Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith for April 12, 2015
April 11, 2015
April 13, 2015
Transcript:
What Schrodinger's cat means. Suppose that inside a box you have a cat and a glass container of poison. Suppose there is also a radiation a emitter and a Geiger counter, and that if the counter detects radiation, it causes a hammer to break the glass. According to the Copenhagen interpretation, the cat is both alive and dead until something collapses the wavefunction. This is, of course, absurd. So, the interpretation must be wrong. What people think it means. So there's this cat in a box and hey maybe it's dead, but who knows?! Science!
Brass Orchid Premium Member almost 10 years ago
Einstein’s interpretation: “It’s a craps shoot.”
Olddog1 almost 10 years ago
Einstein said “I refuse to believe that God plays dice with the universe.”Niels Bohr replied “Albert, stop telling God what to do.”
Ida No almost 10 years ago
Trust people. They know more than you do.
Brass Orchid Premium Member almost 10 years ago
And still laugh about it.A seal that is trained is no smarter after training.It is only trained.
Stephen Gilberg almost 10 years ago
And just how many Americans know how to pronounce the German name?
Ida No almost 10 years ago
Says the tea cup.
Marc Zigterman Premium Member almost 10 years ago
“What Schrödinger meant” would be better. There are two observers/measurements in that box so it’s not a very good thought experiment.