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minus-squaresnooggums@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·1 day agoThe meaning isn’t literal, it is saying that waiting feels longer when you are focused on the thing.
minus-squareprettybunnys@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·22 hours agoThe meaning has been lost, it means that you won’t ruin your soup if you tend it.
minus-squaresnooggums@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·22 hours agoI’ve heard that before and it sounds plausible, but the anticipation making things take longer is clever instead of literal.
minus-squarei_love_FFT@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up2·18 hours agoThe meaning can also be literal if you interpret it using quantum physics. Observing the quantum state of a molecule will collapse its wavefunction in the most likely state, which is the same state it was in if you observed it mere instants ago.
The meaning isn’t literal, it is saying that waiting feels longer when you are focused on the thing.
The meaning has been lost, it means that you won’t ruin your soup if you tend it.
I’ve heard that before and it sounds plausible, but the anticipation making things take longer is clever instead of literal.
The meaning can also be literal if you interpret it using quantum physics. Observing the quantum state of a molecule will collapse its wavefunction in the most likely state, which is the same state it was in if you observed it mere instants ago.