Warp wrote:
> scott <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote:
>> I thought the whole point of that experiment was that according to QM 
the 
>> cat was both alive and dead until you actually tried to look?
> 
>   Not according to QM. According to the Copenhagen interpretation of it
.

More technically, according to the math of the Schrödinger equation,
 which 
has no allowance for any non-QM events inside it. I.e., the math of QM 
doesn't anywhere say "and at this point, you get quantum collapse." It's 

trying to figure out why you *do* get quantum collapse that's the problem
.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Human nature dictates that toothpaste tubes spend
   much longer being almost empty than almost full.

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