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Article #6409Re: Zeno's Paradox (was Re: Moonlanding was FAKE...)
From: Christopher Michael Cooney
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 00:00
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 00:00
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Ron Schwarz (ron@schwarz.nethawk@com) wrote: : On 17 Apr 1997 02:13:00 -0700, John Gentile <bbobb@primenet.com> : wrote: : : > : >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 ;-)). : : There's a whole dead cat in every bar of Dead Cat Soap. : : Really dead! preposterous. the cat is dead or alive, but _you_ don't know which. if you needed a intelligent observer, who is watching you? if you go into a room overnight with a bottle, is the bottle's state indeterminate until the maid finds you passed out ? does it collapse when a cat peeks into the room (schroedinger's cat?). this whole 'observer collapsing the wavefunction' is bollocks. -- coonec@rpi.edu Comp. Science, Blah Blah Sparc MIPS Blah "Watch me not care" dilbert 19960219 | Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, | Do not watch For you are crunchy and good with ketchup. | this space
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102cdf,685ba1a60412cd32 X-Google-Attributes: gid102cdf,public X-Google-Thread: 10a148,685ba1a60412cd32 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a148,public X-Google-Thread: 10f3ae,685ba1a60412cd32 X-Google-Attributes: gid10f3ae,public X-Google-Thread: f5d40,685ba1a60412cd32 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d40,public X-Google-Thread: 10aec3,685ba1a60412cd32 X-Google-Attributes: gid10aec3,public X-Google-Thread: ffd1b,685ba1a60412cd32 X-Google-Attributes: gidffd1b,public From: coonec@rpi.edu (Christopher Michael Cooney) Subject: Re: Zeno's Paradox (was Re: Moonlanding was FAKE...) Date: 1997/04/18 Message-ID: <5j6fj1$o6i@usenet.rpi.edu> X-Deja-AN: 235672246 References: <858944975.21700@dejanews.com> <E7pGE8.21v@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca> <hatunenE7pK18.n1L@netcom.com> <5he5lg$hs8@flood.weeg.uiowa.edu> <5heubn$r3v@gap.cco.caltech.edu> <5hhq2q$fr1@usenet.rpi.edu> <5j4pis$3ka$1@nnrp01.primenet.com> <3358a5b7.237516891@news.netonecom.net> Followup-To: sci.space.shuttle,alt.conspiracy,alt.folklore.science,hsv.general,alt.folklore.urban,rec.models.rockets Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle,alt.conspiracy,alt.folklore.science,hsv.general,alt.folklore.urban,rec.models.rockets