@MarkusDeserno: A lovely greeting to y'all! I have a new physics story I'd like to tell——about the relation between Statistical Physics and Quantum Mechanics! Or: why is Quantum Mechanics so in-your-face when it's c...…

In a hypothetical situation I'm still sitting in a coffee shop but a gravitational wave similar to the three reported by LIGO passes through me from behind. The source is much closer though, so thi...