On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 11:13 AM Alan Grayson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thursday, November 7, 2019 at 12:50:21 PM UTC-7, Brent wrote: >> >> >> Aside from the isolation problems the de Broglie wavelength of a cat is >> extremely small so to get an interference pattern the slit and slit spacing >> must be correspondingly small. The C60 experiment was only made possible >> by the development of the Tablot-Lau interferometer. >> >> Brent >> > > I've made this point before; the decoherence time for a cat is very very > short, but how does this effect the point Schroedinger wanted to make, > since the cat is in that paradoxical superposition for some short but > finite duration? AG > Schrodinger did not know about decoherence. He was pointing to the absurdity of taking the SWE as representing the full story about cats. 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAFxXSLRiKhtKT%2BieZsJhB9_c4v9%2B50M9DDu-wqYu-R7gcgssOg%40mail.gmail.com.
