Watching Schrodinger's cat die (or come to life)
Berkeley CA (SPX) Aug 01, 2014 - One of the famous examples of the weirdness of quantum mechanics is the paradox of Schrodinger's cat. If you put a cat inside an opaque box and make his life dependent on a random event, when does the cat die? When the random event occurs, or when you open the box? Though common sense suggests the former, quantum mechanics - or at least the most common "Copenhagen" interpretation enunciate ... more

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