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"The Absurd" refers to the conflict between the human tendency to seek inherent meaning in life and the human inability to find any.

Nihilism : from the Latin nihil, nothing) is the philosophical doctrine suggesting the negation of one or more putatively meaningful aspects of life

Friday, December 03, 2010

The Buttered Cat Thought Experiment


Thought experiments

Some people jokingly maintain that the experiment will produce an anti-gravity effect. They propose that as the cat falls towards the ground, it will slow down and start to rotate, eventually reaching a steady state of hovering a short distance from the ground while rotating at high speed as both the buttered side of the toast and the cat’s feet attempt to land on the ground.[3] In June 2003, Kimberly Miner won a Student Academy Award for her film Perpetual Motion.[4] Miner based her film on a paper written by a high-school friend that explored the potential implications of the cat and buttered toast idea.[5][6]

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