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Quote by: simple simon  ok .... ive skimmed this over and im not about to pretend that i understand it .... its nothing i ever learned in school
but let me take a stab at it anyway .... let me know what you think
this part stuck out to me .... i read it and reread it ...... and i kept coming back to 'point of no return' ......... seems youre saying if you wait long enough you will inevitably reach a point where something is bound to happen to shift the answer one way or another .... in time there will be an end result
to use the cat analogy ....... in the beginning of the test period either answer may be correct ..... but if you wait long enough the point of no return will be reached where there is only one possible solution ..... the cat will die from starvation .... leaving a dead cat as the only answer
as i said .. i never had heard of any of this before this thread .. so i could be way off ... but id like to hear what people think of what i gleaned from it |
it is an interesting though but I think your thinking to long term with the starvation. the wikipedia article suggests things such as "the cat observes itself" or "the environment observes the cat". most importantly i think is the point that the cat would have settled into a "reality" long before the box was opened. I feel people are mixing up the theories and interpretations here. The one that goes with the whole "multiple realities/many states/alive and dead cat at once" is the Copenhagen Interpretation. The Objective Collapse interpretation states as mentioned previously that the cat would not be in a variety of states, it would settle into one state when the point is reached which i guess would be instantaneously in this case if the cat "observes itself". Im not very good at transmitting my ideas to others so i apologize if this makes absolutely no sense =)