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Black Hole Bets Of a Different Kind
Category: Physics • Physics Bastardizations
Posted on: June 24, 2008 6:52 PM, by Dave Bacon
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I'm counting on quantum immortality saving me.
Posted by: JohnQPublic | June 24, 2008 11:08 PM
Personally I'm more interested in quantum immorality :)
Posted by: Dave Bacon | June 24, 2008 11:16 PM
Personally I'm more interested in quantum immorality :)
Is that immorality in waves or discrete instances of immorality? And can you be affected by immorality somewhere else in the universe (you know, "spooky immorality at a distance")?
Posted by: yogi-one | June 25, 2008 5:04 AM
"Spooky immorality at a distance" somehow reminds me of war and of the opening of "Gravity's Rainbow"
Posted by: Dave Bacon | June 25, 2008 10:48 AM
Dave, all this quantum talk has inspired me and made me realize that I may have missed an entrepreneurial opportunity all this time.
I bet if I combine my love of music with QM (which I know nothing about) language I could do well. Imagine a line of instructional books: "Quantum Guitar", "Quantum Piano", "Quantum Music Theory for Chromatic Scales".
All that needs to be done is an introduction about "the connection the quantum music consciousness." The rest is just the same old crap from every other book. I think I'll start today. ;-)
Posted by: JohnQPublic | June 25, 2008 12:46 PM
Watch out JohnQPublic, I may decide to sing the "Schrodinger's Cat" song for you :) Or the song about Cohen-Tannoudji ("Cohen-Tannoudji does quantum mechanics...his books in two volumes, I think it's Satanic.")
Posted by: Dave Bacon | June 25, 2008 12:53 PM
Ok I know nothing about Quantum anything but if the LHC can destroy the world I know what I want for my birthday.
Posted by: The Backpacker | June 25, 2008 1:55 PM
I bet if I combine my love of music with QM (which I know nothing about) language I could do well. Imagine a line of instructional books: "Quantum Guitar", "Quantum Piano", "Quantum Music Theory for Chromatic Scales".
Posted by: ADSL Başvuru | June 27, 2008 1:57 PM