On 10/13/2019 1:08 PM, Alan Grayson wrote:
What are YOU talking about? I just made a GUESS about the decoherence time! Whatever it is, it doesn't change my conclusion. If there's a uncertainty in time, are you claiming the cat can be alive and dead during any duration? Is this what decoherence theory offers? AG
Yes, part of the cat can be alive and part dead over a period seconds. Or looked at another way, there is a transistion period in which the cat is both alive and dead.
But the main point is that this time had nothing to do with Schroedinger's argument (he knew perfectly well the time of death was vague); his argument was that Bohr's interpretation implied that the cat was in a super-position of alive and dead from the time the box was closed until someone looked in.
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