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I'm not sure what's supposed to be publication-worthy here. This is common knowledge for anyone who's ever interacted with sheep on a farm, in their natural, fe
by perihelions 2y ago
I'm not sure what's supposed to be publication-worthy here. This is common knowledge for anyone who's ever interacted with sheep on a farm, in their natural, fermionic superfluid state. If you turn over a sheep and tickle its ticklish underbelly, you get a sheep-laugh (a hilarious sound) only about 50% of the time; the other 50%, you'll hear a sheep laughing from the opposite end of the meadow. Because, you cannot definitively say if it was *this* sheep you tickled, or *that* other, identical one. They are indistinguishable baa-tickles
- lnauta 2y agoEven if something is well known, its important to measure it and set statistical limits. While the 4 sigma in the article is not enough to claim an observation, it opens the points towards some exciting new Beyond the Shearing Model physics.
- stochastician 2y agoI am somewhat rusty on my undergrad quantum, but I'm not entirely sure I agree with this analysis. Could you perhaps explain it more clearly in baa-ket notation?
- qwertox 2y agoIt's interesting that they noticed it right in the vicinity of the LHC, maybe this hints at some kind of leak? The one in my garden always watches me through the window then I turn on the vacuum, so maybe it's feeling some kind of oddity with the electric motor. It's an old 3500 Watts one, which is now illegal to sell, and badly shielded.
- MisterTea 2y ago> It's an old 3500 Watts one That's a stupid big motor for a vacuum. What was it made to vacuum up, bowling balls? Boulders? Neutron star dust? (Seriously though, I'd like to know the model to check it out)
- TheDauthi 2y agoAt 3500 watts, I assume it has the Acme logo on the side.
- qwertox 2y agoThe cable gets hot after a couple of minutes.
- FirmwareBurner 2y agoRTX 5090?
- quickthrowman 2y agoYou have a 5 horsepower vacuum? That’s impressive.
- fguerraz 2y agoSo sheep are fermions? Is that why you can't have two sheep at the same place in the state? (up and down sheep can be stacked no problem, there's plenty of empirical evidence of this)
- shadowgovt 2y agoNo matter how hard you try.
- perihelions 2y ago- "So sheep are fermions?" Have you ever seen two sheep spinning in the same direction while superimposed in the same physical volume? Outside of Minecraft.
- nicerob2010 2y agoYes, but only after a few shrooms and a lot of tequila
- krowfromthewall 2y agoare the shrooms and tequila consumed by you or the sheep?
- nicerob2010 2y agoYes...
- TheOtherHobbes 2y agoBy nature, sheep are baazons. They act like fermions in an applied field.
- ketedrum 2y ago+1 for lack of surprise, but that's very interesting about the tickle - must be a lot of fun
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- mythrwy 2y agoTickle entanglement in sheep cannot be used for signaling however because of Bell's theorem. Bell's theorem basically states that the state of a sheep's neck bell cannot be influenced by tickling.