Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/21

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Subject: [Leica] how to get a cat to stand in place
From: abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)
Date: Sun Aug 21 10:46:36 2005
References: <027601c5a65c$ad6a6400$6401a8c0@milla>

Frankly I'm deeply disappointed in Kyle's rather prosaic method of
handling kitten photography and I'm suspicious of its accuracy. Did
you see a "kitten wrangler" in his setup? No! Would Kylle have omitted
this "wrangler", perhaps suspected from the ceiling and wearing
protective back leather or a skin-tight rubber suit? Of course he
wouldn't!

We all know that kittens are quantum wavefronts personified.
Schoedinger used a cat in his famous thought experiment for a reason!
He didn't use a kitten because there is no known containment once they
shift into wavefront mode.

What Kyle carefully concealed to all but the most intense scrutiny was
his GM-tube detector and the potential barriers he erected on either
side of the mysterious white sheet. (Possibly itself producing the
barrier in conjunction with the strobe - the geometry of the setup
would certain create a fine field of intense and uniform light which
might interact with the kitten-wave-front as it filled the room. The
GM tube would select an appropriate moment from the background
radiation, some dying star in a galaxy far distant where another Kyle,
another wave-front kitten had once lived having sent a cosmic ray
hurtling through the ether until its particle cascade could trigger
the pulse, freeze the kitten into momentary solidity in the light's
potential barrier, and yet another fine image is made.

OR you could believe in "cat wranglers". I know where my bet would be laid!

Adam


Replies: Reply from leica at rcmckee.com (R. Clayton McKee) ([Leica] how to get a cat to stand in place)
In reply to: Message from kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu (kyle cassidy) ([Leica] how to get a cat to stand in place)