Re: signature

On Tue, 18 May 1999 18:34:07 +0100, "Dave Bird---ARS HakeMonger
,,,,><_'>.,,,<_\",,,," <dav...@xemu.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>In article <7hqaj1$fcp$1...@news4.svr.pol.co.uk>, Andrew Carpenter
><new...@gloucestershire.freeserve.co.uk> writes
>>Dave Bird---ARS HakeMonger ,,,,><_'>.,,,<_",,,, <dav...@xemu.demon.co.uk>
>>
>>> >Schrodinger's cat:
>>>
>>>  The quantum theory blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
>>blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
>>blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
>>blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
>>blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah 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?  blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
>>blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
>>blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
>> blah blah blah blah As to Swearinger's Dog.......
>>
>>
>>
>>Ahaa.. simply give the crate a good shake and see if the cat meows
>>at you.  Or, smear your hand with tuna and stick it in the crate.
>>If you feel somethnig licking the tuna off your hand, its very
>>likely the cat is alive.
>>
>>Simple! ;O)
>
> Except that would be observing it.  It's really no more than,
>"if an event is not observed, does it really happen" (yes).

<bluff mode=physics>
Actually, it's a lot more than "if an event is not observed, does it
really happen." What it is is:

"an event has only had happened once it has been observed"

Until you observe the cat being alive and dead the cat is (actually it
isn't but oh well) a quantum waveform. It is in both states, until you
observe it and collapse the quantum waveform into either state 1 or 2
(dead or alive). From that time on, the event has happened an
indeterminate time before it was observed to.

However, this is all rather academic (heh).. because although the
Shrodinger's cat thought experiment is an interesting thing, it doesn't
actually apply to quantum theory anymore.

It raised some nasty problems about what could be considered an
observer, and what the act of observation consisted of.

So now (I think ICBW.. actually IPAW) those crazy physicists have
decided that the possibility of interaction with a particle collapses
the waveform.
</bluff>


However all this has very, very little to do with ascii-art.

bad bad attempt at some kind of molecule atomy type thing..
(and no, chemistry wasn't my strong subject)

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> Dave Bird, an official ARS HakeMonger                        ><_'>  <_"
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>    Cry HADDOCK  and let loose the cods of war!"            Wm Skatesfin


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