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http://arcanux.org/lambdacats.html
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"Orchid XP v3" <voi### [at] dev null> wrote in message
news:47075ac7@news.povray.org...
> http://arcanux.org/lambdacats.html
Lambda cats must be related to Schrodinger's cats,
since sometimes they're functional and other times
they just lay around sleeping.
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Orchid XP v3 wrote:
> http://arcanux.org/lambdacats.html
http://arcanux.org/lambdacats2.html
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Tim Attwood wrote:
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> ...Schrodinger's cat...
>
Some random reflections (so to speak) on The Cat that I've been saving
for just the right moment...
You see a lot of drawings of Schrodinger's Cat. You never see a drawing
of Schrodinger's Lab Assistant--you know, the guy with the scratches all
over his face.
Prepare a second box. Put the lab assistant inside. If an atom decays,
tell [1] the lab assistant, "I already checked the other box and the cat
is alive." If not, tell him, "I already checked the other box and the
cat is dead." Then have him retrieve the cat and see what he finds. It
is absolutely certain that the results will surprise somebody, somewhere.
A Schrodinger quote from the Wikipedia article: "The psi-function of
the entire system would express this by having in it the living and dead
cat (pardon the expression) mixed or smeared out in equal parts."
Scene: Schrodinger's lab, late at night. Schrodinger's Lab Assistant
yawns, checks his watch, and opens the box. We briefly see a look of
horror cross his face before *something* hurls itself out of the box...
Coming soon to a theater near you--THE ATTACK OF THE UNDEAD CAT!!!
From a recent episode of House:
Dr. Watson--er, Wilson [2]: "Unless you're a dead cat, you can't be in
two places at once." (Or words to that effect.)
Dr. House: (Stares off into space for a moment) "Oh--physics joke."
Whoa. Beware The Cat. The Cat is ubiquitous. And that show is doomed,
dammit.
Didja ever notice that, in the second picture on the Wikipedia page for
The Cat, he appears to be sitting in a Cornell box...except that the box
is monochrome...and the yellow Geiger counter is not only shadowless but
isn't turning the floor yellow...which could reflect badly on The
Cat...so to speak...? (Then I read the Schrodinger article, and it all
made perfect sense. [3])
Schrodinger's Cat's Litter Box...OK, let's just don't go there.
--Sherry "That Reminds Me, It's Time to Feed the Cats" Shaw
[1] If you feel like it, you could use a computer that conveys the
chosen message in such a lifelike way that the lab assistant can't
whether he's talking with a computer or a human.
[2] Dr. House's apartment number is 221B. The series is just full of
Easter eggs like that.
[3] But I'd been drinking.
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cats:
"Well, some researchers were once conducting such an experiment, but,
when they opened up the box, the cat was neither alive nor dead but was
in fact completely missing, and they called me in to investigate. I was
able to deduce that nothing very dramatic had happened. The cat had
merely got fed up with being repeatedly locked up in a box and
occasionally gassed and had taken the first opportunity to hoof it
through the window. It was for me the work of a moment to set a saucer
of milk by the window and call `Bernice' in an enticing voice - the
cat's name was Bernice, you understand - and the cat was soon restored.
A simple enough matter, but it seemed to create quite an impression in
certain circles, and soon one thing led to another as they do and it
all culminated in the thriving career you see before you."
:)
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Sherry Shaw wrote:
> [2] Dr. House's apartment number is 221B. The series is just full of
> Easter eggs like that.
Does he live on Baker Street?
Ok... ok... you caught me. I had to look it up on Google to get the
reference. Clever, very clever.
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On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 07:17:24 -0500, Mike Raiford wrote:
> Sherry Shaw wrote:
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>> [2] Dr. House's apartment number is 221B. The series is just full of
>> Easter eggs like that.
>
> Does he live on Baker Street?
IIRC, that address is really a shop of some sort - well, 221 is, there is
no 221B.
Jim
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Mike Raiford wrote:
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> Does he live on Baker Street?
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And does he suffer from irregularity...? Sorry, that was hideous.
(I've never actually been able to read a street sign, but the TV
reception is pretty spotty out here in the woods outside BFE.)
--Sherry Shaw
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