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Schrodinger's cat... it's alive!

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Hmmmm, indeed...
 
Flux Capacitance can't be too far away now!!! :devilgrin:
 
Pixel?
 
We had a cat named Glitch. No Pixel, tho.
 
O.K, I've read about this guy's distaste for felines and I still don't get it. Either it's not being explained in a way that's understandable to me or I'm just stupid.

Anyone care to enlighten me?

Y'all might be disturbing Bill with this whole "undead" cat thing :jester:
 
kellysguy said:
O.K, I've read about this guy's distaste for felines and I still don't get it. Either it's not being explained in a way that's understandable to me or I'm just stupid.

Anyone care to enlighten me?
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Even though it applies to Quantum Physics, it is really a philosophical example of sorts. It's a "parable" where the cat could be considered alive and dead at the same time - meant to illustrate that in Quantum Physics, matter can exist in two states (and places) at the same time.

Basically an illustration to understand, this for a discipline where the Nobel Prize winning Laureate Richard Feynman is attributed to have said ""If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics."

BTW with quantum physics, we understand what it does but not really how or why. Think of it like a phone - 50 years ago, almost anyone could take the top off a phone and figure out how it worked. If you take the back off a cell phone you can't do that now. One example is the nuclear bomb. No one knew exactly what would happen when the set off the first atomic bomb until they set off the first atomic bomb.
 
DrEntropy said:
We had a cat named Glitch. No Pixel, tho.
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Thought you might have got the reference Doc. anyone else?
 
Whether or not I look at the cat it doesn't make it any more or less dead or alive. It's alive till it's dead and after that....it's still dead.....be it by poison or wood chipper. :laugh:


It's kinda like, well; let's say you put Bill, the cat, chicken and seafood inna box with a big pot along with some okra and a wood chipper...whatcha THINK is gonna happen... :whistle: :jester:
 
Nice, short, explanation J-P.
There is a wonderful book on this (perhaps 20 years old now) by John Gribbon... "In Search of Schrodinger's Cat." A classic thought experiment.
 
Boink said:
Nice, short, explanation J-P.
There is a wonderful book on this (perhaps 20 years old now) by John Gribbon... "In Search of Schrodinger's Cat." A classic thought experiment.
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Thanks Mark but I remain concerned that no one else seems to know about Pixel.
 
:lol:

Apparently there ain't many lobe-switchers in th' crowd, JP.

And Gribbon's books are in my library, Along with Feynman's.
 
Pixel would appear to be a more complicated question. Might break great minds.
 
Boink said:
Pixel would appear to be a more complicated question. Might break great minds.
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Do you know?
 
Pixel just walked right through my firewall.
 
Man,you guys are so smart - you could probably
figure out how to make the clock quit flashing "12:00"
on my VCR!

- Doug
 
AngliaGT said:
Man,you guys are so smart - you could probably
figure out how to make the clock quit flashing "12:00"
on my VCR!

- Doug
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Well yeah Doug, everyone knows about electrical tape. :jester:
 
"For now we see in a mirror dimly..." :smirk:
 
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