When you thought texting while driving is bad, someone out there took it up a notch. Here's the multitasking driver, who's reading a book, using a Kindle AND talking on the phone at the same time while driving on the freeway. BuzzFeed has more: Link [embedded YouTube clip]
Many years ago, while riding on the school bus, I saw my own version of the multi-tasking driver: he was shaving (yes, with shaving cream and razors) while driving.
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You must not know anyone who has gotten hit by a drunk driver.
My brother, cousin and his girlfriend were hit by a drunk driver and they're all lucky to be alive with just scars to show for it. My brother walked away with a scar on his eyebrow (it was too the bone when it happened). My cousin walked away with only bumps and bruises. His girlfriend was in the hospital for 2 weeks because her face got completely messed up. She had to have 3 plastic surgeries to make her look normal again, minus the HUGE scars that were now permenantly etched on to her face.
Don't even talk about any of this crap being OK, especially drunk driving.
and only when your loved ones are on the road or your kids are out playing in/near the street.
you're so ridiculous that i hope you're kidding...sadly, even if you are, there are plenty who really do think like that out there.
we should drive like every car on the road carries one of our loved ones inside...because it might.
The point here is not that she was doing something legal or illegal- the point is- she was being profoundly stupid and her action forever altered an innocent person's life... and- she has to live with it now, too. Whether or not it's legal has NOTHING to do with the stupidity of the action. People do it all the time and are all the time endangering someone else because of it. Of course, other life-altering accidents happen all the time that are completely unrelated to texting, multi-tasking, drinking (I can't even believe you have the gall to mention that- maybe you or someone you love will get hit by a drunk someday and feel differently; I don't wish it on you- it's a horrible price to pay). The part of education in this? I think we've all been educated... and Guess what? It hasn't stopped anything. I'm all in favor of laws that punish people who KNOW BETTER but do stupid stuff anyway and then, in the process, destroy other people's lives because of their irresponsible behavior.
I don't think this has anything at all to do with 'ooo- someone's breaking a rule'... and everything to do with crazy people driving and simultaneously doing something that endangers other people's lives. There is a reason why the laws were created to begin with.
Does Schrödinger's Cat conflict with the Law of Non-Contradiction?
Since the particles within a solid mass like a cat (or indeed a virus) are always interacting with each other, they would either never enter a superposition, or if they did, would do so individually and not stay that way for long.
But hey, maybe I've got it all wrong. The experimenters seem to think so.
The great public debates of Schrodinger, Heisenberg, Einstein et al. about the applicability of subatomic theory to superatomic objects ranged from absurdity to theology. They did, however, lead to things such as semiconductors, nanotechnology and superconductivity. All of which prove that it is possible to build large objects that demonstrate subatomic properties.
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Your flatmate is a zombie!?! That's so cool!
The system containing the cat is in a well-defined state at all times. However, the definition of a quantum state doesn't always map well onto our classical intuitions. A single particle may be in a well defined quantum state, but that state may not tell you much about what answer you'd get if you measure the particle's position.
Physicists often define a subset of allowed quantum states in a system (often energy eigenstates) as a basis of "pure states", and then call other allowed states superpositions of these states. They express the superposition as a weighted sum of pure states.
@6:
It sounds like you're talking about decoherence. Yes, eventually interactions between particles will disrupt a superposition that one of them might be in. Here, though, it sounds like they are putting the whole organism into a superposition of states, not an individual particle within it. Also, the lasers are cooling the organism to a very low temperature, which would slow decoherence and extend the life of the superposition.
Seems trying to measure this would be self-defeating.
That's where this whole thing stopped making sense to me.
Can't we just reconfigure the deflector array, replace a skeleton with adamantium, and steer clear of the ion storm?
Y'know...like that.
Nah, some of us just have gotten really good at faking it.
No, actually there are cats on it, and there are no cats on it. If you are reading Neatorama, all the cats are dead.