[BenLurkin]

Schrödinger's cat: a cat, a flask of poison, and a radioactive source are placed in a sealed box. If an internal monitor detects radioactivity (i.e. a single atom decaying), the flask is shattered, releasing the poison that kills the cat. The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics implies that after a while, the cat is simultaneously alive and dead. Yet, when one looks in the box, one sees the cat either alive or dead, not both alive and dead. This poses the question of when exactly quantum superposition ends and reality collapses into one possibility or the other. Credit: Wikipedia / CC BY-SA 3.0

[dangus]

Schroedinger cat states? It’s a state; it’s not a state... Kurdistan! (Palestine! Donbas! South Ossetia! Pretty much anywhere the UN has ever been!)

[Buttons12]

“We’re all mad here.”

[wbarmy]

I only read this page to see what clever illustrations the Freepers come up with.

[I want the USA back]

There is no cat. It’s a thought experiment. The conclusions of the so-called scientists are contrary to logic. A creature is either alive or dead. There is no middle state between the two.

1 is either equal to 0 or not. There is no middle state between the two.

[KC_Lion]

[Red Badger]

Would that no be Schrodinger’s Kittens?....................

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

To capture said CAT, which is moving at the speed-of-light in a 2-dimensional box (LxH), the highest probability of capture within that 2-dimensional box exists at either end of that box wherein the CAT must ^stop^ and change direction.

At either end of the box, the result of the integral-equation is equal to ‘1’ (or, so Dr. Vu taught us in Quantum Mechanics and Dr. Freeman taught us in “Diff-EQ”)

[KSCITYBOY]

btt

[UCANSEE2]

“This leads to an entangled state in the two output channels of that beam splitter. In one of these channels, a special detector is placed. In the event this detector shows a certain result, a “cat” is born in the second output whose energy is more than twice that of the initial one.”

The Lvovsky group tested this method in the lab. In the experiment, they successfully converted a pair of negative squeezed “Schrodinger cats” of amplitude 1.15 to a single positive “cat” of amplitude 1.85. They generated several thousand such enlarged “cats” in their experiment. “

Two 1.15 cats in, one 1.85 cat out. 2.30-1.85= .45 in loss.

[UCANSEE2]

When they can put a dead cat in the box, and have a live cat come out of the box, then I’ll be impressed.

[Duke C.]

My brain hurts.

[mikrofon]

[dangus]

‘In essence, we cause interference of two “cats” on a beam splitter. This leads to an entangled state...’

Yarn?