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Originally Posted by marinik  Pin... pull out... atomic bomb...  are we even in the same string of reality or you cross over here from time to time?  |
Hi marinik,
Maybe we're being a bit too brief to really make sense to each other. Were you seriously suggesting that you have an atomic bomb, armed, in a box with a cat, the bomb hasn't gone off and the cat is 50% alive. I don't think so. What your actual point might be, I'm afraid I don't know, so I was replying tongue-in-cheek to what I thought must be an equally silly comment.
If the double slit experiment in the OP changes its result depending on whether it's looked at or not, and that is because the quantum state doesn't collapse one way or the other without an observer, just like shrodinger's cat
thought experiment (did you get that bit - no-one actually suggested that if you actually did the experiment, the cat would actually be 50% alive - it's a theory, a
thought experiment), and the same collapse of the quantum state is required for an atom bomb to go off, then presumably we could arm one and go on holiday, and it would, or wouldn't, or would half go off - which? I am making the point that this is clearly a stupid reading of physical principles and somewhere along the line things don't stack up like that. However, if you don't believe me, you're free to take an ordinary hand grenade, or just a fire cracker if you want to play it a bit safer, and try it for yourself.
Anywhere our realities are meeting?