Me: Do you know where the round table is?
My sister: The attic.
Me: Oh God, any idea where?
Her: No. The attic is like Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle; the more sure you are that something is up there, the less likely you are to be able to locate it.
nicola says
17 October, 2013 at 18:14Heh. I feel confident that sister is one of the few people who knew about the uncertainty principle before Breaking Bad.
belgianwaffle says
17 October, 2013 at 22:14We did it for LC physics you know, it’s just that it has all leaked out of our heads in the many, many intervening years…
sibling says
18 October, 2013 at 16:05Belgianwaffle – you forget everything. I on the other hand, remember most things
MT says
22 October, 2013 at 05:22Why can’t she reference One Direction, so that we can despair of the future of humanity, as is the right and privilege of all middle aged people when observing the next generation growing up?
MT says
22 October, 2013 at 05:31Damn. I can’t delete that comment. I had read the post picturing your precocious daughter talking about Heisenberg (whose theories never came to my attention at any point during my education).