Re: HyperCube (Diamond Explained)
From Colin Douthwaite <cfb...@southern.co.nz>
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Shimrod (csg...@wing.rug.nl) wrote: >The Right Rev. Felix Roy Mariposa, Prophet wrote: >> That's not funny! My cat once thought a hypercube was just another >> cardboard box -- so he jumped in it to play... no one's heard from him >> since. If anybody sees him, he's a greyish tabby who answers to the name >> "Schroedinger." Some thoughts on Schrodinger... ============= Schrodinger's Cat or Schrodinger's Can ? ============== Subject: Re: Schrodinger's Cat Newsgroups: sci.physics,rec.humor,alt.ascii-art From: Col...@equinox.gen.nz (Colin Douthwaite) Date: Sun, 11 Sep 94 14:01:34 +1200 Howard Wiseman (hm...@phyvc.auckland.ac.nz) wrote: : In article <Pin...@dsys.cc.conncoll.edu> : Lance D. Ritchie, ldr...@conncoll.edu writes: : >Can anyone tell me more about this? : (Schrodinger's Cat) : >I would especially like any references : >which discuss it. I know I have heard the phrase before. I vaguely : >recall something about a cat in a box, and about how one would know : whether : >or not the cat was dead without opening the box. But, upon reflection, : this : >sounds quite silly. Help! : > : Look in just about any popular book on quantum physics. e.g. : "Quantum Physics: illusion or reality" by A. McRae (I think), or : "In search of Schrodinger's Cat" by John Gribbon (I think) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: eng...@primenet.com (Lawson English) Newsgroups: sci.physics Subject: Re: Schrodinger's Can Date: 31 Jan 1995 06:47:41 GMT Message-ID: <3gkmed$ic...@news.primenet.com> Andy Watson (And...@ix.netcom.com) wrote: : Yes folks, it's true! : Erwin Schrodinger was in fact sitting on the can when he : made his many intuitive discoveries of QM. In fact, he : was in the classic "Thinker" pose as he did so... Did you observe this, or is this merely heresay? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Col...@equinox.gen.nz (Colin Douthwaite) Newsgroups: sci.physics,alt.ascii-art,rec.humor Subject: Re: Can someone please explain Schrodinger's Can to me Date: 31 Jan 1995 03:06:04 GMT Mahipal Singh Virdy (vir...@pogo.den.mmc.com) wrote: : Schrodinger's Can? Can? Can what? [H,A]=HA-AH...HA, HA funny. : ANd they said the Internet wasn't good for laughs. :-) : In article <3g05b4$qm...@eplet.mira.net.au>, : Adrian J.F Land <bun...@werple.mira.net.au> wrote: : >Hi There.. : > : >From time to time I have seen various articles replying : >to thoughts on 'Schrodinger's Cat'.. : >Unfortunatly I cannot find the original article but it : >looks right up my alley - So could someone please : >explain it to me.. : > : >BTW - pitch the explanation at Secondary School level : >please! : > : "..right up my alley"? Wink, wink. : I'm sorry Adrian. I couldn't resist. Otherwise, if not for this : post, my day would've been without Laughter. Typing mistakes do : happen. But the distance between the letter T and the letter n are : too far apart for this to have been accidental. Or so I thought. : Thanks a bunch. : Mahipal, : Someone else will momentarily explain to you the Paradox of the : Cat. I'm too busy laughing. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = ____ ____ _ _ ____ ____ ___ _ _ _ ____ ____ ____ . ____ [__ | |__| |__/ | | | \ | |\ | | __ |___ |__/ ' [__ ___] |___ | | | \ |__| |__/ | | \| |__] |___ | \ ___] ____ ____ _ _ | |__| |\ | |___ | | | \| = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Which Can was Schrodinger actually sitting on ? This Can ? //////// |:---[.] |( _J | ^ ( _| / \_____) / _____ \ | / \ \ _________ | | | | ./ ./ \ /\ /\__ | ./ ./ | | | \/--- _ ./ ./ | \ \ ) ) /________ / o | | >_____/_____)_) | | | \__________/ | | |__ ________ / \ | | / ./ ------- .\ | | | | / ./ \.\ \ \\ | | / ( ) ) \ |\ | | / \. ./ / \ | \ !--------------\ \._______./ / \ | | ! `============' | | | \ I | | | > I | / | / \ |________/____| < > (_________)____) ___\________________________/________________________________ Or this one ? //////// |:---[.] |( _J | ^ ( _| / \_____) / _____ \ | / \ \ | | | | \ /\ /\__ | | | \/--- _ Eep. \ \ ) ) _ _ / | >_____/_____)_) ( )( ) ___ \__________/ ____ \../-' \ ______________________/ \ / \///___/// | | / .====='/ \ \ / \_ _ _ _ \ /________________________________________________________/\ | |=======================================================| \ | | SCHRODINGER'S CAN | | | | | | | | /\_/\ | | | | / o O \_____-------------_________ | |_____|__ | ( ~ ) ____ \ | (_______)_) | \`---'/ / ) ) | | | \___/ / / / / | | | \ ________\ / /__/ | / | \ / / / | / | / / / / | / | _/ / __/ / | / | (___/ (_____/ | / | | / |_______________________________________________________|/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Col...@equinox.gen.nz (Colin Douthwaite) Newsgroups: sci.physics,alt.ascii-art,rec.humor Subject: Re: Entwisle's Dog meets Schrodinger's Cat Date: 6 Dec 1994 06:47:42 GMT Message-ID: <3c11ee$fv...@southern.co.nz> David Howard,Ph3751,Rm368 (dav...@ist.flinders.edu.au) wrote: > I was explaining the idea of Schrodinger's Cat to a fellow > PhD student. In particular, the role of the observer... > What if the observer was a dog (named for said fellow PhD student) > rather than a human? ... > If you take the position that the dog is concious, so that the > situation is the same as that for a human observer, then what > about the case where the observer is a mouse (which had better > hope the cat collapses to "dead" ;-) )... > Comments anyone? For example, the "real" name for > Entwisle's dog if this idea has been considered before... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Entwistle's Dog meets Schrodinger's Cat ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ROWWWWRR! /\_/\ |/ |o -| =(__*__)= . ,' U ', )) 8''''' , , '''''8 )\\ // ''''''. .'''''' _``\`,- '''' ''- ,,,/ / .' '. .---'a> , < ,<' << ,<, ' / \ .' , '., `v^w ' , << ,< ' < < / \ Eep. .' , ,, ''8 ````--' \ ,,,---''/ <' // _ _ / ,, ,'',, ',.' ''''' !! ;; ( ' / \ ( )( ) ___ , ''',,' ', '8 !!</ \ `\ / \../-' \_ '''' '' <</ / /</ \///___/// (FL) <</ .====='/ -Matthew MacIntyre- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Entwistle's Dog meets Schrodinger's Cat ()() ____ (..) /|o | /\/\ /o| o| __c\db/o.. /o_|_o_|_________ / \ /______________________________\ / \ /________________________________\ , , / \ |\___/| ,-. /__________________________________\ |o o|_______________ | | { } \ w / \`. ,',' <____________________________| _`---' , |.`--' ,' | DOG BOX > (____``\ |```` ( \ `---' {____________________________| ______ (________|````````\ /) < } / DOG \ ) // |____________________________| /___________\ (_// \\/ \||// |// \\/ -cfbd- \||// [ mouse & cheese by Row ] Was the dog dead or alive ? Did the cat take a free lunch ? Around this part of the world, anyone ending up in the dog-box would be considered more dead than alive :-) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Malcolm S. Craill (s.c...@mactropolis.co.nz) wrote: >We might be onto something with the tumble driers. >In my youth I taught our cat to navigate through some quite >difficult mazes made from ABC beer crates. These were overlapped >in such a way as to allow the cat to go left or right, up and down. >The crates are of course open ended wooden boxes with small holes >on all remaining 5 faces to allow the subject of the experiment >(the cat) to anticipate the next option avilable around the corner. >This may be an important factor. >The cat later vanished for several days after being last seen in >the vicinity of the beer crates. It later reappeared inside the >clothes drier. The drier had it's door closed at the time that the >cat was discovered. ____________________ | o o o ....... | |--------------------| | ____ | | ,-' `-. | | / /\ /\ \ | | :| (o|o)' |] | | \ =(^)= / | -David Moore- | `-.____,-' | | | ==================== djm The question is was your cat dead or alive when you discovered it in the clothes dryer ? The answer is important because it may provide a solution to the Schrodinger's Cat problem which still creates much difficulty for physicists. =========================================================================== Bye,
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,aed89f7a2fcf37e8 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: cfb...@southern.co.nz (Colin Douthwaite) Subject: Re: HyperCube (Diamond Explained) Date: 1997/06/13 Message-ID: <5nqcgt$tr3$4...@mnementh.southern.co.nz> X-Deja-AN: 248051037 References: <339...@garnet.fsu.edu> <juo...@g-grids.demon.co.uk> <mar...@news.ricochet.net> <339...@garnet.fsu.edu> <mar...@news.ricochet.net> <339...@wing.rug.nl> Organization: Southern InterNet Services Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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