On Monday, July 30, 2018 at 7:38:38 PM UTC, Brent 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. >
* I think this is mistaken. CMIIAW, but as I have stated repeatedly, the point of the cat experiment was to show that the INTERPRETATION of superposition was in error. AG * > > Brent > Ms Schroedinger: What happened to that poor cat? It looks half dead. > Erwin: I don't know. Ask Wigner. > Eugene: I just looked in and it collapsed. > -- 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.
