My Sister-in-law, who's into mysticism (which I'm obviously not) gave me a t-shirt for Christmas I absolutely love.

[NNadir]

It's this one:



My sister-in-law always goes out of her way to find something I'll really like.

Some years ago, she gave me a tee with the periodic table reading "I wear this shirt periodically."

Acknowledging who she is, we gave her cat themed Tarot cards.

Love is about tolerance, and I love that my Sister-in-law looks out for who I am when choosing gifts, just as we look out for who she is when we choose.

[QED]

1. I like it!

I gave my cat loving niece a cat origami kit.

[eppur_se_muova]

27. I'm not sure how to interpret the phrase "cat origami" -- cats folding paper ? people folding cats out of paper ?

People just folding cats into amusing shapes ? Don't they do that by themselves ?

[QED]

28. People folding -

the paper is printed so that when the "cat" is folded, the pattern "makes" the cat.

[eppur_se_muova]

31. Well, that seemed like the safest guess -- but still, a book of origami for cats might be interesting.

[SheltieLover]

2. I love it!

[Permanut]

3. Insanely cool.

[Solly Mack]

4. I want! I'm so jealous! Love it!

[littlemissmartypants]

5. Very nice! 👍😻

[GoneOffShore]

6. That's a shirt I would definitely wear, if I wore t-shirts!

One question: Did it come in a box?

[NNadir]

7. No, it was in a gift bag.

[GoneOffShore]

10. My joke was lame and playing off Schrodingers theory.

I'll go to my room now.

[NNadir]

12. No, your joke was clever, and unfortunately, my attention was such that I didn't get it.

[BaronChocula]

21. Schrodinger's Joke

The quip died.

[erronis]

23. or not.

Bohr would like a word with you.

[hlthe2b]

8. So, how many people under the age of 20 (or maybe even under 30) ask you what it means?

Sorry.. I'm having a cynical morning over what is and is not taught in schools and the near-total absence of reading or even "googling" to self-educate anymore.

Cute, though.

[NNadir]

11. Two years ago, when we were visiting my son where he's in graduate school, I wore the Periodic Table shirt...

...many people on the street would stop me to tell me they loved the shirt.

It still happens from time to time around here.

I usually attend the "Science on Saturday" event at PPPL near here.

Many people do as I did when my sons were in Junior and Senior High, bring their kids.

Let me tell you, some of those kids are extremely bright, as their questions show. I've seen kids as young as seven or eight ask questions that were fairly sophisticated, way beyond anything I could have asked at that age.

The world is not ending; it's changing. I have hopes for the children to rise beyond us with a core who can understand what we did to them. Great generations are generated by great challenges.

[hlthe2b]

14. I have had that too from the incredibly mature Parkland kids and those I know attend the best schools where I am...

It is not those kids and all the others undoubtedly encouraged by well-educated family members who concern me.

It is those who are at the other extreme and who are going to be left behind even more over these next four years.

[NNadir]

20. There have always been two extremes in education. My father had an 8th grade education, dropped out to support...

...his family as a shoe shine boy during the Roosevelt Administration.

He hated Roosevelt all his life, and voted for exactly one Democrat before he died, Harry Truman. He thought Richard Nixon was a great President, loved Ronald Reagan, his last vote before dying having been for George H.W. Bush.

His mathematical ability never stretched beyond addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, the latter with some trouble.

He was a laborer, and worked in a warehouse moving boxes until the company shut it down.

I am very well educated, have never, not once, voted for a Republican, because the tools for education - which my parents were wise enough to encourage me to use, their own limitations having had consequence - were there.

It is a long time since I needed a school to learn new things. I am, as each of my well educated sons is as well, an autodidact. The core remains, and while much might burn, the truth will somewhere be left in the ashes.

I'm not all that much longer for this planet, but I have faith that there is no cause for surrender, even if I do not live long enough to see some victory over fear and ignorance.

There are children who know that quantum mechanics is a thing. They are the cores in the ashes.

[FakeNoose]

22. The most important thing that any of us can learn

... is how to learn.

[niyad]

18. One of my friends found a periodic table shower curtain for her

husband shortly before he died. It cracked us both up.

[eppur_se_muova]

29. A fun joke: arrange the elements in the order of Tom Lehrer's song so you can sing it in the shower ! nt

[surfered]

9. I looked Schrdinger's cat....Warning: quantum mechanics

Now my head hurts.

[Dear_Prudence]

13. The Big Bang Theory

Had an episode where Sheldon (the genius with no common sense) explained the cat to Penny (the waitress who knows what's going on). So, at the Penny-level, I understand it.

[rsdsharp]

15. My daughter gave me a tee shirt that reads:

GRANTIFA

Senior citizen pissed off about all of this stupid shit!

[NNadir]

16. That's a winner.

[niyad]

17. Absolutely LOVE IT!!!

[Grumpy Old Woman]

19. Wonderful!

I googled "#is my spirit animal t-shirt" images and got quite a selection. Don't know which to choose .... I think maybe the squirrel?

[Girard442]

24. Tsk. It looks half dead.

J/K. It's a great shirt.

[NNadir]

25. !!! Right now it's neither and both, unless you look at it.

[Norrrm]

26. until a measurement is made

https://www.bing.com/search?q=schrodinger%27s+cat&form=ANSPH1&refig=69517e45df90472e86ede740f93e046f&pc=U531&pq=schrodi&pqlth=7&assgl=17&sgcn=schrodinger%27s+cat&qs=LS&sgtpv=LS&smvpcn=0&swbcn=10&sctcn=0&sc=10-7&sp=1&ghc=0&cvid=69517e45df90472e86ede740f93e046f&clckatsg=1&hsmssg=0

"According to quantum theory, particles exist in multiple states simultaneously until a measurement is made, at which point the wave function collapses into a single state. Schrödinger's cat exemplifies this by"

OK... I'm already confused. Which is the particle - the atom or the cat?
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"until a measurement is made" implies that the act of measurement caused the change.
Is it poorly written?
The atom's radiation is constantly being measured. It will be zero or more.
Should it say: 'until a qualifying measurement is observed'?

[Trueblue Texan]

33. LOL! Imagine what the scientists thought when they observed such strange behavior! nt

[GiqueCee]

30. I WANT ONE!

[Trueblue Texan]

32. Love this...

your sis in law represents the kind of respectful person we can all have good relationships with.

This evening my hubs and I were at a local winery and noticed a couple with a spread of cards on the table. I couldn't see clearly, but I thought they might be tarot cards. Turned out they were a card game that required unique cards, but it made me want to get out my tarot cards. I do not believe in tarot cards, but it is kind of fun to play around with them.I can start reading the demise of evil ones among us...that's always fun! Maybe next time I go to the winery I'll bring my tarot cards and a backgammon board. The young woman who was serving our wine didn't know what backgammon was. I can feel sort of old these days. But I still know how to have fun!