Hello,
From day to day, I follow the Cyanide & Happiness webcomic. (You guys have heard of that right?) Today there was a comic about Pavlov & Schrödinger. Pavlov's theory is rather simple. Not going to explain, but while searching for information about Schrödinger's cat, (Quantum fysics) I was more confused than enriched with information... ;p
This experiment is about superposition, in the time this theory came out, Quantum-physicists were able to measure 1 particle being in two states at the same time. Nonetheless, we can not observe one particle in two states, so it goes against our senses.
Now, the theory was about a cat in a box. In the box there was a radio-active particle. Also, a Geiger-counter was in the box, connected to a hammer which would trigger a hammer, hitting a glass of hydrocyanic acid when the radio-activity dropped below a certain point, releasing the gas.
Because the radioactive particle is in two states, it is not clear if the Geiger-counter measured if the radio-activity dropped below the named point. This means the cat is dead and alive, since no-one has witnessed it's state. Wether it will be dead or alive, will be concluded when the state of the cat is witnessed. Either one of the two cases is picked by our brain and will be considered the right one. (Brings us back to the forms theory of Plato)
I do believe I am missing a lot of information, who can help me? ;p
(I find this extremely interesting :$)
Jonathan
From day to day, I follow the Cyanide & Happiness webcomic. (You guys have heard of that right?) Today there was a comic about Pavlov & Schrödinger. Pavlov's theory is rather simple. Not going to explain, but while searching for information about Schrödinger's cat, (Quantum fysics) I was more confused than enriched with information... ;p
This experiment is about superposition, in the time this theory came out, Quantum-physicists were able to measure 1 particle being in two states at the same time. Nonetheless, we can not observe one particle in two states, so it goes against our senses.
Now, the theory was about a cat in a box. In the box there was a radio-active particle. Also, a Geiger-counter was in the box, connected to a hammer which would trigger a hammer, hitting a glass of hydrocyanic acid when the radio-activity dropped below a certain point, releasing the gas.
Because the radioactive particle is in two states, it is not clear if the Geiger-counter measured if the radio-activity dropped below the named point. This means the cat is dead and alive, since no-one has witnessed it's state. Wether it will be dead or alive, will be concluded when the state of the cat is witnessed. Either one of the two cases is picked by our brain and will be considered the right one. (Brings us back to the forms theory of Plato)
I do believe I am missing a lot of information, who can help me? ;p
(I find this extremely interesting :$)
Jonathan
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