{"id":9276,"date":"2011-07-18T03:00:32","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T08:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=9276"},"modified":"2011-07-18T03:00:32","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T08:00:32","slug":"this-might-be-a-job-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/9276","title":{"rendered":"This Might Be a Job for \u2026 Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Label Puzzler: Original Recipe AND New Flavor?<\/a><\/p>\n

[W]hile the box is closed, the ice cream inside exists in a quantum superposition of states in which it is both<\/em> “original recipe” and “new flavor,” and only when the box is opened and the ice cream observed does the wave function collapse into either an “original” or “new” state. Alternatively, the two states would decohere and two new universes would form, in one of which you are eating original-recipe ice cream and in the other a parallel You is enjoying the new flavor. (I don’t think there’s any scenario in which a cat spontaneously forms. Please!)
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\nPlease let me know if you are interested in serving as an expert witness for a possible quantum-physics defense to consumer-law claims involving allegedly self-contradictory labels.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ll do this one pro bono<\/em>. A new flavor has<\/em> to be the original recipe. No quantum mechanics involved. People think of original recipe as meaning a throwback (especially since the New Coke debacle), but it doesn’t have to be that way. It’s only a contradiction if you know it’s not redundant. No label superposition. It would be neat to have entangled flavors, though, like one half-gallon of chocolate and one of vanilla, but you don’t know which is which until you open one of the containers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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