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Questions I occasionally ponder: why is it, whenever I write science fiction (even fanfic), inevitably my scientific handwaving involves quantum mechanics? I have a mercifully dim memory of that class -- sophomore year, when I still thought I was going to get that joint major in chemical engineering and creative writing (shut up, it made perfect sense at the time), and mostly what I remember is trying to do a lot of really terrifying math involving many Greek letters. Well, that and thinking that whichever professor had said that differential equations wasn't actually a prerequisite for this class was lying out his ass.

And yet, here I sit, doggedly typing away at the Ten and Donna genfic I'm afraid I'm going to hate by the time I actually finish it, and there's a central plot point closely related to quantum mechanics.

At least it isn't string theory again this time. But it probably should be, because string theory is fucking hysterical if you think about it for even half a minute, and frankly, this story could use a little more humor.