{"id":46,"date":"2005-06-29T12:51:40","date_gmt":"2005-06-29T20:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamsterrepublic.com\/james\/?p=46"},"modified":"2007-10-11T15:54:08","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T22:54:08","slug":"quantum-sock-dynamics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Sock Dynamics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Current mood: Fuzzy<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever wondered why socks often lose their mates in the wash? I have a simple new theory to explain this phenomenon; a theory based on science, rather than superstition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quantum Sock Dynamics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A sock is a material expression of a special type of clothing-energy. This clothing energy has not been officially named, but for my own reference, I have been calling it E<sup>sock<\/sup>. This energy can exist as any scalar value, but it can only be quantized into physical socks in integer units. A pair of socks equals 2 units of E<sup>sock<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the pair of socks I am wearing right now does not have exactly 2 units of E<sup>sock<\/sup>. That level of sock precision would be virtually impossible, even if we could discount the universe&#8217;s constant level of background sock radiation. I don&#8217;t currently have the means to accurately measure the energy in my socks, but for sake of example, lets say that they actually contain 2.0012645 E<sup>sock<\/sup>. The two full E<sup>sock<\/sup>&#8216;s are materially expressed as the socks I am wearing, and the 0.0012645 of hypothetical sock energy remains in the form of static cling.<\/p>\n<p>During daily wear, socks lose very little of their energy. Socks are fairly stable forms of cloth energy, and unlike hats on windy days, or women&#8217;s undergarments at a rock concert, they are unlikely to spontaneously vanish. The drying cycle at the laundry, however, is a different story. Washing and especially drying puts a great deal of electromechanical stress on a sock, and may cause a sock to lose enough energy that it dips beneath the quantum threshold for a pair of socks, and becomes merely a single sock instead. A pair of socks with 1.9995281 E<sup>sock<\/sup> will only be measurable as a single lonely sock, even though most of the sock energy from the second sock will still be present.<\/p>\n<p>I intend to experimentally verify this theory by repeatedly washing a large sample-group of socks using varying levels of fabric softener, in an attempt to influence the quantization of lost socks&#8230; but I have to wait until laundry day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current mood: Fuzzy Have you ever wondered why socks often lose their mates in the wash? I have a simple new theory to explain this phenomenon; a theory based on science, rather than superstition. Quantum Sock Dynamics A sock is a material expression of a special type of clothing-energy. This clothing energy has not been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonsense","category-pseudoscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}