Comments on: Not Schrodinger’s Cat

By: Plato

Plato — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:01:13 +0000

Nothing mystical here. Sometimes I get all these jumbled images(neurons firing) and although they seem inconsistant, the waiter turning the platter in a complete revoluton, or a cat turning it's head to the ground to land on it's feet, one might gather indeed to complete it all, you would need a 720 degree rotation? Then I saw this superconductor and the cube floating. The shape of the square, versus a spherical shape, that the latter should know no edge or place to rest, and like a pen that balances on it's tip, what recipical valuation might have been gathered from Penrose plate to follow? That entanglement would have been of some issue? Or that such methods with Gravity Probe B might be of some reward? In a simple physics lesson of judo, the instructor pointed out, that if you turn your head to the ground "like a cat", your body will follow. This helps you to land properly and dissipate the force with which you are slamming the ground. It does not hurt as much anymore:) This was only "half" the battle?:)

By: Matrix

Matrix — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 08:59:44 +0000

All of this for a rancid bowl of food, a fools game!

By: citrine

citrine — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 01:07:00 +0000

These parallel lines exist in an Euclidean plane. The cat’s geometry is Reimannian.

By: citrine

citrine — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 00:57:35 +0000

Now we do the CAT scan.

By: citrine

citrine — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 23:30:33 +0000

This is what I do when I run out of grant money. (Attributed to either the cat or the trainer.)

By: Clifford

Clifford — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 23:25:27 +0000

Cat fashion-thoughts: “Am I the only one who thinks that wearing bagels on a jacket will never catch on?”

-cvj

By: Clifford

Clifford — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 23:19:52 +0000

Unusual things you can create from the vacuum with a strong enough magnetic field produced by two parallel current-carrying wires….

-cvj

By: Clifford

Clifford — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 23:13:36 +0000

Tense moments in the 2005 pet Olympiad: “Now Nadia, remember that all you have to do is stick the landing and we snatch the gold medal from the Americans!”

-cvj

By: Clifford

Clifford — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 23:09:36 +0000

“Ok, Felix. Now it’s your turn to put on a silly costume!”

-cvj

By: Clifford

Clifford — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 23:06:56 +0000

In a travelling series of popular public demonstrations, Professor E.U. Clid and his feline collaborator illuminated the properties of parallel lines in plane geometry.

-cvj

By: citrine

citrine — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 22:52:06 +0000

“That’s how I train my grad students to perform on command.”

By: Clifford

Clifford — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 22:39:06 +0000

Matt… that’s mean!

Gosh, I did not intend it to be a another caption contest, but, hey….why not?

-cvj

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 22:35:31 +0000

A caption contest…?

You don’t want to know where he’s going to stick that finger.

By: Clifford

Clifford — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 20:23:53 +0000

Ok, here's a starting point: Richard Montgomery's website. -cvj

By: Clifford

Clifford — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 20:19:41 +0000

Hmmmm, or for upper division physics and mathematics classes, you can employ, -as you suggest, citrine- their remarkable ability to invert themselves to right way up when dropped (while still conserving angular momentum) to teach about principal fibre bundles and gauge theory. (I’ve been blogging enough today so I won’t write an explanation, and hope that others might have a stab at giving some weblinks for those who are curious about this remark…)

-cvj

By: citrine

citrine — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 20:05:45 +0000

How great would it be if those cats could be specifically trained to demonstrate some principles of Physics. (As a fellow cat-lover I’m NOT NOT NOT thinking of a certain experiment involving a box and a vial of poison).

Two suggestions:

a) Conservation of angular momentum: Slow motion movie of cat changing its radius of gyration while falling from a height.

b) Conservation of linear momentum: Two cats on velcro’d skateboards approach one another at specific velocities, the boards get stuck and the combined cat system moves off at a different velocity.