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Archive for 16/08/2009

QUANTUM TEAPOTS

You are probably well aware that, according to quantum physics, matter only comes into existence when it is observed.

As I peered into the teapot this morning I suddenly realised that there is another angle to this fact - the contrary applies when the matter in question is contained within a brown teapot.  I knew that I had earlier observed into existence and dropped into the teapot three teabags before brewing my pot of tea, but, mysteriously, as I peered into the now empty teapot, and once again observed the teabags which I knew were in there, they, contrarily,  had, although now observed again, continued to not exist and were nowhere to be seen. 

It was only when I ceased to observe them, filled the teapot with clean water from the tap, swirled it round and then tipped the contents into the sink that the teabags came into existence again..

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