Thursday, December 13, 2007

On Words

  What does one do when he or she encounters something unknown, when one cannot see clearly or touch? One may measure the radiation of it. One may shine light or other particle beams on it and see what it does to those particles. One may research the reflected, transmitted or scattered particles and try to get information from the spectra or something-scopic images.  
 What does one do when he or she encounters somebody unknown, when one cannot do anatomy or test on them? One may listen to what they say just like measuring the radiation of an object. One may talk to them, shine words on them just like shining light on an unknown entity. 
  A speech or a blog is a radiation, a reply is a scattering, reflection or some kind of induced emission. A person is an operator, a matrix with lots of dimensions who processes words in a very complicated way and at last gives us some hint about himself or herself. 

  What kind of particle should words be? Fermions? Bosons? The interaction-governing Bosons, I believe.


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