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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Central America)
Fri Dec 17 00:58:08 2010
Date: 17 Dec 2010 05:58:08 -0000
From: Central America <root@charon.mit.edu>
To: ca-mtg@charon.mit.edu
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je18337 (Jeffrey R. Simpson):
Cecil, you're my final hope
Of finding out the true Straight Dope
For I have been reading of Schrodinger's cat
But none of my cats are at all like that.
This unusual animal (so it is said)
Is simultaneously alive and dead!
What I don't understand is just why he
Can't be one or the other, unquestionably.
My future now hangs in between eigenstates.
In one I'm enlightened, in the other I ain't.
If *you* understand, Cecil, then show me the way
And rescue my psyche from quantum decay.
But if this queer thing has perplexed even you,
Then I will *___ and* I won't see you in Schrodinger's zoo.
-- Randy F., Chicago, "The Straight Dope, a compendium
of human knowledge" by Cecil Adams
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