Kids say the darndest things
4Kids come in all ages. What are some of the things your kids have surprised you with?
Mine are older and are all aspiring scientists, here’s a smattering of prose that perhaps someone in the forum can put to music:
Chala: A watched pot never boils and a watched PCR never finishes. #science #lifeofagradstudent… I have to say that it seems a little too soon for CRISPR in humans. On the other hand, we will never know if it is possible until we try!
#3: CAM-Thiaz, we know antibiotics are becoming ineffective since bacteria are figuring them out but, with science, we can design new antibiotics that target specific bacteria, those little suckers…
Peanut: Warning: terrible physics joke below. Climate change is real.
So…
A person on the street today asked me if I believe in climate change.
I responded: “no, I prefer the Heisenberg picture.”
In physics, the Heisenberg picture is a formulation (largely due to Werner Heisenberg in 1925) of quantum mechanics in which the operators (observables and others) incorporate a dependency on time, but the state vectors are time-independent, an arbitrary fixed basis rigidly underlying the theory.
Here’s my idea of the Heisenberg picture:
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Sadly, most people would assume that means you use meth.
@wickhameh please elaborate, and nobody’s sayin’ i don’t
/giphy heisenberg and schroedinger
@Yoda_Daenerys
/giphy heisenburg’s cat
@f00l wait, is it there, or is it not?
@Yoda_Daenerys
/giphy I could tell you but then I’d have to kill you
@f00l
Pinging @narfcake
Is there a Heisenburg’s Cat t-shirt out there in the wild?
Or a Heisenburg’s Doge t-shirt?
I Want.
/giphy pay any price
@Yoda_Daenerys
/giphy I could tell you, but then you’d cease to exist
In which case your kids would have to filter some of that cleverness into practicality, I suspect.
@f00l I actually don’t have an answer to that. I do have @matthew’s Heisenburger somewhere, though.
I don’t understand.
@RiotDemon which bits aren’t making cents my friend?
@Yoda_Daenerys all of the things your children said.
@RiotDemon TL;DR
chala: we can cure cancer
#3: antibiotics can be reinvigorated
peanut: no clue still
@RiotDemon omg, another instance where I also didn’t understand yet refused to ask.
@ELUNO that’s what I’m here for. I’m usually fairly smart, but obviously some of the stuff here totally stumps me.
@RiotDemon I can always depend on you!
/image depend
c’mon all you parents, give it up, one i can recall is:
a,b,c…u,v,y,z - OOPS, i missed a page
/image cute chubby toddler
@springsteen w & x?
yup, that was the missed page