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re: Euphemisms
Post Sputnik — (archived)

Ya da ya da ... there must be a whole lotta dancing going on in there to generate that kind of spin. And those players must come in a whole lotta sizes and know a lot of different moves, because there is quite a bit of spectral dispersion going on, and quite a few discrete peaks in there too, subject to the whims of fast moving, spinning stretching, rotating, folding and breathing multiple component molecules. And each transition has a probability, so if they decide they ain't making that move, tough luck, you just gotta try to catch them the next time.

So try try again, maybe next time you can spin it your way.

Ah ... er ... did I forget to mention mass? Coherence?

Yes, there's is a whole lotta dancing going on.

I guess that's why we have 'temperature'.

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