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Most consumers with a penchant for sugar-laden lard-based confections with added fruit, biscuits and chocolate will have experienced the delights of Haagen-Dazs ice cream, typically alone in a darkened room, with the curtains closed and a chair wedged firmly under the door handle.
Some of the more
erudite amongst you may be conversant with Nils Bohr's conclusions on the metaphysical implications of quantum physics, commonly known as the "Copenhagen Interpretation" (q.v.).
(It is strongly advised that readers (who may or may not exist) follow the <link> at this point and read the relevant explanation, otherwise what follows may or may not make sense)
To continue:
The intention is to combine the mouth-watering flavour and texture of ice-cream with the subtle quantum uncertainty which is (or perhaps isn't) implied by the Copenhagen Interpretation.
The result will hopefully be an exotic product which is actually brought into existence by the act of observing (tasting) it.Since the observer has no evidence of the actual existence of the ice-cream until they taste it, and their percption of the "taste" is entirely conditioned by their interpretation of the information imparted by the collapse of the ice-cream's wave function(s), the ice-cream can taste of anything the taster wishes to; they merely have to interpret the "taste" information in their chosen way. It therefore doesn't matter what is actually on the spoon, as long as their is something there to provide a collapsible wave function.
Thus, never again will you go to the freezer and be disappointed to find that all the Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough ice-cream has been surreptitiously scoffed in the wee small hours of the preceeding morning by a felonious drunken house guest (the bastard); with a large tub of Copehaagen-Dasz ice-cream to hand, you can have any flavour you want, instantly.....
Copenhagen Interpretation
http://en.wikipedia...agen_interpretation Enlightening, low in calories, and good for you. [8th of 7, Dec 31 2007]
Haagen-Dazs
http://en.wikipedia...ki/H%C3%A4agen-Dazs Not enlightening, and bad for you, but tastes awesome. [8th of 7, Dec 31 2007]
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"Best Title of 2007 Award" goes to... |
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One would have to very careful in
manufacturing this ice-cream, lest the
contents of one tub become entangled
with those of another. Were this to
happen, it's possible that your tub of
potential chocolate-chip could collapse
into strawberry, merely because someone
else had collapsed their into toffee-fudge
flavour. |
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"Guaranteed free of all artificial colourings, flavourings, preservatives, and Bell's Theorem quantum entanglements. Higgs field not included. |
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Store in a singularity at 0 Kelvin." |
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I was a bit scared that this was to do with Gunther Von Hagens |
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What, somehow incorporate a ghoulish disemboweler of dubiously obtained corpses into an idea about quantum theory and ice-cream ? |
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Damn, looks like we missed a trick there .... |
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In this part of America, "Copenhagen" is the name of a popular dipping tobacco. I was really worried by that title. |
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Hang on. Just because you *trigger* the collapse of the wave function through observation, that doesn't mean you *control* what it collapses to, does it? |
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In other words, you can have any flavour, instantly, but *not* //you can have any flavour you want, instantly//, shirley? |
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If you want to // interpret the "taste" information in [your] chosen way//, then that's a whole different technical challenge, which might involve re-wiring your brain. If you can do that, then you don't really need the quantum-indeterminate ice cream anyhow, do you? |
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I am more of a fan of the Many-Tubs Interpretation. |
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is that the one that says somewhere there is a skinny [4whom]? |
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// somewhere there is a skinny [4whom] // |
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Stringy rather than skinny. |
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