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FishCustard

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I don't know what you are talking about sir, I haven't used time travel and you have no evidence. ;)

 

You say "you haven't used time travel", but you make no mention of "will use time travel at some point in the future".

 

So while your statement may well be true in isolation, it's not necessarily the whole truth is it....?

 

;)

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DJ-1701

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OK - why have I only just seen this!!!!

 

are you all terri-fried that I will win??

 

were you all being shellfish by not telling me??

 

anyway - I'm assuming that it will be a multiple of 5 so my estimate

 

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250

 

@mikeprice, hopefully this will prevent such things from happening again. ;)

http://www.edugeek.net/forums/other-stuff/214645-competitions-edugeek.html

 

You say "you haven't used time travel", but you make no mention of "will use time travel at some point in the future".

 

So while your statement may well be true in isolation, it's not necessarily the whole truth is it....?

 

;)

 

I haven't, am not and will not use time travel during this competition... satisfied? Good. ;)

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mikeprice

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So you're waiting until the competition ends, then going back to just before it starts?

 

Gotcha.

 

but he has promised not to use time travel and, I presume, he will not make it so that those posts never happened

 

And - clearly - we all trust all time travellers who are members - genocidal aliens or not

 

so it will all be OK

 

unless one of them wins in which case WE DEMAND AN INQUIRY

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Sanchez

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Hadn't seen this until now. I'll go with 222.

Edit: I can see 222 has been guessed so I'll up it to 225 (think that is free!)

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Scotbynature

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Or technically there are only 7 eggs on display, the rest are boxes. Schrodinger would argue that until they are opened they both do and do not contain eggs.

 

How about that for some outside the box thinking, haha.

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ICTDirect_Dave

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Or technically there are only 7 eggs on display, the rest are boxes. Schrodinger would argue that until they are opened they both do and do not contain eggs.

 

How about that for some outside the box thinking, haha.

 

How do you count quantum eggs that are in superposition? Or do you perhaps get two guesses as you can't technically observe them directly?

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VeryPC

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Well EduGeekers, that's the competition closed I'm afraid! So if you didn't get chance to enter then we're pretty sure a new competition will be hatching soon for you all...

 

Back to this one though and there can only be one winner. We are eggstatic to announce that the total number of eggs was 191 and although nobody correctly guessed that number, the closest person was...

@JordanT91 - with a guess of 189 congratulations!!

 

We've sent you a PM!

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FishCustard

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Or technically there are only 7 eggs on display, the rest are boxes. Schrodinger would argue that until they are opened they both do and do not contain eggs.

No he wouldn't!

 

Schrodinger's Cat is a thought experiment pointing to the absurdity of applying quantum mechanics to macroscopic objects via a misinterpretation of the "state only determined when observed" maxim.

 

People (including highly educated people, including many contemporaries of Schrodinger and Einstein!) seem to think that "observation" in QM implies a conscious observer, as in a human being taking a look in the box.

 

No, "observation" here means a quantum particle interacting with something (e.g. a photon, an electron, pick your particle).

 

In reality, the Schrodinger experiment would end up with the radioactive atom interacting with the Geiger counter or whatever, thereby collapsing to a defined state and (not) killing the poor cat.

 

It's a historic irony that the thought experiment has become "an easy way to explain how weird QM is" when it was actually pointing at "QM isn't that weird, you're just misinterpreting things".

 

 

EDIT: Unless of course you are arguing that eggs themselves display quantum superposition! ;)

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mikeprice

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Or technically there are only 7 eggs on display, the rest are boxes. Schrodinger would argue that until they are opened they both do and do not contain eggs.

 

How about that for some outside the box thinking, haha.

 

Well if you are going to be picky - there are no eggs on display - some are in boxes and some are in the wrapper - until the wrapper is removed so you can see the egg inside it could be empty and held together and in shape by - errrrr - magic

 

or could contain something other than an egg

 

so the number could be zero

 

except that we are now being told it was 191

 

so presumably no magic was employed to hold the wrappers together

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hardtailstar

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Well EduGeekers, that's the competition closed I'm afraid! So if you didn't get chance to enter then we're pretty sure a new competition will be hatching soon for you all...

 

Back to this one though and there can only be one winner. We are eggstatic to announce that the total number of eggs was 191 and although nobody correctly guessed that number, the closest person was...

@JordanT91 - with a guess of 189 congratulations!!

 

We've sent you a PM!

 

I want video evidence!! Al counting them one by one! I mean we've not seen him in ages! is he ok? does he miss us? does he still randomly shout 'bring me the box'?

 

Congrats @JordanT91!

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VeryPC

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I want video evidence!! Al counting them one by one! I mean we've not seen him in ages! is he ok? does he miss us? does he still randomly shout 'bring me the box'?

 

Congrats @JordanT91!

If I could go back into the office to count them for you I would, but unfortunately team Marketing is working remotely due to Government restrictions. So we're not able to film a video! You'll just have to take our word for it :D

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smurfomatic

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If I could go back into the office to count them for you I would, but unfortunately team Marketing is working remotely due to Government restrictions. So we're not able to film a video! You'll just have to take our word for it :D

 

We all expect @JordanT91 do record a video like this to prove it...

 

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hardtailstar

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If I could go back into the office to count them for you I would, but unfortunately team Marketing is working remotely due to Government restrictions. So we're not able to film a video! You'll just have to take our word for it :D

 

What about Al??

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