Re: signature

In article <Pine.GSO.3.95.iB1.0.990517010442.23043A-100000@vtn1>,
Geraldine Jones <we9...@victoria.tc.ca> writes:
>> >>
>> >>Ever heard of Shroginder's Cat?
>> >
>> >Can't say that I have. Please explain..:)
>
>Schrodinger's cat:  

 The quantum theory view of the world (applicable when only a small
 amount of matter is present) will tell you of, say, a radioactive
 atom, that there are at any one time -- coexisting -- a 45% chance 
 it has decayed and a 55% chance it hasn't.

 A room-sized object such as a geiger counter either definitely has
 gone "click" or definitely hasn't.  At what stage does the indefinite
 become definite?  when it's observed??  so, let's put the atom 
 unobserved with a counter, which pulls a hammer, which breaks a
 glass of cyanide, which kills a cat.  Are you telling me the cat
 is neither definitely alive nor definitely dead until we open
 the crate?  No, that would be silly.   Why not?  well, there is no 
 one accepted answer yet. If we knew that, we'd know a lot more about
 the world than we do.  As to Swearinger's Dog.......

In article <374...@news.clara.net>, VSM aka. Sara Wallen
<sar...@fiendmail.net> writes
>Explanation from bloke called Ben in book:
>       "Schrodinger's famous thought experiment suggests that if a
>cat is placed in a box where a 50-50 quantum effect determines whether
>or not it is poisoned, it exists in a part-life/part-death state that
>cannot be resolved until an observation of the quantum effect is made
>... ow, my splitting sides!"

 Except that Erwin Shroedinger was smarter than that. All he said was
 "if you say the outcome is not determined until a measurement is made
 does this mean you really believe the cat is both alive and dead until
 a measurement is made? Or, if not, why not??"

 IMO it proves that view has absurd conequences; but as to why not....



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