Reply to: Another Brain Teaser.

[ASB]

Indeed I did, after repeating the experiment 8 times my master concluded he was wrong.

What a Bohr. IGMC

[Schrodinger's Cat]

Never liked that Copenhagen interpretation. Surely the cat would know first, and miaow a sigh of relief when the lid was opened.

Indeed I did, after repeating the experiment 8 times my master concluded he was wrong.

[ASB]

Never liked that Copenhagen interpretation. Surely the cat would know first, and miaow a sigh of relief when the lid was opened.

So you'll side with Einstein, typical Hawking doesn't like it either. If I recall the whole thing was all Eintseins fault anyway for rabbiting on about unstable gunpowder.

[threaded]

Only if you are a cat doing the observing.

Never liked that Copenhagen interpretation. Surely the cat would know first, and miaow a sigh of relief when the lid was opened.

[ASB]

But the act of observing affects the results.

Or am I taking a quantum leap here?

Only if you are a cat doing the observing.

[gingerjedi]

I asked Father O'Leary about that and he says mass should be celebrated standing still.

Or on your knee's...

[Paddy]

But doesn't your mass increase the faster you go?

I asked Father O'Leary about that and he says mass should be celebrated standing still.

[threaded]

But the act of observing affects the results.

Or am I taking a quantum leap here?

Or my favourite, ala the double split experiment, the position of the observer and how do them photons know?

[Sysman]

I never quite understood, what with relativity and stuff, how you define which is the traveller and which is the observer anyway.

But the act of observing affects the results.

Or am I taking a quantum leap here?

[TheOmegaMan]

Hold on, the spot isn't the same bunch of photons moving across the clouds, is it. Therefore, I'd have thought there is no light travelling faster than light.

There is no paradox. Imagine photons being emitted from the searchlight. They travel at fast but finite speed so that if the searchlight is moved the photons currently emitted from the light do not hit the cloud where the searchlight is currently pointing.

It is rather like the tracer fire from an AA gun. Both bullets and light have finite speed. Only my mind has infinite speed.

[threaded]

Well I know what I am talking about, but, as usual, I have no idea what you are talking about

That spot of light can carry information (i.e. the light is on), but not faster than the speed of light.

HTH

[EternalOptimist]

That's actually quite funny. If you knew what you were talking about.

Well I know what I am talking about, but, as usual, I have no idea what you are talking about

[threaded]

Well thats one way of looking at it, its information thats travelling FTL not an actual thingy

That's actually quite funny. If you knew what you were talking about.

[threaded]

But doesn't your mass increase the faster you go? ...an unwanted side effect.

This would explain why it gets very hard to pedal past the 35mph mark!

Nah, that's not so fast, guess either it's mainly a mental limit or your gearings not so good, have a look at my race speeds, I hit 48 mph regular on a MTB, and that's single track dodging trees. On my daily commute I'm quicker, but that's road.

[EternalOptimist]

Hold on, the spot isn't the same bunch of photons moving across the clouds, is it. Therefore, I'd have thought there is no light travelling faster than light.

Well thats one way of looking at it, its information thats travelling FTL not an actual thingy