Recommended viewing especially if this confuses you:
Open thread.
1. At extreme dilutions, particles and waves are interchangeable. [QM] Waves persist in a fluid unless lost to friction, transference, evaporation, radiation, etc. [TD]
1a. (naked assertion) Waves are beneath atoms, beneath even quarks, waves are continuous, immaterial energy, observable through the movement of matter, the pattern of energy transfer between quanta.
1b. (support) see Bénard cells, which exhibit hysteresis.
2. Agitating and vibrating dissolved particles in fluid transfers energy to waves.
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h/t Phydeaux Speaks.
Are you glad Rudolph Giuliani was your city’s mayor on September 11, 2001?
Do you think Judith gets jealous of September 11?
h/t ellroon.
Driftglass explains how David Brooks can lie with a straight face (in four parts: I, II, III, IV), the nut of it being:
In 1982, in an essay entitled “The Spawn of Annenberg, Part 1”, Harlan Ellison wrote about his visit to San Quentin and the chilling experience of listening to the convicted murderer of a 5-year-old child explain why he couldn’t have done what he obviously had done.
The convict had stomped the boy to death, but explained that he could not have done it because he wears sneakers.
And sneakers are soft.
Into the Cool, by Eric D. Schneider and Dorion Sagan.
There will be a book report later.
Maybe some of my readers will enjoy it too.
h/t Glenn Greenwald, and I agree with everything he says in this post, which I encourage you to read.
This film is a must see. About an hour and ten minutes in length.
h/t Monkeyfister.