{"id":12983,"date":"2017-11-19T08:41:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T14:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=12983"},"modified":"2017-11-19T08:41:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T14:41:54","slug":"word-of-the-day-271","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/11\/19\/word-of-the-day-271\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Louche<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you describe a person or place as louche, you mean that they are unconventional and not respectable, but often in a way that people find rather attractive.<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.collinsdictionary.com\/us\/dictionary\/english\/louche\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Collins Dictionary<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23631510-200-consciously-quantum-how-you-make-everything-real\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Consciously quantum: How you make everything real<\/a><\/em>,&#8221;\u00a0Philip Ball, <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (11 November 2017, paywall):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The idea that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article-topic\/consciousness\/\">consciousness<\/a>\u00a0induces wave function collapse, the process by which myriad possible outcomes of a measurement become a single definite one, is not inherently absurd. And yet physicists have long regarded it as a rather louche suggestion, because it seems to substitute one mystery for another: we have no idea how to describe consciousness, so how can we expect to know how it causes collapse?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louche: If you describe a person or place as louche, you mean that they are unconventional and not respectable, but often in a way that people find rather attractive. [Collins Dictionary] Noted in &#8220;Consciously quantum: How you make everything real,&#8221;\u00a0Philip Ball, NewScientist (11 November 2017, paywall): The idea that\u00a0consciousness\u00a0induces wave \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/11\/19\/word-of-the-day-271\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12989,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12983\/revisions\/12989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}