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BroadwayLion But all of this can be observed and proven in your own train room. Just drop a small screw or spring on the floor and it simply slips through the folds reality, never to be seen again. ROAR
To the world you are someone. To someone you are the world
I cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought
NorthBrit Yesterday I found a tiny screw on the floor. (True.) I do not know where it goes!!! David
That might be one I dropped about ten years ago working on my layout.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Parallel realities with every possible outcome -- there is a version of this existence where we find the screw every time. And a version of this reality where the screw never gets dropped in the first place. I have a bad case of quantum reality version envy.
It doesn't change the reality WE live in but given that I have reached the age where crawling on a hard floor looking for stuff has to be saved for VERY special purposes (like finding a lost gold coin), I did purchase from MicroMark a small mirror on the end of an extendable telescopic shaft, with LED lights mounted on it. I can sit on my chair and range around the floor looking for that lost screw - either seeing it, or its shadow. The sad part is how often I cry out in triumph to grasp the newly found screw, only to realize that what I now have between my fingers is a newly crushed dead bug.
Dave Nelson
I studied this stuff but could not remember it much more than a week, even when I had it down pat. I have a bit of trouble remembering things I don't use in instant memory, oh sure I will remember things if I work hard enough, guess thats why I don't remember modern math, needed algabra about 4 times in my adult life and only once was it job related.
BroadwayLion ROAR
York1 John
So you're saying that screws lost and found are like enthalpy..they remain constant?
This doesnt explain where my " lost youth" went .... or where it will reappear ...
Rust...... It's a good thing !
York1 BroadwayLion ROAR In a different reality, I could have called you friend.
I have two magnetic sheets with a company name to put on either side of my truck. I find them quite useful used as modeling mats when I'm working on something that involves tiny metal parts.
Quite obsolete for those tiny plastic parts. Perhaps some High Tack contact paper
I have crawled around on my hands and knees with my visor on sifting through the carpet fibers many times. I'm sure it appears to look like I model railroad in a psych ward.
TF
Could there be at play the physical reality of of two objects can not exist in the same space at the same time. there fore one screw that leaves this reality will occupy a space where another screw did. somewhere else that screw has left that reality and re entered this reality at another location to be found. In other words. You dropped the screw displacing the one I dropped forcing it to reappear for me to find at a later time. Only for me to drop a spring for one of you to find one you dropped at some previous point
shane
A pessimist sees a dark tunnel
An optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel
A realist sees a frieght train
An engineer sees three idiots standing on the tracks stairing blankly in space
BroadwayLion Just drop a small screw or spring on the floor and it simply slips through the folds reality, never to be seen again.
more a believe in sherlock Holmes
“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
lost a spring, searched everywhere and concluded it must have fallen in the garbage, which is where i eventually found it.
(helps to vacuum before losing something)
greg - Philadelphia & Reading / Reading
If you climb down on your hands and knees, you will find that screw with your knee.
(ouch)
The hard part is getting back up again.
All along the facia of my railroad ha have mounted handy boxes with duplex outlets every five feet. The conduits connecting them are securely attached to the fascia for use as a railing to help me lift myself up. Still difficult. I forgot why I bent over in the first place, and why is my knee bleeding.
ROAR
The exacto blade I couldn't seem to find turned up eventually. Therefore found stuck in my rear paw. Kind of a rude awakening as usually don't forget my Dogs put on in the morning.
This isn't quantum mechanics, but I believe the fabric of our space time has myriad tiny holes, each big enough to swallow anything the size of a 4-40 nut or less. Those tiny parts you cannot find just fell thru one of the holes. Where the holes go I have no idea.
David Starr www.newsnorthwoods.blogspot.com
dknelson Parallel realities with every possible outcome -- there is a version of this existence where we find the screw every time. And a version of this reality where the screw never gets dropped in the first place. I have a bad case of quantum reality version envy. Dave Nelson
I think you have stumbled upon the principle of the Infinite Improbability Drive from Hitchhiker's Guide.
I'm a big demonstrator of the chaos theory:
Trains that run well one day decide to up and dierail/die the next.Maybe you are demonstrating the Heisenberg's uncertainty principal.
In quantum mechanics, the uncertainty principle (also known as Heisenberg's uncertainty principle) is any of a variety of mathematical inequalities[1] asserting a fundamental limit to the accuracy with which the values for certain pairs of physical quantities of a particle, such as position, x, and momentum, p, can be predicted from initial conditions.
Quite simply the part is far across the room because trajectory is impossible to calculate.
But then maybe Pauli's exclusion principal applies and it's impossible for two model RR parts to occupy the same space.
But my favorite theory would be Schrödinger’s Cat. And you have created a corillary theory. Lion being a cat, opened said box, dooming said part as soon as he opened it. (Schrodinger's cat in reverse)
Don - Specializing in layout DC->DCC conversions
Modeling C&O transition era and steel industries There's Nothing Like Big Steam!
My youngest daughter used to have a miraculous ability to find lost screws and springs. Since she moved out, I believe they have all been slipping through the folds of reality.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
I know exactly where all those little holes in time and space lead...
Never-Never Land.
Because you will Never-Never find those little screws, nuts, or springs again!
Ricky W.
HO scale Proto-freelancer.
My Railroad rules:
1: It's my railroad, my rules.
2: It's for having fun and enjoyment.
3: Any objections, consult above rules.
It will slip through a warm hole. They go back to the suplier you will go to in an effort to buy more. unbeknownst to you, you keep buying the same one repeatedly.
SHane
MisterBeasley That might be one I dropped about ten years ago working on my layout.
That would involve both superposition and entanglement. Super-position being the quality demonstrated in Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle (Schrodinger's Cat), and entanglement being the faster-than-light (-and-should-be-impossible) exchange of information between two particles sent in opposite directions, but who remain 'connected' by a frame reference. If you change the spin of an electron and its opposite, both flying off in opposite directions, the other will instantly change its spin. How is this possible when the two are separated by, say, two or three light seconds? So, the screw you found was the twin of the one he dropped. Case solved.
NVSRRThey go back to the suplier you will go to in an effort to buy more. unbeknownst to you, you keep buying the same one repeatedly.
Now that is a business model that will always work.
Thank you, Mr. Data.
-- Jean-Luc Picard
My late brother was disturbed by the problem that the amount of lint produced in his laundry room surely must have exceeded the sum of that retrieved from the dryer's lint filter and what entered the family vacuum cleaner. He therefore posited the existence of a body in space that he dubbed the "lintoid". Regrettably, he passed away before publishing his theory and preliminary reasearch.
As his closest sibling, I now feel obliged through family principle to promote his views - with corollaries appropriate to my own concerns and interests. Ergo, could there also exist a "parts-toid"? Will it someday be discovered by intrepid stellar travellers who will muse over the mysteries of their function and materials? Surely this must be supportable by any number of the notions expressed above.
We might name the new corollary "Brother Elias' Cat."
John
well that kind of fits with my idea of two objects in the same space cannt be done. if the part-tiod picks up a dropped screw from in this dimension, then it must drop one somewhere else back into this dimension to deal with those two screws not occupying the same space.
While still in grad school, the late Edward Teller, the 'father' of the hydrogen bomb, was advised by Heisenberg, his advisor, to attend a lecture by Einstein. Teller did, and left completely dejected and hopelessly confused. The lecture was on quantum mechanics. Teller's good friend, Schwinger, seeing his good friend so unhappy, asked him what the problem was. Teller wailed, "I am hopelessly stupid." He had seen others nodding and smiling as Einstein spoke, while Teller became more and more lost. Schwinger put his arm around Teller and said, amicably, "My friend, we are all stupid." Only later did Teller come to realize that even Einstein didn't understand quantum theory. Nobody does. Not yet. We know how to use it, we know its qualities, but they are not yet explained. Not by Feynman, not by Fermi, not by von Neuman, or Szilard, Oppenheimer....nobody.
maybe springs work different since the b rass changes color and mass as they develop the oxide so the physics would be different. as they slip through dimensions when dropper. Taking a long nonlinear path before reappearing in this dimension.
or just simply spring theory.
Yeah, that's it, spring theory. Well done!
selector . . . Not by Feynman, not by Fermi, not by von Neuman, or Szilard, Oppenheimer....nobody.
. . . Not by Feynman, not by Fermi, not by von Neuman, or Szilard, Oppenheimer....nobody.
My experience has proven that with regard to all the theories, principles and laws discussed above, the size of the lost article is not part of the equasion. It's the importance of the lost part that dictates how hard it will be to find.
Why, I can find a Kadee knuckle spring with the greatest ease, regardless of how far it flung, and 2 or 3 more while I'm at it, because I have more than a lifetime supply of spares.
But drop that one off part off a locomotive, a part that is important, and of which you only have ONE.
Regardless of it's size, there WILL be a corner, crack, crevice, cavern, chasm, -whatever size space is required to swallow it- ready and waiting to consume it and demand far more time and effort to release it than it would have taken to locate or produce a replacement regardless of how difficult that may be. And that's only IF it is ever found, All too often, this does apply to tiny hardware, creating the illusion that size is the determining factor.
Nope. Not size. Importance.
Indisputably proven in my own workshop countless times. Even recently.