Mar 8, 2019
modern day physicists going around naming fundamental quantum states like they’re frickin memes and leaving scifi writers with no good raw material to work with, smh
#the thing I want to use is a well-defined concept that really exists in quantum computing#I want to take the exact concept and apply it to time travel#but do you know the PROPER NAME of the thing I want to use?#cat state#fricking. CAT. STATE.#as in Schrodinger's thought-experiment cat#what the hell am I supposed to do with that??#at least 'quantum' comes from Latin and sounds sciencey!#but CAT STATE??#ugh#smh#this is scifi involving a highly-evolved non-Earth civilization#I don't want to use any Earth scientist names#I mean it's going to be technobabble at some level but I want it to sound like REALISTIC technobabble!#whyyy must this be so difficult?#C A T S T A T E#it's going to be awhile before I'm over this#quantum physics#physics#scifi#Home The Long Way 'Round#writing#OR TRYING TO FFS
