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"The only way to have an 'ownership' society is to make slaves of the rest of us." -- signature-tag used by "Latesigner" (the first time I saw it was in a comment 2006-01-11, but I'm not a regular reader of that forum.)

So I was thinking about particle/wave duality and wondering how far it extends. I know that every particle is a wave, but is every wave also a particle?^[1] And that got me thinking about sound particles.

Soon I was imagining something like a Bose-Einstein condensate of trapped phonemes.^[2] I mean, you couldn't just hold 'em in a glass jar, after all. But what would I do with a stored (or trapped) collection of sound particles once I had it?

Oooh, and once you had sound particles, you could try to bounce photons off of 'em: then even folks without synaesthesia could know what various sounds look like!

Soapy thoughts -- what'cha gonna do but post 'em to LJ and bug everyone else with 'em, eh?

[1] I'll look it up later. I oughta' already know. High school was a long time ago and I never formally studied QM, but yeah, I ought to already know this anyhow. Seems kind of basic.

[2] Yes, I'm aware that phonemes aren't atomic acoustically (even if you think of them as linguistic atoms^[3]), but this isn't a rigorous theory or even a serious exploration of a hypothesis; it's just shower-musing. Go with it for the moment. Besides, non-atomic particles (and yeah, I'll always continue to be amused by the fact that atoms aren't atomic) act as waves too, right?^[4]

[3] Though that brings up another notion: is information-propogation wavelike? If so, memes would be particles, right? Okay, enough of that for now.

[4] And for anyone wondering, yes I still do want to perform the two-slit experiment with a mass driver and a bunch of Volkswagons and a baseline several AU long. It'd be fun. Okay, maybe with bicycles or toasters if cars would require too long a baseline to get dramatic results.