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Originally posted by UK Wizard
Without opening the box and presuming we can't see inside the box with any other means how are we to determine whether the cat is alive or dead before the opening of the box at the allotted hour?
Originally posted by boredguy
its like that ol saying
if a tree falls in the forest and noone is around does it make a sound?
Originally posted by shuck
It seems along the lines of
" If a tree falls in a forrest...and there is no one there to hear it...does it make a sound??"
A very old conundrum....lol
Originally posted by Yossarian
Or to remove the conscious factor, you don't know where your keys are. Before you get up to look for them, is it possible that they are both in the hall by the telephone AND still in the car door?
Originally posted by Cadbury
Originally posted by Yossarian
Or to remove the conscious factor, you don't know where your keys are. Before you get up to look for them, is it possible that they are both in the hall by the telephone AND still in the car door?
If the infinite reality theory that "everything that can happen, does happen" is even remotely "true" then your keys are all over the place, man.
Originally posted by Yossarian
Just not in my line of vision. Until they are.
Is that why the keys are always in the last place I look?
Originally posted by Cadbury
Hah! That was good. But is it not that they are in the last place you look because you stop looking when you find them? Or is that what you meant?
I laugh out loud.
Perhaps this new forum is actually dangerous?
Originally posted by Yossarian
I meant both, was trying to be amusing. Don't want to drag this thread off-topic but it might be on-topic when I'm not looking at it.
Originally posted by ElectroMagnetic Multivers
I usually find my keys, then look in one more place so that stupid saying has no relevance, solved!!
EMM
Originally posted by Taj Mikel
reply to post by argentus
I'd be very interested to learn about some home style experiments we can do to demonstrate quantum theory, thanks!