Cutting edge scientific research in Sri Lanka
by Global Citizen for Banyan News Reporters
Colombo, Sri Lanka: With the drawn out military campaign against terrorism in its last phase, the Sri Lankan government has taken a decision to divert the country’s defence budget to fund science & technology, education and research. Economists point out that the move will power the Sri Lankan economy out of it’s recent set-backs and place Sri Lanka right at the centre of the world map – a position it had secured millions of years ago thanks to a geological phenomenon called ‘plate tectonics’.
In its fresh forays into the world of high energy particle physics, the Sri Lankan military boxed up the LTTE in a 10km X 20km area in the country’s northern Vanni region. Their mission was to carry out a literal re-enactment of a thought experiment proposed by Erwin Schrödinger in 1935 that is widely known as “Schrödinger’s cat”. V Prabhakaran – the leader of the LTTE was chosen to be “Schrödinger’s cat” by a fighter pilot of the Sri Lanka Air Force because Prabhakaran was the only animate object in the area that was large enough to be visible from an altitude of 12,000 ft, out of a malnourished and ailing population of 159,285 and 1/2 peoples (A single person rendered legless due to a cluster bomb launched definitely, certainly, indubitably by the LTTE was counted as 1/2).Â
The Sri Lankan army commander initiated the experiment a couple of weeks ago by admitting that the big cat (i.e. V Prabhakaran) may have already fled the country. The leader of the LTTE’s political wing, P Nadesan (aka Padasami Hari Gandeshwaran) showed his maximum cooperation with the experimenters by claiming that V Prabhakaran was still inside the ‘boxed up’ area. The experiment demonstrated that Prabhakaran was both ‘in the Vanni’ and ‘not in the Vanni’ at the same time. This is the first time that Erwin Schrödinger’s predictions about elusive felines have been proven in a real life experiment, heralding remarkable new insights into quantum superpositions.
Particle physicists from all over the world who had abandoned their labs at CERN and gathered in the southern Sri Lankan city of Galle have been analysing the experimental data during the last few weeks. The final results however are not expected to be available for many months due to the complex process of normalisation that have to be carried out to eliminate data corruption due to propaganda, doublespeak, newspeak and Defense Secretary speak.
Meanwhile, animal rights activists in London, Toronto and in their own virtual worlds in cyberspace have been protesting vigorously against the use of the big cats in these experiments.
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Sharp, clever, ironic, funny.
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If the final result gets to be known as you suggest, then it will disprove Schrödinger’s theory. So if the analogy is to be valid the cat will have to be ellusive!
Velu,
I will give you a crash course in quantum mechanics, but you must promise not to go away and build an atomic cheena-patas with your newly aquired knowledge!!
What Schrodinger proposed here is not a theory – it's just a thought experiment. The analogy is still vaid. When the final result is known, the indeterminacy of the superposition of states would have been resolved by direct observation. There!
1.Thanks to the truly visionary Sinhalese leaders of the last sixty one years.
2.What else would you expect if the so-called Buddhists decided to have a cruel-looking lion with a sword on their national flag.
Such beautiful banyan trees have been damaged in the last thirty years in the Northeast! Have all the glory in the world. The British served you on a platter in 1833.
Natural sciences have advanced and you can see visible violence – a physical entity. Social sciences have to develop to recognise structural violence – a social entity – that keeps generating visible violence all around the world.
Even if the author and some commentators don't know about the structural violence of the first sixty years(modern history of Sri Lanka is not taught in Sri Lankan schools) do they know that nearly 10,000 Tamils could not vote last year in the provincial elections – I read about this in the Daily Mirror.
Citizen,
Though experiments are perhaps for psychologists. But this is a called a paradox where the cat is in a linear superposition of being dead and being alive!
Not quite enough to make an atomic cheena-patas eh.