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Quantum Capers

Journal by turgid

You must remember the old joke about the electron who was stopped for speeding. The policeman said to him, "Sir, do you know how fast you were driving?"

"No," replies the electron.

"You were driving at precisely 100 miles per hour, sir."

Despondently the electron retorts, "Great, now I'm lost."

I was explaining that joke to Turgid jr. recently. When he was much younger, he just thought it was funny because an electron driving a car would be funny.

I said to him that he should ask his Religious Education teacher whether God knows the positions and momenta of all particles in the universe. His RE teacher is also his science teacher.

This should be interesting.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 19 2021, @03:29AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 19 2021, @03:29AM (#1206292)

    why wouldn't yahweh know such things?

    later on when farther down the christian fascist rabbit hole, the yahweh cultists will claim that being unable to know the position and momentum is because scientists are decadent soy boys, weakling and incompetent men. we would have warp drive if not for their failures

    only the sword-tongue of the final form of MAN JEEBUS will kill the inferior SJW scientists and end their reign of covid terror, preparing the way for the NEW JERUSALEM to land on the THIRD TEMPLE

  • (Score: 2) by turgid on Sunday December 19 2021, @11:55AM

    by turgid (4318) Subscriber Badge on Sunday December 19 2021, @11:55AM (#1206336) Journal

    If the Good Lord had wanted us to worry, he would have given us something to worry about [theguardian.com].

    Thwaites makes Larsen B look like an icicle. It is roughly 100 times larger, about the size of Britain, and contains enough water on its own to raise sea levels worldwide by more than half a metre. It contributes about 4% of annual global sea level rise and has been called the most important glacier in the world, even the “doomsday” glacier. Satellite studies show it is melting far faster than it did in the 1990s.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by nostyle on Sunday December 19 2021, @04:19PM

    by nostyle (11497) on Sunday December 19 2021, @04:19PM (#1206374) Journal

    Whenever I measure, I am always here (x = 0), but I am uncertain where here is (delta-x = infinity).

    Whenever I look, I seem to be going nowhere (p = 0), but I am uncertain of the momentum of the hand-basket I am in. (delta-p = infinity).

    Thus my state is perfectly defined.

    --

    Both East and West belong to Allah, so wherever you turn, the Face of Allah is there. Allah is All-Encompassing, All-Knowing.

    -Qur'an, 2:115 (Bewley translation)

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 19 2021, @07:28PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 19 2021, @07:28PM (#1206451)

    Mᴀɴ Jᴇᴇʙᴜs... Nᴇᴡ Jᴇʀᴜsᴀʟᴇᴍ... Tʜɪʀᴅ Tᴇᴍᴘʟᴇ

    FTFMe, because fuck regular 7-bit text, this needs to be done properly