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  Re: Is it real...?  
From: Gail Shaw
Date: 16 Oct 2001 02:07:21
Message: <3bcbce99@news.povray.org>
"Tom Melly" <tom### [at] tomandlucouk> wrote in message
news:3bcafa8c$1@news.povray.org...
>
> That aside, when you render schrodinger's box, is the cat inside it alive
or
> dead? ;)
>

That depends on the state of the box (open/closed), the position of the
camera
and wheter or not a computer can be considered an observer for the purpose
of making quantum wavefroms collapse.

<grin>

Gail
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