(October 14, 2020 at 9:00 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(October 14, 2020 at 8:53 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: The point of view of the cat is immaterial - it is the subject of the experiment, not the observer. In the original formulation, the subject was a keg of gunpowder that could exist in the superposition of exploded/unexploded. No one would seriously contend that a keg of gunpowder is the observer of the experiment.
The experiment isn’t about a cat.
Boru
He was wrong. "You don't know, until you look "is one thing. But, " I do know because I don't know, because I left out other parameters" is exactly what he did.
QM and PM are not defending "anything goes" as the cat thought experiment would suggest.
Of course they’re not defending it. The thought experiment was constructed to show that Shrodinger and Einstein thought that superposition was absurd. It appears that they were wrong.
Boru
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