I dropped a small bolt at the LBS a couple of days ago. Ordinarily, no big deal, but this time it vaporized before it hit the floor - no "ding-ding-ding" as it bounced and rolled - nothing. No big deal; it was an open tile floor and should have been easy to spot. I leaned over and glanced around the floor - nothing. I bent down further - nothing. I got down on my hands and knees - no bolt. By this time, the tech and my wife joined me to look for it, but it was nowhere to be seen. Even the manager's dog came over to help in the hunt but that bolt was simply gone. Frustrated and perplexed, the store owner eventually dug around back and found another bolt to replace the one recently teleported. That evening I found it re-materialized in the cuffs of my pants. By my calculations, based on the time it first disappeared until it reappeared as I was getting undressed, it was in the fifth dimension for at least six hours (assuming that "time" as we know it has any meaning in that space to which bolts, socks, and small tools are taken). I'm trying to have this account published in "Nature" magazine, but peer review has been a problem.
On Sep 28, 7:19 am, Peter Pesce <petepe...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've heard a theory that the socks that disappear from your laundry > are magically transformed into the wire hangars that continually > appear in your closet. > > Maybe a similar thing is happening to all this hardware? > > For me, every time a piece of hardware disappears, it seems a new > cardboard box (stamped Riv, VO, etc) magically appears a few days > later... > > On Sep 28, 8:02 am, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 06:52 -0500, Jon Grant wrote: > > > Rob in Seattle wrote: > > > > > > > Changing out the saddle on my Saluki yesterday I dropped one of the > > > > > > > > > > > > bolts from its Nitto Jaguar seatpost, and it vaporized. Absolutely > > > > > > nowhere to be found. Tore apart the garage looking for it. Found > > > > > > the > > > > > > proprietary washer, but the bolt itself vanished. Isn't it amazing > > > > > > how > > > > > > that can happen? > > > > ------ > > > > I read this thread with some amusement. Then yesterday, I fumbled a gray > > > plastic washer from my Silver shifter onto the gray garage floor and it > > > disappeared. I heard it bounce off the spoke of the wheel as it fell, and > > > that was the last evidence I had that it ever existed. It went to live > > > with > > > Jesus. > > > where it has a lot of company, including about half a ton of washers, > > nuts and screws that were originally mine... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
