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College Final Exam Silence

Taking my Quantum Physics final exam. Two hundred students in absolute silence. You could hear pencils scratching paper. An hour in, deep concentration, wh

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Taking my Quantum Physics final exam. Two hundred students in absolute silence. You could hear pencils scratching paper. An hour in, deep concentration, when—BRAAAAP—a barking spider announces its quantum state to the entire lecture hall.

The professor, without looking up, simply said, "That's actually a perfect auditory illustration of the uncertainty principle we covered in chapter four." Got extra credit on that question somehow.

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