Can science prove the glass is half full or half empty ?

[uglymug]

Just wondering !!!!!!!!!

[annodomini2]

Always full

[ATG]

Best not to look at it

[sunbeam alpine]

Do all your household staff have the day off?

[Simpo Two]

It's both.

However the liquid always seems to choose the bottom half, thus defying the laws of probability which state that 50% of the time it should be in the top half.

We conclude that gravity is more powerful than probability.

QED. Probably.

[Joe M]

If your filling the glass, it's half full...
If your emptying the glass, it's half empty...
Any other case, it's just half a glass.

[sherman]

If your filling it with a liquid theres still microscopic gaps in the liquid or it wouldnt be liquid so is it really half full of is it only percived to be half full ?

[hidetheelephants]

It's always full, even when it's empty. Except in a vacuum when it's abhorrent. Science! probably.

[Skeptisk]

As atoms are mostly empty space (tiny nucleus with some electrons sort of moving them) then glass is not even half full.

[Simpo Two]

Skeptisk said:

As atoms are mostly empty space (tiny nucleus with some electrons sort of moving them) then glass is not even half full.

And if it was you wouldn't be able to pick it up...

'I'll have a pint of Neutron Star please'. A heavy ale

[sherman]

Simpo Two said:

And if it was you wouldn't be able to pick it up...

'I'll have a pint of Neutron Star please'. A heavy ale

Its only 440ml but it is an imperial stout
https://atombeers.com/products/neutron-star-imperi...

[Simpo Two]

sherman said:

Its only 440ml but it is an imperial stout
https://atombeers.com/products/neutron-star-imperi...

Damn, beaten to another great idea...

£9 a can, balls to that. But then if you consider it must contain about 1,000 planets, it's good value.

[Pobolycwm]

This is easily explained by applying Schrodingers theory, the glass exists happily in both states, both half full and half empty simultaneously, until you look at it, whereupon it releases information and the probability waveform collapses, you have now simply determined its state quite easily by looking at it.

Thereby also proving Feynman; that if you can understand quantum mechanics you`re not doing it right

[pocketspring]

But would looking through the glass cause any chromatic abberation?

[Super Sonic]

I don't think science can actually prove anything. It can offer theories based on evidence, but these theories only stand as long as the evidence backs them up, and if new evidence comes to light, we have to revise those theories.
faod, I'm not a god botherer!

[Pobolycwm]

pocketspring said:

But would looking through the glass cause any chromatic abberation?

I think that`s one for the white rabbit to ponder over... QED

[Simpo Two]

Super Sonic said:

I don't think science can actually prove anything. It can offer theories based on evidence, but these theories only stand as long as the evidence backs them up, and if new evidence comes to light, we have to revise those theories.
faod, I'm not a god botherer!

The theory of gravity seems pretty good. Casting my eye around the room and outside I can't see anything floating about. My test to disprove the theory of gravity by repeatedly letting go of small objects in mid-air continues to be unsuccessful.

Perhaps the 'theory' part of the theory of gravity is the name we give the phenomenon, ie it might not actually be called gravity, but Dave...

[AW111]

The glass has a safety factor of 2.

[jfdi]

The glass is too big.

[goth.casual]

sherman said:

If your filling it with a liquid theres still microscopic gaps in the liquid or it wouldnt be liquid so is it really half full of is it only percived to be half full ?

If you’re looking at it through an electron microscope it’s mostly empty.

Matter makes up less than a third of the universe.