2020-04-18 at 5:22 AM UTC
-SpectraL
coward
[the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]
Just waiting on some delicate electronic components. FedEx. Overnight delivery.
2020-04-18 at 5:41 AM UTC
It’s a thought experiment moron. It has no practical application
2020-04-18 at 5:50 AM UTC
Sudo
Black Hole
[my hereto riemannian peach]
spectral confirmed for neighborhood cat killer
2020-04-18 at 5:57 AM UTC
I could see myself drunkenly posting that picture and also having no argument.
2020-04-18 at 5:57 AM UTC
Shcrodgingers cat solved
*posts wariat nonce horse
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2020-04-18 at 6:33 AM UTC
-SpectraL
coward
[the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]
Schrödinger's cat: a cat, a flask of poison, and a radioactive source are placed in a sealed box. If an internal monitor (e.g. Geiger counter) detects radioactivity (i.e. a single atom decaying), the flask is shattered, releasing the poison, which 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.
2020-04-18 at 6:36 AM UTC
-SpectraL
coward
[the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]
My experiment is called, -SpectraL's Cat.
2020-04-18 at 6:37 AM UTC
Sudo
Black Hole
[my hereto riemannian peach]
Originally posted by -SpectraL
Schrödinger's cat: a cat, a flask of poison, and a radioactive source are placed in a sealed box. If an internal monitor (e.g. Geiger counter) detects radioactivity (i.e. a single atom decaying), the flask is shattered, releasing the poison, which 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.
you literally copy and pasted this from wikipedia like you do with everything
quantum cringe
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2020-04-18 at 6:40 AM UTC
Nice obbe. Was literally gonna say there is no way you just made that up.
2020-04-18 at 1:10 PM UTC
there was never a question of "whether the cat is dead or alive".
The entire point of Schrödinger's cat is to illustrate that until you open the box and update the wavefunction, somehow the cat is in a superposition of both states, and we know cats can't be in a superposition of being dead or alive because those are discreet states defined by not being each other.
It's an attempt at reductio ad absurdum for the original Copenhagen interpretation that claimed that's how it worked.
