Comment of the Day

Today’s comment of the day is courtsey of Hussein Toasterhead over at the main Think Progress blog. It concerns John McCain’s contention that the outbreak of hostilities between Russia and Georgia is the first serious international crisis since the end of the Cold War. It’s a bit technical, so to help illustrate, I’ve also provided a picture (lifted from Wikipedia) of probability densities corresponding to the wavefunctions of an electron in a hydrogen atom possessing definite energy (increasing downward: n = 1, 2, 3, …) and angular momentum (increasing across: s, p, d,…). Anyways, here’s Toasterhead to explain it all:

Now that I’ve parsed his statement, “probably serious crisis internationally,” I see where the qualifier lies. It’s the word “probably.” McCain is, of course, referring to quantum conflict, which is the logical successor to the old theory of Newtonian conflict.

While Newtonian law states that conflict is inevitable, quantum conflict theory assigns a probability distribution to the possibilities of an escalation of conflict. This theoretical warfare exists as a series of eigenstates that, due to the Uncertainty Principle, can’t be known until the waveform actually collapses.

Iraq, Afghanistan, DR Congo, Lebanon, Chad, Sudan – these are all collapsed-waveform conflicts. We know the forms they take. But Russia-Georgia, Colombia-Venezuela, India-Pakistan, China-East Turkestan, Israel-Iran – these are all merely quantum wars.

For now.

Keep that in mind next time you hear some liberal say that John McCain doesn’t know what he’s talking about. His understanding of quantum national security policy is just too sophisticated for the typical pea-brained progressive.