I'm already a proud uncle!
This gets pretty loud towards the middle, so keep your speakers down!
Has anyone else heard of the cat analogy as it relates to positive/negative particles? It basically states that there is an imaginary cat in an imaginary box with an imaginary vial of cyanide which may or may not have cracked open. Therefore until you look in the imaginary box, the imaginary cat remains both alive and dead at the same time! (The point of the analogy being that until you study a particle's charge it remains both positive and negative at the same time).
Essentially this is the quandry I find myself in with my new niece/nephew. Jess & Jon aren't going to find out if it's a boy or a grrrrl until little Baby Knoyle pops out into the world on or around September 20th (which is maddening!). Hence, for the meantime I am left with an asexual hermaphradite for a niece/nephew.
That is all. Seems just about as pointless as the cat analogy, doesn't it?
posted by Phinneas Q Jacksmith @ 8:53 p.m.
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I am baby Knoyle; the great tormentor of the inquisitive minds of people like you who are frustrated by definitive gender determination. Your cat analogy indicates that you are similarly frustrated by particles, whose mode of charge is just as elusive to you. How do you sleep at night as you torture yourself over the fractional bias of quarks and other sub atomic particles that form your very being and the universe in which you live? My gender is known only to me and my maker (and the hospital technician driving the ultra sound machine) and nobody else “on the outside” will know my gender until I “pop out”, as you so eloquently put it. If I’m a girl I’ll want my Uncle Andrew to help me dress my dollies and if I’m a boy, I hope you’ll crash your toy truck in to mine but rest assured, I’ll love you just as much either way. So go ahead, think of me as your asexual hermaphradite niece/nephew for now but seriously, if I’m a boy and you buy me a pink frilly bonnet, or if I’m a girl and you buy me an Action Man (even if it has the new kung-fu grip) I’ll kick your arse! So, when I decide the time has come, I’ll arrive, and then we can discuss this further…..
Wow...
My niecphew is already smarter than 90% of internet users.
Looks like I shall be purchasing nice neutral yellow toys and clothes!
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