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Schroedinger's Plot, Part Three

9 May 2002 - 12:00am — Christopher Wright
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MARK: You were about to explain the whole point of this "Schroedinger's Cat" thought experiment.

ALEX: Right... you see, Schroedinger believed that hte act of observing an event actually had an effect on its outcome.

ALEX: So, according to Schroedinger, not only was it impossible to tell whether not the cat had died until you opened the lid, it was in fact not possible for the cat to have either lived OR died until you'd observed... because the act of observation would have affected the outcome in some way.

MARK: So essentially, you're saying that according to Schroedinger, the cat is both alive and dead until the box is opened up, and then once the cat is observed, probability kicks in and one of the two possibilities is chosen.

ALEX: Yeah, sort of. And that's how we're going to get out of this continuity mess.

MARK: By killing a cat?

ALEX: No, we got into too much trouble last time.

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