No, that was actually a pretty good summary of “Shroedinger’s cat”
Here’s where I dork out: On Star Trek, the teleporters actually utilize a “Heisenberg Compensator”, because to teleport someone, you need to know the position and velocity of every particle in your body to reassemble at the destination. The writers knew the scientific community would claim BS due to Heisenberg’s Uncertainty… so they came up with a “compensator”.
There’s nothing funny about the Second Law of Thermodynamics!
I hope everybody enjoyed a slice of pie yesterday. It was National Pie Day.
I hope nobody gets backstabbed today.
I thought this was really good.
http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2014/03/13/einstein-and-pi/
Knock knock!
To!
No, to whom.
(har har har)
An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar.
The first one orders a pint. (16 ounces, for our metric friends)
The second one orders half a pint.
The third one orders a quarter of a pint.
The fourth one orders an eigth of a pint.
The fifth one orders 1/16th of a pint, or one ounce.
The sixth one orders half an ounce.
The seventh one orders a quarter of an ounce.
Finally, the bartender pours two pints and says, “You guys need to know your limits.”
I presume you mean a _ countably _ infinite number of mathematicians.
It wouldn’t make sense if there were an uncountably infinite number, of course.
I knew I could uncount on you! s2k!
An ounce is not a metric unit of measure.
Fine, 26.6456 imperial tablespoons then.
^It wasn’t so much that I wanted them to know what a pint was, but rather, I wanted them to know that it was 16 ounces. Lest they be confused when we switched from pints to ounces.
Isn’t 1/2 a pint a cup and 1/2 a cup a demitasse?
lol
you could probably make sense of an uncountably infinite set of mathematicians ordering pints by extending the power series sum SUM(n=0…inf) [(1/2)^n]=2 as a definite integral. For any mathematician x who is an element of a uncountably infnite set mapped to the real numbers R, the number of pints ordered is (1/2)^(x-1). The “sum” of all pints over the uncountably infinite set of mathematicians is represented by a definite integral on the real line: INT(x=0…inf)[(1/2)^(x-1)]=2/ln(2)~2.8854 which is rounded up to 3 as the nearest integer.
So in summary, the bartender should inquire about the cardinality of the set of mathematicians walking into the bar before he can decide whether he should offer them 2 or 3 pints in total.
The integral would work if the set of mathematicians were aleph-one. What if they were aleph-two, or aleph-three, or . . . ?
now you are getting abstract… I was discussing practical considerations here.
What’s the square root of 69?
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some good ones
An infinite crowd of mathematicians enter a bar. The first one orders a pint, the second one orders half a pint, the third one orders a quarter pint. The bartender says, “I understand,” and pours two pints.