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Whoa… I didn’t observe that!
Actually, we don’t know whether it was a strike or whether the cat disappeared into a cosmic string and was stretched out until he was a light year in length before snapping back like a piece of overdone spaghetti.
Theoretically, of course…
I usually just leave the cat in the box while bowling. Easier to get a strike that way.
I think Laurence Simon should change his name to Laurence Schroedinger.
Then you could tell – at least when you looked.
That has me grinning like a Cheshire cat.
I’ve always thought it was completely absurd, that people have extrapolated Deep Insights About The Unknowability Of Anything based on the attempts by physicists to understand quantum physics.
See, it’s IMPOSSIBLE to know whether the cat is alive or dead. And by extension, because the basic building blocks of matter and energy are impossible to truly know, it is also impossible to know anything about the nature of the universe.
Not kidding.
Try to discuss anything meaningful with someone who doesn’t accept as a premise that you or I or anything actually exists, or that if it does, it is impossible for us to fully comprehend it, and thus any conclusions to be drawn from what we define as “reality” are, from the beginning, based on imperfect perception, and therefore suspect or completely dismissable.
In other words, Matt, you’re talking about the Michael Jackson jury, right?
Matt: The argument isn’t over whether something exists, but what particular state that thing is in when it’s probabilistically in several potential states. The whole cat thing is a metaphor a physicist used to try to explain things to laymen, not a statement about a cat.
And in this blog, it appears the cat is only bowling half the time. The other half of the time, he’s presumably chilling at the bar drinking a white Russian.
“Ve’re nihilists! Ve believe in nothing!”
— The Big Lebowski
What always bugged me about people discussing Schrödinger’s cat was the apparent presumption that the cat “is” both alive and dead (or neither alive nor dead, whichever) until you open the box and look inside.
To me that’s just pathetic. Either the people characterizing it this way are misconstruing the point, which I can accept—or they’re not, which means all physicists are as loopy as the guy Russell Crowe portrayed in A Beautiful (based on a true story) Mind.
And these are the guys who brought us the atomic bomb.
It’s all about the eigenstates.
…if the cat bowled alone in the forest, would the ball return automatically??
If a man makes a statement in a forest, and there’s no woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?
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The other half of the time, he’s presumably chilling at the bar drinking a white Russian.
Sometimes he’s watching a bunch of strangers pee on his rug, right?