Denise in Florida Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 (edited) I don't usually post jokes or funny pictures, I figure we get enough of those through facebook and email. But this one made me think of the well trained mind. So Heisenberg and Schrodinger are driving down a highway... Police: *Sirens* Heisenberg: *Stops car* Police Officer: Sir, do you know how fast you were going?! Heisenberg: Uhhmmm no, but I can tell you where I was. Police Officer: (to himself) That's suspicious. *Searches car* Police Officer: Do you know that there was a dead cat in your car?! Schrodinger: Well, now I do. :lol::lol: Edited August 25, 2012 by Denise in Florida fixed formatting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlessedMom Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 :):) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newlifemom Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 Sadly, I am not smart enough to get it. :crying: Perhaps when I get to high school physics with my dd? :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tammi K Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 :lol::lol::lol::lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hsbaby Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 Sadly, I am not smart enough to get it. :crying: Perhaps when I get to high school physics with my dd? :tongue_smilie: :iagree: I don't get it:( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sumiller Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 Sadly, I am not smart enough to get it. :crying: Perhaps when I get to high school physics with my dd? :tongue_smilie: :iagree:I had to google them both and read just enough to 'get' the joke...now my head hurts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nukeswife Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 I got it but only because we recently watched a past episode of "The Big Bang Theory" that talked about Shrodinger's cat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrothead Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 *Shwoosh* That one went right over my head. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYoungerMrsWarde Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 :lol: :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belacqua Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 I got it but only because we recently watched a past episode of "The Big Bang Theory" that talked about Shrodinger's cat. Apparently, Schrodinger has become a thing on Big Bang Theory. There's an outtake I just love: Leonard sits down at the lunch table and says something about using Schrodinger's equation and the audience just loses it. Utterly disrupts the scene. The actor who plays Leonard turns to the audience and says, "Really?" Makes me laugh every time I see it. Must go try out the joke on my men. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corraleno Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 :lol: There's a similar joke: Heisenberg and Shrodinger are on their way to a party at Einstein's. Heisenberg: "Next exit, take a left and then a right, and we're there. And by the way, there's a cop behind that billboard." Shrodinger: "There may or may not be a cop behind that billboard. We won't know until we get there. But it doesn't matter because we're only going fifty five." Heisenberg: "Oh, great. Now we're lost." But the cat in the trunk adds a nice touch, IMO. :lol: Jackie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delirium Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 :rofl: Love it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denise in Florida Posted August 25, 2012 Author Share Posted August 25, 2012 This is the background for the joke, only read if you want to. Schrodinger's Cat is a thought experiement (paradox) explained in wiki as: Schrödinger's Cat: A cat, a flask of poison and a radioactive source are placed in a sealed box. If an internal monitor detects radioactivity, the flask is shattered, releasing the poison that kills the cat. The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics implies that after a while, the cat is simultaneously alive and dead. Yet, when we look in the box, we see the cat either alive or dead, not both alive and dead. Heisenberg's Uncertainty principle states (per wiki again): In quantum mechanics, the uncertainty principle is any of a variety of mathematical inequalities asserting a fundamental limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties of a particle, such as position x and momentum p, can be simultaneously known. The more precisely the position of some particle is determined, the less precisely its momentum can be known, and vice versa.[1] So the two men are traveling but can only determine where they were, not how fast they were going. The cat with them was both alive and dead until an outside observer determines its condition. Hope this helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TravelingChris Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 :lol::lol::lol: We are a house with a PhD physicist and a child who groks physics. So yeah, we get it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Mungo Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 :lol::lol::lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freerange Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 :lol::lol::lol: We are a house with a PhD physicist and a child who groks physics. So yeah, we get it. No PhD (yet) but 2 with the groking (grokking? :confused:) & we're :lol: And now I need to try to find the Big Bang Theory outtake.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belacqua Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 And now I need to try to find the Big Bang Theory outtake.... I'm pretty sure it's from the episode where they develop an iPhone app (for differential equations). Beyond that, I'm no help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forget-Me-Not Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 :lol::lol::lol: I got the Schrodinger part, but had forgotten about the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle until DH reminded me :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luckymama Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lacie Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 :lol::lol: I'm not showing this to DH though, he doesn't fully appreciate my geekery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TravelingChris Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 Dh , the physicist, did like the joke. THanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
besroma Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghee Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 I got it but only because we recently watched a past episode of "The Big Bang Theory" that talked about Shrodinger's cat. :iagree::D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kebo Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 My son and I thank you for the laugh :001_smile: He's a big Shrodinger joke fan. This is on his birthday list: http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/e9cb/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsabelC Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 :lol::lol::lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FaithManor Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 :biggrinjester: I'm saving this so we can explain it to our older 4-Her's. Faith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty ethel rackham Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 I got it but only because we recently watched a past episode of "The Big Bang Theory" that talked about Shrodinger's cat. Same here! I turned to ask my oldest about the Heisenberg reference - and then remembered - I left him at college yesterday. :crying: I emailed him to tell him he was being replaced by Google:). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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