SteelyKid was born in a small local hospital specializing in maternity care, with maybe 40-50 beds in the whole place. It's insanely crowded right now, with most of their patients doubled up in rooms that are often private, and one of the nurses said that they had 24 babies in the nursery last night, including at least two of the four sets of twins born in the last week.
There are only two possible explanations for this: babies are obviously bosons, so we could just be seeing baby bunching, in a sort of obstetric version of the Hanbury Brown and Twiss experiment. Or it could be that other parents and babies were arranging their deliveries so as to have the opportunity to share a nursery with SteelyKid.
I know which I'm going with:
I mean, who wouldn't want to be close to that?
Below the fold, a rare picture in which her eyes are open:
SteelyKid says "Touchdown! Go Giants!"
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Dear, sweet, innocent SteelyKid:
Don't you let your daddy, OR your Grandpa Orzel, brainwash you into becoming a Giants fan!!!!! You probably meant to say "Touchdown! Go Cowboys!!!"
PS: You do have a most beautiful face, little one!!!!
Oops, I missed your last post. So, congratulations to all of you, and especially SteelyKid for getting here.
I don't want to worry you, but she could be practising to be either a cricket or Aussie rules umpire.
First, my congratulation on successful - so far - perpetuation.
I read a study several years ago of Hunter-Gatherer bands, contemporary then but largely gone now. One of the findings in the study was that the women's menstrual periods autosynchronized. I understand similar phenomena have been noted in women's college dorms and sorority houses. Given this may also be a phenomena that at least approximately obeys Bose-Einstein Statistics, it may be possible for birth events to be autosynchronized either derivatively as an inhomogeneous renewal, or via a similar mechanism to the menstrual synchronization.
Oh! And she's a bonnie bairn, one of the few I have seen who don't look like Sir Winston.
Awwwww, she looks adorable. Some advice, be sure to take as many of those striped blankets as you can. They are the perfect size and thickness for nice tight swaddling, and you can't buy them in the outside world.
Which is ironic, because every hospital in the united states seems to use the same blanket. I've gotten baby pictures from Oregon, Texas, North Carolina, Wisconsin, and they, along with all of New England, seem to use the same blanket.
My God, that's the second most insanely cute baby I have ever seen. What a perfect little beauty.
Awwwww! She looks just like Kate!
When I was a child, I was irked by the scientific terminology mixed metaphor that my mom would quote from her favorite Bio professor: "when a Man and Wife conceive a baby, two half-lifes combine to make one full life."
But the mataphor looks better now that I'm a parent, and know more about haploid and diploid.
Is it possible that each of a sperm and an egg are fermions, but combine to make a baby which is a boson?
I meant to ask: is SteelyKid more like a charged spin-0 weak intermediate boson, in addition to the usual spin-1 intermediate bosons, or like a spin-2 boson as with a graviton or the superfluid-Mott insulator transition of spin-2 boson atoms with repulsive interaction in an optical lattice in a magnetic field?
Assuredly, in any case, a source of coherent q-tons, which are the quanta of cuteness.
Hmmmmmmmmm........ "superfluid"? - actually, that's a good word for the poop. :-PPPPPPPPP