On Wednesday, May 2, 2018 at 1:31:51 PM UTC, scerir wrote: > > 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(i**θ**)*|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. >
Is the "I" you or Ashe? I don't really follow this. If you have time, you can expound a bit on what he's trying to say. AG -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
