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May, or may not be funny. You won't know till you open the thread
 That's had me chuckling on and off for an hour 
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06-01-2010, 17:33
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Really?
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06-01-2010, 17:34
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06-01-2010, 18:54
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You may have to explain it to those of us with broken brains
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06-01-2010, 18:55
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06-01-2010, 19:10
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The cartoon is about Schrödinger's cat. Put a cat in a sealed box, with a sealed vial of poison gas, and a geiger counter. If the geiger counter picks up radiation the vial will open and the cat will die. As an external observer you have no way of knowing whether or not that cat is alive or dead. As I understand it, in quantum physics the cat is both dead and alive at the same time, existing in a quantum supposition state that lasts right up until the moment you open the box and discover if the cat has died or not.
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06-01-2010, 19:36
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Smother me in chocolate and eat flapjacks with it!
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Watch your back Bill Bailey
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06-01-2010, 19:46
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If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.
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06-01-2010, 20:06
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Absinthe
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I try not to look too closely at the bits I don't understand because that way I at least understand it a little bit.
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06-01-2010, 21:14
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This may be me being dumb but isn't the funny bit of the cartoon the cat is trying to get the human into the box so we don't really need to understand quantum physics?
I giggled anyhow
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