Your favorite paradox

Discussion in 'Mind Games' started by QuantumCosmologist, Apr 4, 2012.

  1. puggybear

    puggybear stars may twinkle-but I shine!

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    Why not put Schrodinger's cat cat in a microwave oven,along with the hydrocyanic phial...because a microwave has a WINDOW,thus you DO know if the bloody thing's alive!


    [especially if you hear 'TING!' just before you look in]
     
  2. Veebie

    Veebie Member

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    Why a microwave? I suppose it leaves us wondering shall it be death by phial or death by 'cooked-alive' first.

    But I suppose if we follow that line of thought, might as well just use a see-through box. But then, we'd basically just be watching a cat and waiting for it to do something. The whole experiment goes down the drain.

    You see the thing is, Schrodinger's is based entirely upon the idea that because we cannot see into the container (there is no observer); the possibility is either/or. Thus, a single outcome is only decided upon when that variable is filled.

    In other words, when we look.

    If we can already see what's happening, the universe will just decide there and then, (probably by cooking the cat).
     
  3. puggybear

    puggybear stars may twinkle-but I shine!

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    .......or someone could shake the box?.......
     
  4. jaredfelix

    jaredfelix Namaste ॐ

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    An arrow cannot move in the place in which it is not. Nor can
    it move in the place in which it is. But a flying arrow is always
    at the place at which it is. Therefore, it is always at rest.
     
  5. puggybear

    puggybear stars may twinkle-but I shine!

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    [^] which brings GREAT peace of mind to the apple!
     
  6. angel_karma_chic

    angel_karma_chic Guest

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    What happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object? My favourite paradox!
     
  7. Veebie

    Veebie Member

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    You mean like when Sofia Vergara seducts Ian McKellen?
     
  8. light.

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    Could god make the burrito hotter than the microwave without burning the burrito ???
     
  9. light.

    light. Member

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    Is there is a such thing az a vacuum considering they have found dark matter ???

    Muhahahahaha
     
  10. puggybear

    puggybear stars may twinkle-but I shine!

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    Well if dark 'matter' has no mass-as apparently it doesn't-isn't it merely dark NOTHING?

    After all,SHADOWS exist-but you try weighing one!
     
  11. Michael Phelps

    Michael Phelps Am I being detained?

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    Answer this.

    What topic will you not discuss on the internet?
     
  12. light.

    light. Member

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    That is the problem dark matter has to have mass; humans just do not understand ... and have decided to make theories for their next grant money give away...
     
  13. 11nexus34

    11nexus34 Guest

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    Interesting topic, hmmm.....
    "I hate hate."
    "Intolerance will not be tolerated"
     
  14. Tyrsonswood

    Tyrsonswood Senior Moment Lifetime Supporter

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    Discussions....
     
  15. light.

    light. Member

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    By what standard and how can you dictate a paradox that doez not explicitly deal with you...

    By doing so you have created a conundrum that iz perpetual...
     
  16. johndeer

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    Hi thank for asking
    Since God has all knowledge and all power we assume he can make a burrito so hot than no one else beside himself can eat but in regards to the question both possible outcomes to this question put into question God's all powerfulness.

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  17. heymister

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    The Fermi Paradox :D
     
  18. puggybear

    puggybear stars may twinkle-but I shine!

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    RAINBOWS!

    [Hey,I'm getting the hang of this!]

    Anyway,yes,rainbows...they exist,they have form,dimension and duration.

    But no mass,velocity,or interaction.

    PLUS-you can only see a rainbow if the sun is behind you.
    So,if you're viewing from a vantage point that puts the rainbow between you and the sun.....it isn't there! Even though it is! [clever,these rainbows,huh?]
     
  19. yangfh

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    When it comes to paradox, I thought a question maybe others also have considered:
    If you lay a track along the Earth's equator, the track is curved or straight?
     
  20. FlyingFly

    FlyingFly Dickens

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    curved, if you don't see it curved it doesn't mean it is not :)
     

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