Post by Dubdrifter on Jan 31, 2024 12:40:47 GMT
I just bumped into the SC Hypothesis again … that scientists love to masturbate over with smug Sheldon-like grins on their faces.
… while the General Public puzzle over why they are so obsessed with this stupid hypothetical thought … and waste so much time arguing the toss on something so irrelevant? 🤔
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schrödinger%27s_cat
“ The prevailing theory, called the Copenhagen interpretation, says that a quantum system remains in superposition until it interacts with, or is observed by, the external world. When this happens, the superposition collapses into one or another of the possible definite states. The EPR experiment shows that a system with multiple particles separated by large distances can be in such a superposition. Schrödinger and Einstein exchanged letters about Einstein's EPR article, in the course of which Einstein pointed out that the state of an unstable keg of gunpowder will, after a while, contain a superposition of both exploded and unexploded states.
To further illustrate, Schrödinger described how one could, in principle, create a superposition in a large-scale system by making it dependent on a quantum particle that was in a superposition. He proposed a scenario with a cat in a closed steel chamber, wherein the cat's life or death depended on the state of a radioactive atom, whether it had decayed and emitted radiation or not. According to Schrödinger, the Copenhagen interpretation implies that the cat remains both alive and dead until the state has been observed. Schrödinger did not wish to promote the idea of dead-and-live cats as a serious possibility; on the contrary, he intended the example to illustrate the absurdity of the existing view of quantum mechanics , and thus he was employing reductio ad absurdum.
Since Schrödinger's time, various interpretations of the mathematics of quantum mechanics have been advanced by physicists, some of which regard the "alive and dead" cat superposition as quite real, others do not. Intended as a critique of the Copenhagen interpretation (the prevailing orthodoxy in 1935), the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment remains a touchstone for modern interpretations of quantum mechanics and can be used to illustrate and compare their strengths and weaknesses.”
… it’s not for me to say Schrödinger and Einstein got it wrong … but surely TIMING is critical in this assessment establishing Life and Death? … If you open the steel chamber … you immediately change the status of the experiment, the observer becomes the experiment …. If you open it early enough, you could change the status of the cat’s impending fate.
Life-giving oxygen could flood in …critically harmful radio-active rays/toxins/gases might flood out … and the cat might survive and detox.
Yes, life and death and FINALITY is not the question here … but FLUIDITY and CONSTANT CHANGE IN SUPER POSITION STATES is symbolic of a PHYSICAL measurable Universe …
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So, is it time to replace the analogy of the Schrödinger’s Cat Hypothesis? … with a much simpler steel chamber of just continually boiling water? …
… and kill that f. cat … boil it to f. atoms … and leave these time-wasting pseudo-scientists, clearly being paid too much grant money to masturbate stuff like this.
…. Maybe best tax-payers ‘defund’ them … maybe we should leave them to calculate how long it will take for these atoms to evolve into a T.Rex? … in their own leisure hours … at their own expense … not ours??
… while REAL worthwhile science cracks on with solving more relevant stuff on the boundaries of our understanding?
… while the General Public puzzle over why they are so obsessed with this stupid hypothetical thought … and waste so much time arguing the toss on something so irrelevant? 🤔
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schrödinger%27s_cat
“ The prevailing theory, called the Copenhagen interpretation, says that a quantum system remains in superposition until it interacts with, or is observed by, the external world. When this happens, the superposition collapses into one or another of the possible definite states. The EPR experiment shows that a system with multiple particles separated by large distances can be in such a superposition. Schrödinger and Einstein exchanged letters about Einstein's EPR article, in the course of which Einstein pointed out that the state of an unstable keg of gunpowder will, after a while, contain a superposition of both exploded and unexploded states.
To further illustrate, Schrödinger described how one could, in principle, create a superposition in a large-scale system by making it dependent on a quantum particle that was in a superposition. He proposed a scenario with a cat in a closed steel chamber, wherein the cat's life or death depended on the state of a radioactive atom, whether it had decayed and emitted radiation or not. According to Schrödinger, the Copenhagen interpretation implies that the cat remains both alive and dead until the state has been observed. Schrödinger did not wish to promote the idea of dead-and-live cats as a serious possibility; on the contrary, he intended the example to illustrate the absurdity of the existing view of quantum mechanics , and thus he was employing reductio ad absurdum.
Since Schrödinger's time, various interpretations of the mathematics of quantum mechanics have been advanced by physicists, some of which regard the "alive and dead" cat superposition as quite real, others do not. Intended as a critique of the Copenhagen interpretation (the prevailing orthodoxy in 1935), the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment remains a touchstone for modern interpretations of quantum mechanics and can be used to illustrate and compare their strengths and weaknesses.”
… it’s not for me to say Schrödinger and Einstein got it wrong … but surely TIMING is critical in this assessment establishing Life and Death? … If you open the steel chamber … you immediately change the status of the experiment, the observer becomes the experiment …. If you open it early enough, you could change the status of the cat’s impending fate.
Life-giving oxygen could flood in …critically harmful radio-active rays/toxins/gases might flood out … and the cat might survive and detox.
Yes, life and death and FINALITY is not the question here … but FLUIDITY and CONSTANT CHANGE IN SUPER POSITION STATES is symbolic of a PHYSICAL measurable Universe …
********
So, is it time to replace the analogy of the Schrödinger’s Cat Hypothesis? … with a much simpler steel chamber of just continually boiling water? …
… and kill that f. cat … boil it to f. atoms … and leave these time-wasting pseudo-scientists, clearly being paid too much grant money to masturbate stuff like this.
…. Maybe best tax-payers ‘defund’ them … maybe we should leave them to calculate how long it will take for these atoms to evolve into a T.Rex? … in their own leisure hours … at their own expense … not ours??
… while REAL worthwhile science cracks on with solving more relevant stuff on the boundaries of our understanding?
