quantum physics
Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 1:15 am
anyone?
Both untill you find evidence of one outcome or another, but I'm drunk as fuck and shouldn't be thinking about quantum physics.8 wrote:and is the cat dead or alive?
so the cat is both dead and alive until you open the box and find out?Mohan wrote:Both untill you find evidence of one outcome or another, but I'm drunk as fuck and shouldn't be thinking about quantum physics.8 wrote:and is the cat dead or alive?
depends on how closely you examine the packets in and outside of the box and if the box or cat actually exist in the dimensions of time and space or if they actually exist as well.8 wrote:so the cat is both dead and alive until you open the box and find out?Mohan wrote:Both untill you find evidence of one outcome or another, but I'm drunk as fuck and shouldn't be thinking about quantum physics.8 wrote:and is the cat dead or alive?
8 wrote:packets?
note : i'm gonna go to sleep now and hope that when i wake up tommorrow, dubstep forum will have explained it all to me. who needs books.
Chu wrote:Don't know but I always thought it was like this:
The cat is both dead and alive (in a "quantum state"/indeterminable) until you open the box it is in because there is, say, a 50/50 chance of whether or not an atom of the radioactive material in there with it has decayed (killing the cat).
Schrodingers cat experiment is used to question the actuality of superposition (double state's) since intuitively we do not experience anything being in two states at once. In my little understanding of quantum mechanics the main problem it throws up is how does the randomness of quantum activity result in the classical physics we use to predict stuff i.e. ball A hits ball B, ball B moves.
Lets play dice, someone needs to explain how the Planck constant fits in to all this.
are you trying to see if the cat is dead?selector.dub.u wrote:Chu wrote:Don't know but I always thought it was like this:
The cat is both dead and alive (in a "quantum state"/indeterminable) until you open the box it is in because there is, say, a 50/50 chance of whether or not an atom of the radioactive material in there with it has decayed (killing the cat).
Schrodingers cat experiment is used to question the actuality of superposition (double state's) since intuitively we do not experience anything being in two states at once. In my little understanding of quantum mechanics the main problem it throws up is how does the randomness of quantum activity result in the classical physics we use to predict stuff i.e. ball A hits ball B, ball B moves.
Lets play dice, someone needs to explain how the Planck constant fits in to all this.
i was was trying to determine if there are any quantum mechanics around to change my light bulb in my other home on the planet xanthu which circles Sirius B and whether or not i can use the planck constant to measure whether Shroedinger's dubstep kitty will be alive when or if I achieve this goal.Chu wrote:are you trying to see if the cat is dead?selector.dub.u wrote:Chu wrote:Don't know but I always thought it was like this:
The cat is both dead and alive (in a "quantum state"/indeterminable) until you open the box it is in because there is, say, a 50/50 chance of whether or not an atom of the radioactive material in there with it has decayed (killing the cat).
Schrodingers cat experiment is used to question the actuality of superposition (double state's) since intuitively we do not experience anything being in two states at once. In my little understanding of quantum mechanics the main problem it throws up is how does the randomness of quantum activity result in the classical physics we use to predict stuff i.e. ball A hits ball B, ball B moves.
Lets play dice, someone needs to explain how the Planck constant fits in to all this.
small stuff act weird, big stuff seem normal. why?selector.dub.u wrote: no, actually i was just contemplating your dice suggestion and whether or not i am intelligent enough to comprehend what you just wrote
I was impressed with your intelligence and your understanding of physics is allChu wrote:small stuff act weird, big stuff seem normal. why?selector.dub.u wrote: no, actually i was just contemplating your dice suggestion and whether or not i am intelligent enough to comprehend what you just wrote
I didn't write it very well first time, this better?
Get on it, it's literally as epic as it gets.selector.dub.u wrote:I know very little about physics just learning a little more about it now actually