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Title text:

Remember, your answers to the physics census are confidential; we will not be issuing Pauli exclusion principle citations.

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[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

will "I" still "know" anything after I have completely disintegrated?

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You won't have to worry about that.

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

But I'm worried about not having to worry about it....

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 6 points 1 week ago

It's okay, I'm hiding some fermions in the back of a drawer. I think.

[–] SippyCup@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Not to worry, your worry is caused by the location of your particles. That will be corrected after the measurement.

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How many particles does it take to record the location of one particle?

[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

At least that one, probably more.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To what precision are they going to measure it?

[–] SippyCup@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Ummm... 1

[–] AnthropomorphicCat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

So the Auditors of Reality exist in the xkcd-verse, huh.