In a message dated 8/16/04 6:39:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected]
writes:
More or less like the Schrödinger's cat in his famous <A
HREF="http://www.npl.washington.edu/npl/int_rep/tiqm/TI_fig_09.html";>GedankenExperiment</A>
Having just attempted a physical realisation of the experiment using a
chicken and an egg, but minus the cat (none of my neighbors would volunteer theirs),
I regret to report that I cannot state a definite conclusion. Just as I was
preparing to make an observation, I happened to sneeze. This caused the
chicken so much uncertainty that it flapped out of the box in fright, invalidating
all hypotheses about the state of the egg.
I fear this will be known in the annals of science as my Gesundheit
Experiment.
John
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