That Hazy Border….
Schrodinger’s Cat 101:
A cat is locked inside of an opaque box. No possible means exist through which the cat can escape. The lid of the box is rigged to a random timing device; when opened by an outside observer, it either releases a vial of poison gas which instantly kills the cat, or nothing happens. The question: Is the cat alive, or dead?
The answer, per quantum physics, is neither. Or both. In fact, the answer is that the cat does not exist. As soon as the cat is no longer observable, it is transformed into a *potential* cat. Is this one way to free the goose from the bottle?
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For those wondering what we thought of the final HP book, we were pleased that our suspicions about one character were proven correct, but we were saddened that our theory about another was proven incorrect.
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Why do we need to run studies to tell us that food– ANY food– wrapped in McDonald’s wrappers tastes better to kids? Why do we think this effect is limited to kids? Are we surprised that activities wrapped in nationalism “taste better” to adults?
(It’s because the spells they cast *work really well*)
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Quote of the month: Perhaps the abuses at Abu Ghraib would not have happened with autonomous robots, immune to human depravity. Source? ISA Consulting. Nobody bothered to consider *robotic* depravity. Say, aren’t the sins of the father visited upon the sun?
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If the Matrix was real, how many humans in vats would it need to keep itself running?
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“Smaddening”: A cross between maddening and saddening, the feeling that overcomes one when one walks into the lunchroom for the umpteenth time, hears heated, yet hopelessly naive political discussion emerging from the mouths of very loud and impassioned people, and realizes that it’s only going to get worse from here…..
