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I need an class participatory experiment activity to demonstrate Infinite Probability Supercollapse in the nature of the Schroedinger's Cat experiment for an activity to accompany a presentation lecture next week. It needs to be simple and $0.00 budget in nature! Any suggestions? I have been tapped as guest lecturer again.:)

For the most obscure thread topics!
I need an class participatory experiment activity to demonstrate Infinite Probability Supercollapse in the nature of the Schroedinger's Cat experiment for an activity to accompany a presentation lecture next week. It needs to be simple and $0.00 budget in nature! Any suggestions? I have been tapped as guest lecturer again.:)

The only answer I can give is the same one I used to give in high school spanish class when I had no clue what the teacher just said. "Si, somos buenos amigos."

Who is this Schroedinger fella, and how dare he conduct experiments on his cat?!?! :eek:

<edit> - Would Ponzi have any insight into this?

Is your thread compatible with a multi axis stepping motor with an integral bearing face? Can i use a PLL 325 cable to attach the grommet points to the fetzer valve on your cat?

Give everyone a penny and tell them to flip it, catch it, and then cover it without looking. There's your cat. May not be $0.00, but close. Or you could just tell the students to pull out their coin of their choice (so long as it's not double sided). Unless I'm completely misundstanding what you're saying.

Pick up a few handfuls of gravel in the parking lot. Place them in your pockets. Randomly toss handfuls of gravel at the audience during your speech, with instructions to scream out the first word in their mind if hit by gravel.

Not sure if it will help at all, but it would be fun as hell to be you.

Turboencabulator
JH Quick

[From The Institute of Electrical Engineers, Students Quarterly Journal 25]

For a number of years now, work has has been proceeding in order to bring
prefection to the crudely conceived idea of a machine that would work to not
only supply inverse reactive current, for use in unilateral phase detectors, but
would also be capable of automatically synchronising cardinal grammeters. Such
a machine is the 'Turboencabulator'. Basically, the only new principle involved
is that instead of the power being generated by the relaxive motion of
conductors and fluxes, it is produced by the modial interactions of magneto-
reluctance and capacitive directance.

The original machine had a base-plate of prefabulated amulite, surrounded by a
malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurving bearings were
in direct line with the pentametric fan, the latter consisted simply of six
hydrocoptic marzelvanes, so fitted to the ambifacient lunar vaneshaft that side
fumbling was effectively prevented. The main winding was of the normal lotus-
o-delta type placed in panendermic semiboloid solts in the stator, every seventh
conductor being connected by a non-reversible termic pipe to the differential
girdlespring on the 'up' end of the grammeter.

Forty-one manestically placed grouting brushes were arrranged to feed into the
rotor slip stream a mixture of high S-value phenyhydrobenzamine and 5 percent
reminative tetraiodohexamine. Both these liquids have specific pericosities
given by p=2.4 Cn where n is the diathecial evolute of retrograde temperature
phase disposition and C is the Chomondeley's annual grillage coefficient.
Initially, n was measured with the aid of a metapolar pilfrometer, but up to the
present date nothing has been found to equal the transcetental hopper dadoscope.

Electrical engineers will appreciate the difficulty of nubbing together a
regurgitative purwell and a superaminative wennel-sprocket. Indeed, this proved
to be a stumbling block to further development until, in 1943, it was found that
the use of anhydrous nagling pins enabled a kyptonastic boiling shim to be
tankered.

The early attempts to construct a sufficiently robust spiral decommutator failed
largely because of lack of appreciation of the large quasi-pietic stresses in
the gremlin studs; the latter were specially designed to hold the roffit bars to
the spamshaft. When, however, it was discovered that wending could be prevented
by the simple addition of teeth to socket, almost perfect running was secured.

The operating point is maintained as near as possible to the HF rem peak by
constantly fromaging the bituminous spandrels. This is a distinct advance on
the standard nivelsheave in that no drammock oil is required after the phase
detractors have remissed.

Undoubtedly, the turboencabulator has now reached a very high level of technical
development. It has been successfully used for operating nofer trunnions. In
addition, whenever a barescent skor motion is required, it may be employed in
conjunction with a drawn reciprocating dingle arm to reduce sinusoidal
depleneration.

damn, 2many - I was going to do that.

damn, 2many - I was going to do that.

It's not patented yet. Go for it ! :D

http://img490.imageshack.us/img490/4954/bumpwt8.jpg

"Turboencabulator"

2Many, that's hilarious! I was an EE student about 100 years ago, and I very fondly remember the old days of sitting around a table littered with empty beer pitchers and one full pitcher, making up crap like that with my egg-head buddies. One time we wrote a very scholarly treatise on navel lint (sources, taxonomy, uses, etc), bound it in a carboard cover, and left it on a shelf in the school library somewhere near dermatology.

"Turboencabulator"

2Many, that's hilarious! I was an EE student about 100 years ago, and I very fondly remember the old days of sitting around a table littered with empty beer pitchers and one full pitcher, making up crap like that with my egg-head buddies. One time we wrote a very scholarly treatise on navel lint (sources, taxonomy, uses, etc), bound it in a carboard cover, and left it on a shelf in the school library somewhere near dermatology.

ROFLMAO! :roflmao:

He's funny! He can stay.

"Turboencabulator"

2Many, that's hilarious! I was an EE student about 100 years ago, and I very fondly remember the old days of sitting around a table littered with empty beer pitchers and one full pitcher, making up crap like that with my egg-head buddies. One time we wrote a very scholarly treatise on navel lint (sources, taxonomy, uses, etc), bound it in a carboard cover, and left it on a shelf in the school library somewhere near dermatology.

You did not keep a copy? :( Too bad.

I still can't believe 'Integro-differential' is a word! :roflmao: :crash: :roflmao:

Give everyone a penny and tell them to flip it, catch it, and then cover it without looking. There's your cat. May not be $0.00, but close. Or you could just tell the students to pull out their coin of their choice (so long as it's not double sided). Unless I'm completely misundstanding what you're saying.
That's classical physics probability.

I'm going to do three cups which may or may not have a ball under one or more to demonstrate probability wave collapse. Limited, but I don't have top stick a cat in a box!

Actually, the penny is a recoverable asset. You put it back in your spare change jar when your done. Net cost is $0.00.