Ask a physicist anything. (2)

[Wiccan_Child]

Oh, that's how it works!

I should give it a try:

Spoiler: Physics riddle from young Darwin

That's either incredibly profound, or an error on your part. Place your bets people, place your bets.

I kid, I kid .

 

[SithDoughnut]

That's either incredibly profound, or an error on your part. Place your bets people, place your bets.

I kid, I kid .

I personally view it as a post-modern statement on how our society treats secrets. We like to retain secrecy yet we live our lives so publically that we have nothing left to put behind our 'spoiler tags'. We moan about privacy yet we give it up freely.

Hey! That actually made sense! I should be a modern artist - no skill required other than the ability to relate a brick to society in one paragraph

 

[corvus_corax]

I personally view it as a post-modern statement on how our society treats secrets. We like to retain secrecy yet we live our lives so publically that we have nothing left to put behind our 'spoiler tags'. We moan about privacy yet we give it up freely.

Hey! That actually made sense!

Don't even get me started on THAT subject

 

[canehdianhotstuff]

 

[Cabal]

Seriously, that's not funny.

Last time that happened we ended up in France. It was horrible.

 

[canehdianhotstuff]

Wouldn't that be drifting ahhh...into sea lol.

 

[Cabal]

Wouldn't that be drifting ahhh...into sea lol.

Well, actually if it's drifting literally out to sea then it'd be drifting into the Irish sea, and into Ireland.

that would just be entertaining however

 

[Wiccan_Child]

Well, actually if it's drifting literally out to sea then it'd be drifting into the Irish sea, and into Ireland.

that would just be entertaining however

I once found myself in Calais during a period of high pressure in the Earth's core. I thought I was just drunk and couldn't understand anyone any more. Most disturbing.

 

[Wiccan_Child]

You're on a game show. There are three doors before you, behind one of which is a car, and behind the other two are goats. You can pick one door, and you get whatever's behind that door, be it car or goat. Now, before the host opens your chosen door, he opens one of the other doors that contains a goat (for there will always be an unchosen door that contains a goat). Upon this revelation, he then gives you the opportunity to switch your chosen door for the other, unopened door (i.e., you win whatever is behind the other door instead of the one you had previously chosen).

The questions are these: Should you switch? Why, or why not?

The host knows in advance where the cars and goats are, while you do not. Your aim is to win a car. There is no way to know what is behind a door without opening it.

As always, if you know the answer to this puzzle already, don't spoil it! Or, if you must, use spoiler tags! (See the past few pages for how to do them). You get reps if you can not only give the right answer, but explain why. You may also get a cookie.

 

[canehdianhotstuff]

You're on a game show. There are three doors before you, behind one of which is a car, and behind the other two are goats. You can pick one door, and you get whatever's behind that door, be it car or goat. Now, before the host opens your chosen door, he opens one of the other doors that contains a goat (for there will always be an unchosen door that contains a goat). Upon this revelation, he then gives you the opportunity to switch your chosen door for the other, unopened door (i.e., you win whatever is behind the other door instead of the one you had previously chosen).

The questions are these: Should you switch? Why, or why not?

The host knows in advance where the cars and goats are, while you do not. Your aim is to win a car. There is no way to know what is behind a door without opening it.

As always, if you know the answer to this puzzle already, don't spoil it! Or, if you must, use spoiler tags! (See the past few pages for how to do them). You get reps if you can not only give the right answer, but explain why. You may also get a cookie.

Spoiler

Well statistically you should switch because originally you are given a 33% of each door having the car. But upon the revelation of one of them being a goat the odds change. If you stick with the door you were on, the 33% chance remains, if you switch it increases to 67%.

 

[Assyrian]

I know the answer to the puzzle. It just doesn't make sense to me.

Spoiler: entangled goats

switch

 

[pgp_protector]

You're on a game show. There are three doors before you, behind one of which is a car, and behind the other two are goats. You can pick one door, and you get whatever's behind that door, be it car or goat. Now, before the host opens your chosen door, he opens one of the other doors that contains a goat (for there will always be an unchosen door that contains a goat). Upon this revelation, he then gives you the opportunity to switch your chosen door for the other, unopened door (i.e., you win whatever is behind the other door instead of the one you had previously chosen).

The questions are these: Should you switch? Why, or why not?

The host knows in advance where the cars and goats are, while you do not. Your aim is to win a car. There is no way to know what is behind a door without opening it.

As always, if you know the answer to this puzzle already, don't spoil it! Or, if you must, use spoiler tags! (See the past few pages for how to do them). You get reps if you can not only give the right answer, but explain why. You may also get a cookie.

Spoiler: Would I Switch

Yes.
http://www.letsmakeadeal.com/problem.htm

 

[Wiccan_Child]

Spoiler

Well statistically you should switch because originally you are given a 33% of each door having the car. But upon the revelation of one of them being a goat the odds change. If you stick with the door you were on, the 33% chance remains, if you switch it increases to 67%.

Right answer, but incorrect explanation (close, but not quite). Reps because you're on the right lines though.

I know the answer to the puzzle. It just doesn't make sense to me.

Spoiler: entangled goats

switch

Right answer. The explanation is a bit of a mind-twister.

Spoiler: Would I Switch

Yes.
Monty Hall Problem

Right answer and right explanation, but you cheated .

 

[pgp_protector]

...snip....

Right answer and right explanation, but you cheated .

I cheated because I heard & read about this before?

 

[Doveaman]

Physics riddle:

Do we see with our eyes, or with our brain?

 

[SithDoughnut]

Physics riddle:

Do we see with our eyes, or with our brain?

We see photons with our eyes and interpret what we see with our brain.

 

[Doveaman]

We see photons with our eyes and interpret what we see with our brain.

Can we see photons without a brain?

 

[PhilosophicalBluster]

Can we see photons without a brain?

Assuming the eye was still alive, yes, but we couldn't interpret them into images.

 

[Doveaman]

Assuming the eye was still alive, yes, but we couldn't interpret them into images.

How can we see if there is no brain to interpret that we are seeing and what we are seeing?

A living eye and a dead brain doesn't see anything.

 

[PhilosophicalBluster]

How can we see if there is no brain to interpret that we are seeing and what we are seeing?

A living eye and a dead brain doesn't see anything.

The construct of the eye is photosensitive, not the brain. The eye can still detect the light, it just cannot interpret it.