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Re: Shroedinger and the coffee constant (was RE: something else)
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Thu, 28 Jan 1999 12:44:35 GMT
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James Brown writes/wrote/has writen:
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> Ah, but it's not an assumption, except in the very extreme view that all
> theories are assumptions. Based on extensive empirical research, it has been
> determined that when a cup of coffee and I are placed in the same enclosed • area
> (studies have been done in areas up to and including large cafeteria's), I • will
> drink the coffee. There are a few strictly delineated exceptions to this • rule,
> but since none of those exceptions were stated at the beginning of your
> original hypothesis, then it is assumed they do not apply.
> Therefore, it can be stated that, baring exceptions, when James & coffee are • in
> the same confined space, James will drink the coffee. This shall be • considered
> a universal constant(1).
Is this known as the Theorem_of_James ?
> The Schroedinger paradox neither states nor implies that universal constants • do
> not apply within the box, and as such, James drinks the coffee.
Cheers!
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> Note: To those of you outside the box, who are unable to directly observe
> events within it, the coffee is in a constant state of being drunk(2), as it • is
> an event which occurs over time, and until the box is opened, you can not
> determine whether or not I have finished the coffee.
Sooo... this is the way for you to always drink coffee? I just get up and walk
to the coffeemachine. That beats the folding-up-to-fit-in-the-box...
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> James
> tongue FIRMLY in cheek.(3)
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> 1: In _my_ universe, anyway. I don't know about yours.
My universe lacks all constants. It is constantly twisting and revolving.
Hmmm..perhaps too much coffee?
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> 2: which, I am told, is rather unpleasant
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> 3: which is one of the strictly defined restrictions on the universal law
> stated above. drinking coffee with your tongue in your cheek results in
> spilled coffee. :)
And that is a mortal sin!
Mark
B-)
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