Holy Schrödinger's Cat!

By catdynamics on October 30, 2012.

Schrödinger's Qu'ran - a 2012 thought experiment - in The Conversation, Matthew Bailes updates a classic paradox...

"...a physicist could extend this thought experiment to write a php script that would randomly download one of the Bible, Qur’an or even a classical quantum mechanics textbook to the iPad..."

On the Dispositive Null in the Literature - on an unrelated subject, the AstroWright expounds on a subtle issue.

Trendy Companions - more AstroWright

What do we want graduate school to be?
When do we want it?
Real Soon Now!

I will have a report on a definitive solution to the whole climate issue and grad relations in 9 days.

Henri Le Chat Noir Returns:

Henri IV - L'Haunting!

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