A. Only relativistic answers are possible.
While most would think it would only take one it will take six to make the initial attempt. Although, before the attempt could be made they?ll have to wring-out the math so they can compare the mathematical results with the experimental results. Most will conclude, beforehand, that the act and the result will be imaginary.
A few will try. One will be at the top of the ladder and four will grab the ladder legs. The sixth will be busy squeaking away at the chalkboard.
The result will be disastrous because they?ll first try in quadrature maiming the poor soul at the top. After decades they?ll finally understand that all four, at the base, must work together to lift and rotate the ladder. The light will come on but they need to apply their newfound understanding to other burned-out bulbs.
Several lights will be working after a lot of excess work. Every time another bulb burns out one will declare ?Lets go to that one and rotate the ceiling just like the last!?
Then along comes some poor uneducated fool. He climbs the ladder and just changes the bulbs like it should have been done in the first place. Naturally, he is denounced as an idiot and there are cries from the crowd declaring the act was impossible. After all, we?ve been doing it the other way for years and the proofs are correct! What just happened didn?t!
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I'm done blathering now. There are more light bulbs to change and I need to find five more people to help. :)
My dear BEP.
I am afraid you have only seen part of this. Before anything like you describe can happen there must be acceptance by a reputable scientific magazine of a dissertation on the theoretical possibility that light bulb changes can occur.
At the very minimum it must come from a Ph.D. who is well known in the field of theoretical lightbulbology. Otherwise - NO CHANCE!
Hans von Lieven
@Hans
I see your point. The bulbs will all go out soon. I guess I'll start collecting firewood.
Now if I can just find that formula for rubbing two sticks together..............
Even If I find it I'm screwed. What really happens when wood burns is probably lost in some text from the 1400's.
i have a good idea
that poor uneducated fool can make a deal with that PH.D then the reputable scientific magazine accept this dissertation on the theoretical possibility that light bulb changes can occur.
all the time, there must be a chance if you try.
Quote from: hansvonlieven on May 06, 2008, 07:16:05 PM
My dear BEP.
I am afraid you have only seen part of this. Before anything like you describe can happen there must be acceptance by a reputable scientific magazine of a dissertation on the theoretical possibility that light bulb changes can occur.
At the very minimum it must come from a Ph.D. who is well known in the field of theoretical lightbulbology. Otherwise - NO CHANCE!
Hans von Lieven
Don'r forget the safety study and an envirmental impact statement
gary
Quote from: usama salah on May 07, 2008, 02:39:50 PM
i have a good idea
that poor uneducated fool can make a deal with that PH.D then the reputable scientific magazine accept this dissertation on the theoretical possibility that light bulb changes can occur.
all the time, there must be a chance if you try.
No scientific magazine would accept such a dissertation
Everyone knows it is against the first law of unchangability .
:)
gary
I just came across this thread and almost croaked from laughing so hard.
My brother is a physicist. During a family reunion fifteen years ago, I was telling him that soon people would be working from home and teleconferencing instead of going into an office regularly. He explained to me over the rest of the evening how that could never be.
I have a feeling he probably never tried to change a light bulb.
;D
So what happens on a standard 8 foot ceiling, and you are tall enough(as I am) to change the bulb without the assistance of a ladder? Would this be enough to deem a whole new study?
Chap
PS Q.) How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb?
A.) Just one. but the light bulb has to want to change!
I don't care what any scientist thinks...
I have only one sentence at this time for the science geeks... A bulb, is changed by one person with 2 hands. :P. Get over It :D
the physicists unraveling the very fabric of the ceiling, in order to change the lightbulb,
were using their conscious minds. and nothing else.
they could understand details.
they could understand the sequential orders in which details are arranged.
but they could not "see" the easiest path. even though it was right in front of them.
the poor uneducated fool, was mostly using his subconscious mind
(and a minority of his conscious mind),
to change the lightbulb.
he does not need to know much about details.
or sequences.
or official scientific blah.
because he is using his natural instincts.
he is using his onboard faculties.
exactly like a sorcerer naturally casts spells, in D&D.
but this poor uneducated fool, is not really a fool.
he is actually quite wise and intuitive.
and he works with his intuition, to change the light bulb.
instead of denying that his intuition even exists. or refusing to accept it as valid.
it is the physicists who are fools.
because wisdom and intellect, are 2 ENTIRELY different things.
intellect is of the conscious mind, or the frontal lobe.
intuition/wisdom is of the subconscious mind, or the parietal and temporal lobes.
the more you figure out how to integrate your subconscious mind into your thoughts, the more like the intuitive light bulb changer, you will become!
by the way. i'm fond of saying that "quantum physicists" are really "quantum phrenologists".