On Friday, October 11, 2019 at 9:36:49 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: > > > > On 10/11/2019 6:58 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: > > >> But that's not absurd, because it is possible to have a radioactive atom >> that is isolated from all environment and other degrees of freedom and so >> it might exist in a superposition. >> > > But if you amplify the micro superposition and throw in a cat, you get an > absurdity. Maybe Schroedinger was *also* trying to show that the > interpretation of *micro* superposition is not correct. AG > > > Yes, I think he did. But he was wrong about that. Bohr saved the theory > by declaring that there was a classical world and a quantum world, which > worked pretty well because everybody's intuition about the Heisenberg cut > was about the same. > > Brent >
I don't see how Bohr saved the theory (of superposition?) by making that declaration. Isn't there general agreement today that everything is quantum? 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/bb634328-c32b-4850-9b1a-837743d7445b%40googlegroups.com.
