Darren New wrote:
> Kevin Wampler wrote:
>> All are in agreement with he Schrödinger wave equation, so it's not 
>> the equation that's the issue here.
> 
> OK. I'm now more educated, I think.

It's a point which is often neglected.  Just to be clear though, the 
issue is more subtle than I'm making it sound and AFAIK most 
interpretations which give a deterministic state to the cat have run 
into problems (for instance when incorporating them into special 
relativity).  Also such interpretations are necessarily non-local.


>> Perhaps I'm missing what  point you're making?
> 
> Only that the quantum equations don't *seem* to apply to the macroscopic 
> world, for reasons unknown?

Yeah, IANAP (I am not a physicist) but as far as I'm aware this is 
correct.  Although I think there's some interpretations which describe 
why this is the case perfectly well, they just might come with other 
philosophical implications that are undesirable (for instance I'd put 
the many-worlds interpretation into this class).

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