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Darren New <dne### [at] san rr com> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> > Schrodinger's cat is a thought experiment, not an analogy.
> It's not even that hard to set up. :-)
> I think the point is that you have to question what an "observation" is. If
> the particle gets emitted and runs into the detector when the power is
> turned off, is it "observed"? If the power is on but the detector isn't
> connected to anything? If it's connected to a speaker you can't hear? If
> it's connected to poison but there's no cat in the box? Etc?
> In other words, if it takes an "observer" to collapse the wave function, is
> the cat enough of an "observer" to count? If so, how does the human get
> involved? According to the math, the cat is still superimposed. But that
> would imply the cat isn't sufficiently an observer to cause the collapse.
> *Or* that the math doesn't match reality. And multi-worlds is an attempt to
> say "no, the math really matches reality."
AFAIK those are the things Erwin Schr?dinger questioned about the
Copenhagen interpretation with his now-famous thought experiment.
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- Warp
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