decoherence n.— «If you’re looking for places where the laws of physics allow for information to be injected into the universe, then you must look to quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics has a process called “decoherence”—which takes place during...
ditch in line v.— «“And yes, I’ll be one of the thousands fighting to be first in line for the book.”…“Hey! No ditching in line!”» —“ Re: Stan Lee to do DC characters” by Michael Payton Usenet: rec.arts.comics.dc.universe Apr. 12, 2000. (source:...
talk out (the side of) one’s neck v. phr.— «Only the sum of all these experiences would be able to make up Universe itself. of course i’m just “talking out of my neck” as we say in Dutch.» —“Synergetics—jitterbug, scale” by Gerald de Jong Usenet:...
hypersigil n. a creative work that via the medium of its artificial universe changes its creator, its observers, the real world, or other things. Etymological Note: hyper ‘over, beyond, or above’ ‘+ sigil ‘a seal or sign claimed to have occult or...
fyborg n.— «A few years ago I wrote a book defending the idea that humans have already evolved into functional cyborgs—fyborgs, if you will. The idea was that through the development of culture, broadly understood, it was impossible to separate...