Schrodinger's Car...

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I had this epiphany today while reading a post about a guy going to look at a “numbers matching” '69 trans-am that turned out to be neither numbers matching nor a T/A.

Schrodinger’s Car…

There is a car in a barn that may or may not be a numbers matching GTE. Quantum mechanics implies that at some point the car is simultaneously a numbers matching GTE and NOT a numbers matching GTE. But once you open the barn the car becomes one or the other.

If you don’t open the barn then the car still is / is not a numbers matching GTE. But if you open the barn and find the car is not a numbers matching GTE, does that mean that you destroyed a numbers matching GTE by opening the barn? Hmm…

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I submit that it is only the possibility that the car exists in both forms prior to opening the barn.

Since it is not defined until we observe it, it did not EXIST prior to that.

No dead GTE :poke:

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So then is the barn actually empty before you open it? Or is it occupied by the possibility of a car of either form?

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Ask the cat :slight_smile:

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I submit that someone has been watching WAY too many episodes of The Big Bang Theory.

Randy Goodling
CCOA #95

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So, we’re talking about a T.V. show here? I was really confused when reading this. Thought Mike had been sniffing fumes from a leaky exhaust.

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Not so much about the TV show. More about how Schrodinger’s theory pertains to “barn finds”.

As for the fume sniffing… I have been driving the Cougar quite a bit lately. Trying to get in as much as I can before the rain comes :-/

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In this country someone would suggest it was time to drink up and go home to bed :wink:

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The concept of virtualization solves this dilemma. The GT-E exists as a logical entity that is both matching and non-matching (since people will split between both states in their assumptions) until it is physically examined by one person. For that person, it may change it’s state definitively, but it remains a logical entity occupying both states for anyone who hasn’t either examined it themselves or accepted the examiners description as accurate.

In it’s virtual state, it is what it is perceived to be until a physical examination proves it to be something else entirely. In the IT world, this would equate to a “computer” that isn’t a computer at all, but actually just a file containing operating instructions.

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So you’re say the files are “in” the computer?

Zoolander

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It’s the same dilemma when viewing a gorgeous blonde from afar. Once you get close enough to converse, you discover that (1) either you’re too nervous to say anything or (2) she babbles incoherently (or chews her gum) when you say something to her, or (3) is not interested in you.

I believe she is Schrodinger’s Daughter…

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It gets even more paradoxical when you consider the car is a cat.

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… and Hello Kitty is not.

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Physically, the file IS the virtual computer. When the file is opened by a physical computer that acts on the instructions contained in the file, it then appears that you have two physical computers rather than just one. They can run different things at the same time, just like two physical computers.

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Well, I don’t know guys. You seemed to have ignored my advice, which was simply to “ask the cat.” It is a barn, there’s a cat in it irrespective of whether or not there is a Cougar or, for that matter, if the Cougar is a GT-E. So, by asking the cat what else is in the barn, you’d receive at least 1 of the 2 following responses:
(1) If the answer to the question was a simple Meow, then you have an empty barn or one with a regular, ordinary, but extraordinarily excellent Cougar;or, (2) if the answer to the question was a MEEEEEEEow, then of course you’d know that the Cougar in the barn (whether it be Schodingers’ or not) would be a GT-E. Ip-so-facto and ip-se-digit, even Hegel would be proud of this logic :slight_smile:

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Here’s a Cougar video that features Jeff Bingaman’s 70 in parts of it! This episode is on Don Rush.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoJIBRAo4TY

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I was getting really confused until I realized it is the ip-se-digital factor that allows for the WCCC interview to be part of this thread.

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I don’t think so Gary, I just think Joe C saw fit to spam up the the joint. Granted, it’s Cougar spam, but it’s spam just the same…

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I deleted probably 10 posts… he is now aware that this is not acceptable

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Thanks Bill I was actually scared to open it after seeing so many posts with the link, I figured virus. I guess the video links/spam could be like a Schrodinger’s thing…is it a post or spam until someone opens the thread. It both :laughing: I wonder how Schrödinger’s cat would see it? :smiley:
Steven