[snarks_when_bored]

Let the puns begin...

[snarks_when_bored]

Let the puns begin...

[Brilliant]

"Physi­cists say they have made an ob­ject move just by watch­ing it."



Physicists have a habit of describing what they have discovered in ways that interest the public, but are not really accurate--at least not accurate if you would ask the average guy.

If you've got a particle, you can't just "watch it." It's too small. You use a probe to see if it's there. Or you might shine a light on it, if it's big enough. You use high tech equipment to measure its charge, and that will give away its position.

Of course, when you do any of those things, the particle is nudged a little bit. When you touch it with a probe, shine light on it, or test its charge, it moves.

It would be more accurate to say that they are making it move by "touching it," but then that would not be such a big headline.

[Loyalist]

[HiTech RedNeck]

looking for love in both the wrong places

[saganite]

Physi­cists say they have made an ob­ject move just by watch­ing it.

I can do that after several bourbons. I can even put the same object in 2 or 3 places at the same time. Nothing new here.

[.cnI redruM]

Bill CLinton seems to have done that all the time. He also could see all three sides of a two-sided issue. I think we should give him a Nobel Prize for Physics and let him mount it in the museum down in Hope, Ark.

[Lazamataz]

Physi­cists say they have made an ob­ject move just by watch­ing it.

(Laz looks at his crotch)

[Red Badger]

"Physi­cists say they have made an ob­ject move just by watch­ing it."

Hell, my mother could do that!............."Take out the garbage"....."Mow the lawn"......etc......

[headsonpikes]

All I want to know is - does the Cat live?

[onedoug]

A new variation of the old boson-fermian trick?

[Larry Lucido]

Physicists seek to put one thing in two places

Big deal. So do porn stars.

[jwalsh07]

Sounds almost, well, Newtonian.

[Eastbound]

"This ef­fect, Schwab said, is a ba­si­cal­ly quan­tum-me­chan­i­cal phe­nom­e­non called back-action, in which the act of ob­serv­ing some­thing ac­tu­al­ly gives it a nudge."

Ahah! Eureka! Forsooth! Verily! Is there a possibility that a tree falling in the forest makes no sound unless someone is listening?

[Pride in the USA]

ping

[KarlInOhio]

Physicists seek to put one thing in two places

Which is why Schrödinger used cats for his famous thought experiment. A cat could be meowing in front of her food bowl, knocking things off of her favorite shelf and getting under your feet simultaneously. Cats are also good at quantum tunneling where you can block all paths from point A to point B but the cat still moves between them.

[NicknamedBob]

"... made an ob­ject move just by watch­ing it."

Not really. Simply an admission that for very tiny objects, the light that illuminates them can also give a tiny push.

I don't suppose they are willing to claim they can make an object move by watching it in the dark.

[Junior]

I once knew a guy named Vinnie who ended up in several places at once. In small, green, trash bags...

[Erasmus]

The gray sliv­er reach­ing from top to bot­tom, slanted in the im­age, is a na­no­me­chan­i­cal re­s­o­na­tor, a sub-mi­c­ro­s­co­pic de­vice that can vi­brate like a pia­no string. The im­age was tak­en with a scan­ning el­ec­tron mi­cro­scope and col­or­ized.

BZZZZT. PARITY EXCEPTION IE00007E00013A. GUTEN ABEND.

[dangerdoc]

bump

[MonroeDNA]

I can make guys on the golf channel miss a putt, just by thinking.