You’ve got a great list here. Thank you so much for participating! The more responses that I get, the more excited I get about tallying it all up at the end. The master list is going to be a great resource!

Specific to what you wrote, you are right on the money about procrastination. I tend to procrastinate myself, but when I push through that barrier and do the things that I was procrastinating aboout, not only do I feel a lot better, but I feel SUCCESSFUL.

To me, when you know that something needs to be done that you don’t want to do, but you go ahead and do it anyway, that sends the message to your mind that no matter what life throws at you, you’ll be able to handle it.

That point alone has extreme value for readers, without even getting to the rest of your awesome list. Good stuff, Adam, and thanks again for playing along.

I probably should have deep-linked into the posts that I’ve already written along with the brief description of how each act brings me what I see as success at the time, because like you, this is the topic of my blog. I didn’t want to repeat myself, until I realized that sometimes, saying the same thing with different words gets just as good of results as saying something completely new. At least now people have the opportunity to look at my habits from a couple of my perspectives.

10 simple secrets of quantum physics…

Schroedinger’s cat is dead.
Schroedinger’s cat is not dead.

The more that you know of an object’s velocity, the less you know of its location, and vice-versa. (Despite what the author of Stalking the Wild Pendulum says, nothing actually stops moving, even for the briefest moment.)

A speck of dust, barely visible in the most direct sunlight, can maintain a quantum state for nearly a second, although the usefulness of that quantum state is negligible.

The largest electron shell of an atom is 7nm… Computer transistors are approaching that size (smaller = faster), which explains why CPU manufacturers are working on adding more processing cores to their chips, rather than continuing to shrink the size of the transistors. Any smaller, and the transistors will be in an unpredictable permanent quantum state.

Qubits, or “quantum bits,” are not a measure of storage, but a measure of processing power of quantum computers. It is a measure of how many separate quantum states can be measured at a time, with each qubit multiplying the measurable quantum states by four, rather than a binary computer’s measurement of two states per bit. Currently, there are quantum computers capable of measuring 16 qubits, or 4.2 billion states. (Note, that is the American billion, not the European billion.) One company has claimed that they will have a commercially viable quantum computer with 1024 qubits. Also, though binary computers are able to change the states of their bits billions of times per second, quantum computers are currently able to change their bits only at around once per second.

I can’t think of any more quantum secrets at the moment, except to point out that the existence of ghosted quarks does not explain telepathy, simply because of the shear smallness of a quark compared to how much power is generated to form a thought within the brain. Quantum mechanics does not allow for two people to think the same thought artificially… there is some other explanation for telepathy.