Wednesday, July 24, 2013

"...both groups will try to expand to bigger systems....

...where instead of translating a quantum state from a single photon to a large set of photons, they will try to translate the states of one large group to another."
Wanted:  Dead and alive
 You know, it's just a matter of time before an actual cat ends up in an actual box and this isn't just a thought experiment anymore.
where instead of translating a quantum state from a single photon to a large set of photons, they will try to translate the states of one large group to another. - See more at: http://www.livescience.com/38339-experiments-bolster-schrodingers-cat-idea.html#sthash.PkJk8n4O.dpuf
where instead of translating a quantum state from a single photon to a large set of photons, they will try to translate the states of one large group to another. - See more at: http://www.livescience.com/38339-experiments-bolster-schrodingers-cat-idea.html#sthash.PkJk8n4O.dpuf

13 comments:

Chip Ahoy said...

This is an absolute favorite theme at my favorite place on Earth, apparently it's covered in Science class, but oddly no images come up on search. I want to do one, but it's too old to be funny anymore.

Showing a box at Schrödinger's house, and the next panel a cat inside thinking to itself, "If I knew it'd be this much trouble I'd never have climbed into the thing."

Crimso said...

"Fred Thompson knows Schrodinger's cat is dead, because he's the one who killed it."

Crimso said...

Chip's umlaut-style kung fu is much stronger than mine.

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

Soft kitty,
Warm kitty,
Little ball of fur.
Happy kitty,
Sleepy kitty,
Purr, purr, purr.

AllenS said...

Is that kitten in a coffin?

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

You can't swing a dead cat without hitting a large set of photons.

Chip Ahoy said...

I copy/pasted it from Google search.

Shouting Thomas said...

Is this the cat Titus has been swinging?

More cat pics, please!

I'll give you a click just for the cat pics!

Methadras said...

Walking through photons is an ongoing process.

edutcher said...

But when a phaser bolt takes out the Cardassian Empire, guess who gets stuck with the check?

The Crack Emcee said...

Fuck assuming, the cat is dead or alive, because they're too chickenshit to look:

I'd eliminate opening the box altogether by trying to "listen" for the cat,...however someone figured out to do that on a quantum level.

Anywho, that way, you could be sure.

Sound's my answer to everything right now,...

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

If i was Zambony from miamy i would be mocking the heck out of this.
But, alas, im not Zambony from miami, and i was never here.

ken in tx said...

The phrase 'not enough room to swing a cat' refers to a short but painful whip called a cat'o'nine tails. It has nothing to do with swinging a dead cat.