Was Wild Irish Rose involved?.

Or did he?
If we put two men in a closed box and they decide that if a radioactive particle spontaneously decays one will smack the other with a skateboard, then the person will be in a quasi-state of being both smacked and unsmacked at the same time.

Guess he didn't have a half pipe handy

That is how it was going to end no matter the subject.

Well its clearly the witnesses' fault!!

Oznog: Or did he?
If we put two men in a closed box and they decide that if a radioactive particle spontaneously decays one will smack the other with a skateboard, then the person will be in a quasi-state of being both smacked and unsmacked at the same time.

Game. Set. Thread.

Oddly, this is pretty much what happens when you get differing opinions between tenured profs.

//Hot like the splitting of atoms

He was simply demonstrating atom smashing by slitting lips.

Yeah, it's called Conflict Resolution? Ever heard of it?? Sheesh!

I`ve won many an intellectual debate by hitting someone in the face. It`s a real trump card, I find.

Me and my wife were discussing massive collisions last night in bed, then all the sudden I got a hadron

Lt. Cheese Weasel: "Carrying around a physics book? In this neighborhood? She's up to something."

/nothing is obscure

Especially not a very popular comedy/sci-fi movie from the late 90s in a community of geeks. Frankly, even the implication that you might have briefly considered that "/obscure" worthy is kind of sad.

Don't get smart with me, mister!

And I'd just like to add, with respect to the gentleman wielding the skateboard, it's nice to see someone attempting to raise the level of intelligence in a discussion on quantum mechanics.

Susskind fans and Hawking fans... Can't they just get along?

No fair! You changed the outcome by observing it!

(or in this case, skateboarding it)

+1, Schlubby

I wonder if Fava was from Berkeley?

"I refute it THUS!!!" *pow*

Barakku: Me and my wife were discussing massive collisions last night in bed, then all the sudden I got a hadron

But it's all relative, don't you know?.

When two homeless men are discussing quantum physics, the only logical outcome is for one of them to smack the other guy with a skateboard forty

at least in my neighborhood

Did somebody say something about a homeless man and quantum physics leaps?

What a quantum physicist may look like.

Barakku:
Me and my wife were discussing massive collisions last night in bed, then all the sudden I got a hadron

A hadron? did it hurt?

Cyxneo
Well its clearly the witnesses' fault!!

Brilliant.

Ponzholio: Barakku: Me and my wife were discussing massive collisions last night in bed, then all the sudden I got a hadron

You mean you moved at the speed of light, then broke??? I guess the crying afterward was unrelated...

She found something smaller than a quark.

Old homeless skaters fighting over particle physics?
It's like im looking into my future.

AquaX: No fair! You changed the outcome by observing it!

(or in this case, skateboarding it)

Witnesses confirmed the speed of the skateboard but unfortunately were unable to determine where it was...

How can bums afford skateboards?

I'll bet one of them was a string theorist.

Oznog: Or did he?
If we put two men in a closed box and they decide that if a radioactive particle spontaneously decays one will smack the other with a skateboard, then the person will be in a quasi-state of being both smacked and unsmacked at the same time.

are we talking measuring the state instantaneously or average? if we are speaking instantaneously then there is a point (x) as a function of time where the smack must be = 100% and yet another time where the unsmack must be = to 100%. This theory is demonstrated in this figure:



Yet, maybe the hitter was simply demonstrating the effect of a low energy gamma ray on lead shielding. See below:

There's a joke in there somewhere about hitting him with a Planck, but I'll leave its derivation as an exercise for the students.

SlothB77
to be fair, how much quantum physics do you know if you are homeless?

You have obviously never heard of Harvard Girl....

TehPetri: //Hot like the splitting of atoms

Why does Schroedinger have a tail?

what did the 5x10^100 skateboard atoms say to the face?

Raving Lunatic Obviously Took Some Advanced Physics

no onion link yet?

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Well this doesn't surprise me. When I was brushing with homelessness I met all sorts of people who were so intelligent they just couldn't fit in with society enough to live a normal life. And a lot of them had bad tempers. One guy I knew was a black belt and well versed in physics and mathematics. I've seen him all off and open-palm nose strike people before for disagreeing with him.

There is both a sandwich and not a sandwich in the trash can. Asking "Will the homeless man dine on moldy sandwich tonight?" only becomes meaningful after the homeless man looks in the trash can.