RE: Schrodinger's Cat. What say you?
October 15, 2020 at 8:52 am
(This post was last modified: October 15, 2020 at 8:57 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(October 15, 2020 at 8:01 am)Lawz Wrote: So the interior of the safe is an observer? In that case, the interior of the atom smashing machine would be an observer and there would be no spookiness, no?
ETA: actually, no, I'm not going to attempt to resolve this stuff, again - I haven't got so much as a bsc in quantum mechanics and, as Richard Feynman says: "If you think you understand quantum mechanics , you don't understand quantum mechanics."
Yes. Absolutely anything that interacts with the subject/object in any way is an observer. The breeze blowing across your face is observing™ your cheek. The "spooky action" being referenced doesn't go away, it's just not what people think it is - again, the common perception is based on the everyday use of the term observer..which, like so much in scientific descriptions, doesn't actually capture what is being communicated with the employment of the term.
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