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Or…
Can has a heisenburger?
Isn’t that Schroedinger’s cat in the box again?
No fair, you looked!
Just don’t open the lid to find out. I’m begging you.
Marianne – yes it is.
Or, is it?
Only one way to be sure…
Before you opened it, I’da sworn it wasn’t there…
Well, it was and it wasn’t.
If you read sci-fi (the hard kind, with science in it) like Doc Travis Taylor writes, you would know..or not know..the cat right away. Maybe.
I only know the cat because it was mentioned elsewhere and I googled it. But now that I know, I know.
So is the cat in the box half-dead or half-alive?
Ah, physics jokes. From a Naval Captain, no less. Takes some of the sting out of being called a nerd, it does.
“Telephone!”
“Is it Fermi?”
“No, Oppenheimer.”
Oh, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle will not get you out of a speeding ticket, in spite of the officer’s obviously fraudulent claim to have known both your exact speed and position at the time the ticket was written. Nope. Doesn’t work.
– Max
HFS, this particular one appears to be alive, but before we opened the box it was simultaneously both wholly alive and wholly dead.
Which, wow.
Max ~ I have a feeling if you tried to use the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle on a cop in order to wiggle out of a ticket, he’d get irritated and ding you for every single safety violation he could find on your car.
Not that I have any experience with such a situation…nah…
Ahem,
The real problem here is that there appears to be only a singularity. We need duality. Two cats. One is not enough.
Two cats gives you enough material for a pair of mittens, and teriyaki chicken.
Or not.
Someone once tried to get out of a ticket for running a red light by claiming to the judge that the light was blue-shifted enough that he couldn’t tell that it had changed and was actually a red light.
Sadly, for him, the judge had some geekish tendencies and figured out how fast he’d have to have been going to blue-shift the red light to green.
He then gave the fellow a choice: you can pay the find for running the red light, or you can pay the fine for speeding in excess of x% of the speed of light.
Who ordered that cat?
Lex ~ definitely wow.
Tim – those must be pretty big mittens if you need 2 cats to make them. How big are your hands???
One could make this an animated GIF with an empty box and have it flash back and forth.
Good LOLcat though.
Ummm… so if there are TWO cats in the box… does that make one wholly dead and one wholly alive cat?
Or would that still be two wholly half dead and half alive cats?
[sigh]
I don’t know who the inside joke was with, but I am sure whoever they are, they must be as thoroughly impressed as we are.
Made my horrible day a little better…
‘Ceptin’ for the the mittens/teriyaki comment! Yeah … so Tim… Just how BIG are those hands?
Heh,
My hands are big enough, thank you all
And I said mittens, BTW. Mittens come halfway up the forearm. Otherwise they are gloves.
At least here in Maine…..
If the cats are big enough, though, you might could also get a good pair of slippers off’n em.
Personally, I’ve been fond of a pet that thinks of the master as a servant.
I love cats. I just can’t eat a whole one myself.
Our cat is fat enough for mittens, boots and a hat as well!
I like Professor Schrödinger’s cat much more than I ever liked his wave equation…
Army Girl, I believe the joke is with you! See, the cat is INSIDE the box. (Or not.) Har!
Until observed, the (single) cat is simultaneously alive and dead. It is the act of observation that determines the cat’s state.
Hope tomorrow’s a better day for you.
Airdales making physics jokes, who woulda thunk it?
HFS: As I understand it, the cat is a superposition of the two quantum states “alive” AND “dead” until observed. As Lex says, this one (if we can apply the pixels as being real) is observed alive, therefore has collapsed into the state “alive.” Then again for all we know this is a j-peg of a thirty year old photograph. Hmm.
Tim has the right idea regarding mittens. Isn’t there a nursery rhyme about cats and mittens?
Anyway, what I like to do is take a fake mouse and squish it onto a treble hook, attached to my heavy-duty salmon fishing rod. I cast the mouse out into the barnyard and jiggle the line a little, and sure enough one of the farm cats will strike.
Then ya gotta play them a while, let ‘em run, let ‘em run… Then just give a big yank, set that hook, and it turns them right inside out.
Let the hides dry in the sun for a couple of days and you’ve mitten material right there.
Works on cats, coyotes, prairie dogs… Whatever your vermin.
And did I mention they make great Christmas gifts?
– Max
Max ~ you are one sick puppy.
Although wasn’t Heisenberg attempting to illustrate how absurd quantum physics can be?
Isn’t there supposed to be a jar of prussic acid (or some other kind of poison) in the box before it’s opened?
AW1, I thought the difference was that mittens don’t have fingers.
I guess the cult of the cheezburger knows no boundaries or limits. A naval officer quoting with LOLCats…I fear for the future of the private sector.
AW1 Tim: Mittens halfway up the forearm? How about a long sleeved shirt instead? Makes a much better fashion statement, overall…
Eye iz in box, etin Schroedinger’s mouse
But was the joke “inside” the box before you opened it? The dilithium crystals aren’t generating enough power for my Heisenberg Compensator to figure that out. I’d better have engineering deploy a soalr array and redirect through the subspace matrix…
The Alexandrine Solution always solves all quantum problems. Free Will, yaknow. Yah, a shaky theory. (Pace, RAH)
A metaphor for a Tomcat in the box.
I don’t think so, ELP. I believe our host demonstrated his gift for subtlety over Thanksgiving.
Don’t be silly, Homefront, it was just a joke — everybody knows you can’t catch a farm cat on mere salmon tackle! Pick up a farm cat and all you’ll feel is rippling powerful sinewy muscle. Darned things’ll remove and consume your face before you can say “Meow Mix.”
Oddly enough, I do have to give them some grudging respect. They’re the only critter on this farm that earns its own way.
– Max
Max ~ Guess I forgot to insert the sarcastic tone. Whoops! You’re very right about farm cats. Wish my kids could earn their own way like the cats do!
Says the cat, “The box is around me, or not, if I prefer”.
Did you know that 3000 years ago the Egyptians worshipped cats as gods? I am of the opinion that cats have not forgotten this.