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You can' t really know what's here until you look. Who knows. You might yet find a cat in here. |
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I'm fairly certain there's only one "e" in "Schrödinger". |
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does it die eating dried cat food or not? |
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my little claires gone missing...you better not be
boxing her up you, you, you...you know what! |
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What's the half-life of the idea ? |
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Will the Schrodinghie hold air? |
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this idea may or may not be [marked-for-deletion] |
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Well, where's the cat ? The vial of poison and the radioactive source are ready ....... |
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BRING ON THE CAT ! BRING ON THE CAT ! |
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There's a bear in the box, too ? Please don't hurt the bear. We like bears. Just give us the cat, dead or alive, doesn't matter. All we want is the cat. You can keep the bear. If the bear eats the cat, that's fine too. |
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Someone needs to shed some light on this. I propose a Thomson's Cat Lamp! <shameless elf promotion>. |
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You sure it's a bear? Looks like a fox to me. |
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You burn my little claire and I'll see you in hell you
murderer. And don't even get me started on the cute
little fox. The bear, well the bears on his own...sorry. |
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[OT slightly] Whilst we're on bears, does observing or not observing whatever it is bears do or don't do in the woods, cause any problems at a quantum level?
Or would you be too busy listening for falling trees? |
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The wave function? What other ideas did he have. I don't get this at all. If it's some cute play on the cat in the box thought experiment then I really don't get it. Nothing's potentially dead here. |
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// cause any problems at a quantum level // |
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Not as such; but if the park rangers catch you hiding in the undergrowth, painstakingly watching bears having a dump, then you may have some difficult explaining to do to the rangers.the police, the court, and untimately to the psychiatic staff in the institution in which you will inevitably be confined. |
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// Nothing's potentially dead here. // |
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We know. Life's just full of disappointments. |
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//The wave function? What other ideas did he have.// You must be joking? Or have you just turned a blind (observable) eye? What other ideas do you have to have, after telling everyone that matter and energy don't really exist until you observe them? That is, besides going on to solve quantum harmonic oscillators, and a few questions on diatomic molecules. And then of course motivating J. D. Watson to investigate a double helix. And lastly his work in getting colour defficient vision recognised as a physiological problem and not a mental one. |
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Well, you're supporting my argument with all that, so thanks. And you're forgetting 'What is life'. Some of my favorite musings are in that book. And I think the existence puzzle had already been stated by a certain Bohr of a man. |
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It wasn't just Bohr; the "Copenhagen Interpretation" is the end result of much interaction between many great physicists of that era, except perhaps for Heisenberg - no-one's quite sure if he was involved or not. |
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Glad to help [daseva]. "What is Life?" should be mandatory reading, for anyone drawing breath. PS. all of those musings (and subsequent scientific discoveries come from that book) |
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"The machine must take over the toil for which man is too good, not man the work for which the machine is too expensive." -- E. Schrodinger. "What is life?" |
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Cheers to anyone who can help explain this quote with real life examples. |
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Guthrie's The four colour problem... |
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Is one of the colours The Colour Purple ? |
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Where does the sky come from...that's the question I
want answered. |
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We could tell you, but then we'd have to kill you. |
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<Particle>Waves!</Particle> |
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//" "//
I knew it! I just could keep from looking. |
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//Where does the sky come from//
That's not the question, the question is "where does it go at night?" |
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Hmmm..., then where do stars come from? Why is the
sky black at night, and blue during the day. What
causes the wind to blow? |
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So many questions, so few answers. |
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//Why is the sky black at night, and blue during the day// |
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I remember it with the handy saying "Black sky in the evening, its winter, black sky in the morning, solar eclipse." |
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This doesn't work [-]. As [daseva] noted, there's no uncertainty about it. It is no more an idea than the Ipswich Triptych Styptic Dipstick, whether you observe it or not. |
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Since we already know what Schrödinger's "big" idea was, there is no mystery here, only an extra 'e' in the name.... unless that 'e' happens to stand for the speed of light, and the whole name is some sort of equation. |
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"oe" is the English equivalent of "ö" |
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Only here could a blank space inspire such discussion. |
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