A Strange Case Of Uncanny Timing: October 29, 2010 - I wonder what the French word for "entanglement" is?

What does it mean?

You've been thinking about somone. Somone you haven't heard from in weeks, months or even years, and within a short period of time you receive some kind of communication from them. Twice I received letters from a woman I had worked with years before within a day of thinking about her for the first time in a long period of time. The second instance I even stopped in front of the mailbox and had the idea that there was going to be a letter from her because it had already happened once and sure enough, there was a letter in the box. My question is obvious. What is this phenomenon that boils down to a "Strange Case Of Uncanny Timing"?

Is it God? Is it the Universe? Entanglement? Are our brains Quantum computers? Is it the "Law of Attraction"?, or is it all nothing more than a coincidence? Carl Jung called it synchronicity and it happens all the time. Does it happen to you? It happens to me and I find myself wondering "What does it mean?". Decide for yourself as you follow my diary of another "Strange Case Of Uncanny Timing", also known as a S.C.O.U.T!

Sunday, April 8, 2012

October 29, 2010 - I wonder what the French word for "entanglement" is?

Background – I took Tongi - the French exchange student who was staying with us - out to the outlet shops in Leesburg so he could pick up some fancy American jeans before heading home. We were chatting about this and that and I mentioned something about a court case that was going on locally and said the word “attorney”. Tongi was trying to understand this word and ask me a few questions to clarify. When I told him that “attorney” was the same word as “lawyer” he understood immediately what I had been saying. He proceeded to tell me that the word “attorney” in French is the same word for a green fruit with black skin and a large round pit in the middle. At first I was confused and then it clicked, “avocado”! We talked about the two words for a moment and I wondered how in the world those two things could have the same word in French.

S.C.O.U.T. – That very same afternoon, I was driving Tongi and Zack (my son) around and Zack begins to tell me a story about his French class earlier that morning - they had learned that the word for attorney is the same word for avocado (!!) and one of the boys in the class found that fact so funny that it took the teacher 15 minutes to get him to stop laughing and get back to the lesson of the day. By this time I had a substantial tingle running down my spine. I asked Zack what time he had his French class and we figured out that Tongi and I were driving to the outlets and having nearly the very same conversation about the funny green fruit and the French word for attorney… at the very same time! Crazy uncanny.

The word “entanglement” is used to describe a phenomenon from quantum mechanics in which two particles, once “entangled”, behave instantaneously in an identical manner…no matter how far apart they are!! I’m talking across the room or across the Universe! This phenomenon has been studied for years and been proven over and over again. We are, on our fundamental level, made up of these very same particles. Is “uncanny” just another word for “entangled”? and if so, the implications are staggering, don’t you agree?!!