Month: March 2023

I was recently reminded of the relation between action at a distance and the Uncertainty Principle both hard to explain in an article about Chien Shiung Wu. Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, widely known and taught, maintains that it’s not possible to know simultaneously the position and momentum of an elementary particle. Entanglement, termed spooky action at…

Formication From Formic having to do with ants as in Formic acid. A previously abused addicted woman with many problems, had the common delusion of unceasing parasites crawling over her body called Formication, similar to visceral larva migrans. She had the workups and tests such as IgE, eosinophil counts many others to definitively exclude a…