Yo dawg, I heard you like quantum

[charlie]

So we put quantums in your quantberries, so you can quantize while you quantumly* quant.

Classical is wack, yo.

(* new word seen in the wild today)

[salvorhardin]

1. Quantberries

I used to love eating Quantberry cereal for breakfast when I was a kid. The tingling feeling they made in your mouth as their waveforms collapsed was awesome.

[charlie]

2. I like Nonlocal NanoKrispies

Snap, Crackle, and *POOF*. They're quantariffic!

[salvorhardin]

5. Oh yeah! Those are good, but I'm trying to lose weight

So now I eat Indetermin-Os for breakfast. They're tasty, and very low calorie. In fact, you can't even measure how many calories they have!

[TZ]

3. Is quantum the most hijacked scientific term by woos?

I think so. I now wince when I see anything with this term outside of science(sometimes even in science when quantum and conciousness are used together)

[salvorhardin]

4. I disagree

Energy wins hands-down as the most hijacked/misused term but quantum is certainly a very close second.

[realisticphish]

6. good point

but I would say energy is a broad enough term that it isn't as offensive. Quantum is a very particular term...

[charlie]

8. Hah! You've got it exactly backward

It's PHYSICISTS who've hijacked "quantum" from the well-meaning hobbits of woo.

Really.

Take it from the Grand Poobah himself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-FaXD_igv4#t=3m15s

[lazarus]

7. Just ran across this

"And, of course, there's something I call quantum flux, which is like the binding force behind everything in the universe. Plus, it can cause time travel. And it's an energy source, too."
— The Onion, "Sci-Fi Writer Attributes Everything Mysterious To 'Quantum Flux'"
http://www.theonion.com/articles/scifi-writer-attributes-everything-mysterious-to-q,2781/

Read the whole article, it's a laugh riot.

[charlie]

9. Lol!

That's perfect, innit? It could so easily be repurposed for the Quantum New Age narrative. What they do DOES remind me of hokey hi-tech signifiers in bad science fiction.

CAPTAIN: Increase the vector!

HELMSMAN: Increasing the vector!