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What a mess. Please stop putting your phones in rice!

8/31/2015

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See all those pretty colors? None of it belongs there. That's called rust and corrosion.

Q: How is tossing your wet phone in rice supposed to help this?

A: It can't.

If you still think rice "saved your phone", here's a bit of knowledge: the rice had nothing to do with it and your phone wasn't as wet as you thought it was. Water damage is always tricky because it's impossible to know how much water got into the phone and where in the phone it went. But, if you want to gamble with your $300-$1,000 cell phone and your 10,000 photos you never backed up, go for it. That's exactly what you're doing when you stick your wet phone into rice.

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Schrödinger's rice

8/6/2015

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While recently reading some of the posts on iFixit's Pro Talk forum @ https://talk.ifixit.com/ I came across a reference Schrödinger's cat. For those who aren't familiar with this paradox, Austrian physicist, Erin Schrödinger, posed this situation (at the most basic level): put a cat in a box with no holes or windows. Until you open the box, the cat is both alive and dead and you won't know until you look. 


A more in depth explanation found on Wikipedia: Schrödinger's cat: a cat, a flask of poison, and a radioactive source are placed in a sealed box. If an internal monitor detects radioactivity (i.e. a single atom decaying), the flask is shattered, releasing the poison that kills the cat. The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics implies that after a while, the cat is simultaneously alive and dead. Yet, when one looks in the box, one sees the cat either aliveor dead, not both alive and dead. This poses the question of when exactly quantum superposition ends and reality collapses into one possibility or the other. 


To truly understand Schrödinger's paradox, some understanding of quantum mechanics is needed. That's another post for another blog. ;)


For this blog, I present, Schrödinger's rice! :)

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