my spelling and grahmar tend to be atrocious, so I am never sure
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It's okay, I'm just OCD about spelling and grammar (not kidding). ^^;
As for the topic, have you heard of Schrödinger's cat?
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no, why? is it a paradox?
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In a way. You see, in 1935, an Austrian physicist named Erwin Schrödinger devised a thought exercise. Basically, to quote wikipedia cos I'm too lazy to type it all myself, "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."
In other words, until you open the box, you don't know if the cat is alive or dead, and so it can be assumed to be both.
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@.@ that IS a paradox (I just remembered, when I was taught this word when I was little, I tried to teach others how to say it, i was like, 7 and everyone else said either Pairofox or Pairabox X3 I miss when I felt like the smartest thing around )
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this is what my life is reduced to....
May as well start drinking the Drano now then.
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Paradoxes... Paradimes.... um..... plurl(how ever it's spelt) of Paradox
