The " strangeness " of a strange loop comes from our way of perception, because we categorize our input in a small number of ' symbols ' ( by which Hofstadter means groups of neurons standing for one thing in the outside world ).

For instance, if one particle has electric charge of + 1 the other must have electric charge of − 1, or if one particle has strangeness of + 1 then another one must have strangeness of − 1.

The strangeness of this result is clear if one compares it with parity.

See the parity violation section above .</ ref >) is any one of a group of four mesons distinguished by the fact that they carry a quantum number called strangeness.

In most cases these decays change the value of the strangeness by one unit.

The tale begins with one explanation of Gautrek's strangeness, relating how Gautrek's father-to-be, King Gauti of West Götaland, became lost while hunting and spent the night in an isolated homestead of strange, arguably insane, backwoods bumpkins: a stingy farmer named Skafnörtung ' Skinflint ', his equally stingy wife Tötra ' Tatters ', and their three sons and three daughters.

Each of the stories touches on the theme of dislocation, and the strangeness of life in a foreign land, although quite what " foreign " means is one of Mr. García Márquez's central questions in this book.

" He expressed concern while writing it that " Randolph Carter's adventures may have reached the point of palling on the reader ; or that the very plethora of weird imagery may have destroyed the power of any one image to produce the desired impression of strangeness.

But he also reminds us of the out-and-out strangeness that fantasy can engender, in a way no one has since Clark Ashton Smith.

He was one of the most devoted and perceptive physicists only satisfied with deep understanding of any concept and his interest increases with the strangeness or significance of the phenomenon.

It was the mixture of monstrous strangeness and unwelcome likeness that made Gemmy Fairley so disturbing to them, since at any moment he could show either one face or the other ; as if he were always standing there at one of those meetings, but in his case willingly and the encounter was an embrace.

It follows one, Mallory Ringess, as he discovers secrets and strangeness in the Universe he inhabits.

Its strangeness, which borders cheerfully on the ridiculous, is its most enjoyable feature.

In their picaresque and unrelenting strangeness, Shea's tales evoke Jack Vance and Lord Dunsany, Clark Ashton Smith's Zothique tales, as well as The Worm Ouroboros ; but what his work most reminds me of is David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus, a book which had always struck me as being sui generis.

Hypernuclei can be made by a nucleus capturing a Lambda or K meson and boiling off neutrons in a compound nuclear reaction, or, perhaps most easily, by the direct strangeness exchange reaction.

First, the particles were classified by charge and isospin by Eugene Wigner and Werner Heisenberg ; then, in 1953, according to strangeness by Murray Gell-Mann and Kazuhiko Nishijima.

Neither the strong interaction nor electromagnetism permit flavour changing, so this must proceed by weak decay ; without weak decay, quark properties such as strangeness and charm ( associated with the quarks of the same name ) would also be conserved across all interactions.

Similarly, object relations theory would point to the way ' in perversion there is the refusal, the terror of strangeness '; to the way ' the " pervert "... attacks imaginative elaboration through compulsive action with an accomplice ; and this is done to mask psychic pain '.

The terms strange and strangeness predate the discovery of the quark, and were adopted after its discovery in order to preserve the continuity of the phrase ; strangeness of anti-particles being referred to as + 1, and particles as − 1 as per the original definition.

This weakness that Strauss identifies is considered a strength of the ESV and other literal translations by proponents of that methodology, emphasizing that it reminds readers of the Bible's strangeness, coming from a world thousands of years gone, by not fitting it to grade-school English — when the texts themselves are not always grammatical — and modern Western sociocultural sensibilities, such as feminism and the pursuant gender-neutral debate ; and that it also allows for more transparency to the source texts, requiring less interpretation on the part of translators, with the goal of leaving as much semantic vagueness as the original texts possess visible to the reader in translation, not arbitrarily closing off exegetical choices to the reader at the level of translation.

Sutherland focused on the inherent strangeness of natural forms, and abstracting them, sometimes giving his work a surrealist appearance ; in 1936 he exhibited in the International Surrealist Exhibition in London.

Of these, glueballs must be flavor singlets ; that is, have zero isospin, strangeness, charm, bottomness, and topness.

Unfortunately, the character is not developed sufficiently beyond that, which is also the case with the Wally Cassell " mechanical man " character ; he, too, shows promise that goes unfulfilled, although the sheer strangeness of his job does fascinate.

On his return in 1947 the city had already changed, but not enough to rob it of its aura of strangeness and wonder.

We essentially turned the control room into a swamp ... we had moss all over the place and stuffed animals and alligator heads ... On the record there's not really the obvious presence of synthesizers, just straight-ahead drums and bass and guitars, yet there's this blazing strangeness around it.

: From what I can gather it seems that the Ancient Mariner has upon the whole been an injury to the volume, I mean that the old words and the strangeness of it have deterred readers from going on.

The strangeness of the figure has been interpreted in a variety of ways.

Hypernuclei were first observed by their energetic but delayed decay, but have also been studied by measuring the momenta of the K and pi mesons in the direct strangeness exchange reactions.

" Slipstream fiction has consequently been referred to as " the fiction of strangeness ," which is as clear a definition as any of the others in wide use.

Richard Wathen's paintings are primarily portraits and his works have been compared to those of Thomas Gainsborough in their subject matter and composition, though with a " strangeness " or " uneasiness " about them, even something " eerie " or " grotesque.

" And The Globe and Mail says, " Gowdy's is a peacemaking genius, unique in its talent for the translation of strangeness to second nature ...."

As Doig explains: “ When you walk through an urban environment, you take the strangeness of the architecture for granted ”.

In his book If Football's a Religion, Why Don't We Have a Prayer ?, Jereé Longman described the 700 Level as having a reputation for " hostile taunting, fighting, public urination and general strangeness.

In particle physics, strangeness S is a property of particles, expressed as a quantum number, for describing decay of particles in strong and electromagnetic reactions, which occur in a short period of time.

Fester also is very fond of the Addamses ' next door neighbour, Norman Normanmayer, a boring person controlling an underwear empire, who hates Fester ( and the whole Addams family ) for his strangeness ( on an occasion, Fester comes on a visit through the sewer pipes ).

Another exhibition of Rosa's work, held at London's Dulwich Picture Gallery in 2010, emphasised the strangeness of Rosa's painting and themes, showing his enthusiasm for ' bandits, wilderness and magic '.

The strangeness, both of the expression and of the subjects, only admits of a paraphrastic version for large portions, unless the sense is to be entirely obliterated.

In the Jointness type of object relation the individuals ( children and adults ) jointly determine the extent of rapprochement between themselves, while each of them is sensorily attentive to the strangeness and the separateness that the other represents for him.

Perhaps we will gradually get used to the weird ways of our cosmos and find its strangeness to be part of its charm.

Nothing similar can be found in the entire millennium of Byzantine tradition from the fifth to fifteenth century ... a strangeness that astonishes by its unexpectedness, complexity and dazzling interleaving of the manifold details of its design.

The sense of antiquitates, the idea that a civilization could be recovered by a systematic exploration of its relics and material culture, in the sense used by Varro and reflected in Josephus ' Antiquities of the Jews was lost during the Middle Ages, when ancient objects were collected with other appeals, the rarity or strangeness of their materials or simply because they were thought to be endowed with magical or miraculous powers.