• Fedizen@lemmy.world
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        Spooky meow from a distance. Yarn Theory. Scawy Vaccuums. Thermeowdynamics. Quantum Litterbox Theory. Science cat is still exploring the meowsteries of our world.

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    The cat thing was designed to be as absurd as possible to heckle Bohr and Heisenburg.

    Similarly, Freeman Dyson’s Dyson sphere paper was a work of satire, to poke fun at how ridiculous the idea was. He got stuck with it anyway.

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      If Schrödinger knew that he was the modern day face of the Copenhagen interpretation, he’d be in a state of both rolling and not-rolling in his grave.

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      same with the trolley problem. it’s supposed to be so obvious, like asking someone ‘if your friend jumped off a cliff, would you?’ that it shows that it is moral to choose the lesser of two evils. it wasn’t designed to be a debate