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<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
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(such as politicians, used-car salesmen, TV evangelists, and
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<a href="../S/suit.html"><i class="glossterm">suit</i></a>s in general), bogon sinks (such as taxpayers
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and computers), and bogosity potential fields. Bogon absorption, of
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course, causes human beings to behave mindlessly and machines to fail (and
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may also cause both to emit secondary bogons); however, the precise
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mechanics of the bogon-computron interaction are not yet understood and
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remain to be elucidated. Quantum bogodynamics is most often invoked to
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explain the sharp increase in hardware and software failures in the
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presence of suits; the latter emit bogons, which the former absorb. See
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<a href="../B/bogon.html"><i class="glossterm">bogon</i></a>, <a href="../C/computron.html"><i class="glossterm">computron</i></a>,
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<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
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spin, +1 or -1), and has zero rest mass. In this respect it is very much
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like a photon. However, it has a much greater momentum, thus explaining
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its destructive effect on computer electronics and human nervous systems.
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The corollary to this is that bogons also have tremendous inertia, and
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therefore a bogon beam is deflected only with great difficulty. When the
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bogon encounters its antiparticle, the cluon, they mutually annihilate each
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other, releasing magic smoke. Furthermore 1 Lenat = 1 mole (6.022E23) of
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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>
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