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I really have a love/hate relationship with Schrödinger jokes.

-Dave K
 
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mfb said:
You don't know until you see the jokes?
You beat me to it :biggrin:.
 
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And now for something completely different.
(Will say, no joke, rather a true story, but funny nevertheless.)

After WWI women were first accepted to academic careers, so Lise Meitner could habilitate. Her introductory lecture has been in the then still mysterious field of astrophysics and was titled: "Problems of cosmic physics".
A reporter thought this cannot be - presented by a woman. Therefore he titled in the newspaper:
"Problems of cosmetic physics."
 
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fresh_42 said:
Her introductory lecture has been in the then still mysterious field of astrophysics and was titled: "Problems of cosmic physics".
A reporter thought this cannot be - presented by a woman. Therefore he titled in the newspaper:
"Problems of cosmetic physics."
Or he didn't know what 'cosmic' meant ... so "he fixed it" ! ...
 
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( yes I know there is a date issue ... for the sake of a giggle, live with it :biggrin:)
 
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davenn said:
View attachment 114643( yes I know there is a date issue ... for the sake of a giggle, live with it :biggrin:)
Are these main-stream peer-reviewed discoveries? Please provide valid reference. Lol
 
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Talking about date issue.
Bought some rocket salad a couple of days ago it went off before I could eat it.
 
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Buckleymanor said:
Talking about date issue.
Bought some rocket salad a couple of days ago it went off before I could eat it.

I had the Chef's salad. Man he was pissed.

(Yes, not a science joke, but I had to reply...)

-Dave K
 
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dkotschessaa said:
I had the Chef's salad. Man he was pissed.
"Caesar" is mad too ...
mfb said:
I'm on a low-entropy diet.
Good one! Lol
 
Another example for the list of "no matter how hard you try, you can't make up things so crazy that no one did that before".
 
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mfb said:
Another example for the list of "no matter how hard you try, you can't make up things so crazy that no one did that before".
Why? I didn't see the term
mfb said:
low-entropy diet
anywhere there or elsewhere! ...
So I think you have the franchise on that ... and you will be quoted thereafter! ...

Because just "Food Combining Diet" and "Food Combinations" is an old and somewhat different kind of story, with several approaches and theories (not just the ones mentioned there in the wiki ref), some very new and modern ones too ...
[Believe it or not I am somewhat of an "expert" in Nutrition ...]
 
Buckleymanor said:
Bought some rocket salad a couple of days ago it went off before I could eat it.
Salad hygiene. How difficult can that be? It's not rocket science!
 
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mfb said:
Google finds "low-entropy diet" literally in some "cure cancer" crackpot environments..
If we don't take it down to the molecular level, in terms of food combinations it would mean (as ~ in your original) "to basically eat one type of ingredient or food (organized food)".
Then of course you starve to death! ... which would definitely increase the entropy ... Ooops! :nb):smile::wink:
 
Vanadium 50 said:
> is there a clear answer?

How would you know if there were?

I would measure absorption of 400-800nm light by any available answers. If I find one with very low absorption, then that answer is clear.
 
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nikkkom said:
I would measure absorption of 400-800nm light by any available answers. If I find one with very low absorption, then that answer is clear.
sorry, but your wavelength range is not right...
 
Schrödinger’s cat walks into a bar and doesn’t.
 
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