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Posted by DigitalGriffin on Thursday, February 3, 2022 1:48 PM

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 positionx, and momentump, 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)

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Thursday, February 3, 2022 1:26 PM

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.

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Posted by dstarr on Thursday, February 3, 2022 12:07 PM

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. 

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Posted by Track fiddler on Thursday, February 3, 2022 11:52 AM

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.

 

 

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Thursday, February 3, 2022 11:44 AM

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.

 

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Posted by gregc on Thursday, February 3, 2022 11:29 AM

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)

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Posted by NVSRR on Thursday, February 3, 2022 11:26 AM

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

 

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Posted by Track fiddler on Thursday, February 3, 2022 11:23 AM

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 paperHuh? Laugh

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.

 

 

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Posted by NorthBrit on Thursday, February 3, 2022 11:17 AM

York1

 

 
BroadwayLion
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In a different reality, I could have called you friend.
 
 

 
 
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Posted by Little Timmy on Thursday, February 3, 2022 11:00 AM

This doesnt explain where my " lost youth" went .... or where it will reappear  ... 

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Posted by maxman on Thursday, February 3, 2022 10:54 AM

So you're saying that screws lost and found are like enthalpy..they remain constant?

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Posted by York1 on Thursday, February 3, 2022 10:41 AM

BroadwayLion
ROAR

 
 
In a different reality, I could have called you friend.
 
 

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Posted by rrebell on Thursday, February 3, 2022 10:25 AM

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. 

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Posted by dknelson on Thursday, February 3, 2022 9:55 AM

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.

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Thursday, February 3, 2022 9:35 AM

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.

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Posted by NorthBrit on Thursday, February 3, 2022 9:26 AM

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

 

 
 
Yesterday I found a tiny screw on the floor.  (True.)  I do not know where it goes!!!
 
 
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Quantum Mechanics
Posted by BroadwayLion on Thursday, February 3, 2022 8:55 AM

 

Nowhere in the physical world is quantum mechanics better demonstrated than in the realm of model railroading, and in the train room.
You as a lay person, such as I presume you are as far as the realm of the higher sciences goes, can easily grasp almost all of what there is to be known about quantum mechanics. Visit the Royal Institute with thousands of scientific videos and see the basics of quantum mechanics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hVmeOCJjOU  and https://www.rigb.org/
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

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Here there be cats.                                LIONS with CAMERAS

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