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no more quantum mechanics for me!

Posted: 02 May 2006, 14:12
by unpossible
hoorah, i just sat my final quantum exams!

why do i still have the feeling i'll need more quantum for my nuclear exam?

anybody else had the pleasure of dealing with Fermi's golden rule? :lol:

Posted: 02 May 2006, 15:38
by Hellspawn
Yay o.O, you study physic?

Posted: 02 May 2006, 16:01
by unpossible
aye, four years of it!

Posted: 02 May 2006, 16:03
by Zoombie
Who said that you either don't understand Quantim physicisc or your crazy?

Posted: 02 May 2006, 16:42
by unpossible
i'll give you a hint: i'm no n00b.

<Unpossible attacks Zoombie with Schrodinger's cat>

who would still hurt regardless of the value of the observable :P

Posted: 02 May 2006, 16:45
by Zoombie
Aurgh! CAT!

Posted: 02 May 2006, 17:10
by Kixxe
I've never understood Schrodinger's cat... i mean, it's just a random chance of it being dead or alive.

Posted: 02 May 2006, 17:18
by unpossible
Kixxe wrote:I've never understood Schrodinger's cat... i mean, it's just a random chance of it being dead or alive.
the point isn't whether or not the cat is dead or alive, it's that you don't know until you look in the box...so you can argue that the cat is occupying all possible states (dead AND alive in this case) until you collapse it into one state by 'observing' it.

true though it's random chance. it's just how q.m works :twisted:

Posted: 02 May 2006, 17:53
by Min3mat
:evil: quantum mechanics is the work of the devil :evil:
got to love some of it though, like the cats :D

Posted: 02 May 2006, 19:53
by BlackLiger
unpossible, no. Schrodinger was wrong. the ONLY state a cat will be in after you lock it into a box is BLOODY FURIOUS!

Posted: 02 May 2006, 20:10
by unpossible
BlackLiger wrote:unpossible, no. Schrodinger was wrong. the ONLY state a cat will be in after you lock it into a box is BLOODY FURIOUS!
aye, 'tis why it makes such a good weapon...people just don't know what to expect from Schrodinger's cat!

Posted: 02 May 2006, 22:47
by Comp1337
unpossible wrote:
BlackLiger wrote:unpossible, no. Schrodinger was wrong. the ONLY state a cat will be in after you lock it into a box is BLOODY FURIOUS!
aye, 'tis why it makes such a good weapon...people just don't know what to expect from Schrodinger's cat!
LOL
And congratulations on the physics! Im thinking of studying some kind of physics as well, maybe astrophysics. Nerdy, but cool :P

Posted: 05 May 2006, 13:29
by submarine
i wish i already passed my theoretical physics final exam :)

2-2,5 more years to go...

Posted: 05 May 2006, 13:43
by Drone_Fragger
Shroders cat?

Isn't taht the theory that because no one knows whats happened to the cat, it therefore, Theoretically, Exsists as alive and dead at the same time?

Posted: 05 May 2006, 14:02
by Das Bruce
Drone_Fragger wrote:Shroders cat?

Isn't taht the theory that because no one knows whats happened to the cat, it therefore, Theoretically, Exsists as alive and dead at the same time?
Jawhol.

Posted: 05 May 2006, 15:57
by unpossible
Drone_Fragger wrote:Shroders cat?

Isn't taht the theory that because no one knows whats happened to the cat, it therefore, Theoretically, Exsists as alive and dead at the same time?
in answer to that:
unpossible wrote:
Kixxe wrote:I've never understood Schrodinger's cat... i mean, it's just a random chance of it being dead or alive.
the point isn't whether or not the cat is dead or alive, it's that you don't know until you look in the box...so you can argue that the cat is occupying all possible states (dead AND alive in this case) until you collapse it into one state by 'observing' it.

true though it's random chance. it's just how q.m works :twisted:

Posted: 05 May 2006, 16:57
by Drone_Fragger
Woops :D

I was in a bit of a hurry so I read just the top Post and nothing else :D

That made me look a bit of an idiot then :/

And is also provides reason that your carkeys, wallet, Lunch or anything else is under your coat, In your bedroom and Under the stairs at the same time :D

Posted: 05 May 2006, 16:59
by SinbadEV
Shroeder didn't have a cat, he had a toy piano.

Posted: 05 May 2006, 17:48
by unpossible
Drone_Fragger wrote:
And is also provides reason that your carkeys, wallet, Lunch or anything else is under your coat, In your bedroom and Under the stairs at the same time :D
nope, they're just always in the last place you look. and that is because you would have to be a complete moron to carry on looking once you've found them - unless you were trying to prove they're everywhere at the same time!

Posted: 05 May 2006, 19:47
by Aun
BlackLiger wrote:unpossible, no. Schrodinger was wrong. the ONLY state a cat will be in after you lock it into a box is BLOODY FURIOUS!
I personally believe that a flaming cat flying through the air is the most dangerous thing on earth.

I would test the theory, but I'm not that cruel.


Please do not attempt to test this.