Entropy

Sea monkey?

Abdo said something about Shrodinger's Sea Monkeys. I'm guessing they applied a similar idea to that of Sea Monkeys. Not that you can ever see those things anyway.

Really? The cat idea could be applied to any animal, or is this an entirely different theory?

I don't actually know, but since I have some spare time now I read up a little on this (emphasis on little-as in hardly at all. not enough to have an actual understanding.) But you could probably stick any animal in a box with a vial of cyanide and the experiment would still hold. I think Schrodinger's experiment is supposed to illustrate superposition-as long as we don't look to check in on the cat, it can be in all possible states. Funny thing about sea monkeys is if you ever actually look at the stupid little things it's pretty hard to tell what state they're in anyway.

If anyone cares, there's a poem on this at:
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_122.html

I found it vaguely amusing, anyway.

Sea Monkeys was a joke.

That was a great poem.:D

The sea monkeys were just a joke?

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LOL. *hits head against computer screen* I get it now. I admit I know nothing about quantum physics. Schrodinger, Heisenberg, etc. It was interesting to find out about though. A little reminder of my ignorance.

Oh, but I would like to run some cruel experiments on Sea Monkeys. Moihahaha. Kill the buggers. Or leave them alive AND dead. :)

You won't be able to catch them. They move from one reality to the next. So while they may be dead in this reality. They may not be dead in the others.

But if they're dead in this reality and alive in others haven't I succeeded in my attempts to leave them alive and dead?

I think so.

the demon. In a maxwell's demon. Wouldn't he increase the entropy of the system? [I'm not gonna let this thing go. People will defy the laws of thermodynamics over my dead body]

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