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1415883 No.1415883 [Reply] [Original]

Is the idea of the Schrodinger's cat experiment that the unobserved objects are in undetermined form, or to actually show an absurdity in an idea that states the same?
In other words, did schrodinger say that the cat in the experiment is in both dead and alive form, or he just ridiculed an idea stated before him?

Also, what's your opinion? Are things undetermined without an observer to judge? Like things existing in multiple forms(or worlds) and us, the observers, being limited to only view them at one form or universe?

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>> No.1415921

>>1415906

Seriously the fucking coolest picture on the interwebs.

>> No.1415926

>>1415921
thanks :)

>> No.1415953

>>1415926

You are most welcome awesome nerdfag.

In seriousness though, the Schrodinger's Cat thought experiment was Scrodinger's response to the philosophical absurdity of the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, which states that when a particle is unobserved, it exists in all of its superpositions simultaneously. Shrodinger, Einstein, Planck, and many others (rightfully) found this to be a ludicrous idea.

>> No.1415958

>>1415883
>Are things undetermined without an observer to judge?
There is nothing magical about the act of observation. What's relevant is the act of interference required to observe a quantum state.