On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 11:25 AM Alan Grayson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Friday, March 6, 2020 at 1:22:30 PM UTC-7, Philip Thrift wrote: >> >> >> Sean Carroll >> @seanmcarroll >> · >> What really happens to Schrödinger’s cat is that it becomes entangled >> with its environment, so that the wave function comes to describe multiple >> almost-classical worlds! Happens to all of us, and nicely explained in this >> @veritasium video. >> >> https://twitter.com/seanmcarroll/status/1235999175428333568 >> >> @philipthrift >> > > I've asked this before and might have gotten some replies, but I can't > recall what they were. Many of the quantum paradoxes arise due to a > particular interpretation of superposition, namely, that all alternatives > happen simultaneously (before measurement). Why can't superposition be > interpreted to mean that each alternative has a probability of occurrence > and nothing more? TIA, AG > In a collapse or an epistemic interpretation, that is exactly what it means. 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/CAFxXSLQXrd6z3qhM2drD0rb5tqP6ByEkHCTLJjE_TcRnF79HMA%40mail.gmail.com.
