I'm supposed to deliver you to the Master now. There's this whole deal where I get to be immortal. Are you cool with that?

Xander ,'Lessons'


The Crying of Natter 49  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Polter-Cow - Feb 08, 2007 12:45:03 pm PST #9406 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

[Take this and try to find its derivative - the opposite action to integral - and it's x^n]

Right right! Now I remember. Sorta. Oh, calculus. I liked you when you made teddy bears.


§ ita § - Feb 08, 2007 12:46:21 pm PST #9407 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I know that 4x40 is 160, and that's enough for me.

I do miss my brains, but there's no point crying over spilt neurons.


Polter-Cow - Feb 08, 2007 12:46:34 pm PST #9408 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

That's so not the big problem with the sentence.

Oh, I see what you mean. I don't think those periods are necessary either.


Nilly - Feb 08, 2007 12:46:59 pm PST #9409 of 10001
Swouncing

admires without understanding

Robin, there's lots of physics in skating. The balance, for example, and keeping it. You know it intuitively, even if you don't know that you do!


Dana - Feb 08, 2007 12:47:05 pm PST #9410 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Egg Beaters don't really make good scrambled eggs. Hmph.


Hayden - Feb 08, 2007 12:47:07 pm PST #9411 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

a) In a maximum of 1,500 words, compare the Einsteinian view of quantum physics with Neils Bohr's position. For extra credit, include an analogy between Platonism and Aristotlean ontology.

b) Does the famous Schrodinger's Cat thought-experiment apply in situations in which a human being is placed in the box? For extra credit, put yourself in a box with decaying radioactive material and observe your own eigenstate.

c) (Multiple choice) In light of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, would you argue that (a) this is true, (b) this is true, or (c)?

d) Bell's Theorem holds that any subatomic quantum material can pass information to another subatomic quantum material regardless of spatial considerations that affect classical physical relationships. With this in mind, is it (a) awesome or (b) ridiculously awesome that Nilly studies this stuff for a living?


Nilly - Feb 08, 2007 12:48:13 pm PST #9412 of 10001
Swouncing

Corwood! What is the date of Abe's birthday? Is it tomorrow?

[Edit: and now, after I actally, you know, read your post, I'm totally in love with it and wanna take it home with me and pet it and call it Goerge.]

[And, for the record, I learned to use that last sentence on b.org! It was so much more complicated than integrals.]


Hayden - Feb 08, 2007 12:49:12 pm PST #9413 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

It's tomorrow! Wow, I can't believe you knew that! Go team Nilly!


Scrappy - Feb 08, 2007 12:51:45 pm PST #9414 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Nilly, you are the sweetest ever.


§ ita § - Feb 08, 2007 12:52:18 pm PST #9415 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I don't think those periods are necessary either.

My coder's brain doesn't like me starting off with a capital letter and not ending the sentence with punctuation. Which reminds me: how does capitalisation in parentheses work? When the parenthetical is a sentence fragment, it's okay. When it's one sentence, again, I don't capitalise the first letter, nor punctuate the end. But when it's two sentences the coder-brain freaks out. I have to end the first sentence with punctuation; does that mean I have to capitalise the start? Do I have to end the final parenthetical sentence with punctuation?

b) Does the famous Schrodinger's Cat thought-experiment apply in situations in which a human being is placed in the box?

Are you driving this question with the idea of sapience or the soul? What does the human have that the cat doesn't that's relevant to the experiment?

In light of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, would you argue that (a) this is true, (b) this is true, or (c)?

I don't know.