On Wednesday, June 13, 2018 at 3:04:37 AM UTC, Bruce wrote: > > From: <[email protected] <javascript:>> > > > > *So if one chooses a basis where the cat is simultaneously alive and dead, > is this a problem for QM? AG * >> >> >> No problem for QM -- one does it all the time. It might not be the most >> useful basis, but that doesn't mean it isn't possible. >> > > *Since you earlier acknowledged that Schroedinger showed the "absurdity" > of alive/dead simultaneously, are you now saying the absurd is not only > possible in QM, but even when it's never observed? AG* > > > I didn't acknowledge that Schrödinger showed the absurdity of the > superposition, all I said was that he claimed that it was absurd. I see no > absurdity at all in this superposition. >
*So you're comfortable that alive/dead simultaneously is not a problem to be reckoned with? Even with the choice of Alive/Dead orthogonal basis, both components are manifested by the usual wf for this problem, just as your comment below implies. Any basis is OK, so we can choose the basis just mentioned, and have a superposition with the two usual components I have previously written today, and the cat participates in both simultaneously. AG * > > Remember that a superposition is just the sum of a number of vectors, > expressed in some basis that does not include the said sum as a basis > vector. There is nothing mysterious in this, and the quantum situation is > entirely analogous to superpositions of vectors in conventional linear > algebra. > *I do get that, fully. AG * > > Bruce > -- 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.
