds; 'What was good about the previous year, what was bad about it and what do I hope for from the new year.' The answers to these questions provide a lucid picture of the year that's gone by and paint an image of hope for the one ahead. Although it's just another day marking the end of a year on the calendar, it definitely is an important checkpoint. It is, sometimes against our will, a time for some pensive reflection about how things have been and how they might be from now on. 
     Making and breaking new year resolutions might sound like a cliché, but they most often represent a wish for change. A change in the way things have been. Invariably, the answer to the three questions revolve around, either directly or as as indirect consequence of the good and bad changes of the year bygone.
     Is change something that everyone wants? There definitely is significant inertia within us which wards off change. There is something cozy about a routine; quite possibly due to a feeling that in a routine, future is deterministic. Yet at the same time, there is a part within that cribs at the colourless monotony. So should one wish for only good changes to keep the routine cozy enough while making each day interesting in its own way? Paradoxically, bad changes are the ones that provide the right contrast for making other changes look good. One can only describe every other day as better than the worst or worse than the best. So a wish for only good changes loses its meaning in this context.
     Change always makes life interesting or troublesome depending on the way one may view it. But, having no changes certainly makes life less and less interesting. In a way, the answer to the three questions is quite simply: changes. One cherishes the good changes, learns from the consequences of bad changes and hopes for interesting changes in the future.