Quantum Coffee

[donutsweeper]

Title:  Quantum Coffee
Pairing/Warning/Rating: none, rated G
Word Count: 100
Summary: Jack and Tosh discuss the act of making coffee
Author's Note: Sequel to Schrödinger's Coffee.  Learn about the observer effect here.  Thanks to smithy161 and phoenix64 for fixing the quantum nature of Jack's problem.

“Tosh, do you know if Ianto’s done making the coffee yet?”

“Why don’t you go and see for yourself, Jack?”

“No, I can’t do that.”

“Why not?”

“He might make it differently if I was there.”

“Why would he do that?”

“I don’t know if he would, but my being there might affect his coffee-making ability.   And I won’t take that chance.”

“So, we’re talking quantum theory again. The Observer Effect of coffee making; the mere act of observing alters the reality being observed.”

“When the act is Ianto making coffee, I certainly don’t want to risk him altering it!”

Comments

[kensieg.livejournal.com]

lovely!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

thank you! *g*

[http://users.livejournal.com/_medley_/]

Bwahaha! I loved the first one, and this one's definitely a worthy sequel. Poor Jack. His coffee is so...precarious.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Well, if it weren't so important to him than little things like this wouldn't matter quite so much....

[badwolf36.livejournal.com]

Ah, the unique science of Ianto's coffee. Lovely way of bringing in the Principle. Thanks for sharing!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

thank you! glad you liked it!

[ageless-aislynn.livejournal.com]

More awesomeness! As much as I love my coffee, I'm just a novice compared to the good captain... ;) Great work! ♥!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

The quality of coffee is a terribly important thing, especially to Jack! :)

[geordie-star.livejournal.com]

Brilliant!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

thank you!

[the-dark-side.livejournal.com]

I LOVE YOU!

seriously...I just keep sounding more and more insane to my roommates from all the maniacal laughter.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

maniacal laughter=good thing. I suppose explain that you're learning about quantum theory wouldn't help your case any, would it?

[secbeth.livejournal.com]

I'll say Jack watching might alter the coffee I love it!!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

thank you!

[marvola.livejournal.com]

These should be taught in school!! Seriously! I loved this - a worthy sequel

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

glad you liked it!

[phoenix64.livejournal.com]

Hee hee. I love these so much. Though unfortunately I'm just enough of a geek to want to gently point out that the observer effect is not the same thing as Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, but the equating of the two is done so often that I should probably be glared at for bringing it up.

Have you ever seen Creator? That movie is imprinted upon me so strongly that I can't see "Heisenberg" without hearing Peter O'Toole say we can never know anything.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

hmmm, it was that the way he observed it he was affecting the experiment, right? I wasn't entirely sure they were the same thing, but copied the way it was explained from here (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/dp27un.html)

Can you explain the difference to me? I'd like to fix it if I can.

[smithy161.livejournal.com]

We can either know whether Ianto is making coffee, or what speed he is travelling at, but never both at once?

Awesome, as always. And I swear coffee isn't a complex arrangement of compounds. It's a fundamental particle. It is in fact the elusive graviton, and the universe revolves around it.

*Publishes essay*

(Comment edited because I just remembered I have this icon)

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

OMG Icon love!!!!

and, the universe should revolve around coffee, don't you think?

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

lol Love it.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

thank you!

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

I love these ♥
He might make it differently if I was there.

Offers distraction theory:
The more exactly defined the close position of Jack in relation to Ianto the less precisely the coffee will find its destination.

[smithy161.livejournal.com]

I like the distraction theory!

[unfeathered]

Oh, beautiful. You are so, so good at these! :-)

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Jack's obsession with coffee is so fun!

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

Heee! Mysterious laws of physics Torchwood style.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

If only more lessons could be learned this way...

[roguewords.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

[aeron-lanart.livejournal.com]

You know, I don't like coffee (yeah, I'm strange). But I like Jack and the principles of Quantum Coffee.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

well as long as you like Jack, you're okay in my book!