Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site grkermit.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!grkermit!larry From: larry@grkermit.UUCP (Larry Kolodney) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: quantum leap Message-ID: <517@grkermit.UUCP> Date: Mon, 25-Jul-83 13:10:17 EDT Article-I.D.: grkermit.517 Posted: Mon Jul 25 13:10:17 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 25-Jul-83 21:40:39 EDT References: <824@gummo.UUCP> Organization: GenRad Inc., Concord, MA Lines: 14 I think most politicians use the term quantum leap as a cliche', not really knowing the technical meaning, but knowing that it is associated with major changes. If it is used with major changes, it can be construed as being correct in that major changes, while being big, also tend to put the field that they occur in in an entirely new state of (i.e. a descrete jump has occured). -- Larry Kolodney #8 (Moving up) (USENET) decvax!genrad!grkermit!larry allegra!linus!genrad!grkermit!larry (ARPA) rms.g.lkk@mit-ai