God was high when he created physics.

Originally Posted by YeOldeButchere

In any case, mine isn't so much a physical phenomenon as a principle. Anyone who's done Lagrangian mechanics is probably familiar with the principle of least action; essentially a particle will always, almost magically, follow a path where the total "action", a quantity which is surprisingly easy to calculate, will be minimized. I suppose that someone who hasn't done college physics won't find that too exciting, but there's a whole range of problems where the results of this can be applied, making them elegant and almost trivial when compared to the equivalent using Newtonian mechanics.

It's even more amazing when you do thermodynamics/statistical mechanics and discover that not just single particles, but entire with trillions and trillions of particles will do this.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

(Matter does that too. Everything's got wave-particle duality!)

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Yeah, it is a kind of off comparison.

For it to be approximately to scale the baseball would have to pass through a wall about as thick as the distance between Boston and Washington, DC.

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