On Saturday, April 10, 2021 at 5:21:46 AM UTC-6 Bruno Marchal wrote:
> On 9 Apr 2021, at 06:42, Alan Grayson <agrays...@gmail.com> wrote: > > When the box is closed, and before the measurement, why can't it be > claimed that the Cat is in a Mixed State, not a Superposition of States? > Only the latter leads to the paradox of a cat which is Alive and Dead > simultaneously. AG > > > > Because the Wave equation in this setting leads to a pure state > dead+alive, and twe know that such pure state leads to different prediction > than any possible corresponding mixed states. (Assuming the SWE). > *Without any mathematical representation of the individual states of Dead and Alive, how can it be claimed that Dead and Alive each satisfy the SWE? And how will the superposition of states Dead + Alive give different predictions than a mixed state of Dead and Alive? AG * > > That’s true even if the box is open, but in that case, the pure state will > be lifted to the observer of the cat, who will become itself in a pure > state of seeing the cat dead and the cat alive, in parallel histories. In > this case, the indeterminacy is explained entirely by the same > indeterminacy occurring in, amoeba self-division, or in the infinite > multiplication of all relative universal number state in arithmetic. > > Bruno > > > > > > > -- > 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 everything-li...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/750f52a9-1316-47db-9b00-cca531c2b527n%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/750f52a9-1316-47db-9b00-cca531c2b527n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/a9ae7591-ebb1-482b-a2d4-a07a73ca588dn%40googlegroups.com.
