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- From: Thomas Faller <tomfal@TR6.WES.ARMY.MIL>
- Subject: Classical Symphonyity
- Message-ID: <9307202133.AA03424@lll-winken.llnl.gov>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1993 16:34:19 CDT
- Dear Skeptics:
-
- My last message, before an untimely net-death, was the following. Now, there's
- nothing as stale as a joke a week past its context, but hopefully, there's
- only a handful of die-hard users subscribed so far, so the damage will be
- minimal. Let the Groans begin!
-
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- >From tomfal Tue Jul 6 16:48:21 1993
- To: SKEPTIC%YORKVM1.BITNET@PSUVM.PSU.EDU
- Subject: Re: Classical Symphonyity
- Status: RO
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-
- Permit me to interject some experimental results into what has been, up to
- now, a mostly theoretical discussion.
-
- Let us turn to the a contemporary of Schrodinger, Dr. Ludwig Schroderberger.
- A member of the "Lodz" school of quantum physics in the Twenties and Thirties,
- he often remarked, "We're not very good, but there's Lodz of us!". His classic
- contribution to physics was the thought-experiment where a cat and a gerbil
- were placed in a sealed box and bets were placed on the gerbil.
-
- Dr. Schrodenbergen's unique insight into the problem showed him that the
- fate of the gerbil was unknowable under quantum physics (although perfectly
- obvious under classical physics) unless the gerbil was aware of reverse-time
- traveling single electrons produced by its future state. This required a
- crossed-pair symmetry for cross-correlation, so Schrobingnerben removed the
- cat, replaced the single gerbil with a right-handed gerbil and a left-handed
- gerbil. Instead of collapsing the probability waveform, it expanded it: the
- experimental output usually included several litters, some apparently from
- future experiments. Schraederbader at first expected an infinity of possible
- mate states, but apparently, this was limited by re-adding the cat to the
- set-up at some future point.
-
- By the 1940's, most of Dr. Schroufenderbem's energy was being devoted to
- the anti-war effort from his refuge in America. His laboratory was located
- under a badminton court at the University of Chicago. In his laboratory,
- he would subject volunteer soldiers to rides in a high-speed spinning chair
- on an enormous turntable, in order to "align their mental spin-states" and
- produce a mind receptive to information coming from the future. His plan was
- to obtain winning Lotto numbers through 1946 and buy Poland back from the
- Germans.
- Results were mixed. Schrodergerber was able to pick up radio adventures of
- Little Orphan Annie up to a week in advance, but success at the big money
- evaded him. A typical session follows:
-
- Dr.S: The turntable is up to speed. Switch on the microphone to the subject.
- Subject: Laahhh! Ahhh Laahhh Laa Waahhh!
- Dr.S: Pull your tongue back in. You're drooling on the microphone again!
- Subject: Yaahhh.. I'm better now. I had to yawn and it fell out, from the
- centrifugal force.
- Dr.S: Are you receiving any images? Can you see the future? Relax. Relax.
- Tell us what you see.
- Subject: There's an image. I hear a voice.....Babaloo! Babaloo!
- Dr.S: (aside), Damnit, there it is again! We get that every year we tune to.
- (to subject) Block that out. Concentrate. Give me a number.
- Subject: 47
- Dr.S: 47? That's it? Try for a bingo number.
- Subject: 47
- Dr.S: Ignore that. Look for other images.
- Subject: Four more years, four more years...
- Dr.S: He must be referring to Roosevelt again..
- Subject: 2001, 80486, 25 or 6 to 4, Chicago 7, eight-fold way, 7 1/2, 747,
- OS/2, thirtysomething, U2, three degrees kelvin...
- Dr.S: Spin him down again, he's starting to babble.
- (end of transcription)
-
- The experimental results were published in the Reader's Digest in 1944, and
- the twenty-foot wide turntable was eventually used to cook the world's
- largest pizza in 1952. Despite the apparent failure of his wartime work, he
- stayed funded by the government throughout the Fifties and Sixties, and
- was one of the 1972 project, the Super-Near-Collider, in which a accelerated
- beam of electrons was fired at a stationary nucleus to see which way it would
- "jump". Schroderboder proved that foreknowledge of the coming electrons at
- a quantum level would cause most particles to leap out of the way at the
- last second, unless tied down. This work resulted in the "Crash-Proof" Bumper
- for automobiles, which used previously "excited" chromium atoms in a "near-
- paranoid" spin state.
-
-
- Need I add ;-)
- ?
-
-
- Tom Faller
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