H S08E08 XL

Aired: 11/5/2010




Hypothetical



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[ELuhn]

One of my favorite things in QI is that zenlike stillness that descends whenever Johnny Vegas says something.

[doctortehe]

I didn't know Sandi Tosvig was a Hufflepuff.

[khasab]

@Selinor578 Sean Locke, Bill Bailey, Phill Jupitus, David Mitchell. and Alan off course

[Psycho5275]

@Selinor578

Well Exactly, Schrodinger did this as a thought experiment. He was using it to sort of disprove the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics.

[patricksname]

@Selinor578 I've thought about it again and I was going to say Dara Ó Briain, however I have reconsidered and I think Clive Anderson brings a better balance to the panel.

[patricksname]

@Selinor578 I like Clive Anderson, but I think I'd have to replace him in an all time great panel, apart from that I like your line up. Have to think about my final guest.

[Selinor578]

@Psycho5275 I never fully grasped the significance of Schroedinger's cat. They say at any one point while the cat is inside, he can be considered to be both alive and dead. No he can't. He's either dead or alive at any point, even though right at that point we outside the box don't know which.

[Selinor578]

@Iamgercornholio How can anything be spinning right, or left. If one part of it is spinning from your right to your left, then the opposite side of it must be spinning from your left to your right. People always say spinning to the right when they should say "clockwise".

[Selinor578]

@annalouisekennedy Sandy Toksvig??? Best??? Not even close.

[Selinor578]

@patricksname What would you say is the ideal line-up of 4 guests on QI? I'd go for Sean Locke, Jimmy Carr, Clive Anderson, John Sessions. I know you'd have to have Alan Davies too, but there you go. What would your ideal 4 be?

[WillofIceandIron]

@Selinor578 Ok. You come off a bit nuts. Conversation over.

[Selinor578]

@WillofIceandIron How the tourist would look at me could be as much a comment on his not understanding me as it is on my reasoning. Even if he did call me a twat. Many intelligent people have been called perjorative names B4 by people who just don't think about what they are saying or by people who think the right way to treat people who have different opinions to them is to call them a twat.