(November 5, 2014 at 12:40 pm)pocaracas Wrote:(November 5, 2014 at 12:23 pm)ManMachine Wrote: You have so missed the point of the Schrodinger's Cat thought experiment.I'm sorry if I was taught physics in the wrong school... but that's how I learned it... or how I understood the teaching...
The point is to establish the existence of a superposition, the cat is in a state of being both alive and dead at the same time, not one or the other.
MM
The point was that we can't know in which state the cat is, so we attribute a probability to each of the possible states.... and that (If I remember correctly) is the wave function that goes into the Schrödinger equation.
Schrödinger was satirizing the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
Science is not a subject, but a method.