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Circuses sometimes have people on top of big bendy poles.
Generally, the people are balanced there, and they waft back and
forth. Sometimes, two pole-people meet, and swap poles or do
other clever stuff. Or maybe I dreamt that. But no matter.
A suitable array of really large springy poles
dotted across a city,
with sizeable platforms on top, could form a picturesque mass transit
system. The poles would swing slowly and majestically, and the
platforms on top would have side-railings which open only when two
platforms come together (and are briefly held there) allowing people
to move from one platform to the next. The swinging could be
maintained by a very gentle ground-based nudger, or it could be left
up to the skill and teamwork of the commuters to establish and
maintain the oscillations. Lights on the platforms would make for a
spectacular display during night-time rush-hour.
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(This is) A world where physical ability is
placed(measured)
above
intellectual ability and public transit
becomes(mimics) a
platform video game. |
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I've just checked, and there are no less than six distinct
possible interpretations of that annotation. |
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And because we are in the quantum
(understanding/learning) era, the
individual collapses statement meaning. |
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Sorry.. Healthier public, though. |
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Like, "in the last six-and-a-half -billion earth years since Event One" ? |
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// individual collapses statement meaning. // |
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The observer colapses the wave function. Each observer is by definition discrete, as each interaction is unique. This statement is either tautology, or sophistry, or more likely both, being both a wave and a particle simultaneousy. |
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Yet another example of Bohr's "complementarity" theory (as if you needed it pointed out, which you probably did. Pay attention. Look at us when we're talking to you. This is for your benefit, not ours). |
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[+] for the picture of sedate businessmen/ladies calmly acrobat'ing their way to/from work.... hmm... how would rush hour work? given that more people are traveling one way than the other. |
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{Drives a nail through his tongue before realising he's on the wrong line} |
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//how would rush hour work?// The system is inherently bi-
directional, but then again so are buses and trains (unless
you have a very large stockpile of buses and trains). |
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For busy periods, the poles could be hydraulically stiffened
to increase the frequency of oscillation for skilled
commuters. |
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+ only if all the commuters are required to wear sequined body suits and paint their faces multi colors |
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[8th of 7] So a sentence with multiple meanings is
not a good 'simple' metaphor for a quantum state ?
And the way the state collapses(I am thinking more
of Bose-Einstein condensate) depends on the
environment applied?
In this case a persons reading ability and word
knowledge. |
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re: sentences with multiple meanings |
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I think all sentences, and more broadly speaking all data, have an infinite number of possible interpretations dependent on the context/reader/observer. I'm undecided as to whether this makes it a good analogy for collapsing wave functions. |
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wouldn't it be simpler to just use fleets of clown cars? |
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I like it. Low carbon footprint, keeps people fit, potential for hilarious accidents that can be posted on YouTube. + as long as I don't have to use it. |
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Could the platform be engineered to pass off to the
next pole? |
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Each pole has two platforms each passed the
opposite way. Of course the whole system, as looking
down on the city, would have to be some spirograph
pattern to have the platforms circulate and get
people to where they want to go. |
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//{Drives a nail through his tongue before realising he's on the wrong line}//
And also at the wrong circus, I suspect. |
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Oxford / Piccadilly / Holborn?
{Set's up for "I'll show you viacuct" gag} |
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[Dub] - Mornington Crescent |
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I thought we weren't allowing quangies! |
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Always with quangies. It's a different game without |
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