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Schrodinger's Cat T-Shirt

Schrodinger's Cat T-Shirt for $4.99

Apr 28, 2012 4:44 AM

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My biggest problem with any Schrödinger humor is it constantly invites two things: explaining the joke, and people who think that three minutes on the web makes them an expert on quantum physics.

shinespark shinespark
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@shinespark: You deserve an up-vote just for the umlaut.

swaan swaan
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@swaan: You deserve an up vote for knowing what a Umlaut is.

maxsmoke777 maxsmoke777
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It just became meta in here.

curtisuxor curtisuxor
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Call me a skeptic, but I think 3000 years of study couldn't make anyone an expert on quantum physics. And anyone who says they are, I dare to get in a box with poison released.

nieltj nieltj
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I apologise for being "that guy".

@nieltj: Isn't the whole point that the poison isn't known to be released and that it is conditional on the state of a particle (post-observation)?

Also (and further apologies for being "that guy") Shcrödinger was pointing out the absurd implications of quantum theory. His point is that a cat (as an example of a complex system) cannot be both alive and dead at the same time.

tronak tronak
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The lack of apostrophe is eating away at my insides.

monkeymolotovs monkeymolotovs
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3 minutes? I'm an expert in 1:48... :-p

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOYyCHGWJq4

rookie3001 rookie3001
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@tronak: By no stretch of the imagination do I consider myself a scientist, so I am asking this question earnestly: Does Schrodinger's cat demonstrate the phrase "You changed the outcome by observing it"? I remember hearing this on an ep. of Futurama where The Professor was complaining about a photo-finish review. The properties of the result and even the result itself would be different once it was viewed by an observer.

curtisuxor curtisuxor
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How about the fact that the shirt is funny, even if you don't really understand the details..?

primadogga primadogga
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@curtisuxor: Yes.

misry misry
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@monkeymolotovs: I should have titled the post, "Schrodingers [sic] Cat T-Shirt."

swaan swaan
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@curtisuxor: I am a social scientist, which to physicists is about the same as the person bagging your groceries*, so don't take my word for it, but I think of it as akin to "If a tree falls in a forest, and no one is there to hear it fall, does it make a sound?"

*I shop for groceries in Cambridge, MA, and so it is likely that a social scientist HAS bagged my groceries.

swaan swaan
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@swaan: I'm in the soft sciences as well; political science (aka the youngest soft science). :)

Thanks for your illustration.

curtisuxor curtisuxor
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@tronak: the paradox is that on the t-shirt both checkboxes are checked and you can see the cat. I'd consider it if checkboxes read "alive" and "stuffed" since that's closer to cat's observed state -- no way it can be dead and sit like that. As it is, they can go read a pop science book.

rootatlocalhost rootatlocalhost
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Hmm. I notice that the link passes through some website called "Share a Sale". I don't know much about 'em, but I get the impression that the OP is making money off of the link.

jackofallgames42 jackofallgames42
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@jackofallgames42: Ha! Is the OP me? If only. Is there actually a way to make a profit from procrastinating on the internet when I'm supposed to be writing my dissertation?

Because my fellowship's about to run out, and the mortgage payment is due. Seriously, is there?

swaan swaan
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@swaan: Sorry, no offense intended. I'm not very familiar with shareasale - the name just sounded like one of those profit-sharing sites that pay people for clicks/purchases. It strikes me as odd that the link is not direct to the deal page and through another site.

I surf the web with a javascript whitelist (for security, mostly) so I tend to notice when people aren't directly linking to a page (since I don't automatically get forwarded to the destination). It just struck me as odd - that's all.

Out of curiosity then, why does the link seem to pass through shareasale?

jackofallgames42 jackofallgames42
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@jackofallgames42: No offense taken. If you knew me, you'd understand why I find it so funny.

Anyway, I honestly don't know. I used my Firefox "Woot This Deal" button straight from the site selling the shirt. I do see that URL you're talking about when I click through this link, but when I go to the site directly, it doesn't appear. My best guess is that it's a script the deals site put in to track their referrals, but it could also be that someone is getting a penny per click or whatever. Sadly, it is not me.

swaan swaan
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@rookie3001: Awesome- I love his videos...

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