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To: FredZarguna

i always look at the cat as Schroedinger spoofing the concept...

it is NOT dead AND alive, it IS one OR the other, you simply don't know till you open the box

16 posted on 01/19/2014 6:32:07 AM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)

To: Chode

Schroedinger was spoofing the Copenhagen Interpretation, no doubt about it.

The other part of what you say is mistaken. The paradox is that in the Copenhagen School, the cat is BOTH. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger's_cat

19 posted on 01/19/2014 4:28:53 PM PST by FredZarguna (Das is nicht richtig nur falsch. Das ist nicht einmal falsch.)

To: Chode

“Stephen Hawking is famously quoted as saying “When I hear about Schroedinger’s cat, I reach for my gun.”

I am shocked to learn that Hawking owns a gun.

20 posted on 01/19/2014 4:32:44 PM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)

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