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by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sat May 27th, 2006 at 06:22:52 PM EST
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When I was at uni doing electronics, it was noticeable that left-handed people, and left handed men especially, had a much more instinctive grasp of quantum mechanics than the righties. There are genuine brain-physiological reasons for this.

It's a visualisation process, you can build the model in your head in multiple dimensions and appreciate the implications as a real thing, even if mathematically it can only be expressed abstractly.

So I've always taken a view that anybody who studies this beyond degree level is going to tend towards left-handedness.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sun May 28th, 2006 at 06:12:22 AM EST
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I'm a geometer at heart, as my next diary will prove.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman
by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun May 28th, 2006 at 07:56:12 AM EST
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Ummm, shouldn't you be ferrying boxes of stuff around ? Barbara's gonna kill you if you keep posting whilst you're moving house.

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sun May 28th, 2006 at 10:43:25 AM EST
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and i'm a geomant...

in italy, a geometra is a land surveyor...and the noun is interestingly feminine...

can't wait for the diary...

geo- anything is cool these days, except geo-politics, i guess, and geo climate change, and geo starving...

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Sun May 28th, 2006 at 01:32:24 PM EST
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