[time-nuts] OT loosing things

[Bob Camp]

Hi

Socks? Obviously an un-needed item ...

Bob


On Nov 12, 2010, at 3:52 PM, J. Forster wrote:

> 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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