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Schrödinger's Christmas Present
If I don't open it then it remains simultaneously the present I do want and the one I don't want.
What should I do? |
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I'm not with you.
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Set it on fire.
Edit: Or open it? Yeah, that would be best.
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You won't be able to enjoy the 'maybe' good present unless you open it, unless the thought of it 'maybe' being there is good enough?
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Get your cat to open it. 🐱👤
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Get your cat to open it. 🐱👤
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There is no Present until it is opened.
If you value your ongoing life, it will always be the right present when it is opened. |
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Can Santa simultaneously give a wave and a party call?
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I asked the cat but he said, 'Me?, How'
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What should I do?
have you got a pin ? |
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It is already what it is. Schrödinger was having a laugh.
So open the box there is then a chance you get what you want. If you keep it closed there is no chance. |
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If I don't open it then it remains simultaneously the present I do want and the one I don't want.
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Everyone seems to have entirely missed the point of that darn cat. If there's anything visible inside the box, then it's a macro size object, not subject to any ''uncertainty'' at all
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Everyone seems to have entirely missed the point of that darn cat. If there's anything visible inside the box, then it's a macro size object, not subject to any ''uncertainty'' at all
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I fear the OP's present is...
Spoiler
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True story
Many years ago, my 15 yr old sister had been wheedling and begging for some sort of Ghetto Blaster / Mini HiFi System for her bedroom. As we were becoming young adults, we developed a tradition of opening most of our Under Tree presents after Lunch and Washing up and Queens Speech. Her Big Box Main Present was magnetically attractive throughout the day, and was destined to be one of the last to be opened. Finally, the time came.... She carefully started removing the wrapping to reveal a Sony Ghetto Blaster Box! Floods of tears, she was so happy. But it was a cruel twist of fate. It was just a convenient box taken from the supermarket, used to pack a Pair of Green Wellies. A Niagara of Tears followed. This was not a cruel joke by our Mum, she was totally unaware of the coincidence. She was never forgiven either for being useless in this instance , and never allowed to forget it over several decades. |
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One year i asked my brother for an alan partridge DVD. When i opened it, he'd got me a Michael McIntyre one instead. ...
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If I don't open it then it remains simultaneously the present I do want and the one I don't want.
What should I do? Had a bit of a health scare at the back end of 2015. A cough I just couldn't shift. Had a biopsy and a cat scan. When I went for the scan, I noticed a wall full of thank you letters, poems and the like. So I chirped up that I liked to pen a poem or two. The nurse said that I should write one. So I did. As far as I was concerned, until I got the results of the scan, while I was waiting, I did and didn't have the big C. So I wrote this .... Schrödinger's Cat Scan The nurse said I've heard there's a rumour You excel at the writing of humour But the results of the scan Mean I'm no laughing man And that's thanks to my melon sized tumour I don't think it's on the wall. Oh, and obviously, do yours about the socks you didn't want. Or the selection box. And if it is a selection box, don't use Crunchie at the end of lines 1,2 or 5. It'll be a bugger to write. |
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You can use Crunchies for lines 3 or 4 ...
I'd rather Nan gave me the pox Than novelty jumper and socks Get Mars Bars and Crunchies My favourite munchies With two or three more in the box. Happy Christmas. |
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Not so. See my post #11
I've got his biography somewhere, though years since i read it, |
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Schrodinger's theory is based on de broglie waves, but heisenberg's is based on spectral series. Despite dirac claiming ''eqivalence'', it's the heisenberg formalism that's actually used.
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One year i asked my brother for an alan partridge DVD. When i opened it, he'd got me a Michael McIntyre one instead. ...
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If Schrödinger had been a gambling man he would not have got himself so worked up about comparing the actuality with the potentiality.
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If Schrödinger had been a gambling man he would not have got himself so worked up about comparing the actuality with the potentiality.
For a hundred years admirals and war leaders got their knickers in a twist over exactly that See under Alfred Thayer Mahan and his theory of "a fleet in being"...
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The Big Bang Theory has a lot to answer for.
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See under Alfred Thayer Mahan and his theory of "a fleet in being"...