cedardust
damn I wish I could be a ninja
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Strange. For some reason I got on this quest earlier today to gain a better understanding of exactly what is meant by "quantum" computing, physics, mechanics... so on... I was just telling my son yesterday that I never took a single physics class in school, but I wish I did (this is as I struggled to explain to him why the supersized mc donalds cup he was playing with in the bath could keep air in it while he pushed it under the water, likewise how water could be held in it when all but the rim was out of the water). It was a whole different matter that got me started on the quest today though. Either way, I am shamefully ignorant when it comes to physics. I've got this great book sitting next to me called the Tao of Physics that I'm hoping I'll find the time to read because ...well, I'm darn curious! And I need to have better answers for my son when he asks me questions like that!
Back to the point, I was confused with this quantum thing, so I did what I always do when I'm not sure about something, figure out what it's opposite is. Well, there's no antonyms for the word in the thesarus. I was a bit confused because how could it be without any opposite. Words that don't have antonyms?!?! I searched that and ended up at a post on this forum. Reading the post I realized, ahh...quantum is a noun and does not have an opposite. Like I said, I am shamefully ignorant when it comes to physics. But that was good because I was worried that my own personal philosophy that there is always some equilibrium, and opposites are just on different ends of the spectrum, but all relate and cannot exist without eachother was going down the drain. I see now that I was apparently very confused trying to gain a quick understanding of quantum theory and I somehow managed to miss the fact that quantum was a noun and really did not have an antonym like many other nouns. And...the lack of sleep last night probably didn't help.
Really, that is neither here nor there, or perhaps it is everywhere, but the strange thing is as I was reading the post I thought, well, what is this forum anyway? Because this post is actually pretty interesting. I look up, ahh, INTP huh?
wait a minute. What the heck is INTP? So I look around the forum briefly, hoping to find some meaning to these letters, but there was no clear answer. There was no "Welcome to INTP, which stands for________" Now I'm even more curious. So I search it and Seriously? I pull up "Traits of INTP personality type" from the VeryWell site....I can't believe! On the Myers Briggs Type Indicator and I somehow missed it when I took Personality Psychology in college? Or really any of the years as I got my BA (in psychology). Really because I read it and I'm like holy smokes! I did not know there was an actual defined personality type, because it fits me to the key! I don't know how the heck I missed it in college or when doing research just on my own. I would have read up on INTP A LOT if I had ever heard of it before! I'm seeing it now and I'm like OMG I'm not alone! And to see in that article I pulled up there was an estimation of 1 to 5% of people display this personality type. 1 to 5%???? Well sh*t. That explains a lot then. I can't believe the estimation is so low. It's kind of scary actually. I just really can't believe I've never come across this before. Well I guess if only 1 to 5% of people are INTP maybe it does make sense I didn't come across it. And here I am, sleep deprived, on some wild goose chase to find something that doesn't even exist (the antonym) and I end up finding something I didn't even know existed, and it's totally what I am (much as I hate to label myself things...) Just really strange. Serendipitous for sure.
So hello! Wow, it is a really cool though to actually find a community where I might ... I'm not even sure what to say. I guess to find people with the same personality type as me (and to find out that my personality is a....type? Again, I feel like I'm labeling not just myself but you folk in this community, and I'm a little uncomfortable with that...
But, here I am, looking forward to exploring this forum more and maybe having some though pervoking conversations! That would be cool! I appologize if my post is ....strange.... like I said, this is strange... and the sleep deprivation, and I'm also adhd (again with the labeling, but if I'm a bit all over the place it's just part of who I am)... and for any spelling errors which I'm sure there are plenty of, but I'm not feeling like figuring out which of these icons above is a spell checker....did not plan on writing so much here, and must go make dinner for the kids now, but I had to share this because I really find it pretty neat.
Alright then. Thanks for your time if you read this, and have a good night darn, and my batteries about to die so I'm not even going to preview before i post
Back to the point, I was confused with this quantum thing, so I did what I always do when I'm not sure about something, figure out what it's opposite is. Well, there's no antonyms for the word in the thesarus. I was a bit confused because how could it be without any opposite. Words that don't have antonyms?!?! I searched that and ended up at a post on this forum. Reading the post I realized, ahh...quantum is a noun and does not have an opposite. Like I said, I am shamefully ignorant when it comes to physics. But that was good because I was worried that my own personal philosophy that there is always some equilibrium, and opposites are just on different ends of the spectrum, but all relate and cannot exist without eachother was going down the drain. I see now that I was apparently very confused trying to gain a quick understanding of quantum theory and I somehow managed to miss the fact that quantum was a noun and really did not have an antonym like many other nouns. And...the lack of sleep last night probably didn't help.
Really, that is neither here nor there, or perhaps it is everywhere, but the strange thing is as I was reading the post I thought, well, what is this forum anyway? Because this post is actually pretty interesting. I look up, ahh, INTP huh?
wait a minute. What the heck is INTP? So I look around the forum briefly, hoping to find some meaning to these letters, but there was no clear answer. There was no "Welcome to INTP, which stands for________" Now I'm even more curious. So I search it and Seriously? I pull up "Traits of INTP personality type" from the VeryWell site....I can't believe! On the Myers Briggs Type Indicator and I somehow missed it when I took Personality Psychology in college? Or really any of the years as I got my BA (in psychology). Really because I read it and I'm like holy smokes! I did not know there was an actual defined personality type, because it fits me to the key! I don't know how the heck I missed it in college or when doing research just on my own. I would have read up on INTP A LOT if I had ever heard of it before! I'm seeing it now and I'm like OMG I'm not alone! And to see in that article I pulled up there was an estimation of 1 to 5% of people display this personality type. 1 to 5%???? Well sh*t. That explains a lot then. I can't believe the estimation is so low. It's kind of scary actually. I just really can't believe I've never come across this before. Well I guess if only 1 to 5% of people are INTP maybe it does make sense I didn't come across it. And here I am, sleep deprived, on some wild goose chase to find something that doesn't even exist (the antonym) and I end up finding something I didn't even know existed, and it's totally what I am (much as I hate to label myself things...) Just really strange. Serendipitous for sure.
So hello! Wow, it is a really cool though to actually find a community where I might ... I'm not even sure what to say. I guess to find people with the same personality type as me (and to find out that my personality is a....type? Again, I feel like I'm labeling not just myself but you folk in this community, and I'm a little uncomfortable with that...
But, here I am, looking forward to exploring this forum more and maybe having some though pervoking conversations! That would be cool! I appologize if my post is ....strange.... like I said, this is strange... and the sleep deprivation, and I'm also adhd (again with the labeling, but if I'm a bit all over the place it's just part of who I am)... and for any spelling errors which I'm sure there are plenty of, but I'm not feeling like figuring out which of these icons above is a spell checker....did not plan on writing so much here, and must go make dinner for the kids now, but I had to share this because I really find it pretty neat.
Alright then. Thanks for your time if you read this, and have a good night darn, and my batteries about to die so I'm not even going to preview before i post