+112 The Schrodingers Cat theory is the king of all mindfucks, amirite?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

It's not that difficult of a concept. You don't know if it's alive or dead, so you can think of it as being both sinse you don't know. Unless you mean when you apply it to what it was meant to explain... THAT is a mindfuck.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Its really an over-complicated tree falling in the woods.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Except the whole tree falling in the woods thing makes sense and has an answer. The human (and animal) ear is what interprets the sound waves into sound, so without an ear and brain around to interpret it actually does not make a sound. The other seems more of a theory of possible outcomes. Although, I don't have a great understanding of it.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

But it gives off sound waves, is that not sound?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

The waves aren't sound waves if there's nothing to interpret them in such a way. If absolutely nothing is around to hear it, the waves that are produced are merely longitudinal waves that travel through the air until they dissipate.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

How?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

After doing a seven page essay on parallel universes and alternate dimensions, I can honestly tell you - Schrodingers cat is NOTHING compared to the crazy theories quantum physicists pull out their asses.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Schrodinger's cat isn't supposed to make sense; Shrodinger made it up as a parody of actual absurd quantum physics theories that didn't make sense, but were believed because... well, nobody could understand them enough to figure out why they were wrong (it was a mass scale case of scientists all nodding their heads and pretending they understood the joke so they didn't look dumb). It worked a little too well and people who only really have heard "cat in a box could be dead OR alive so is both" tend to think it's a serious attempt (I did for ages). The Simple Wiki sums up a rather rambly Wikipedia article quite nicely ( http://tinyurl.com/cyvoglh ), but the actual article it summarises is pretty interesting too. :)

by Anonymous 11 years ago