A sock is neither left nor right until you measure it. Up until then it is either/neither. The act of putting it on determines it's side. Plus you get entanglement, with the act of washing randomising the sock function. Plus once a sock is found to be a left one, then the other in the pair must be a right one! Vice versa. If you mark or label the socks, the effect is lost.
ROFL!!
An interesting further thought on this is if one considers what happens after a sock is sucked into the black hole that all washing machines have inside. The remaining sock still has the ability to be a left or right sock.
This has a parallel with Hawking radiation, but on a macro scale. Perhaps we could call it stocking radiation? :D
A sock is neither left nor right until you measure it. Up until then it is either/neither. The act of putting it on determines it's side. Plus you get entanglement, with the act of washing randomising the sock function. Plus once a sock is found to be a left one, then the other in the pair must be a right one! Vice versa. If you mark or label the socks, the effect is lost.
And this happens even if the socks are in different rooms.
This shows that only intangible measurements like sock-handidness are subject to quantum effects, if I tried a real-world experiment like leaving half my socks in a different room on washday (as I usually do) I'd end up with one pile of clean socks and one pile of dirty socks.
Socks demonstrate special relativity effects though, if you wash your socks really quickly they get smaller, even though technology people will roll their eyes and point out you've simply got the water temperature too high.
This shows that only intangible measurements like sock-handidness are subject to quantum effects,
Perhaps it's a terminology problem. Maybe we should refer to sock-footidness? I'm sure that socks all over the world are offended by the term 'handidness'.
It's not well known, but the real reason why Albert Einstein avoided wearing socks was due to his knowledge of quantum mechanics.
I dont think there is any truth in any of that, or he would have said "God does not roll dice to chose which socks to wear".
He was probably mis-quoted ... :-)
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If it in fact is out of hand, I submit that it is caused entirely by a mass infestation of underpants gnomes.
Now that would explain a lot! :-)
I think we ought now focus on whether we can get some funding to study this. Particularly in scenarios where socks aren't used much - as a control group of course - places like tropical islands are ideal. Diffraction effects upon socks traveling parallel and at right angles to beaches, say. Effects of alcohol upon observation modes, day/night asymmetry, that sort of thing ......
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
RE: A sock is neither left
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ROFL!!
An interesting further thought on this is if one considers what happens after a sock is sucked into the black hole that all washing machines have inside. The remaining sock still has the ability to be a left or right sock.
This has a parallel with Hawking radiation, but on a macro scale. Perhaps we could call it stocking radiation? :D
Rod
RE: A sock is neither left
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This shows that only intangible measurements like sock-handidness are subject to quantum effects, if I tried a real-world experiment like leaving half my socks in a different room on washday (as I usually do) I'd end up with one pile of clean socks and one pile of dirty socks.
Socks demonstrate special relativity effects though, if you wash your socks really quickly they get smaller, even though technology people will roll their eyes and point out you've simply got the water temperature too high.
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Perhaps it's a terminology problem. Maybe we should refer to sock-footidness? I'm sure that socks all over the world are offended by the term 'handidness'.
This thread is getting out of
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This thread is getting out of hand! ;-)
It's not well known, but the real reason why Albert Einstein avoided wearing socks was due to his knowledge of quantum mechanics.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
RE: It's not well known,
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I dont think there is any truth in any of that, or he would have said "God does not roll dice to chose which socks to wear".
RE: This thread is getting
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If it in fact is out of hand, I submit that it is caused entirely by a mass infestation of underpants gnomes.
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He was probably mis-quoted ... :-)
Now that would explain a lot! :-)
I think we ought now focus on whether we can get some funding to study this. Particularly in scenarios where socks aren't used much - as a control group of course - places like tropical islands are ideal. Diffraction effects upon socks traveling parallel and at right angles to beaches, say. Effects of alcohol upon observation modes, day/night asymmetry, that sort of thing ......
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
RE: Diffraction effects
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My early observations indicate that there, down under, it's right socks that are most affected, while up here in the states, it's the left.
Sign me up! :)