2006-06-15 20:31:19 · 17 answers · asked by cgoodspeed24 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Cleaning & Laundry
We have a bag in our house where we throw all the odd socks, and then try to pair them up every once in a while. I emptied it out the other day, and there was 267 odd socks in there. God only knows where the other ones went.
2006-06-15 20:37:10 · answer #1 · answered by Irish_bi_female 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Schrodinger must have written his favourite get jointly for quantum theory about this lacking sock. "it truly is Schrödinger's (theoretical) try: We position a residing SOCK right into a metal chamber, alongside with a gadget containing a vial of hydrocyanic acid. there is, in the chamber, a really small volume of a radioactive substance. If even a unmarried atom of the substance decays in the course of the try era, a relay mechanism will vacation a hammer, which will, in turn, damage the vial and kill the SOCK. The observer can not understand no matter if an atom of the substance has decayed, and therefore, can not understand no matter if the vial has been damaged, the hydrocyanic acid released, and the SOCK killed. when you consider that we received't understand, the SOCK is both useless and alive in accordance to quantum regulation, in a superposition of states. that is only when we damage open the field and study the issue of the SOCK that the superposition is lost, and the SOCK turns into one or the different (useless or alive). this difficulty is often called quantum indeterminacy or the observer's paradox : the statement or length itself impacts an result, so as that the outcome as such does no longer exist except the length is made. (that's, there is no unmarried result except that's spoke of.) all of us keep in mind that superposition actual takes position on the subatomic aspect, because there are observable consequences of interference, in which a unmarried particle is verified to be in distinct places concurrently. What that truth implies about the nature of actuality on the observable aspect (SOCKS, as an get jointly, as adversarial to electrons) is between the stickiest aspects of quantum physics. Schrödinger himself is rumored to have suggested, later in existence, that he wanted he had under no circumstances met that SOCK."
2016-10-30 23:46:39 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These socks that come up missing can't stand the smelly feet any longer and went out the vent pipe of the dryer and decided it was time for them to take a long deserved vacation.
2006-06-16 20:59:46 · answer #3 · answered by Jean f 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's all a conspiracy from the Sock Manufacturers. They have a homing device in one sock. After a while it finds its way back to the store and you keep re buying it, over and over again.
2006-06-16 02:22:44 · answer #4 · answered by Zina V 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't worry about it. Just do like I do and buy 5 pairs at a time, and only a few colors. I only buy white, black and tan socks. Then it is much easier to match them.
I haven't figured out what to do about gloves though...
2006-06-16 01:16:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the sock is stuck between the cylinder walls of the washing machine. thats what the repair man found in my machine last week. and he charged me $78 for it! can u say rip off?
2006-06-15 20:38:10 · answer #6 · answered by ~Lauralyn~ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Invisible Pink Unicorn takes them.
Consider yourself blessed.
2006-06-15 20:35:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
ren and stimpy say they go to the land of the lost left socks
2006-06-15 20:35:56 · answer #8 · answered by anissia 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some actually do go missing in the washing machine...I have rescued some that were caught under the agitator and going down the drain.
2006-06-19 14:32:31 · answer #9 · answered by Library Eyes 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they are hanging out with my missing socks...
2006-06-15 20:34:34 · answer #10 · answered by micheypoo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋