Propeller Christmas Ornament

Lev

I was delighted to receive 3 Prop Christmas Ornaments along with other stuff in an order I just received. The enclosed data sheet stated they are available in clear, clear, or clear acrylic. All 3 of mine were clear, so I thought "cool, I got one one of each." But after thinking about it for a few hours, I think I might have received (2) clear, and (1) clear; or some other combo. The uncertainty is confusing. Any advice on how to straighten this out?

Lev

Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)

First of all, using small bits of Post-It notes, you need to label the ornaments A, B, and C, so you can tell them apart. Once that's done, you can divide them into all possible partitions, of which there are five. Then, take a photo of each partition and post the five photos here, so we can vote on it. Once this process has completed, I believe it will be clear (but not red or green) from the voting what you received from Parallax.

Obviously, there will be a few forumistas who try to sabotage the vote by making absurd choices, thus creating outliers in your data set. There may even be one or two mischief-makers who suggest that by disassembling the ornaments and mixing the parts, you can obtain a superposition of the various partitions, thus leading to quantum uncertainty. Resist the temptation! The last thing you need here are entangled Christmas ornaments! If classical physics was good enough for Charles Dickens, it's certainly good enough, by golly, for this exercise!

-Phil

wjsteele

Actually, I think they might have thown in a "99.5% non opaque" one as well as a "transparent" one just for kicks and giggles!

Bill

Matt Gilliland

I apologize that the documentation wasn't Clear...

Please allow me to Clear up this misunderstanding.

Clearly we have made every attempt to make all three available models (Clear, Clear, and Clear) distinct from one another.

However, now that I've Cleared my mind and thought about it, I think that this thread has gone Clear over the top...

Have I made myself Clear?

Oldbitcollector (Jeff)

Ok, some I *think* I'm "clear" on that.....

Any chance we'll see a forth (clear) color in the works any time soon? {ducks)

OBC

Lev

Thanks Everyone. Now I totally understand!

Lev

$WMc%

I received four Prop Ornaments?
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Was this a mistake?
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Maybe I should return?
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Clearly not!
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quantum of uncertainty

Beau Schwabe

Oldbitcollector,

I'll send a couple of Sharpie's your way ... is that 'Clear' ?

skylight

I think I can see through this thread

Tony B.

I'm not clear on this discussion because mine came in red and yellow.

Beau Schwabe

Tony B.,

Yes, but if you had one of these to go with it, you could make it any color that you wanted! :-)

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Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)

Enjoy them while you can! Those ornaments are obviously moving away from you at a high rate of speed, causing yellow and red color shifts.

-Phil

wmosscrop

Well, I bought two of these... put 'em together, set 'em down...

... and now I can't find them.

It's apparent that they're too transparent.

I know, I know, you could see right through that joke.

Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)

wmosscrop wrote:

Well, I bought two of these... put 'em together, set 'em down ... and now I can't find them.

Parallax may have sent you an ornament and an anti-ornament by mistake. If you had set them down close together, they will have annihilated each other.

-Phil

wmosscrop

Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) wrote: »

Parallax may have sent you an ornament and an anti-ornament by mistake. If you had set them down close together, they will have annihilated each other.

-Phil

Hmmmmm... very possible. The current thinking on the beginning of the universe is that almost-equal amounts of matter and antimatter cancelled each other out... and we're made from what's left... a billionth of a billionth of a billionth of the original mass (or so, I'm too lazy to look it up).

So, somewhere in my house, there may be a single molecule of clear plastic. Dang it. If it was just a different color, I could find it!