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DannyJC13
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Same thing. The other thread explains them for you.
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Xanfor
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Same thing. The other thread explains them for you. That thread is for things you didn't get or notice until later. This thread is for things you still don't get.
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Xanfor
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It was a sudden, overdramatic plot twist common to such soap operas.
You'd probably have to be a robot to fully understand the context.
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Gorky
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Anyway, a lot of "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" went straight over my head, because I've never seen Star Trek before.
Same here. The episode still works for me, though, since I can at least relate to the idea of being a rabid fan of a sci-fi show and feeling like the characters therein are your friends because you don't have any real friends. Fry's devotion to Star Trek, and his reasoning behind it, is just spot-on and really endearing.
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Inquisitor Hein
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For a better understanding of "Star Trek" without having to wach the classic series, I recommend "Galaxy Quest".
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DannyJC13
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True, but I sorta expect more out of the show in general.
It's not made by bloody angels...
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cyber_turnip
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It's a theory, or rather a criticism of quantum mechanics, whereby it poses a scenario in which a cat is placed in a box with some poison. It applies rules of quantum mechanics to every day items which basically means that whilst the box is closed and you can't know of the cat's well-being, the cat is both alive and dead until you open the box to check. Not that it could potentially be alive or dead, but it is literally both alive and dead at the same time, existing in two states. As I said, it's more of a criticism of quantum mechanics than an actual theory stating that the cat exists in two states. And the cat and the box are just examples - it can be applied to anything. Until I look in my biscuit tin, I have to assume that all the biscuits have been eaten and all of the biscuits have been left for me.
'Law and Oracle', very lazily, crammed Schrodinger into the episode to say "Look, we're doing a science joke!" without actually doing anything interesting with it. I hated that joke although I adore the episode as a whole.
I'm sure someone can explain it better than I have, anyway.
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Boxy Robot
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It's a theory, or rather a criticism of quantum mechanics, whereby it poses a scenario in which a cat is placed in a box with some poison. It applies rules of quantum mechanics to every day items which basically means that whilst the box is closed and you can't know of the cat's well-being, the cat is both alive and dead until you open the box to check. Not that it could potentially be alive or dead, but it is literally both alive and dead at the same time, existing in two states. As I said, it's more of a criticism of quantum mechanics than an actual theory stating that the cat exists in two states. And the cat and the box are just examples - it can be applied to anything. Until I look in my biscuit tin, I have to assume that all the biscuits have been eaten and all of the biscuits have been left for me.
'Law and Oracle', very lazily, crammed Schrodinger into the episode to say "Look, we're doing a science joke!" without actually doing anything interesting with it. I hated that joke although I adore the episode as a whole.
I'm sure someone can explain it better than I have, anyway.
Thank you so much (I also agree that the joke didn't really work at that moment in the episode) but yeah, that is a really interesting theory...
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DannyJC13
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So, let's say if this theory is true, and then somehow time travel is invented, and then multiple timelines exist, how many cats would there be and in what state?
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DannyJC13
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Eh, type it in on Google. "Particle faster than light" or something.
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Xanfor
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You are all presupposing that time itself exists. For people discussing such serious science, you have an awful lot of faith in something for which there is no conclusive evidence.
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DannyJC13
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What if we don't exist at all. Everything is nothing.
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Xanfor
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What if we don't exist at all. Everything is nothing. And it was such a promising illusion, too....
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