Kolanaki comments on Schrodinger's Precious

Schrodinger's Precious (media.piefed.social)

submitted 7 months ago by PugJesus@piefed.social to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 points 7 months ago* (6 children)

Wait... So the radioactive material or poison is meant to keep the cat alive? 🤔

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[–] neatchee@piefed.social 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

no, the vial of poison and radioactive particle connected to a device that breaks the vial when it detects the particle's decay is what makes the cat's state probabilistic. Otherwise it's just a cat in a box

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[–] caradenada@feddit.cl 16 points 7 months ago (1 child)

BTW, the state of the cat being probabilistic is meant to be absurd or paradoxical, since Schrodinger's cat is supposed to be a thought experiment against quantum superposition.

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[–] neatchee@piefed.social 6 points 7 months ago

Yup. Turns out he was super wrong though and existence is just that fucked up at the quantum level

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