(October 14, 2020 at 9:13 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(October 14, 2020 at 9:05 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: 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
Tell that to the cat.
There's no cat. There never was a cat. It was a thought experiment about quantum events (in this case, radioactive decay) influencing macroevents. And it seems fairly sure that observation and measurement do collapse the wave front.
Boru
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