Fwd: Ubuntu Ice House: Repeat Event Today!

[JoeHill]

On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 18:55:22 -0500
Zbigniew Koziol got an infinite number of monkeys to type out:

> On Wednesday 07 February 2007 19:07, John Macdonald wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 05:38:53PM -0500, James Knott wrote:  
> > > John Macdonald wrote:  
> > > > On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 11:57:08PM -0500, Zbigniew Koziol wrote:  
> > > >> Schrodinger is a something. I am 10 years after doing physics but I 
> > > >> can not forget Schrodinger equation. Now, I have Schrodinger's cats
> > > >> around! They are with me all the time.  
> > > >
> > > > Schrodinger's cats would both be with you all the time
> > > > and not with you ever.  
> > >
> > > How much cat food would you need?  ;-)  
> >
> > A lot.  The cats would always be there when the food was
> > available and not there when it isn't.  
> 
> Even a worser scenario is possible. If cats behave like bosons, they may 
> undergo a quantum phase transition and condense into Bose-Einstein state.

LOL! Aaaaah, now this is a fun thread again...

> Such a state would attract other cats around. It is however an interesting 
> analogy. Here the food plays a role of an interaction that actually does not 
> occour between cats directely, however, that interaction is mediated by the 
> presence of food. In other words, food plays a role of, let say, of 
> interaction like between phonons and electrons. And while electrons repulse 
> each other, in certain situations they can bind together into Cooper pairs 
> and create a superconductive state.

And it's been bloody cold enough in my damn basement to keep them like that.
Would superconductivity negate the hellacious hatred that cats seem to have for
each other though?

> Better do not feed these cats at all.. Food besides can attract dogs as well. 
> I would prefer not to see dogs condensed into a superfluid state... They 
> would all behave like one. They would flow through the windows, doors, 
> regardles of gravitation. They could flow out through chimney, all of them 
> behaving like one super-dog.

A dog able to run on walls like Neo? No thanks.

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