Long before the Large Hadron Collider manages to blow us up, Wikipedia is going to reach sufficiently massive information density to become our first man-made black hole.

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For consideration: and then all those millions of hours spent on page deletion arguments will convert to entropy

I must down to the lab again, to the darkened lab and its hum ( Read more... )

I bet if they miniaturize a submarine to go into Ted Kennedy's brain to vaporize his tumor with hand-held microlasers, they're going to have to make sure there aren't any alcoholics on the medical crew.

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For consideration: temptation is all around you; you're positively swimming in it

If I am ever called upon to develop a chemical weapon of mass-destruction, it will smell like over-microwaved popcorn.

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For consideration: the antidote will taste like fresh-baked bread

The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum superposition holds that a subatomic particle occupies all its possible states until such time as it is measured by observation, at which point the waveform undergoes collapse into definite state. This unintuitive point of view is what led to Erwin Schrödinger's famous thought experiment, the cat paradox, ( Read more... )