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A trial in San Mateo County centers on a skateboard attack amid a discussion on quantum physics. Discover the bizarre incident!

Written byPhil Plait
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Anyone can be passionate about physics. Anyone:

A homeless man is on trial in San Mateo County on charges that he smacked a fellow transient in the face with a skateboard as the victim was engaged in a conversation about quantum physics, authorities said today.

Man. Reminds me of grad school. The article goes on:

The attack was witnessed by two other people

Oh, too bad! There goes the defense; the observers collapsed the wave function. Otherwise, he could've pleaded guilty and not guilty.

Tip o' the Bose Einstein condensate to ntolman.

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