Honestly, who gets this?

[studemax]

Heisenberg is driving on the highway with Schrodinger as a passenger when he gets pulled over for speeding.
Cop: Do you have any idea how fast you were going?
Heisenberg: No, but I know where I am.
The policeman says "you were going at 95 miles per hour"
Heisenberg: great, now I'm lost!
The cop then opens the trunk and says "Sirs, did you know that there is a dead cat in your trunk?"
Schrodinger: Well, now I do...

Be honest if you get it, but dont give it away. Curious as to how many nerds there are here.

Nothing wrong with theoretical math jokes in my view.
I like it.... and what's more, I actually undertstand it.
Well done, Thump!

[oldsman496]

Do ANY of u care about that cat......? just a viscous, heartless crime against animals.


if it had been a dog, most of you would be up in arms i bet...... eh?




up-down-top-bottom-strange-charm.

and that new higgs particle was just the vanilla kind...... *sigh*

[Thumpin455]

Opening the trunk could have skewed the result.
Maybe the cat was alive when the trunk was closed, but opening it killed it...

And that is the rest of the story.

[SuperBuickGuy]

And that is the rest of the story.

To which Einstein said "God doesn't play dice"....

Another way to consider Schrodinger's cat is this - observation changes what is being observed.

[Admirall2]

I laughed at it, but then again, I'm more a network engineer who likes chemistry jokes.

Johnny was a chemist's son, but Johnny is no more. What Johnny thought was H2O was H2SO4

[Monk]

This is like telling me to go crap in the corner, in a round room.
Driving me crazy

[Barry Donovan]

its a sophisticated version of this:

if a bear poops in the woods and no one is there to see it...

did it poop?

the scientists of the time were smply joking with each other about power of observation.

bizzare to go any further than that with it.

if you like math riddles, then a pursuit of answer is not in the quest.

no need for riddles.

[Deaf Bob]

Tree falls in the woods... Nobody within hearing, did it make noise?

[Monk]

I rest my case

[oldsman496]

Johnny's gonna need more than a roll of Tums... i'm tellin' ya fur sure fur sure.

[SuperBuickGuy]

This is like telling me to go crap in the corner, in a round room.
Driving me crazy

yet, if you have a cell phone or a computer, using those (very) abstract theories are how they work. What blows me away, is all of these theories came right at the dawn of the 20th century; when powered flight still hadn't been done. The scientists would do whatever they intended, then figured out how it worked (Einstein), but along comes the Quantum guys, and think so far out of the box that one could argue the box doesn't exist.

[BigBlockMopar]

Tree falls in the woods... Nobody within hearing, did it make noise?

Ask the birds who just lost their home... they'll know.

[Thumpin455]

Considering that the universe does its thing regardless of the presence of humans, its a safe bet that a tree falling in the woods will make noise if nobody is there to hear it. Its rather arrogant to assume the noise is only for our benefit.

At least taht is my take on that particular query.

[JOES66FURY]

I got it, but only because I am an avid Big Bang Theory fan...

[JOES66FURY]

Tree falls in the woods... Nobody within hearing, did it make noise?

did you feel the vibration?