Talk:Vladimir Ostrogorsky

1. Does Russian have a word that can meet both "cat" and something rude? Would be a hell of a coincidence if it did. If not that scene's a complete waste of time.

2. I'm so sick of people using Schroedinger's Cat as some sort of overly elaborate shorthand for "We won't know how this plays out till after it's over." Schroedinger was mocking physicists who were content with understanding quantum mechanics purely in terms of statistical probabilities by positing a hypothetical scenario in which a quantum event would lead to one of two mutually exclusive results, so that it would be known with absolute certainty how that specific event played out. He wasn't creating a paradox to illustrate that some things, such as whether the Salvation Committee will agree to Stalin's terms or whether Leonard and Penny can make a romantic relationship work, can't be predicted till they've happened. An appeal to unpredictability and uncertainty strengthens (though not by much at all) the ideas he was arguing against. Also, anyone who's not intelligent enough to grasp intuitively the concept of "There's no way to tell ahead of time whether X will happen" is definitely too stupid for a complex thought experiment to help clarify anything for them. Turtle Fan (talk) 19:28, August 1, 2014 (UTC)