This Twist on Schrödinger’s Cat Paradox Has Major Implications for Quantum Theory

Scientific American ^ | August 17, 2020 | Zeeya Merali on

[BenLurkin]

[dp0622]

Biocentrism. Is a hot babe really a hot babe before somebody leers at her?

[freedomjusticeruleoflaw]

Yes, because she has a mirror.

[Eagles6]

I suspected this all along.

[Billthedrill]

I suspected this all along.

I did, and I didn't.

[aquila48]

“The new work is an “important step forward in the field of experimental metaphysics,” says quantum physicist Aephraim Steinberg of the University of Toronto, who was not involved in the study. “It’s the beginning of what I expect will be a huge program of research.””

I think we have collapsed the superposition of this study - IT’S GRANTS!!

[Eagles6]

I see what you did there. LOL

[Steely Tom]

I’ve gotten the answer many times, but each time I finish writing it down I experience a wrenching sensation through my whole body and the sky turns a different color.

[webheart]

These people act like they understand the shit.

[doorgunner69]

“This superposition only collapses into a single state when the system is observed... “

Sounds suspiciously like “If a tree falls in the forest.....”

[Moonman62]

All I know is that the source article is about ten times longer than it needs to be.

[Nifster]

Always about the money

Large
Acquisition
Scheme (for)
Extremely (expensive)
Research

[Still Thinking]

Turns out Schroedinger’s cat identifies as a dog, or what?

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Schroedinger hated cats. That’s why fluffy was hiding in the box.

[datura]

Our perceived quantum state is merely each individual’s observation point among all possibilities. Together. Simultaneously.

You wonder why everything is soooooo effed up?

[TBP]

This superposition only collapses into a single state when the system is observed...

But isn't God the Ultimate Observer? Remember Bishop Berekley's par of limericks.

The ultimate tangled hierarchy rests on this principle:

The Universe could not exist as it is without us observing it so

BUT

We could not be here to observe the Universe if it did not exist as it is.

[TBP]

“If a tree falls in the forest.....”

To quote Bishop Berkeley:

There was a young man who said, "God
Must think it exceedingly odd
To find that this tree
Continues to be
When there's no one about in the Quad.

Dear Sir, your astonishment's odd
I am always about in the Quad
And that's why this tree
Continues to be
Since observed by yours faithfully, God.

[TBP]

“Consciousness is the singular for which there is no plural.” — Erwin Schrodinger

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