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(Edited 04-29-2015, 03:24 AM by meridannight.)
LONDONER Wrote:I looked up Schrodinger’s cat on the Internet and I still don't understand it!
it's an analogy on the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, that observation process collapses the wave function of the quantum entity (particle) and before then it is both wave and a particle at the same time. so, the cat is both dead and alive.
according to quantum mechanics a cat would be everywhere (in the bar, outside the bar, everywhere) simultaneously. the location would be a spectrum. ergo, it walks into the bar
and doesn't walk into the bar at the same time. the stress is on '
and'. (although this is really an oversimplification, and there are other ways to look at it, but i digress from complicating it further. it's just a popular interpretative joke, after all).
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meridannight Wrote:it's an analogy on the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, that observation process collapses the wave function of the quantum entity (particle) and before then it is both wave and a particle at the same time. so, the cat is both dead and alive.
according to quantum mechanics a cat would be everywhere (in the bar, outside the bar, everywhere) simultaneously. the location would be a spectrum. ergo, it walks into the bar and doesn't walk into the bar at the same time. the stress is on 'and'. (although this is really an oversimplification, and there are other ways to look at it, but i digress from complicating it further. it's just a popular interpretative joke, after all).
P.S. see this thread, if you're interested:
https://gayspeak.com/showthread.php?t=36313
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