On Friday, October 4, 2024 at 10:17:41 PM UTC-6 Alan Grayson wrote:
On Friday, October 4, 2024 at 9:14:38 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 10/4/2024 7:31 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: On Friday, October 4, 2024 at 5:48:31 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: No, this was a conundrum of classical physics which was solved when Heisenberg showed that on Christmas eve Santa Claus was in a superposition of being down every chimney at once. Brent Superposition just means we are ignorant of which state a system is in, not that it is in all states simultaneously. This is the meaning of Schrodinger's cat. AG Exactly wrong. Brent We know what ignorance is. We don't know what simultaneous in all states means, except maybe Bohr. How about a few explanatory words? AG Superposition could mean the system is not in any state defined by the superposition, and measurement determines what will be that state, BUT it doesn't mean the system is in all states simultaneously. 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/092ec102-8dee-4643-afcd-dee060e54cf4n%40googlegroups.com.
