Tuesday, February 19, 2008

The Law of Unintended Consequences

A recent study done by the Dutch

Obese people are much less costly to the health care system than thin people because obese people tend to die 7-10 years earlier and more money is spent on the aged in the last years of life

Healing

Not everyone who comes to God is  cured. 

  •   Curing is temporary
  •   Healing is eternal
  •   We may not be cured but we can be healed
  •   Jesus came to make people whole. He came to heal.

Schrodinger's Cat: A thought experiment

In his original thought experiment, Schrodinger imagined that a cat is locked in a box, along with a radioactive atom that is connected to a vial containing a deadly poison. If the atom decays, it causes the vial to smash and the cat to be killed. When the box is closed we do not know if the atom has decayed or not, which means that it can be in both the decayed state and the non-decayed state at the same time. Therefore, the cat is both dead and alive at the same time - which clearly does not happen in classical physics.