Posted on 11/10/2022 6:54:36 PM PST by BenLurkin
Trust me, I won’t be losing any sleep over it.
Our "intuition" evolved to solve real-world, macroscopic problems like "Will shaking this tree limb cause that fruit to fall down?", "Will we be able to take down this mastodon and harvest most of its flesh before the other predators come?", or "Is she smiling at me because she likes me, or because she has contempt for me?" - and is thus not suited to, e.g., describing the behavior of subatomic particles over mere femtoseconds of time.
Regards,
By the time the vial got to the alternate universe you can bet your ass that the cat would be dead.
Alternatively, the cat would have been killed by a deranged freeper such as yours truly.
I can measure the speed of a race car in the Indie 500 with a stopwatch while watching the race on TV, knowing only the circumference of the track. There is absolutely no way that my measurement influences the race outcome.
On the other hand, multi-trillion atom me, can't measure the speed of a single electron whizzing around a hydrogen nucleus, or a photon wiggling its wave through a double slit, without disrupting it.
The difference, of course, is the definition of 'measurement'. "Measuring" the quantum state of anything by humans will be disruptive using current technology. The problem is the use of common words like "measurement" meaning totally different actions.
Thanks BenLurkin. Tabby, or not tabby, that is the question.
“ Trust me, I won’t be losing any sleep over it.”
As long as you put the cat outside.
I can measure the speed of a race car in the Indie 500 with a stopwatch while watching the race on TV, knowing only the circumference of the track. There is absolutely no way that my measurement influences the race outcome.
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But if you watch ballot counting the result is different than if you did not!
Only if noone is watching. if there is an observer, all bets are off.
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But if a man is in the woods and no one is watching, is he still wrong?
We understand it extremely well, ..."
"Turning to quantum mechanics, we know immediately that here we get only the ability, apparently, to predict probabilities. Might I say immediately, so that you know where I really intend to go, that we always have had (secret, secret, close.the doors!) we always have had a great deal of difficulty in understanding the world view that quantum mechanics represents. At least I do, because I'm an old enough man that I haven't got to the point that this stuff is obvious to me. Okay, I still get nervous with it. And therefore, some of the younger students ... you know how it always is, every new idea, it takes a generation or two until it becomes obvious that there's no real problem. It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem, therefore I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem."
- Richard Feynman, 1981
When it finally, the bottom fell out, I became withdrawn, the only theory I knew how to do was to keep on keepin’ on.
If Helen Keller falls down in the woods and she’s by herself, does she make any noise?
The Big Bang Theory - Schrodinger’s cat
WikdGamer
11 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNTMYNj2Ulk
FWIW Helen Keller could make noise in general. I knew someone who heard her give a speech.
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