• AppleTea@lemmy.zip
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    The point of the thought experiment is that a cat that is both alive and dead is absurd and clearly not what actually is happening. Schrödinger intended it to demonstrate that quantum mechanics was not a complete description of the universe, we’re still missing something(s).

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      Thank you, schrödingers cat is one of those things that a bunch of people have heard of but it seems nobody actually understands

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        It’s quantum science, yeah nobody actually understands it and schrödinger was one of first to publicly state that and while doing so helped people getting to understand what scientists have found out about the weird stuff that’s going on the quantum level

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          Did it actually help people understand it?

          In my experience most laymen’s explanation involve knowledge of the word superposition but not any clarity on what it is and they treat the cat in the box as a real cat

          Every once in a while someone seems to understand it but that seem mostly limited to people who had to take a class on quantum/ statistical mechanics

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      That may have been his intention but the many worlds interpretation is still a valid theory considered by equally professional scientists.

      Personally i think when we are dealing with proper unknowns its best to not make any assumptions of what is normal/absurd at all. Some answers may literally beyond our comprehension.

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        Some answers may literally beyond our comprehension.

        Sure that may definitely be the case. But in practice, that means we should be exhausting the comprehensible possibilities first. Many Worlds is an explanation of last resort.

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        Yeah, but it also duplicates the cat owners, so there’s one whose cat has died and a different one whose cat still lives.