September 8, 2025

Where is he? We'll never know.

 

Source - Brewster Rockit

See, it's funny because it's a reference to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle in which - in a very simplified format - we can know the momentum or position of a particle but never both. 

I warn you, the uncertainty principle is a whole lot more complicated in its real form, but unless you're really into quantum mechanics, I recommend that you take the simple version instead.

With larger objects - say a person or a baseball - we can know the two quantities about the object almost perfectly, but as the object gets smaller - like atoms and protons and electrons or a shrunken Brewster Rockit - we can know less and less about the combination of the two quantities.

I get it. It takes some subtlety and understanding of the world of quantum mechanics to get the joke.

Luckily, I get the joke...like I got this other, similar one.

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