Outing with Grandma?

Question

A grandfather always made a special effort with his 7-year-old granddaughter. Every Sunday morning he would take her out for a drive in the car for some quality bonding time, and then treat her to ice cream at the nearby old-fashioned ice cream parlor.
One Sunday however, he had a severe cold and fever, so he really didn't feel like going out at all. Fortunately, Grandma came to the rescue and said that she would take the granddaughter out. When they returned, the little girl anxiously ran upstairs to see how Grandpa was doing.
"Well," asked the grandfather, "did you enjoy your ride with Grandma? "
"Oh yes, Grandpa," the girl replied, "but it wasn't quite as interesting as when we go. Grandma and I didn't get to see a single blind b*stard, dumb sh*thead, or any pinko commie rats holding signs!"

Answer 1

Har!    Thanks for the laugh! 

Answer 2

Well excursions with Grandpa are clearly informative, Other Tink...however I am still back with those poor old physicists who are trying to cope wth becoming improbable...

Comments

@ Photon:

Ok, Photon, this is to set you straight once and for all.

1. Before you are detected, you are a wave of probability, and neither you nor Nature herself knows where you are or what your momentum is. Bell proved that in the 1960s.

https://faraday.physics.utoronto.ca/PVB/Harrison/BellsTheorem/BellsTheorem.html

2. When and if you are detected, you are detected as a particle; the wave you were in (1) has "collapsed" into one of the possible states allowed by that probability distribution.

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O'Tink, I have been thinking about it and I have decided to look into Bell's Theorem...see if I can come to a usable understanding of it...that bit in your link about "the most profound discovery of science," that is VERY intriguing...makes me want to know!

Your #2 sounds a bit like the Copenhagen Interpretation, but that does not seem to be what Bell's theorem relates to...

Anyway, the links seem (as often happens) a bit roundabout...I have a background in meditation, so lots of the quantum stuff that boggles more scientific minds, often seems (to me) already quite familiar in concept...now I just need to find an explanation(s) that approaches Bell's theorem in a fashion meaningful to me!

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@ Virginia,

Basically, Bell's theorem proves that Einstein was wrong about quantum mechanics.  Einstein believed that the probabilistic interpretation was merely a reflection of our lack of detailed knowledge of what was going on at a more fundamental level, that Nature was deterministic, but that we had not as yet found the "hidden variables" that governed the deterministic outcome of a quantum experiment involving single photons, single electrons, etc.

Bell's theorem proved that even Nature herself does not know what the outcome of a quantum experiment will be. Either that, or mathematical logic breaks down at the quantum level.

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Thank you O'Tink, that is helpful now I know more about what I am looking for...I am going to enjoy this!

I have loved Niels Bohr response to Einstein "God does not play dice," being, as I am sure you know, "Who are you to tell God what to do?"

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Hmmm...that also may explain why Stapp placed such great significance on the Bell theorem...the irrevocable refuting of ultimate determinism in nature?

Answer 3

Lol - a good one, T(h)ink!

And now, we know about the real culprit! Maybe that it was TV, but not always ...

Comments

Yes, it was Grandpa. 

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Lol - this time, it was Grandpa. Usually, they refer to Daddy, when he is busy in the workshop ...

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... and hits his thumb with the hammer.

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Exactly, Think, lol.

Answer 4

No wonder grandpa usually goes on the outings instead.