Pub Quiz thread

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A particle, in quantum physics, can be in two states at the same time. In Schrodinger's case the particle in question can set off a deadly gas in one state and not in the other. The gas will kill a cat in the same box. Because the particle is both setting off the gas and not setting off the gas at the same time the cat must, therefore, be both dead and alive. But, as Schrodinger said, the quantum scale does not work in the same way are normal physics so the cat can't be both dead and alive, which is what he was trying to illustrate but everyone has forgotten that - or so I have been told. I'm not a physicist, quantum or otherwise. The real question is whether the cat was a tabby or not, and whether quantum physics can tell us that, and explain it if it can tell us.
 
NZHorn said:
A particle, in quantum physics, can be in two states at the same time. In Schrodinger's case the particle in question can set off a deadly gas in one state and not in the other. The gas will kill a cat in the same box. Because the particle is both setting off the gas and not setting off the gas at the same time the cat must, therefore, be both dead and alive. But, as Schrodinger said, the quantum scale does not work in the same way are normal physics so the cat can't be both dead and alive, which is what he was trying to illustrate but everyone has forgotten that - or so I have been told. I'm not a physicist, quantum or otherwise. The real question is whether the cat was a tabby or not, and whether quantum physics can tell us that, and explain it if it can tell us.
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I think the cat should make its mind up <laugh>
 
Jsybarry said:
They sound like paint colours but given that Reading's away kit is "African violet" I wonder if they are descriptions of colours in kits this season.
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No, not paint or kit colours. In a roundabout sort of way colour may have something to do with the answer, but I would have to check whether that is the case as I don't know.
 
Is it the English equivalent of the Welsh Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch ie longest name?
 
yorkshirehornet said:
isogram (also known as a "nonpattern word") is a logological term for a word or phrase without a repeating letter. It is also used by some to mean a word or phrase in which each letter appears the same number of times, not necessarily just once.

Bricklehampton is the longest isogrammic place name in the uk?
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It is, Yorkie. The word "deeded" is one of the few triple isograms in English. Over to you...
 
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