[time-nuts] OT loosing things

J. Forster jfor at quik.com
Fri Nov 12 20:52:41 UTC 2010


The sock problem has a simple, and obvious, solution.

When you buy socks, buy a several year supply, all identical. When you no
longer have more than 1 pair, buy a new batch.

QED.

-John

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>
>
> The LW would explain missing single socks, pens, etc.  The local
> randomness is probably a quantum effect...
>
>
>
> Dave
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Rooke" <sar10538 at gmail.com>
> To: time-nuts at febo.com
> Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 2:11:06 AM
> Subject: [time-nuts] OT loosing things
>
> While repairing my LCD monitor, I took off my glasses so as to be able
> to see better close up as I'm VERY short sighted and even the
> vari-focals my optician prescribes can no longer get me close enough
> to solder properly. Without them on, I can focus VERY close but the
> range is VERY short, being just a few inches. So I completed the work
> involving a few stages without putting the glasses back on just to
> save time but, when I went to grope around and try to find them, I
> could not. So where did I put the blessed things, and after a period
> of serious extended "looking" around, blind panic started to set in.
> What the dickens had I done with them! So I ended up shuffling out of
> the workshop, through the house, stumbling over the dogs, and up to
> the bedroom to, eventually, find my spare pair. On my return to the
> workshop I still could not find the glasses looked everywhere. A cup
> of tea ensued and I took a less panicky search only to find they had
> fallen down the back of some gear, or maybe it was the fairies at the
> bottom of my garden which had done it. I concluded that in my
> "blinded" state of putting them down in the first place, I had
> obviously chosen an poor "safe" place.
>
> After this I got to thinking and wondered if there is perhaps
> something darker happening here. My current theory is that there is
> something called a Lost Wormhole which moves around randomly and
> removes items from there current place, setting them down in some
> completely different dimension. So the chances of loosing something
> increases in proportion to the time that the item is left somewhere
> due to the increased probability of it being "borrowed" by the LW.
> Now, all is not lost as the LW is a two way pipe and so eventually
> your lost item will be dropped back somewhere in your vicinity but
> probably not where you thought you had left it. To my mind, this seems
> to fit my experience of the way the World seems to work and I'm sure
> there is some law here.
>
> For the humour challenged, this message is :) rated.
>
> Please feel free to comment on my theory but perhaps this should be via
> PM.
>
> Thank you for your time,
> Steve
>
> --
> Steve Rooke - ZL3TUV & G8KVD
> The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
> - Einstein
>
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