We’re heading along to the movies to see the new Bond flick Quantum Of Solace in a day or three. The title started me thinking just how much solace a character such as the latter day dark, broody, and edgy 007 might actually expect to extract though.
According to Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, in his book Great Mythconceptions if it’s a quantum it won’t in fact be a whole lot of solace…
If you move about in business circles, about once a month, you’ll hear somebody say something like “This plan will provide a huge quantum leap in performance.” The problem here is that a quantum leap is not huge - in fact it’s the smallest possible change.
Delve into Quantum Mechanics Theory for more. Solace would more likely come by way of shaken martinis and Bond girls, rather than bringing the world to the brink of destruction, but then that would probably make for a boring movie.
Bond is back in action as the director says the title may be odd, but the plot is familiar. Yet again I am surprised with the action and technology used by the movie Quantum of Solace .One was Bond’s cell phone camera capabilities, it is very much related to the current political frame I think. Is where I saw and remarkable movie it will be.
I believe Bond uses the Sony Ericsson C902 phone. At least he is endorsing them here in Australia.
Like most myth books, that one plays to a particular POV and doesn’t seem to check things a lot. Yes, a quanta is a small unit, but quantum-leap means something else.
Idioms: quantum leap
…This term originated as quantum jump in the mid-1900s in physics, where it denotes a sudden change from one energy state to another within an atom. Within a decade it was transferred to other advances…
Or this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_leap
…The popular and scientific terms are similar in that both describe a change that happens all at once (revolutionary), rather than gradually over time (evolutionary), but the two uses are different when it comes to the magnitude of the change or advance in question…
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