On Friday, January 18, 2002, at 10:17 AM, Peifer, William [OCDUS] wrote: > See John Gribbin's "In Search of Schroedinger's Cat" for a good story > about > all of this stuff. Gribbin's a great writer. He not only makes > comprehensible (for the general reader) the famous double-slit > experiment, > but he extends Schroedinger's particle-in-a-box thought experiment into > an > even more wacky thought experiment -- that is, can a cat sealed inside > a box > be both alive and dead at the same time?
I love this book. I like to extend the bizarre cat box experiment further, by telling people that when I come home, until I open the door to observe whether or not my family have eaten dinner, they both have an have not eaten dinner. -Aaron - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
