Kids say the darndest things

Yoda_Daenerys posted a pic said Thu, Sep 8th 2016 at 9:32pm ET

Kids 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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wickhameh said Fri, Sep 9th 2016 at 8:44am ET:

Sadly, most people would assume that means you use meth.

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- @wickhameh please elaborate, and nobody’s sayin’ i don’t
  
  /giphy heisenberg and schroedinger
  
  Yoda_Daenerys said Fri, Sep 9th 2016 at 9:29pm ET
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  /giphy heisenburg’s cat
  
  f00l said Sat, Sep 10th 2016 at 3:02am ET
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- @f00l wait, is it there, or is it not?
  
  Yoda_Daenerys said Sat, Sep 10th 2016 at 3:22am ET
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- @Yoda_Daenerys
  /giphy I could tell you but then I’d have to kill you
  
  f00l said Sat, Sep 10th 2016 at 12:27pm ET
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- @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
  
  f00l said Sat, Sep 10th 2016 at 12:30pm ET
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- @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 said Sat, Sep 10th 2016 at 12:33pm ET
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- @f00l I actually don’t have an answer to that. I do have @matthew’s Heisenburger somewhere, though.
  
  narfcake said Sat, Sep 10th 2016 at 7:36pm ET
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RiotDemon said Fri, Sep 9th 2016 at 8:51am ET:

I don’t understand.

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- @RiotDemon which bits aren’t making cents my friend?
  
  Yoda_Daenerys said Fri, Sep 9th 2016 at 9:28pm ET
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- @Yoda_Daenerys all of the things your children said.
  
  RiotDemon said Fri, Sep 9th 2016 at 9:40pm ET
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- @RiotDemon TL;DR
  chala: we can cure cancer
  #3: antibiotics can be reinvigorated
  peanut: no clue still
  
  Yoda_Daenerys said Fri, Sep 9th 2016 at 9:58pm ET
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- @RiotDemon omg, another instance where I also didn’t understand yet refused to ask.
  
  ELUNO said Sat, Sep 10th 2016 at 5:17pm ET
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- @ELUNO that’s what I’m here for. I’m usually fairly smart, but obviously some of the stuff here totally stumps me.
  
  RiotDemon said Sat, Sep 10th 2016 at 10:42pm ET
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- @RiotDemon I can always depend on you!
  /image depend
  
  ELUNO said Sun, Sep 11th 2016 at 12:34am ET
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mfladdy said Fri, Sep 9th 2016 at 9:31pm ET:

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

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- @springsteen w & x?
  
  0Wise1 said Sat, Sep 10th 2016 at 12:49am ET
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mfladdy said Sat, Sep 10th 2016 at 1:44am ET:

yup, that was the missed page

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