Have you heard the song about Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle? Check out Jonny Berliner on yesterday's Guardian Science Weekly podcast:
Everett said that there are infinite realities
The Copenhagen explanations sound like insanity
With consciousness affecting wavy-particle dualities
The actualities are rather mysterious
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http://bio-rad.cnpg.com/lsca/videos/ScientistsForBetterPCR/
It brought me back to 1985.
Link fixed :P
Yes, I posted the PCR song on my old blog. Jeez, John, have you even been READING bioephemera?? ;)