In Schrˆdinger’s cat theory, if you put a live cat in a lead box, throw a capsule of cyanide in and immediately seal the box, since you don’t know if the capsule has broken or not, quantum physics dictates that the cat is both dead and alive until you open the box and force the cat into one condition by observing him. Well, I just put a real cat in a lead box and threw in one of my spare cyanide capsules before sealing it up. Let’s see how the cat is doing…
He’s dead! You killed him by observing him, you bastard!
sorry!
We had to change our cat’s name to Flea Biscuit, based on observation.
Er… no, actually not.
The original “experiment” has a sensor to determine the quantum state of a particle and cracks open the pill once it is determined.
You actually threw the pill, that’s not a quantic phenomenon. Sorry Frank, if the cat is dead you killed it.
Kitten killer. I’m telling Sarah.
I’ve never liked those damn quantum physicists. YOU BASTARDS STEAL ALL THE WOMEN FROM US CLASSICAL PHYSICISTS, THIS IS WAR!!!
If Schrˆdinger is correct, then IMAO both existed and didn’t exist before I found the site.
That explains a lot.
Oops
(me no like the number thingy)
doesn’t the number thingy prevent the quantum indetermicy from truly working in this?
I meant the big number thingy, where big numbers of particles cancel out the quantom mechanics and obey classical mechanics
I hate cats anyway. So what’s the difference? It was YOUR cat, and YOU threw him in a lead box. Therefore, it is YOUR fault.
You almost sounded liberal by blaming others for YOUR own actions.
Cat? What cat? All I’ve got here is this annoying cloud of indeterminate particles. That sheds.
So… if a tree falls in a forest and no one observes it, has it really fallen?
i think there are more human ways to treat cats… like on http://www.bonsaikitten.com sweet huh?
Frank, Frank, Frank. Tsk-tsk. You’d think a Carnegie-Mellon graduate would know what Schrˆdinger was really getting at. He was pointing out that because quantum events are indeterminate, linking a physical event to said quantum event (thus making it observable) was also indeterminate. This being said, he NEVER said the cat could be in both states. This was used to make the point that the quantum event would never be in both states either. NEVER! The difference is that once you observe the event you will realize which state it is in – not thereby force a state change. His point was that the observer does NOT determine the state of a quantum event any more than he determines the state of the cat, yet sci-fi authors completely reversed this concept to make for more interesting plots (parallel universes, anyone?) Shameful. What other crazy ideas do they teach you guys at CMU?
But what about the classic double-slit experiment of quantum physics, wherein light acts as both a particle and a wave until you “know” whether it acted as a particle or a wave and then is only acts one way? It has been replicated many times and the phenomenon does exist, thereby establishing that the light was, in fact, in two states until the observer observed the state, thus establishing the state.
So, you put a cat in a box with two small holes in it. You then fire a laser through the box. Now, what happened to the cat?
Who Cares! It was just a cat and you a freakin’ laser beam to play with! Go find some hate-filled lefties and experiment on them. Again and again and again…
Beo,
I’ve read my Scientific American! The cat is in both states until observed. Hell, nothing really exists until it’s observed (including distant universes).
Ah, so CMU reads Scientific American in physics class. Do CMU students believe in gravity, or are they in a perpetual state of falling to their deaths and NOT falling to their deaths? It’s like Wile E. Coyote when he runs off a cliff – he won’t fall unless he looks down.
Your perspective on quantum mechanics is very liberal Frank! Subjective reality? You’re starting to sound like a DUer!
Why do you have spare Cyanide capsules around Frank?
Is that why the moonbats are always clamoring for attention? They fear they won’t exist if CNN is broadcasting them for all to see?
But what will they do when CNN loses its last dozen viewers…
“if you don’t write it down it never happened.” Cathy Ryan
You might not be observing, but the cat is, unless its dead.