Stephen wrote:
>> I.e., the whole point of the experiment is to show how absurd it was 
>> to think the QM "collapsed because it's observed" promoters were right.
>>
> 
> That’s what I thought too.
> 

Of course, the only flaw in the argument is that a cat isn't a particle, 
so what effects *one* particle, doesn't effect something made of a *lot* 
of them. This is the absurdity involved. Its like asking why relativity 
doesn't work in black holes. Because its a bloody black hole, which has 
different rules. In effect, QM is what goes on in single instances, 
normal reality is an emergent property of what happens when QM can't 
(or, if you prefer, the constraints put on the system reduce the 
probability of a different result to near zero). Sort of like those 
strange attractor images. Without the attractor, you don't get an image, 
add one in, and the system gains constraints it didn't have before. Same 
with particle interactions. Right?

-- 
void main () {
   If Schrödingers_cat is alive or version > 98 {
     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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