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   XPost: sci.physics, sci.math, sci.physics.particle   
   From: rubrum@pacbell.net   
      
   In article   
   <5e13fc51-83bf-4d8f-8c4f-a73a179402d3@t2g2000pbl.googlegroups.com>,   
    Rock Brentwood  wrote:   
      
   > On May 29, 2:13 pm, RichD  wrote:   
   > > I know complex algebra is useful in quantum mechanics,   
   > > to model interference among evolving states.   
   > >   
   > > However, sometimes I see a note like: "The system was   
   > > initialized in the state 3 - j".  What does that mean?   
   >   
   > Not a single person responding to you, who expressed confusion over   
   > what 3-j meant, even bothered to look up what "3-J" means.   
   >   
   > You can always tell the Baby Boomers apart by those who think the   
   > Internet is nothing but a glorified media outlet through which they   
   > sit as passive recipients to have answers, ideas and entertainment   
   > doled out to them; while for everyone under 30 the first instinct is   
   > to just look it up, to make ideas and to prosume their own   
   > entertainment.   
   >   
   > That's how you can tell that this site has degenerated into a   
   > graveyard of Baby Boomers, already in cognitive rigor mortis (probably   
   > as well as skeletal rigor mortis).   
      
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