Welcome Schrodinger's Hat!

[Lazar]

The cat thing never made sense to me. Either it's dead or it's not.ot observing it won't make it any less ambiguous. It's just a lack of knowledge.

Or to look at it from a different perspective, imagine that you aren't observing the box from outside, but rather that you are the cat.

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

Then you're either a living cat or a dead cat. Ooh, first-person perspective!

[Captain Picard's Hair]

I think that's exactly what the "Schrodinger's Cat" paradox is meant to point out.

[Schrodinger's Hat]

Wow... I feel like a schmuck. There's a whole welcome thread for me, and I only just noticed. *Coughs, bows* Thank ye, all... it's good to be here.

[Monroe]

Welcome to the board. Nice hat.

[Teaos]

And he appears, now we know he is alive and not dead.

[Tsukiyumi]

And he appears, now we know he is alive and not dead.

Or is he?

[Graham Kennedy]

The cat thing never made sense to me. Either it's dead or it's not.ot observing it won't make it any less ambiguous. It's just a lack of knowledge.

The whole point of the thought experiment is that it actually isn't just a lack of knowledge. You'd expect it to be, because that's how the macro world works, but on a quantum level something really IS in both states at the same time. The SC is meant to show that the quantum world works really strangely and differently to what we expect.

[Sionnach Glic]

Aye, it's one of those bizzare things that shouldn't make sense, but does.

Anyway, welcome.

[Schrodinger's Hat]

And he appears, now we know he is alive and not dead.

Or is he?

Well, I've been observed, and I appear to be interactive... or have I been observed? I suppose that all that's really been observed are my effects in the form of my posts, so one can infer my existence and, I suppose, my life from them, but I haven't been observed directly by anyone on the board. Huh... am I alive?

[Lazar]

You're learning quickly! Now, you just need to remember never to stay on topic for more than 5 posts.

[Captain Picard's Hair]

You're learning quickly! Now, you just need to remember never to stay on topic for more than 5 posts.

Yep, that's... Say, how's the weather been for y'all lately? It's been a gorgeous weekend here, though this abrupt change after the storm of last weekend might have led to my current cold.

[Monroe]

You're learning quickly! Now, you just need to remember never to stay on topic for more than 5 posts.

Yep, that's... Say, how's the weather been for y'all lately? It's been a gorgeous weekend here, though this abrupt change after the storm of last weekend might have led to my current cold.

Its been great weather rescently but last night we got some hail.

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

The cat thing never made sense to me. Either it's dead or it's not.ot observing it won't make it any less ambiguous. It's just a lack of knowledge.

The whole point of the thought experiment is that it actually isn't just a lack of knowledge. You'd expect it to be, because that's how the macro world works, but on a quantum level something really IS in both states at the same time. The SC is meant to show that the quantum world works really strangely and differently to what we expect.

I... guess. *Shrugs* I guess I'll always be a macro kind of a guy. The cat can either be alive or dead, but not both. Unless there's a gateway to a parallel dimension in there.

[Tsukiyumi]

...The cat can either be alive or dead, but not both...

What if it's a zombie cat?