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Schrodinger's Cat. What say you?
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RE: Schrodinger's Cat. What say you?
(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
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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Schrodinger's Cat. What say you? - by Jackie - October 14, 2020 at 8:27 pm
RE: Schrodinger's Cat. What say you? - by AFTT47 - October 14, 2020 at 8:37 pm
RE: Schrodinger's Cat. What say you? - by Jackie - October 14, 2020 at 8:49 pm
RE: Schrodinger's Cat. What say you? - by Paraselene - October 14, 2020 at 8:51 pm
RE: Schrodinger's Cat. What say you? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - October 14, 2020 at 8:53 pm
RE: Schrodinger's Cat. What say you? - by Jackie - October 14, 2020 at 9:00 pm
RE: Schrodinger's Cat. What say you? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - October 14, 2020 at 9:05 pm
RE: Schrodinger's Cat. What say you? - by Jackie - October 14, 2020 at 9:13 pm
RE: Schrodinger's Cat. What say you? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - October 14, 2020 at 9:18 pm
RE: Schrodinger's Cat. What say you? - by Jackie - October 14, 2020 at 9:21 pm
RE: Schrodinger's Cat. What say you? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - October 14, 2020 at 9:22 pm
RE: Schrodinger's Cat. What say you? - by Jackie - October 14, 2020 at 9:35 pm
RE: Schrodinger's Cat. What say you? - by Grandizer - October 14, 2020 at 9:41 pm
RE: Schrodinger's Cat. What say you? - by Jackie - October 14, 2020 at 9:45 pm
RE: Schrodinger's Cat. What say you? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - October 15, 2020 at 4:08 am
RE: Schrodinger's Cat. What say you? - by Belacqua - October 15, 2020 at 6:35 am
RE: Schrodinger's Cat. What say you? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - October 15, 2020 at 7:11 am
RE: Schrodinger's Cat. What say you? - by Sal - October 15, 2020 at 5:00 am
RE: Schrodinger's Cat. What say you? - by The Valkyrie - October 14, 2020 at 9:23 pm
RE: Schrodinger's Cat. What say you? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - October 14, 2020 at 9:24 pm
RE: Schrodinger's Cat. What say you? - by The Valkyrie - October 14, 2020 at 9:29 pm
RE: Schrodinger's Cat. What say you? - by Fireball - October 14, 2020 at 10:00 pm
RE: Schrodinger's Cat. What say you? - by The Grand Nudger - October 15, 2020 at 7:18 am
RE: Schrodinger's Cat. What say you? - by Duty - October 15, 2020 at 8:01 am
RE: Schrodinger's Cat. What say you? - by onlinebiker - October 15, 2020 at 8:42 am
RE: Schrodinger's Cat. What say you? - by The Grand Nudger - October 15, 2020 at 8:52 am
RE: Schrodinger's Cat. What say you? - by Gawdzilla Sama - October 15, 2020 at 11:37 am
RE: Schrodinger's Cat. What say you? - by tackattack - October 15, 2020 at 11:46 am
RE: Schrodinger's Cat. What say you? - by The Grand Nudger - October 15, 2020 at 11:54 am
RE: Schrodinger's Cat. What say you? - by Gawdzilla Sama - October 15, 2020 at 11:55 am
RE: Schrodinger's Cat. What say you? - by The Grand Nudger - October 15, 2020 at 11:58 am
RE: Schrodinger's Cat. What say you? - by Anomalocaris - October 15, 2020 at 12:06 pm
RE: Schrodinger's Cat. What say you? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - October 15, 2020 at 12:26 pm
RE: Schrodinger's Cat. What say you? - by HappySkeptic - October 19, 2020 at 4:24 pm
RE: Schrodinger's Cat. What say you? - by Sal - October 16, 2020 at 9:32 am
RE: Schrodinger's Cat. What say you? - by Angrboda - October 16, 2020 at 9:34 am
RE: Schrodinger's Cat. What say you? - by Sal - October 16, 2020 at 11:48 am
RE: Schrodinger's Cat. What say you? - by Nay_Sayer - October 19, 2020 at 3:56 pm
RE: Schrodinger's Cat. What say you? - by The Grand Nudger - October 19, 2020 at 11:23 pm
RE: Schrodinger's Cat. What say you? - by Paraselene - October 19, 2020 at 11:59 pm

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