Schrödinger's Cat Now Can Be Alive/Dead In Two Places At Once

[Rhodes]

And for the manga lovers...

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Catfish

^ Did you really hear it?

I did and I didn't. Pay attention!

[Dowly]

What's SC all about anyway? Is it similar to 'If tree falls in a forest and no one is around, does it make a sound'?

[Platapus]

I kinda think Steven Hawkin is right.

Yeah, well, there are some people who spend an awful lot of time talking about the interpretation of quantum mechanics. My attitude is that when I hear of Schrödinger's cat, I reach for my gun.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Dowly

What's SC all about anyway? Is it similar to 'If tree falls in a forest and no one is around, does it make a sound'?

More like "If no one is there to see it, did the tree fall at all?", with the answer being that at some point it hasn't fallen and it has fallen at the same time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat

[Mike Abberton]

What some people don't seem to get, I think, is that the whole SC thing (or the tree in the forest) is an extrapolation of quantum mechanics designed to help lay people understand quantum theory and our understanding of how things work on a very, very small scale in the universe.

Somehow over time, it's somehow taken a life of its own and some people think it's really somehow a physical reality at the macro scale.

I especially love how SC somehow implies that it takes a human to observe what occurs in the box for reality to happen. Not too self-important right? Like the cat couldn't see the hammer strike the poison, or feel itself dying?

[Betonov]

In one documentry by Brain Greene it was explained as putting one right glove in one box and one left glove in another box and randomly sending one to Antarctica.
Until you open your box, the glove in Antarctica can be left or right and only once you open your box and (example) see a right glove, you know that the glove in Antarctica is left.
So until you open the box it can be in both states, dead and alive. Because you don't know if the poison bottle broke.

But that's not really true because a cat is either dead or alive before you open the box, it's in both states only to the observer that not yet observed.




I think

[Catfish]

so you are.. maybe.

[Betonov]

Originally Posted by Catfish

so you are.. maybe.

I am because you observe that posts are made by me.
Until the next post I can be both dead or alive.

And I am in both states until I either post something and you observe it or you observe a post about me dying.

[Dowly]

In gamer's term, would the following be correct in regards to SC:

The player is in an area that is loaded, the next are will only be loaded when the player approaches it.
The player however does not know if the area has been there all the time or if it only loads when he approaches it.

The Finnish Wiki is very vague about SC and something like this for a non-native English speaker is a bit hard to understand correctly.

[Sailor Steve]

It's a method of explaining quantum mechanics to the layman. It doesn't apply to games, or to trees, or even to cats. Schrödinger himself called the comparison "ridiculous".

[Skybird]

The cat is loose in this thread.

And not.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

It's a method of explaining quantum mechanics to the layman. It doesn't apply to games, or to trees, or even to cats. Schrödinger himself called the comparison "ridiculous".

WELL my relational interpretation has just activated my objective collapse and now I need an aspirin! I see a new rock hit : Ted Nugent's slightly revised "Cat State Photons" @ Betonov this version's for you

[Rockstar]

We're all one big Penrose tile

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