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Could someone explain it in layman's terms? What point was he trying to make? The thing is either alive or dead.
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ZOMFG FADED GLORY IS SCHRÖDINGERS CAT!!!!1!Comment
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"You're the biggest user of hindsight that I've ever known. Your favorite team, in any sport, is the one that just won. If you were a woman, you'd likely be a slut." - Slowwhand, to Imran
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The point he was trying to make, is that laymen should not try and understand Quantum Physics. It makes no sense.Comment
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As Richard Feynman said, "If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics".
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He was right.
But in layman’s terms the whole point is that it is impossible to know if the cat is dead or alive and if you try to find out (by opening the box for example) the cat is killed so you still don't know whether it was alive or dead a few minutes ago.
It explains that by merely observing quantum phenomena you are in fact participating in them.Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
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Re: So what's the deal with Schrodinger's cat?
It's not a LolcatOriginally posted by Jaguar
Could someone explain it in layman's terms? What point was he trying to make? The thing is either alive or dead.
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He was just trolling PETA.One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.Comment
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Not exactly.Originally posted by Heraclitus
if you try to find out (by opening the box for example) the cat is killed so you still don't know whether it was alive or dead a few minutes ago.
When you open the box, you have 1/2 chance to find it dead, 1/2 to find it alive. Before that, he is... a kind of undead creature: half dead, half-alive.The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. Oscar Wilde.Comment
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Re: So what's the deal with Schrodinger's cat?
Schrodinger was trying to point out what he saw as one of Quantum physics flaws.Originally posted by Jaguar
Could someone explain it in layman's terms? What point was he trying to make? The thing is either alive or dead.
If you put a cat in a box along with a poison gas capsule that is triggered by a device based on a Newtonian process, then you can determine mathematically if the cat is dead (the device has triggered) or alive (the device has not triggered). In Newtonian physics, the equations yield only one possible solution for any given time value.
Schrodinger reasoned that if Quantum physcis was all it was cracked up to be, it should be possible to place the cat in a box with the trigger mechanism for the poison based on a Quantum process and then solve the equations to determine if the device has triggered or not. It turns out that for any given time value the Quantum equations yield two valid solutions, hence it isn't possible to know if the damn cat is alive or dead until you open the box.Libraries are state sanctioned, so they're technically engaged in privateering. - Felch
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.Last edited by ZEE; December 31, 2010, 16:06.Order of the Fly
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