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Get a life!

William Gallant <gallanw@pr.erau.edu> wrote in article
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> On 17 Apr 1997, John Gentile wrote:
> 
> > : : Garrett Choi (gchoi@cco.caltech.edu) wrote:
> > : : 
> > : : William Poundstone talks about that Thompson Lamp thing where
> > : : basically you imagine you've got this lamp which can switch on and
off
> > : : infinitely fast.  I walk out of the room and you start.  You turn
it
> > : : on for 1/2 a minute, off for 1/4, on for 1/8, etc.  After two
minutes,
> > : : I come back in.  Is the light on or off?
> > : : 
> > : : 
> > : : Garrett
> > : : gchoi@cco.caltech.edu
> > : : 
> > 
> > the light is neither on nor off...it's like the dead cat thing, where
> > the cat is neither alive nor dead. (dunno if you've heard of that one,
> > but oh, well ;-)).
> > 
> > if I may point out that infinity is nonexistant for the simple reason
> > that it disproves itself -- that is... {
> > 
> > 	infinity is the highest number (usually), and there is no
> > highest number, so infinity does not exist.
> > 
> > }
> > 
> > 
> > since infinity disproves itself, it cannot be reached. the entire
> > theory is void. ;-)
> > 
> >The theory of Shrodingers(misspelled) cat is where a cat and a bowl of 
> for todays discussion is milk, are placed into a small chest. The 
> question is since you can not see the cat or bowl of milk, when you open 
> the chest will the cat have drank the milk? The light question is the 
> relevance, absolute quantum thinking, but no one is home!!!!
>