Comments on: Cutting edge scientific research in Sri Lanka

By: Velu

Velu — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:36:39 +0000

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.

By: punitham

punitham — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:27:17 +0000

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.

By: punitham

punitham — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:22:38 +0000

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.

By: punitham

punitham — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:18:25 +0000

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.

By: punitham

punitham — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:01:15 +0000

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.

By: citizen

citizen — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 02:42:32 +0000

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!

By: Velu Balendran

Velu Balendran — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:06:46 +0000

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!

By: Anandawardhana

Anandawardhana — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 16:08:41 +0000

superb 😀

By: Dayan Jayatilleka

Dayan Jayatilleka — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 12:35:14 +0000

Sharp, clever, ironic, funny.
Me like!