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NNadir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 07:58 PM
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Scientific explanation requested: The particle in the box question.
What I've always wanted to know is why the particle just doesn't get out of the box.

It seems to me that of course it's going to get into certain modes stuck in there.

How many different ways can you be in the box?

Wave theory, schmave theory...

Somewhere there's a particle's mother who is disappointed with her son, letting himself get in this box. I mean it's a place with no subtlety, not transitional ways to work yourself up. You're stuck; you need a lot of energy to make a change and even then it's up; it's down; it's up; it's down...

It makes you crazy. So why don't you leave the box with a free particle? Surely someday, when you've got some ampltitude maybe you could have just such a collision with a hot free particle from outside the box. You could do it. Run off with some hot particle, some babe, who'll draw ya to her with her charge, place yourself in her orbit, get spun, get a life, get outta dat box man, it's too confining.

A what's the use? Wave your life good bye. What's the probability you'll ever get out of the box? That shlep Schroedinger puts you in a box - note "dinger" is a part of his name - and you've got to dance their tune the way they want you to dance it. Dey ain't ever gonna give you to da energy to meet up with some hot particle, zipping out at relativistic speeds, spitting out neutrino, laughing drinking in her magnetic moment, damn that would hot, to play the field, to be a free particle, but all you got is dis box man, don' let it get you down it, kid, at least you can play wit ya harmonics man. Dat ain't all bad.
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EST Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 08:06 PM
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1. If a hen and a half, laid an egg and a half, in a day and a half,
how much meat will it take to fill a stovepipe?
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 08:06 PM
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2. There's a finite probability that you're absolutely correct
Small...

Infinitesimal, actually...

but quantum mechanics allows this outcome as well.

:yoiks:

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Dead_Parrot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 08:06 PM
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3. LOL... nt
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