Quote: Leevil @ June 4, 2007, 2:18 PM
Schrödinger's cat
First of all, what's a cat?
OK, so as far as I can understand. The cat is only dead if you see it dead. Before you do it is both dead and alive.
My head hurts and that was just reading the wiki page itself. Without even thinking about the paradox.
Yes... both dead AND alive. The idea is not to think of it as a real cat but a cat made of quantum particles. By observing the cat (opening the box), you collapse the probability waveform and then see it as... well, dead... or alive.
As I said earlier, quantum particles can't be measured in the normal fashion so a state of combination exists. It's (apparently) impossible to know the position AND momentum of a single particle at any one time...
Fun, 'aint it?
Anyway... as to what I'm thinking about:
How to get my protagnist down to the river without being arrested first... i.e. by means logical/realistic.