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To: Slings and Arrows

Come on dummy author, that was clearly Schrodinger’s cat...

“Hughes remained in the fetal position on the floor as two people dressed as ninjas blindfolded two stuffed animals and impaled one of them with a sword. The whole five-minute skit was posted on the website Bwog.”

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/video-prof-strips-bizarre-lesson-article-1.1267461#ixzz2LbyR13Iy

{Schrödinger’s cat: a cat, a flask of poison, and a radioactive source are placed in a sealed box. If an internal monitor detects radioactivity (i.e. a single atom decaying), the flask is shattered, releasing the poison that kills the cat. The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics implies that after a while, the cat is simultaneously alive and dead. Yet, when one looks in the box, one sees the cat either alive or dead, not both alive and dead. This poses the question of when exactly quantum superposition ends and reality collapses into one possibility or the other.}


11 posted on 02/22/2013 12:27:53 AM PST by Pikachu_Dad (Impeach Sen Quinn)
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15 posted on 02/22/2013 1:01:00 AM PST by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: Pikachu_Dad

Did he do this with a grant from the National Science Foundation or the National Endowment for the Arts? It seems that our government is endorsing behavior that, in less enlightened times, would have had the performer under close psychiatric evaluation. This is a disturbing trend throughout academia.


21 posted on 02/22/2013 6:58:45 AM PST by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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