"Are we nearly there yet" - 1.3 is NOT yet released - THIS THREAD ONLY PLEASE

[Robert Maynard]

Schrödinger's cake?

So it's the cat that eats the cake.... Who knew!

 

[Inodoro Pereyra]

Don't call me anxious, but when we will run the Betapocalypse 1.3...?

 

[withnail]

Please take some form of emergency radio beacon with you (preferably affixed somewhere upon your person such that it can't be misplaced) so that the search party (and there will need to be one, I can assure you, after drinking M9.33 recurring) will have a step for a hint as to where you have ended up.... It's happened before from what I remember.

I've checked the map and orientation of the beach. So if I start swimming, the nearest landfall will be somewhere in Texas, assuming I go in a straight line!

 

[dunnykin]

Isnt it likely to be 16:00-18:00 GMT like the last couple beta's?

Probably. At the moment i imagine they will be running around like headless chickens realising the new doohickey code doesn't work with the old thingumy code and wanting to kill whoever promised today.

 

[Cody]

So it's the cat that eats the cake....

Right crafty, that cat!

 

[Cosmo]

When will then be now? Soon.

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[Huros]

If the cake is in a sealed opaque box, how can we tell that some chancer hasn't scoffed it?

Weigh it.

 

[Sugarat]

I posted this elsewhere. It should help;
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5 MINUTE CHOCOLATE MUG CAKE
4 tablespoons flour
4 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons cocoa
1 egg
3 tablespoons milk
3 tablespoons oil
3 tablespoons chocolate chips (optional)
A small splash of vanilla extract
1 large coffee mug

Add dry ingredients to mug, and mix well. Add the egg and mix thoroughly.
Pour in the milk and oil and mix well.
Add the chocolate chips (if using) and vanilla extract, and mix again.
Put your mug in the microwave and cook for 3 minutes at 1000 watts.
The cake will rise over the top of the mug, but don't be alarmed!
Allow to cool a little, and tip out onto a plate if desired..
EAT! (this can serve 2 if you want to feel slightly more virtuous).

And why is this the most dangerous cake recipe in the world ?

Because now we are all only 5 minutes away from chocolate cake at any time of the day or night!

Yeah the cake takes 5 minutes but it takes a week to clean the cup afterwards

 

[WolfishHickory]

Weigh it.

Then the cake is both scoffed and unscoffed until the box is opened and the contents observed.

 

[SlackR]

I have reports to write and REALLy Dont want to! Launch the update already and give me a reason to be distracted!

 

[Robert Maynard]

Weigh it.

Sadly, if the cat is in the box, eating the cake, then there will be little weight change....

 

[Hell Razor5543]

Schrödinger's Cake Theory. Take a large cake (preferable "Genocide by Chocolate", it has the best response) and place it in a large box. Also place in the box a containment field managed by a random particle system. If the system triggers it releases the containment field, letting a very small black hole out. This black hole then eats the cake (and probably the rest of the contents of the box). As the total mass of the box has not changed (just it's location), weighing the box does not prove anything. The box itself has a containment field, so the black hole cannot get out, but opening the box to observe what has happened is fraught with danger, as this will cause the box's field to collapse.

 

[Cmdr Eagleboy]

Sadly, if the cat is in the box, eating the cake, then there will be little weight change....

There, however, will be changes in distribution of weight

 

[Alien]

Sadly, if the cat is in the box, eating the cake, then there will be little weight change....

I seem to remember not too long ago, and interesting discussion on whether there is any weight change between you holding a burger and you after you've eaten a burger ... I doubt I can find it again, sadly

 

[Robert Maynard]

There, however, will be changes in distribution of weight

Not if the cat is adept in the art of eating the cake in such a way as to maintain a constant centroid in relation to the longitudinal and transverse axes of the box....

 

[fieval]

I seem to remember not too long ago, and interesting discussion on whether there is any weight change between you holding a burger and you after you've eaten a burger ... I doubt I can find it again, sadly

Its probably in that box thingy...wih the cake..and that cat..and some socks too (probably).

 

[Whiterose]

Sadly, if the cat is in the box, eating the cake, then there will be little weight change....

Depends how long after eating the cake. Digestion will lead to a decrease in weight, as the sum of the parts exiting the cat will not equal those that went into the cat.

 

[Cody]

Oh dear... someone mentioned socks! Oss incoming!

 

[Marc Alexander]

I seem to have stumbled upon the All New New Tranquil Backwater...

<flops into the nearest beanbag>

 

[Robert Maynard]

Depends how long after eating the cake. Digestion will lead to a decrease in weight, as the sum of the parts exiting the cat will not equal those that went into the cat.

Ah - but the box is sealed - the decomposition products will remain in the box with the cat and the cake crumbs!