Is it if you can't know if it's dead or alive, it's both?
abandonnship,
Tue 15 Nov 2005, 3:18,
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i don't think it can actually scale up like thatit's to do with not being able to measure quantum events without changing them. i thin he was taking the piss.
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tweaknik,
Tue 15 Nov 2005, 3:21,
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Right, I understand it was mockingand it's all starting to make sense now...
( abandonnship,
Tue 15 Nov 2005, 3:21,
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from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schrodinger%27s_cat
Contrary to popular belief, Schrödinger did not intend this thought experiment to indicate that he believed that the dead-alive cat would actually exist; rather he considered the quantum mechanical theory to be incomplete and not representative of reality in this case. Since a cat clearly must either be alive or dead (there is no state between alive and dead, e.g. half-dead) surely the same must be true of the nucleus. It must be either decayed or not decayed.
(Contrary to popular belief, Schrödinger did not intend this thought experiment to indicate that he believed that the dead-alive cat would actually exist; rather he considered the quantum mechanical theory to be incomplete and not representative of reality in this case. Since a cat clearly must either be alive or dead (there is no state between alive and dead, e.g. half-dead) surely the same must be true of the nucleus. It must be either decayed or not decayed.
tweaknik,
Tue 15 Nov 2005, 3:25,
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I already haveand it's amazing, if you get what I mean
wink wink, nudge nudge
(wink wink, nudge nudge
abandonnship,
Tue 15 Nov 2005, 3:27,
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The purpose of the experiment is to illustrate that quantum mechanics is incomplete without some rules to describe when the wavefunction collapses and the cat becomes dead or remains alive instead of a mixture of both.yaaaay
/glomps
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abandonnship,
Tue 15 Nov 2005, 3:26,
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