Re: buck\stag & that Schrödinger thing (a bit OT)

Brooks R brooksar at indy.net
Wed Sep 13 22:01:20 UTC 2000


No: HPFGUIDX 1404

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Neil Ward <neilward at d...> wrote:
 
> I'm amazed at the knowledge of this club's members.  There was a 
mention of
> Schrödinger's Cat and suddenly half our members were revealing 
convincing
> expertise in quantum mechanics.  


In my case, I'd _better_ be able to remember and explain it, as I
have 
a postgraduate degree in engineering physics, and a lifetime of 
reading science fact and fiction!  

'No brag, just fact'*, but OTOH I am indeed ashamed of all the other 
things that I _can't_ remember anymore. :-(

-Brooks


*Stock phrase of Walter Brennan's character, 'Grandpa' Sonnet in 
_The Guns of Will Sonnet_, US television, late 1960's)





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