On 13/12/2017 9:45 am, agrayson2...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tuesday, December 12, 2017 at 10:14:01 PM UTC, Bruce wrote:
So Schrödinger's cat was once a coherent state of a cat in a box, and
the splitting occurs with the decay of a nucleus;
*Unlike the double slit experiment, which can only be understood with
interference and the model that the electron wave, say, goes through
both slits, the nuclear decay is a BINARY event, very roughly like a
coin toss where there is no interference. Generalizing interference to
every quantum state is where Schrodinger went wrong. The cat, which
shares or inherits the wf from the radioactive decay, is never in both
Alive and Dead states simultaneously. AG*
In the double slit, the paths through the two slits remain coherent, so
they can interfere when they come together. In the case of nuclear
decay, the coherence is lost immediately, so the nucleus does not
interfere with the decay products.
Bruce
decoherent entanglement then leads to the splitting of worlds FAPP.
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