Curiously as Vickie was walking to the dorm from her quantum physics class, she got a practical demonstration of quantum indeterminacy. She wasn’t sure if her clothes had shifted or if she had. She also had a strange feeling that she was also kneeling on the sidewalk beside her clothes in Reno, Nevada at the same time.
The principle of generating small amounts of finite improbability by simply hooking the logic circuits of a Bambleweeny 57 Sub-Meson Brain to an atomic vector plotter suspended in a strong Brownian Motion producer (say a nice hot cup of tea) were well understood. It is said, by the Guide, that such generators were often used to break the ice at parties by making all the molecules in the hostess’s undergarments leap simultaneously one foot to the left, in accordance with the theory of indeterminacy.
Many respectable physicists said that they weren’t going to stand for this, partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they didn’t get invited to those sorts of parties.
Umm, I kind of get it? Fun caption either way!
If this is Arthur Dent’s fault, Agrajag probably died during this.
Oh no not again!
given the infinite improbability drive, the probability is 1
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Curiously as Vickie was walking to the dorm from her quantum physics class, she got a practical demonstration of quantum indeterminacy. She wasn’t sure if her clothes had shifted or if she had. She also had a strange feeling that she was also kneeling on the sidewalk beside her clothes in Reno, Nevada at the same time.
DNA had such good ideas. I wish he was still here to see this.
Not all. Your shoes stayed in place. Does that mean the improbable event was even more improbable?
I’ll be disappointed if no one besides myself and P_P get it.
If I may ask, what is it a reference to?
Ask Arthur Dent
Thanks for all the fish.
The principle of generating small amounts of finite improbability by simply hooking the logic circuits of a Bambleweeny 57 Sub-Meson Brain to an atomic vector plotter suspended in a strong Brownian Motion producer (say a nice hot cup of tea) were well understood. It is said, by the Guide, that such generators were often used to break the ice at parties by making all the molecules in the hostess’s undergarments leap simultaneously one foot to the left, in accordance with the theory of indeterminacy.
Many respectable physicists said that they weren’t going to stand for this, partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they didn’t get invited to those sorts of parties.
ah, honestly, I never read “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”
So I never would have gotten it
Oh the finite improbability of it!
Now we are 4 who get it!