[Offtopic] Physics in the UK

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Cat still sounds confused :-)

Golly, does anybody remember the heady days of the VCE CATS?

On 05/07/07, Cameron Bell <bell.cameron.p at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:
>
> It's fairly straight forward. The cat is both worried and not worried at
> the same time! ;-)
>
> I'm worried, when you have a media/press that (feels it?) has to dumb
> stuff down to get a story watched, and you watch students leave subjects
> that are perceived as hard because they want to maximise their ENTER or
> won't accept the challenge, you get pessimistic.
>
> Jim Maunder wrote:
> > At 09:14 PM 04/07/2007, you wrote:
> >> Wow, what a horror story Cameron. ...
> >>
> >> Heisenberg's cat now has a reason to be nervous.
> >
> > Maybe not, but it is uncertain whether he had one. Schrödinger's cat
> > might be worried though, if it exists at this point in time.
> >
> > see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle
> > and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger's_cat
> >
> > rgds
> > Jim
> >
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