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  • #61
    Originally posted by Oerdin
    I wish John Miller and Krazy Horse still posted here. It was nice have two resident doctoral physics students.
    Jon's still here. Nothing nice about KH though. That guy had issues.

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    • #62
      What do you mean? He seemed normal enough.
      Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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      • #63
        Joined the undead?
        Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
        "Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
        He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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        • #64
          Originally posted by Oerdin
          He seemed normal enough.
          Normal? This is presumably some strange usage of the word "normal" I had not previously been familiar with.

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          • #65
            He wasn't normal, but he was very entertaining and half of the time I even believed he was as smart as he said he was.
            Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
            The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
            The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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            • #66
              Originally posted by Krill


              Wouldn't know or care about that stuff being a chemist (and an appalling physical chemist at that)
              All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
              Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
              The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
              The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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              • #67
                And BTW who on poly is normal?
                Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
                The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
                The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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                • #68
                  Remember that Poly is the benchmark and it's Oerdin making the comment.

                  Edit - slow connection.
                  One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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                  • #69
                    Originally posted by Heraclitus
                    And BTW who on poly is normal?
                    Well, there are degrees of abnormality. How many people constantly refer to others who are perhaps decades older than themselves as 'kid'?

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                    • #70
                      Um, he used son. I used kid.

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                      • #71
                        Don't correct your elders, boy.
                        Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
                        "We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La Rochefoucauld

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                        • #72
                          Originally posted by Kuciwalker
                          Um, he used son. I used kid.
                          Ah yes of course. Thanks for the correction. Dad.

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                          • #73
                            Originally posted by Kuciwalker
                            Basically yes. In reality, the particles of the cat interfere with each other and force it into one of the two states.
                            ...so, essentially, it's a stupid story and the only moral is that we should never let physicists take care of our cats when we go on vacation?
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                            • #74
                              The orthodox resolution of the "paradox" is that the geiger counter's triggering constitutes the collapse of the wave function.

                              On a side note, Poly physics threads make me cry...
                              "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
                              -Bokonon

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                              • #75
                                You shouldn't really admit to an emotional weakness like that on here, Ramo. People will be throwing fizzix threads at you left right and centre.

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