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11 Oct 2024 09:19:28 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Fatal curiosity  
From: Sherry Shaw
Date: 15 Jan 2008 00:15:23
Message: <478c416b@news.povray.org>
Tim Cook wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> Sherry Shaw wrote:
>>> whether or not Schrödinger's Lab Assistant looks in the box, because 
>>> the *cat* knows what happened."  
>>
>> That was exactly the point of the thought-experiment. At what level of 
>> sophistication does the "observer" collapse the possibilities? The 
>> argument was over whether having instruments there was sufficient to 
>> "collapse the wave form", or whether someone actually had to look at 
>> the instruments.
>>
>> </fuddyduddy>
> 
> "If nobody can observe you, you don't exist."
> 

So, if I look in the mirror...................

--Sherry "God" Shaw


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