{"id":1385,"date":"2013-06-09T13:07:47","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T08:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/?p=1385"},"modified":"2013-06-13T17:53:15","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T13:23:15","slug":"superposition-and-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/?p=1385","title":{"rendered":"Superposition and Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a difference between a shaky or out-of-focus photograph and a snapshot of clouds and fog banks. \u2014Erwin Schr\u00f6dinger<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/18-SL-National-Museum-17-Oct-12-03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1386\" alt=\"Sri Lanka National Museum 17-Oct-12\" src=\"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/18-SL-National-Museum-17-Oct-12-03-768x1024.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"778\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/18-SL-National-Museum-17-Oct-12-03-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/18-SL-National-Museum-17-Oct-12-03-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/18-SL-National-Museum-17-Oct-12-03.jpg 1338w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was treated to a reiteration of the problems posed by Erwin Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s 1935 thought problem in a couple of recent Dilbert strips.<\/p>\n<p>I was treated to this image of the Buddha last year in Colombo&#8217;s (Sri Lanka) National Museum when I unpacked my camera, air conditioned overnight, in a humid environment. The condensation on the lens was something I had not anticipated after the previous fifteen months of life in desert-like dryness.<\/p>\n<p>Today was a day to ponder whether such things are merely fortuitous or are the result of some conscious intent of the universe or maybe the result of past actions.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday (8 June) was Scott Adams&#8217; birthday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a difference between a shaky or out-of-focus photograph and a snapshot of clouds and fog banks. \u2014Erwin Schr\u00f6dinger<\/p>\n<p>I was treated to a reiteration of the problems posed by Erwin Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s 1935 thought problem in a couple of recent &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/?p=1385\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2iqtu-ml","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1385"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1415,"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions\/1415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}