On Mar 17, 6:11=EF=BF=BDpm, thinbluemime <thinbluem...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> SAYID: Lima beans?
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> ...Michael..."I came here to die"
Walt: Dead or Alive?
Lima Beans & Schrodinger's Cat
"Hydrogen cyanide is a chemical compound with chemical formula HCN. A
solution of hydrogen cyanide in water is called hydrocyanic acid."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_cyanide
"Lima beans contain cyanide compounds, which is why many countries,
including the U.S., restrict commercially grown varieties to those
with very low cyanogen levels. The lima beans grown in Java and Burma
have 20 to 30 times the concentration allowed in most Western
countries. They must be cooked thoroughly to allow the hydrogen
cyanide gas produced to be driven off."
http://www.foodreference.com/html/flimabeans.html
"A cat is penned up in a steel chamber, along with the following
diabolical device (which must be secured against direct interference
by the cat): in a Geiger counter there is a tiny bit of radioactive
substance, so small that perhaps in the course of one hour one of the
atoms decays, but also, with equal probability, perhaps none; if it
happens, the counter tube discharges and through a relay releases a
hammer which shatters a small flask of hydrocyanic acid. If one has
left this entire system to itself for an hour, one would say that the
cat still lives if meanwhile no atom has decayed. The first atomic
decay would have poisoned it. The Psi function for the entire system
would express this by having in it the living and the dead cat (pardon
the expression) mixed or smeared out in equal parts."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger's_cat_in_popular_culture
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