Here below a point made by Asher Peres. ----------
One can even think of an experiment exhibiting the interference pattern between the cat alive and the cat dead. If such an experiment could indeed be performed, then the phase θ in the state ψ = 2-1/2[ |live> + exp(iθ)|dead>] would be meaningful. One could then resuscitate dead cats in the following way: Take an ensemble of dead cats and measure on each one of them the projection operator on state ψ. In 50% of the cases, the state of the cat will become ψ. Now measure whether the resulting cat in state ψ is alive or dead. In 50% of the cases, it will turn out alive. I did not say this is impossible, but only that I don’t know how to construct the ψ-measuring machine. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
