Chicken Little
I was just observing FD SCP preparing her breakfast and to make a longish story short, she mentioned that she had more steps to go through this morning because the toaster needed to be cleaned, the cream cheese contained refilled, …..; all to be accomplished before she could heat soak her bagel, add a shmear, and consume.
In reflection I was moved to consider these little things that need to be done tend to accumulate until a pack of them must be performed before some needful accomplishment can be realized.
Now I have been familiar with the old human activity of deferrment – “never do today what can be postponed beyond the immediate” – but I had never considered that these deferrment might obey Bose-Einstein statistics. And that if they do, it is clearly due to human nature that they do so.
That humans have statistical behaviors akin to elementary particle is not new. For example, we have known for years that extroverts obey Bose-Einstein statistics while Introverts obey Fermi-Dirac statistics. You will not find this stated in any psychology or medical reference text, mostly because the folks who write these texts have no idea what BE and FD stats are. But when I have told colleagues who are psychologists about this, and have laborously explained BE and FD stats to them, they either nod vigorously or run away houling with their ears covered. For which the obvious question is whether psychologists have intrinsic half integer angular momentum?
But back to our original consideration. If these deferrments are indeed described by BE stats, and they do indeed condense when they each some critical density (number), then may we postulate some “Law of Nuisance Accumulation”?
