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So many questions - who cares about the answer?
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Walked through a cobweb when I was setting off for work earlier. Ended up with a spider crawling in my ear. IN MY BLOODY EAR! O.M.G.  
Anyway! After a minor freak out and a few seconds pulling the cobweb off my face (and a journey paranoid I still had spiders crawling all over my head) it got me thinking - how the hell do spiders know how to spin a cobweb?
I mean to me it's a complex and skilled piece of architecture, painstakingly put together and you really do need to be quite the artisan to do it right I'd have thought.
When we do things as intricate as that invariably someone has taught us how to do it and educated us.
Who tells the spiders what to do? How do they all know how to make these elaborate designs!? Is there a secret spidey-school we don't know about!?
Anyway - to the point of the thread - what other pointless imponderables have you been considering recently?
Questions that you're not really all that bothered about the answers for if the truth be told?  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I was reading a scientific article on probability wavefronts.
You know the schrodingers cat experiment where the cat is both alive and dead until the box is opened.
The opening of the box collapses the probability wave and an outcome is selected?
Well, the used a photon emitter set up to randomly emit a single photon aimed at one of two slits and got an interference pattern!
This should only happen if a photon passed through each of the slits.
When then added a detector to see which slit the photon was aimed at the interference pattern disappeared.
This means that where there are more than one possible outcome they actually do all exist until observed!
So if you toss a coin, until you look at it it actually is both heads and tails!
How can this be? |
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I've been pondering this:
A slice of bread will always land butter side down.
A cat will always land feet down.
If you smear a cats back in butter and drop it, will it hover spinning, never actually reaching the ground? |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I was reading a scientific article on probability wavefronts.
You know the schrodingers cat experiment where the cat is both alive and dead until the box is opened.
The opening of the box collapses the probability wave and an outcome is selected?
Well, the used a photon emitter set up to randomly emit a single photon aimed at one of two slits and got an interference pattern!
This should only happen if a photon passed through each of the slits.
When then added a detector to see which slit the photon was aimed at the interference pattern disappeared.
This means that where there are more than one possible outcome they actually do all exist until observed!
So if you toss a coin, until you look at it it actually is both heads and tails!
How can this be?"
But what if the coin lands on its edge!? I think we should be told! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I was reading a scientific article on probability wavefronts.
You know the schrodingers cat experiment where the cat is both alive and dead until the box is opened.
The opening of the box collapses the probability wave and an outcome is selected?
Well, the used a photon emitter set up to randomly emit a single photon aimed at one of two slits and got an interference pattern!
This should only happen if a photon passed through each of the slits.
When then added a detector to see which slit the photon was aimed at the interference pattern disappeared.
This means that where there are more than one possible outcome they actually do all exist until observed!
So if you toss a coin, until you look at it it actually is both heads and tails!
How can this be?"
Then how did they observe the interference pattern?
P.S. Put an angry cat in a box and you will know it's there. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Ahh, of you flip the coin into a box no one is looking into then until observed it has.
If you are catching in and covering it on the back of your hand you can feel if it had so that particular probability is collapsed |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I was reading a scientific article on probability wavefronts.
You know the schrodingers cat experiment where the cat is both alive and dead until the box is opened.
The opening of the box collapses the probability wave and an outcome is selected?
Well, the used a photon emitter set up to randomly emit a single photon aimed at one of two slits and got an interference pattern!
This should only happen if a photon passed through each of the slits.
When then added a detector to see which slit the photon was aimed at the interference pattern disappeared.
This means that where there are more than one possible outcome they actually do all exist until observed!
So if you toss a coin, until you look at it it actually is both heads and tails!
How can this be?"
Stop it. |
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"I was reading a scientific article on probability wavefronts.
You know the schrodingers cat experiment where the cat is both alive and dead until the box is opened.
The opening of the box collapses the probability wave and an outcome is selected?
Well, the used a photon emitter set up to randomly emit a single photon aimed at one of two slits and got an interference pattern!
This should only happen if a photon passed through each of the slits.
When then added a detector to see which slit the photon was aimed at the interference pattern disappeared.
This means that where there are more than one possible outcome they actually do all exist until observed!
So if you toss a coin, until you look at it it actually is both heads and tails!
How can this be?"
You can't transfer what happens on a quantum scale up to a cat in a box or a tossed coin. |
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By *ady LickWoman
over a year ago
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You are funny Dan. I was wondering that myself the other day because a spider has made a web on my bush  but there is one bit attached to the house, like the spider must of jumped over....or something.
It's usually my kids that ask weird questions |
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"You are funny Dan. I was wondering that myself the other day because a spider has made a web on my bush but there is one bit attached to the house, like the spider must of jumped over....or something.
It's usually my kids that ask weird questions "
A spider has made a web on your bush ?? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I was reading a scientific article on probability wavefronts.
You know the schrodingers cat experiment where the cat is both alive and dead until the box is opened.
The opening of the box collapses the probability wave and an outcome is selected?
Well, the used a photon emitter set up to randomly emit a single photon aimed at one of two slits and got an interference pattern!
This should only happen if a photon passed through each of the slits.
When then added a detector to see which slit the photon was aimed at the interference pattern disappeared.
This means that where there are more than one possible outcome they actually do all exist until observed!
So if you toss a coin, until you look at it it actually is both heads and tails!
How can this be?
Then how did they observe the interference pattern?
P.S. Put an angry cat in a box and you will know it's there."
theobservereffect.wordpress.com/the-most-beautiful-experiment/ |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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How does any animal know how to do anything? It come back to nature vs nurture.
How can a baby gazelle be on its feet and running a mater of minutes after being born? How does a baby turtle know it needs to head to the sea? How does a child know that crying gets it attention?
Some things are pre programmed into animals from the outset, I can only imagine the intricacies of a spiders web is one of these. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Dan,
you know if a spider goes in your ear, it will have laid eggs
Aaaarrrhgghhhh!! Don't say that!! "
Dan you are a big wuss!
But I have no answers...
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I was reading a scientific article on probability wavefronts.
You know the schrodingers cat experiment where the cat is both alive and dead until the box is opened.
The opening of the box collapses the probability wave and an outcome is selected?
Well, the used a photon emitter set up to randomly emit a single photon aimed at one of two slits and got an interference pattern!
This should only happen if a photon passed through each of the slits.
When then added a detector to see which slit the photon was aimed at the interference pattern disappeared.
This means that where there are more than one possible outcome they actually do all exist until observed!
So if you toss a coin, until you look at it it actually is both heads and tails!
How can this be?
Then how did they observe the interference pattern?
P.S. Put an angry cat in a box and you will know it's there.
theobservereffect.wordpress.com/the-most-beautiful-experiment/"
Do you have any idea how bleedin' annoying it is trying to copy a link in a box on an iPad?
Maybe it is easier when not being observed? |
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