On 04/11/2009, Steve Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Ian Woollard <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Schroedinger's cat very definitely is fictitious; it's not an >> experiment you can actually do and get an alive/dead cat that you can >> actually see, you would get either an alive cat, or a dead cat. > > I agree with the statement that it should not be in that category. > Essentially, because schrodinger's cat is not a cat.
Schrodinger's cat is a fictitious cat that is in the Schrodinger's cat thought experiment. It is fictitious because it is not a factual cat; it is countrafactual. > There is no notable fiction in which > Schrodinger's cat features heavily, for example. It is notably in "Schroedinger's cat" thought experiment. That's what a thought experiment is; it's a made up story about what would happen if you did X,Y,Z which is used to illuminate aspects of physics. > Steve -- -Ian Woollard _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
