Re: Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road?

From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Apr 14 2003 - 20:29:16 MDT

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    At 05:23 PM 4/14/03 -0700, Mike Lorrey wrote:

    >Richard Feynman:
    >It is theoretically possible for chickens to cross the road in both
    >directions. Road Crossing Event Diagrams can be interpreted as going
    >right to left, or left to right, backward or forward in time. When a
    >chicken crosses the road, it does not just pick the best possible route
    >to cross the road, it crosses the road in every possible way in a
    >virtual quantum state. The observer only sees the chicken crossing one
    >way because that way is the best way, thus collapsing the probability
    >function. This is the heart of the Many Chickens Interpretation of
    >Quantum Dynamics.... [etc]

    Bravo!

    Damien Broderick

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