When an electron meets its antimatter twin, a positron, the two are annihilated in a tiny flash of energy. Two photons fly away from the blast.
Subatomic particles like photons and quarks have a quality known as “spin”. It’s not that they’re really spinning – it’s not clear that would even mean anything at that level – but they behave as if they do. When two are created simultaneously the direction of their spin has to cancel each other out: one doing the opposite of the other.
Due to the unpredictability of quantum behaviour, it is impossible to say in advance which will go “anticlockwise” and the other “clockwise”. More than that, until the spin of one is observed, they are both doing both.
It gets weirder, however. When you do observe one, it will suddenly be going clockwise or anticlockwise. And whichever way it is going, its twin will start spinning the other way, instantly, even if it is on the other side of the universe. This has actually been shown to happen in experiment (albeit on the other side of a laboratory, not a universe).
Before you change the world, change yourself
Yesterday I as clever, so i wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
You never get over it. But you get to where it doesn’t bother you so much.
Jeffrey Eugenides (via quotemadness)
Aries: Defenestration- (n.) The act of throwing someone out a window.
Taurus: Petrichor- (n.) The smell of earth after rain.
Gemini: Facetious- (adj.) Trying to appear amusing, witty &/or intelligent at an inappropriate time, when it would be better to be serious.
Cancer: Mangata- (n.) The reflection of the moon on water.
Leo: Panache- (n.) Flamboyant confidence of style or manner, a certain flair.
Virgo: Psithurism- (n.) The sound of rustling leaves.
Libra: Raxeira - (n.) Line drawn by the sunlight on the floor as it filters through the window.
Scorpio: Opia - (n.) The ambiguous intensity of looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable.
Sagittarius: Eleutheromania- (n.) The intense desire for freedom.
Capricorn: Atrabilious-(adj.) Gloomy, morose, melancholy.
Aquarius: Iconoclast- (n.) One who breaks stereotypes.
Pisces: Hypnagogic- (adj.) Relating to the state immediately before falling asleep.
Light travels faster than sound, that’s why some people appear bright until they speak
“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”
— Stephen R. Covey
“Solitude is dangerous. It’s very addictive. It becomes a habit after you realize how peaceful and calm it is. It’s like you don’t want to deal with people anymore because they drain your energy. “
Jim Carrey
Work hard in silence; let success make the noise.