A Night in Shining Armor

I have a friend Mark who dated a depressive girl for a while. She grabbed a photo off of the net and did the artwork and emailed it to him with the caption written beneath the photo. He forwarded the email to me as it was quite freudian and funny. Signs of failure abound in this artwork.  First of all this knight is up to his knees in water. Not a good thing when you are wearing iron. The worst part is you sink and drown if you fall. Secondly and more germaine is you rust. I knew her so it was likely she sensed the relationship was a temporary one at best. Of course cutting and pasting in the face is more than a little comical also. 

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Her words were "My knight in shining armor …..or not."

Use of Maximum Entropy to explain the form of Energy States of an Electron in a Potential Well

The base state of an electron in an infinite potential well has the most "space" for the electron state.  Thus it has the maximum entropy. Take that same state and imagine pinching the electrons existence to nil in the middle of the trough.  Now you have state-2.  The electron now exists in a smaller entropic state and guess what?  It contains exploitable energy now. This is like a spring compressed.  The electron can decompress and exert force / expend energy.  For example in an interaction with another atom possibly a recoil could occur.   In a crystal lattice an electron can transfer its energy to the atom next door and in effect yield conduction.  All these are preliminary suppositions subject to more scrutiny. As mentioned before since the electron exists in this potential well in the form of free fall it can not have any acceleration.  Thus its distribution must thoroughly avoid the edges of the well were it would indeed experience accelerations by bouncing and recoiling off of the walls.

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Smell the Sweat and Perfume – Our suspicions can give us away

One time a long while back I dated a really good looking girl I met on Squaw Peak named Daniel.  Incredibly beautiful body and face.  She was a strawberry blond.  One time we visited my friend Mark after hiking.  We stopped by his apartment to talk for a while and then left. Daniel was wearing some sort of fragrance or deoderant.  She generally smelled good no matter what. After we left Mark's girl friend Cathy arrived at his house.  She walked in the house and said " Who have you been having sex with?  It smells like sweat and perfume in here!" A classic line if ever there was one.  She was a bar tender and tended to be on the easy side to get into bed so she should know about the smells.  Later he caught her in bed cheating on him.  Our suspicions can give us away.  Just as there is no honor among criminals.   Said another way we transfer our behavioral expectations upon others.  We expect others behave as we do.  Thus if we are shifty we tend to be very suspicious.  Of course dating is brutal in the USA where there are so few attractive women to be found so this rule of human behavior must be applied judiciously.  

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