Date: 2025-08-01 11:15 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] juan_gandhi
Thank you! The list of interpretations is just funny. Every interpretation still relies on Newton's analysis, not on algebra.

Date: 2025-08-01 12:06 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] calimac
2) The footnote - "In practice, it would be extremely hard to isolate the quantum state of a cat-sized object from that of its noisy environment; its state would have been resolved as alive or dead before measurement" - makes nonsense of the entire dilemma.

Date: 2025-08-01 06:05 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] redbird
Making nonsense of the illustration/thought experiment doesn't answer the underlying problem. It might be a point in favor of the "I don't care, the measurements are useful" approach.

Date: 2025-08-01 08:16 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] calimac
But the problem that you are referring to, while a problem, is not a dilemma. I'm referring to the dilemma.

Date: 2025-08-01 08:48 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] calimac
He was pointing it out. He was pointing out the dilemma caused by imagining* a situation in which you force the superpositions of the quantum world into existing in the ordinary macro world.

But the footnote collapses this dilemma by saying it wouldn't work that way. You wouldn't be able to set the experiment up in the first place.

*Of course it wasn't an actual experiment. We're not going to kill a cat! But it was an actual thought experiment.

Date: 2025-08-01 06:54 pm (UTC)
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4) There are homes for sale in my neighborhood, which is rare. Most of these homes are now occupied by the 4th generation; as they are large enough to hold 4 generations of a family in each home.

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