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Physicist on Valentine's Day   
Date: Sent Thursday, February 14, 2008
Category: Valentine's Day | Rating: 3.33/5 (326 votes)
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Every Friday after work, a physicist goes down to the ice cream parlor, sits in the second-to-last seat, turns to the last seat, which is empty, and
asks a girl, who isn't there, if he can buy her an ice cream cone. The owner, who is used to the weird local university types, always shrugs but keeps
quiet. But when Valentine's Day arrives, and the physicist makes a particularly heart-wrenching plea into empty space, curiosity gets the better of
him, and he says, "I apologize for my stupid question, but surely you know there is NEVER a woman sitting in that last stool, man. Why do you persist
in offering ice cream to an empty space?"
The physicist replies, "Well, according to quantum physics, empty space is never truly empty. Virtual particles come into existence and vanish all the
time. You never know when the proper wave function will collapse and a girl might suddenly appear there."
The owner raises his eyebrows. "Really? Interesting. But couldn't you just ask one of the girls who comes here every Friday if you could buy HER a
cone? Never know -- she might say yes."
The physicist laughs. "Yeah, right. How likely is THAT to happen?"
Received from marty's jotd.
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