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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • The individual electron just behaves randomly in a way that we can only predict statistically and not absolutely.

    That’s the non-boring part, for lack of a better expression. Quantum Mechanics only predicts the outcome for an ensemble, and that imperfectly. It can say nothing at all about the outcome for a single particle.















  • An English couple adopted a German baby. By the age of two, he’d yet to talk.

    They took him to specialists, but they could find nothing wrong with the boy.

    By his seventh birthday, his parents had given up hope. But that morning while he ate breakfast, he spoke clearly: “Mother, Father, my strudel is a bit tepid.”

    They were astounded and overjoyed. “You can talk!”

    “Yes of course” said the boy.

    “But why haven’t you said anything before?”

    “Up to now everything has been quite satisfactory.”