On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 7:42 PM Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Jason Resch <[email protected]> > > On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 7:22 PM Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> From: Jason Resch <[email protected]> >> >> >> On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 2:38 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On 7/30/2018 7:39 AM, Jason Resch wrote: >>> >>> Does it exist and happen, or does the final result merely materialize >>>>> magically like the live or dead cat? >>>>> >>>> >>>> *In my view, we don't know how the final result materializes; the great >>>> unsolved problem in QM, aka the measurement problem, or a large part of it. >>>> But why introduce intermediate values, which IIUC the theory says don't >>>> exist. AG * >>>> >>> >>> Where does it say that? If I recall correctly, Schrodinger did not put >>> a caveat on his equation which said it cannot be used to refer to anything >>> that is real. >>> >>> >>> That was the point of Schroedinger's cat experiment. Schroedinger >>> invented it to show the fallacy of regarding the wf as real because it led >>> to the absurdity of a cat that was both alive and dead. >>> >>> >> That was a bit before he started to realize that the equation for which >> he won the Nobel prize might be true. >> >> >> In physics, equations are neither true nor false. They are either useful >> or not. And they require interpretation. >> > > The point is, Shrodinger went from: > A) believing that what mathematics of his equation plainly said was > happening about the cat lead to a contradiction/paradox/negative result > to > B) Starting to come around to believing it might actually be > describing reality as it is. > > > Not every useful description tells us what reality is "really" like. > > Besides, we have come a long way since Schrödinger, so he isn't the final > word on anything at all. > If you follow the comments above, you will see this was a response to someone saying that Schrodinger introduced the cat experiment to show the absurdity of believing the wave function was real. Jason -- 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.
