Monday, February 29, 2016

Schrödinger's cat

Sometimes you just want to find out. You have this innate urge, this wave of curiosity, a bunch of "what if"s and stuff like that.


There are only 2 eigenstates being superimposed. Opening the box will cause a system collapse into one of them. Two possible outcomes, pretty much 50-50 right? Not really. It depends on how the system was set up.

But sometimes you just got to check and take the measurement. Only one eigenstate is favourable and the way to have said system collapse into that eigenstate is to open the box - to end the superposition. And so you think really hard about it. You ask yourself if it's better to leave the cat in this weird quantum realm of being both dead and alive at the same time. You question how much this system actually contains, whether the system is just confined to the box, the poisoning apparatus and the cat inside or if it is a part of something bigger, something that includes you and maybe the room where the system is kept.

You think hard, and you think long, but you really want to know. Time is running out and you're curious, but you suddenly realize that you may affect which eigenstate the system may collapse into. You realize that the system is not isolated from you, but you still try anyway. You open the box...

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And you never see her again...




Enough said

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