Now that String Theory has come up, we can continue into the off topic zone.
Consider the cat and buttered toast problem:
The cat can be conditioned using operant conditioning, a simple
stimulus-response training. In other words, the cat can be reinforced
everytime it lands on its feet, which, fortunately, is its natural
instinct. The toast is another problem. It cannot be trained. Training
toast would require sequestering a confirmed geek 24 hours a day in a room
with no other companionship than the toast, butter, and the knife to spread
it with, a chart to record the number of times it falls buttered side down,
which, of course, will be every single time. These two experiments would
prove that each proposition is correct, i.e., the cat always lands on its
feet and the toast always lands on the buttered side, usually over a pile
of hair or dust. Once the two are tied together, and after, as the
engineer has noted, substantial damage to the geek, the next step of the
experiment begins. It would follow an AB design, as the spinning of the
cat and toast would prevent return to baseline. The A phase, dropping the
cat and dropping the toast, has established baseline. The first condition
would be the last, dropping the cat with the buttered toast, which, as has
been amply proven before, would result in an incredible spinning. It is
quite clear, as Leonardo da Vinci noted and now we know, that many fluid
motions happen in a whirlpooling motion. Hence the galaxies are nothing
more than spinning bathwater to the giant black hole at the center. Such
holes start small and get bigger. The spinning of the cat would quickly
begin to draw in matter, including the geek and all surrounding data, then
all interested observers outside the room, and their families, neighbors,
and eventually, their neighbors until all was sucked into the whirring
little greasy hole with the claws. It would continue until two billion
years from now when the Andromeda galaxy collides with the milky way, one
arm of which had been by then sucked up by the silently meowing hole, all
combining to make a giant black hole, which eventually would sit,
hibernate, and when the big crunch came, or the universal black
discombobulating whimper into darkness, leave all meaning aside. Hence,
philosophy is the real solution. What is the meaning of the cat? What is
the meaning of toast and how is its essence changed by the spreading of
butter? Where does the Cat's Self begin and the Butteredtoast's Self end?
When it all combines, will there be a navel? Will it dream? How can we
become one with it voluntarily rather than by force? Will we be one with
the cat, the butter, the toast, the buttered toast, or the unity of the
three? When that vast blackness recoalesces, will it explode to restart
the giagantic cycle again, passing the sins of the previous on to the
subsequent? Will we again have physics, cats, butter, toast, and geeks?
It's all in the strings.
We now return you to your thread on measurements.
Originally Posted by siva011
Actually, I sometimes say mileage. I still weigh myself in pounds, too, and measure my kilts in inches, but driving in kilometres and buying gas by the litre is now pretty much ingrained.
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