On 11/7/2019 5:01 PM, Alan Grayson wrote:
There is no paradox. It's just some hang up you have that a cat
can't be dead and alive at the same time. It's as though your
physics was stuck in the time of Aristotle and words were magic so
that "Alive implies not-dead." was a law of physics instead of an
axiom of logic.
In fact a moments thought will tell you that quite aside from
quantum mechanics there would be no way to identify the moment of
death of the cat to less than a several seconds. It would be
simply meaningless to say the cat was alive at 0913:20 and dead at
0913:21.
Brent
You can imagine a different experiment, without cats, with the same
paradoxical result. The point of Schroedinger's thought experiment was
to demonstate tHE title of this thread; that there's something wrong
with the prevailing interpretation of superposition. In your view I am
hung up with Aristotle? In my view, you're seduced by some quantum
nonsense. AG
Prevailing when? 1927? There is no problem in the prevailing 2019
interpretation, except in your mind because you assume that a cat cannot
be in a superposition of alive/dead even for a fraction of a
nano-second...because...WHY? The radioactive atom can be in a
superposition of decayed and not-decayed for a nanosecond. Why doesn't
that violate your Aristotelean logic?
Brent
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