Sure, there's a 99.2% probability that he will win, but that is several standard deviations away from the 99.99995% confidence that the particle physicists would need to declare the election won. (This is satire, obviously.) Via Jennifer Ouellette.

  • Boundegar

    So it might all come down to Schrodinger’s vote?

    • wreckrob8

      His cat’s vote. But it’s secret. Promise not to look.

    • Felton / Moderator

       ”God does not play dice with elections.”
      -Albert Einstein

    • Chuck

      Ah.  So there’s a market for quantum voting machines?

  • http://twitter.com/chriscoreline chris coreline

    best post about the election to date, thanks Maggie.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=26109648 Jim Davison

    Further, Heisenberg can tell you if Obama won the election, or if Obama is president, but not both.

  • http://voidstar.com/ jbond

    It won’t be real until the press conference with slides that use Comic Sans.

  • Eark_the_Bunny

    Election boy: Do not try and bend the election. That’s impossible. Instead… only try to realize the truth.

    Obama: What truth?

    Election boy: There is no election.

    Obama: There is no election?

    Election boy: Then you’ll see, that it is not the election that bends, it is only yourself.

  • miasm

    Knowing Wigner, I can attest that a close friend of ours says they’ve heard of an opinion on this matter from someone they know.