Schrodinger’s Cat
So I got another task to complete. I am supposed to write down Five things that you do not know about me.
I attempted to commit suicide. At the age of 12. Got caught. Did so again at the age of 15. Sleeping pills didn’t work. The last one was at 17, got caught and they sent to a shrink. She told me that I must hold myself in higher esteem, that I cannot think in the right sense on my own and that the fact that I failed thrice indicates the same fact (in short that I am dumb :P)
I am confused about my sexual origin. I sometimes think that I am bisexual, while I sometimes think that I am straight. Though I really wish that I were the latter. Maybe I am just a sheep as I said earlier. Easier said than done. Right?
I am not as fucked up as I am sounding now. People around me seem to like me, and I am quite popular. I have really changed. Though ironically I think that my IQ and ability to grasp things has dropped significantly
I used to be a kleptomaniac. I stopped all that in ninth. I only stole pens, I never used the pens as I feared that I’d get caught. I never sold the pens or gave them to anyone. I collected them all and I still have them. The costliest is a Mont Blanc worth Rs 4,000 I took from a teacher in boarding school. My shrink tells me that I should return back as many things as possible, this would make me look better in my eyes. I wish I could tell him that I only have 32 teeth, but my Dad pays him hourly for all the crap I have to listen. He said that he will seriously consider discontinuing my treatment if I share my experiences with as many people as I can. It is strange that I am beginning to like him though.
The most important of the five being that I prefer not to disclose personal information on a public forum. So the things that I have written could be utter gibberish, but then it means that you are relying on this statement of mine, which could be a lie too.
You keep a cat in a box which has some poison in it. The cat either ate the poison and is dead, or it didn’t and is alive. We don’t know till we open the box. A classic quantum mechanical question ( ‘Classic Quantum Mech’- how does that sound?)
I don’t care. Poor old cat though. Assuming the first four parts were actually true, which sentence has a serious flaw and proves that I am lying? You get ‘I AIN’T DUMB’ points from me.
PS: This post has been sponsored by Tania and her tagging system.
June 3rd, 2007 at 5:27 pm
this wasn’t what you call schrodinger’s cat. Schrodinger’s cat is something similar explained below.
Schrodinger’s cat:
Its a famous thought experiment in quantum mechanics. If there’s a cat in a box with the property that the cat dies immediately after a photon strikes it, then if an observer needed to find out whether the cat was alive or dead, he would need to open the box up, thus ensuring that the photon struck and killed the cat anyways. Thus proving that the observer may have a profound effect on the system being observed. The point is, however, in this case, the cat seems to be dead since the photon seems to have struck.
June 3rd, 2007 at 7:05 pm
I think I do know what Schrodinger’s Cat is.In any of the cases where the Cat is in the box, the probability that the cat dies, is based on events which we cannot control. For example, the original experiment used a radioactive element decay to (as the ultimate result) kill the cat. We cannot truly tell the state of the cat which can actually be either living, dead, living but dying etc. All we can have is a superposition of the various states based on the function of decay of the atom.
“This situation is sometimes called quantum indeterminacy or the observer’s paradox: the observation or measurement itself affects an outcome, so that the outcome as such does not exist unless the measurement is made. (That is, there is no single outcome unless it is observed.)”
I do not know how you can infer in this case that the cat is already dead.
June 4th, 2007 at 9:55 am
Not sure but is it the fact that a teacher at your boarding had a Rs.4000 pen or that you’re sharing this fact when you just said you weren’t going to or is it the fact that your shrink appears to be a eunuch?
June 4th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
Heh, I would go for the last one. A close reader you are heh.Nice catch.
Oh Btw, can anything be a fact if it is not true.
June 4th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
Hmm don’t think so, which means I’ll have to do a “find and replace all” from fact to ’statement’ or something on my earlier comment.
June 5th, 2007 at 2:36 pm
Hey, this could have been aptly named as Aditya’s Believe It or Not.
June 5th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
I really wanted this post to be- Gotcha, didn’t I? But then I thought that it might give away too much
June 5th, 2007 at 5:22 pm
well…u really freakd me out there!
bt i m gessin…these mite just be true, havin known u over the last 9 months!!:)
June 6th, 2007 at 8:30 am
Yup, the next time you hear noises in your bathroom it is probably me trying unsuccessfully at another attempt to drown myself in your bathtub, because I don’t want you to know that I stole your Cello Gripper also because my frustration at me not able to decide whether I like the male or the female side of the Eunuch shrink, literally killing me. Help me!
For the record nothing written there is true!
June 6th, 2007 at 11:15 am
What? That really spoils the whole fun. You shouldn’t have told us, who would have known?
June 6th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
For some reason couldn’t really picture you in the circumstances described…. Then again since I believe in the law of suppositions… Anything could be true…!! The gender of the doctor really had me confused though!!