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Quantum Chaos

by Sheril Kirshenbaum

The latest news from the San Francisco Chronicle:

13:20 PDT SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO — A homeless man is on trial in San Mateo County on charges that he smacked a fellow transient in the face with a skateboard as the victim was engaged in a conversation about quantum physics, authorities said today.

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June 24th, 2009 9:00 PM
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6 Responses to “Quantum Chaos”

  1. 1.   Curious Wavefunction Says:
    June 24th, 2009 at 9:25 pm

    He decided to get entangled

  2. 2.   Rob Knop Says:
    June 24th, 2009 at 11:23 pm

    Huh, so now the newspaper is reporting on faculty meetings.

  3. 3.   Jim Ramsey Says:
    June 25th, 2009 at 7:16 am

    He lacks a certain “charm” ?!

  4. 4.   Chris Mooney Says:
    June 25th, 2009 at 8:59 am

    There is also a very sad argument to be made about bizarre one sentence local “news” items like this, and what they say about what the Chronicle, and many other regional papers, have become…

  5. 5.   Blue Says:
    June 25th, 2009 at 9:14 am

    No beer volcano for you.

  6. 6.   Erasmussimo Says:
    June 25th, 2009 at 11:16 am

    The only difference between us and the accused is that he’s too poor to discuss things in the safety of the virtual universe. We’ve been virtually smacking each other with skateboards during this discussion of (sigh) pragmatists versus militants.





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