I was kinda just making a play on words with the whole conditional of the experiment that you not be able to observe the cat. Guess it didn't really work. I do, however appreciate what you say about the physics books lying to you, it's nice to know that before I take the class!
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I have to disagree. I know very little about Quantum Physics and I've never even taken Physics I(I'm a sophmore in HS), but the one thing I do know about it is Shcrodinger's Cat Paradox. Now tell me that's about "observables", and not the lack there-of.
And yes, I realize you said "To put...
I had trouble reading all three pages of this thread, but are you guys saying that prime numbers come in arbitrarily long, finite arithmetic progressions where it isn't always possible to predict the next number?
I'm pretty sure matt grime's post sums up the problem. you've got numbers 0000 through 9999 inclusive, so that's 9999+1=10000. That's what you were asking, right? That's how many 4 digit numbers there are.
I did a project in 8th grade that I wasn't quite prepared for. It's a good project idea, all the judges loved it, but I started a bit late and didn't have quite enough data because I had to build all my test equipment and it would break and I'd have to start over and stuff. Anyway, I did "Does...