On 1/10/2025 10:23 AM, John Clark wrote:
On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 10:04 AM Alan Grayson <[email protected]>
wrote:
*>> If Quantum Mechanics is correct, and I think it's a pretty
damn good assumption that it is, then in the Schrodinger cat
experiment you've got a superposition of 2 quantum states, {
[ ( a live cat) + (the environment with a live cat in it) +
(Brent Meeker in that environment looking at a live cat) ] +
[ ( a dead live cat) + (the environment with a dead cat in
it) + (Brent Meeker in that environment looking at a dead
cat)] }. Thus Brent Meeker#1 would say it is an observable
fact that the cat is alive and Brent Meeker#2 would say it is
an observable fact that the cat is not alive.*
*>*///Before the box is opened, nothing is observed./
*Before the box is opened Brent Meeker#1 and Brent Meeker#2 are
identical because neither of them knows if they are in the alive cat
world or the dead cat world.It's only after they look in the box do
they become different. *
So the world doesn't split till somebody observes it?? I think you need
to revisit Everett. Instead of a cat consider a clock that is stopped by
the radioactive decay.
/> Superpositions are never observed./
*True, and neither Brent Meeker#1 nor Brent Meeker#2 observes any sort
of superposition. And the Shut Up And Calculate people don't even try
to understand it but if you're not one of them then try to explain how
in the world the Elitzur–Vaidman bomb
tester<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elitzur%E2%80%93Vaidman_bomb_tester>
**could possibly work without using the Many Worlds idea.*
I did already. Can you explain how it works?
Brent*
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*John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis
<https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>*
qmc
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