[Rb ver. 2.0]

Time to start looking for an alternate universe.

[syriacus]

Next: “Universe huggers” will declare that we need to blind our children the moment they are born.

[norwaypinesavage]

"Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger 1887 - 1961"

Now matter how you look at it, Schrödinger's cat is dead.

[longtermmemmory]

every time you explore the univers a smurf dies.

please ignorance is strenght don’t question global warming.

algore loves you.

[Hardastarboard]

in the very beginning, there was a void that possessed energy but was devoid of substance. Then the void changed, converting energy into the hot matter of the big bang.

You know, I remember vaguely having read this same story of the beginning of the Universe somewhere else, only without the words "Big Bang" at the end.

the object can stop changing - just as a watched kettle never boils.

Whoever gave this author his science credentials should revoke them immediately, by violence if necessary. What a screeching, drooling moron. A watched pot will boil as much as an unwatched pot will boil.

Put a timer on the watched and unwatched pots, then watch one and not the other. Both will boil, but because you're watching the one, subjectively it seems like the pot takes forever. IT WILL HOWEVER, BOIL.

Yeah, yeah, I know my science is oldthink. Quantum physics is complicated enough, and mysterious enough, that it enables the bizarro world view of the morons of the left, who apparently still believe in magic - "If I watch something, it will change it". My favorite sports teams seem unaffected by this thinking, no matter how much I watch. Of course, if you subscribe to "my watching them destroys them", you may be onto something.

These people are frighteningly stupid.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Solipsism

[PreciousLiberty]

First off, one guesses this scientist has dismissed a diety as a potential ‘observer’. ;-)

I’m guessing some other species made the same observation a week before we did - so we’re off the hook. lol

[tarheelswamprat]

The damaging allegations are made by Profs Lawrence Krauss of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and James Dent of Vanderbilt University, Nashville,...

Oh, so now even mere allegations are "damaging"... /grin

The "New Scientist" - where junk science meets remedial English.

[M Kehoe]

Time to start looking for an alternate universe.

I think the democRATs/liberals/socialists have already found one.

5.56mm

[oldsalt]

Does this mean if we all stare at Hilary long enough she’ll go away?

[Clioman]

An attention-grabbing thesis. Can a hefty grant application be far behind?

[Flavius]

this has to be a joke or how to I make my antigravity reparations

[kitchen]

How many electrons were harmed in the publication of this drivel?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

This is the biggest bunch of scientific piffle I have ever read from a semi-respectable newspaper.

[Condor51]

NY Slimes Headline....
Universe To End!!
Women, Minorities and Poor Hardest Hit
Demise of Universe Linked to President Bush

[Beowulf]

Global Warming to blame?

[samtheman]

What’s the technical term for a scientific circle-jerk?

[omniscient]

Does this mean that Uranus could eventually disappear?

[Caramelgal]

In a nutshell, the theory suggests that we change things simply by looking at them and theorists have puzzled over the implications for years.

This sounds a bit like the old question; if a tree falls in the forest and no one is around, does it make a sound?

the “quantum Zeno effect,” which suggests that if an “observer” makes repeated, quick observations of a microscopic object undergoing change, the object can stop changing - just as a watched kettle never boils.

A tree falling in the forest certainly makes a sound, whether any of “us” are around to hear the noise or not. And a watched kettle comes to a boil at the same rate as an unwatched one – the only difference being our perception of time and how anxious we are for something to happen. Just because one makes observation of a microscopic object undergoing change and the object stops changing, it would have done so whether the observer was watching or not.

It reminds me of the phenomenon of light poles along the highway. How often have you driven past a light pole just as it burns out and goes dark? Some people think that they somehow caused it to go out because every time they “observe” a light going out, they happened to be looking at it. Of course they only notice the few lights that happen to burn out while they are driving by because it is a noticeable event and disregard the thousands of lights that remain lit.

…Schrodinger’s cat in which, thanks to a fancy experimental set up, the moggy is both alive and dead until someone decides to look, when it either carries on living, or dies. That is, by one interpetation (by another, the universe splits into two, one with a live cat and one with a dead one.)

If by looking at someone, I could effect whether that person was alive or dead, there would a few more dead people…I’ve given the “evil eye” to my ex husband and just yesterday to a sleazy ex-boyfriend and his latest girl friend when I saw them together at the grocery store and as far as I know, they are all alive and doing well.

Of course perhaps the Universe split and in an alternate one, I had laser beam eyes and they were burned to a crisp. But I doubt that and it wouldn’t matter any way because I only live in this Universe and have no such powers.

[mikrofon]

Prof[s] Lawrence Krauss of NutCase Western Reserve University

There, fixed it...

[pigsmith]