In a message dated 1/1/2003 2:39:13 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Subj: Re: Data indicates Trekkies not weird > Date: 1/1/2003 2:39:13 AM US Mountain Standard Time > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ronn! Blankenship) > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > At 09:45 PM 12/31/02 -0600, Julia Thompson wrote: > >Doug Pensinger wrote: > > > > > > William wrote: > > > > > > > > > > >Zebra is a place to park your car > > > >in Britain according to Gerard Hofnung. > > > >___________________________________________ > > > > > > > And here I thought zebra was for holding zebreasts in zeplace. > > > > > > Doug > > > > > > Yoiks, did I say that? > > > >Yes, you did. :) > > > >And I thought it was amusing. (And I wear one of the darn things. > >Well, I wear a bunch of 'em, but only one at a time.) > > > > I keep reading new messages in this thread and wondering if I am the only > one here who is familiar with Dirac's bracket notation . . . > > > > --Ronn! :) > > I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon. > I never dreamed that I would see the last. > --Dr. Jerry Pournelle > Search, search, search.... ... In Dirac's nomenclature, the symbol denoting a covector is called a ``bra ... only one letter short of spelling the word ``bracket.'' The notation is sometimes ... The symbol |n> is called a ket. It is the same as the wavefunction yn. The symbol <n| is called a bra. It is the same as the complex conjugate yn*. If we use the operator A to operate on |n>, and then left multiply by <n| and integrate, we have <n|A|n> which is the expectation value equation we ran into before. This last entity is called a bracket (do you see the bra - c - ket?) ___________ Well, I know that many teenage boys want to c, but have trouble with the ket on the back of a bra. What their expectation value is depends upon if they expect to conjugate with the girl, or have a wavefunction slap them up the side of their head. Failure to even integrate his hand into the bra may result in his later going to an operator at a 1-900 number, as thou shall not covector thy neighbor's daughter. Complex enough for you? Dexa, Ronn. William Taylor -------------------- Eating so many Spanish corn chips at a championship baseball game that you can no longer stand and walk makes the event be forever known as the Feeble Nacho Series. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
