Posted on 05/29/2016 10:00:37 AM PDT by Red Badger
Schrödinger’s cat Quantum Physics Ping!.................
The people that discovered this are very smart.
Just think how smart the guy that invented this is?
He’s ‘catatonic’.................
If, instead of a cat, the professor put in one of his grad students, would the grad student be in a quantum state? And if it was another grad student who had the job of opening the box, and the poison in the box would have killed him too, would HE be in an indeterminate state until the professor opened the door to the lab?
wonder if it’s a catholic cat????
You mean does the dead cat go to heaven or purgatory?..............
The Copenhagen School is undergoing a revolution as we speak/write. Bohmian physics is making a comeback along with his notion of a pilot wave. As Uncle Albert said, “Subtle is the Lord but malicious he is not”.
More importantly, is the student in a safe space?
Whilst I, of course, respect the nerds involved in this discussion and the seriousness of their intent, I find the comments in the article hysterically funny.
Nerd Porn................
Good.
Einstein played a key role in the development of quantum physics, though he is accurately depicted as not accepting some of the consequences.
Yes except these are just thought experiments, I don’t know that there can be a quantum cat or person, all this really takes place with elemental particles.
The cat is not really in a quantum state, but it’s life is subject to the quantumn state of the decaying subatomic particles.
Not clear.
Did that guy get promoted between the time he put on his uniform and the time his name was painted on the side of the airframe?
Good catch! Maybe he’s just borrowing the aircraft..............
Sheldon: In case you have forgotten, Schrodinger’s cat is a thought experiment.
Penny: No, no, no, no, I didn’t forget. Um, there’s this cat in a box and until you open it, it’s either dead or alive or both. Although, back in Nebraska, our cat got stuck in my brother’s camp trunk, and we did not need to open it to know there was all kinds of dead cat in there.
Schroedinger’s cat (an epic poem)
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/113/the-story-of-schroedingers-cat-an-epic-poem
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