Thanks so much for sharing that, Alex. And I hope nobody's going to complain it's off-topic...
Mind you, I wonder if the Copenhagen Interpretation really allows for the collapse of superposed states when observed by an abstraction like Death. (Or God? -- there's a Thought now!) And is this all really off-topic? I can see scope for J enhancements here. Like Heisenberg (Hilbert?) matrices. And "cat-numbers", e.g. puss=: 1c0, or tabby=: c: i.100 I'm only half-joking about cat-numbers. I envisage 'puss' as not collapsing to a single value, 1 or 0, until some "observational event" takes place, such as a mouse-click. It would "entangle" any expression it was used in, which leads to neater implementations of Monte Carlo simulations than Roll/Deal. It would lead to vastly simpler gui implementations too (I've had this sort of discussion with Adrian Smith over Causeway and APLomb...) Anyway, like any newbie, I can see bags of missed opportunities for extending J ;-) Ian On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Alex Rufon <[email protected]> wrote: > I read this short story today and I find that it's the best layman discussion > on quantum and also a really nasty/funny use of Schrödinger's cat. :D > > You can read the short story online here: > http://www.lspace.org/books/dawcn/dawcn-english.html > > Btw, the short story is translated to a lot of languages too. ;) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
