fat camp

[Mossdog]

...if you don't believe it will make you fat it probably won't. It's a superposition waiting to be collapsed.

That's right. Especially if your mate Wigner keeps an eye on you while you're eating/not eating the bar!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner%27s_friend

[noel]

So like Schrodingers cat, if you put me in a room with a hundred chocolate bars, you'll only know whether I'm fat or not once you open the room. That reminds me:
https://lostinscience.wordpress.com/...-by-chocolate/

[Mossdog]

... if you put me in a room with a hundred chocolate bars, you'll only know whether I'm fat or not once you open the room.

I think it's a bit more complicated than that Noel. It kinda depends on whether 'you' are actually 'you' at the time 'you' are put into the room with the 100 chocolate bars, and how many, if any, you consume.

Perhaps this will help to explain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndphyShO9HA

[Graham Breeze]

[QUOTE=Mossdog;678100]I think it's a bit more complicated than that Noel. It kinda depends on whether 'you' are actually 'you' at the time 'you' are put into the room with the 100 chocolate bars, and how many, if any, you consume.

Oh dear. My head hurts.

[Marco]

I think it's a bit more complicated than that Noel. It kinda depends on whether 'you' are actually 'you' at the time 'you' are put into the room with the 100 chocolate bars, and how many, if any, you consume.

Perhaps this will help to explain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndphyShO9HA

In the name of science, shouldn't we weigh Noel and then put him in a room with a hundred chocolate bars. We could then weigh him again after he came out to prove or disprove the theory.

Of course just one test of the theory would be statistically insufficient, so we'd have to run the same test at least 100 times

[Graham Breeze]

In the name of science, shouldn't we weigh Noel and then put him in a room with a hundred chocolate bars. We could then weigh him again after he came out to prove or disprove the theory.

Mmmh. Noel is a nice guy - but before we carried away by the science, who is going to pay for these 100 chocolate bars?

[Marco]

Mmmh. Noel is a nice guy - but before we carried away by the science, who is going to pay for these 100 chocolate bars?

Don't you mean the 100 x 100 chocolate bars, Graham?

[noel]

Maybe we should put an unscratched scratch card lottery ticket in a box with the cat.

[anthonykay]

Don't you mean the 100 x 100 chocolate bars, Graham?

I'm sure the research funding organisations would look kindly on the grant application: major advance in quantum mechanics promised, and they don't have to pay for particle accelerators, high-performance computing, etc.: 10,000 chocolate bars come in a lot cheaper than all that stuff.

[Graham Breeze]

... and they don't have to pay for particle accelerators, high-performance computing, etc.: 10,000 chocolate bars come in a lot cheaper than all that stuff.

In that case we could go for Lindt rather than Cadbury.