Erlkönig: schoedinger.shtml

2000-11-29

Thoughts on the Schroedinger's Cat Experiment:
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Phil:

Actually, what always tripped my imagination about the Schroedinger cat
was trying to visualize the cat as a "cloud of uncertainty" until the box
is opened.

Alex (quoting from somewhere on the net):

> ... In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of
> the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat
> could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.