Now I understand, thanks.
(03-07-2013, 06:20 AM)debbie Wrote: [ -> ]OK, I'm out, that is above my fireplace. I followed up till Schrodinger, but then you drop that on me and I'm back to not understanding. I'm gonna one day call my cat Schrodinger and my dog Pavlov.
:high five:
(03-07-2013, 05:46 AM)Danjo Wrote: [ -> ]Heisenberg uncertainty principle (which is what the Schrodinger's cat thing is about). Essentially, the more certainty in the measurement of the position of a particle, the less certainty existed about how it would move with time. (This is from my paper on Schrodinger last semester) And of course if you have less certainty about the particles position, you can have more certainty about its momentum.
Ah right, it's the whole "we can know its position at a given time but not know its velocity or vice versa" thing. Yeah, I've heard of that.
I love how Erwin Schrodinger brought forward his cat experiment as a joke and then it was taken seriously hahaha.
It was a thought experiment/joke because he thought the Heisenberg uncertainty principle was ridiculous. I don't really know why so many people know about it, it was just interesting I guess. Its funny though, because he disagreed with all of that part of Quantum Mechanics, but his own work totally pointed towards that being the case.
And now there are adds for Schrodinger's Cat t-shirts.
Hah, yeah. Irony is a wonderful thing.
Schrodinger's Cat: Wanted Dead and/or Alive.
Relevant to earlier conversation.
I lurve Vsauce.
I also seem to have a newfound interest in pseudoscience.
I'm not sure if this is 100% the appropriate thread, but its kinda a philosophical thing. My mini rant on vegetarians.
Vegitarians say we people eat meat, because eating meat is supporting an industry that is unnecessarily cruel to animals.
Many vegitarians, at least those who are hippies (the two groups are not the same, but they definitely overlap), smoke weed, or do other drugs. The "industry" that these drugs come from is notoriously violent, not towards animals, but humans.
True you can have homegrown drugs, but you can also have homegrown animals, so the philosophical point is moot.
Where is the disconnect here? Its okay to kill people, but not animals?
Humans are the predators of the wooorrrrld, maaaan.
I'm vehemently against drug use, personally
I wonder if there are any vegetarians that are pro-choice as well.
I was gonna ask a question here myself. Is it more immoral to push your beliefs (non-violently) onto someone else (like, insisting on them), or to live and let live, letting other people do things that you consider to be highly immoral?
I'm not actually sure about the morality of it. I guess I'm only pushy if someone is obviously getting hurt, including the person themselves. Otherwise I'll let them know I don't like it, but I'll sit by and let them live their life.