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coalie ([personal profile] coalcube) wrote in [community profile] coaltide2023-12-25 08:12 am
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Morbane's coal

In quantum wankchanics, Morbane's coal is a thought experiment, sometimes described as a paradox, of quantum wankerposition. In the thought experiment, a hypothetical gift may be considered simultaneously both the fic of your dreams (TFOYD) and coal, while it is unread state, as a result of its fate being linked to a random subatomic event that may or may not occur.

The Coaltide interpretation implies that, after a while, the gift is simultaneously TFOYD and coal. Yet, when a coalie clicks on their gift, the coalie sees the gift either TFOYD or coal, not both TFOYD and coal. This poses the question of when exactly quantum wankerposition ends and reality resolves into one possibility or the other.

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Re: tangents

(Anonymous) 2023-12-26 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
If you had said "Dear author, I liked your fic but I wish you'd used more commas" that would not be wanking. People wanking about this just have emotional damage because they put your recip name in your author's note and they can't believe someone would dislike it.

Re: tangents

(Anonymous) 2023-12-26 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
Projecting like an IMAX.

Re: tangents

(Anonymous) 2023-12-26 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
Projecting that people wouldn't have called that wanky? Uh... ok?

Re: tangents

(Anonymous) 2023-12-26 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
Projecting that people are mad because of personal history. That's not true. Much like this non-existent norm, you made that up.

Re: tangents

(Anonymous) 2023-12-26 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
^gaslighting^

Re: tangents

(Anonymous) 2023-12-26 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
It remains the case that this isn't possible in an anonymous online space where no relationships of trust exist. Or if it is, wank is the least of your problems.

Re: tangents

(Anonymous) 2023-12-26 06:49 am (UTC)(link)
dc

gaslighting no; manipulative arguments, twisting the truth, etc, those happen all the time on anon. i think that’s what cyrt means.

anyway this whole fight is fucking stupid! who cares!

Re: tangents

(Anonymous) 2023-12-26 09:24 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, and we in the actual real world call that "lying".

Re: tangents

(Anonymous) 2023-12-26 07:19 am (UTC)(link)
And here in the wild we have a repeated illustration of an idiot who does not know that words mean things.
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