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malimbar04

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Re: If you had enough atomically identical cats...
« Reply #15 on: March 22, 2011, 07:51:01 am »

It can observe, yes, but I believe the outside observer is the point of the experience. You could just s easily ask if a gray rock stayed grey or turned bright magenta when you didn't look.
or toys come to life!

The one thing I never understood about the cat in a box analogy is that the cat WILL die at a specific point, we just don't know when. It's never is a super-position state of both. For a long time I figured that quantum physics was just something that we couldn't see. From what I understand now, I think the particles actually do go into two places at once until there is a reason for them to be in one place or the other. My mind is bent.
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No! No! I will not massacre my children. Instead, I'll make them corpulent on crappy mass-produced quarry bush biscuits and questionably grown mushroom alcohol, and then send them into the military when they turn 12...
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