Friday, July 24, 2009

Planck's Constant and the State Employee

I am fortunately privy to the State and its employees, and I have arrived at an amazing quantum ethnological discovery.

The State Employee has discovered Planck's constant long before Planck did.

I see no residuum of the Legrangian scrawled across bathroom walls; no evidence of phase-space diagrammes; no rude Hamiltonians on scraps of litter or cartooned rudely in incisure by those lacking opposable thumbs.

Nevertheless, the principle that h cannot equal zero has been found amongst the blunt instruments whom we call State Employees.

When Lord Kelvin's Measure of temperature drops to zero, odd and special things happen.  Once the momentum of an object nears zero, its corresponding location in space cannot be ascertained.  The Origin repels objects to a distance of h-bar.  Therefore, the slower a state employee is, the more unlikely it is that (s)he can be found in R3 threespace.

This is mind-boggling.  State Employment may actually be a form of Bose-Einstein condensate, a new and radical phase of matter in which the various components are indistinguishable and freely exchangeable by operators.  non-abelian hotbed of elements.  They may not actually, individually, be said to "exist."

The mind reels.





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