<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>quantum bogodynamics</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../Q.html" title="Q"/><link rel="previous" href="quantifiers.html" title="quantifiers"/><link rel="next" href="quarter.html" title="quarter"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">quantum bogodynamics</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="quantifiers.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Q</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="quarter.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="quantum-bogodynamics"/><dt xmlns="" id="quantum-bogodynamics"><b>quantum bogodynamics</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/kwon´tm boh`goh·di:·nam´iks/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A theory that characterizes the universe in terms of bogon sources (such as politicians, used-car salesmen, TV evangelists, and <a href="../S/suit.html"><i class="glossterm">suit</i></a>s in general), bogon sinks (such as taxpayers and computers), and bogosity potential fields. Bogon absorption, of course, causes human beings to behave mindlessly and machines to fail (and may also cause both to emit secondary bogons); however, the precise mechanics of the bogon-computron interaction are not yet understood and remain to be elucidated. Quantum bogodynamics is most often invoked to explain the sharp increase in hardware and software failures in the presence of suits; the latter emit bogons, which the former absorb. See <a href="../B/bogon.html"><i class="glossterm">bogon</i></a>, <a href="../C/computron.html"><i class="glossterm">computron</i></a>, <a href="../S/suit.html"><i class="glossterm">suit</i></a>, <a href="../P/psyton.html"><i class="glossterm">psyton</i></a>.</p><p>Here is a representative QBD theory: The bogon is a boson (integral spin, +1 or -1), and has zero rest mass. In this respect it is very much like a photon. However, it has a much greater momentum, thus explaining its destructive effect on computer electronics and human nervous systems. The corollary to this is that bogons also have tremendous inertia, and therefore a bogon beam is deflected only with great difficulty. When the bogon encounters its antiparticle, the cluon, they mutually annihilate each other, releasing magic smoke. Furthermore 1 Lenat = 1 mole (6.022E23) of bogons (see <a href="../M/microLenat.html"><i class="glossterm">microLenat</i></a>).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="quantifiers.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../Q.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="quarter.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">quantifiers </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> quarter</td></tr></table></div></body></html>