Schrödinger's Cat & a Time Paradox

[Timbo]

Santa for adults...

oh...and the Easter Bunny, too...? Or does that imply polytheism?

[c-issler]

Hypothetical exercise: cat gets locked in a box with radioactive isotope at time point A. Half life of said radioactive isotope is constant, measurable and reliable. Death of cat is 100% certain. Box is re-opened at time point B to confirm death of cat. End of hypothetical exercise.
At what point in time is the cat alive or dead? It comes down to belief, opinion, faith. It can be argued endlessly without resolution, hence the paradox.
Time is the kicker: it's linear, constant and immutable but also 3 dimensional (i.e. spacetime). You can supposedly connect two points in spacetime together via a wormhole but calculating those points means observing them which changes them (Von Heisenberg)....its a total mind****.

[Blitzen]

I like stuff.......

[mikepologti]

i was watching an interesting program the other day about someones theory on time. the truth is all of us are living in the past, well what we see is the past anyway. after all it takes time for light to travel from the object(s) your seeing to your eye , before you see it. not only that but there having trouble actually keeping time. the earth as it seems does not take an exact amount of time to rotate around at any one time, infact it can very by as much as a few seconds every day. now that doesnt sound like much but when you add that up in deaceds or centurys , we could be as much as weeks or months behind or infront. what determines the differance between each earth revolution times apparently, is our weather or more precisly , wind current as it passes over the earths surface. well i found it interesting anyway,.......i live such a simple life these days lol

[Preen59]

What you said makes a lot of sense, Mike.

You can supposedly connect two points in spacetime together via a wormhole but calculating those points means observing them which changes them (Von Heisenberg)....its a total mind****.

I was talking about that with a mate the other day. It's all very interesting.

[Dubya]

I'd say you've got a 50:50, 1 in 2, or 50% chance of this thread being closed.

That would be the case for EVERY thread.

On the contrary, the probability that a thread will end up closed is very small indeed; probably less than 1%, or little more than the chances of that banana dancing its way out of the box or finding a mate and reproducing, lol.

[shogun2]

Hmmm - I get these types of discussions every day of the week. Son is doing a PhD on Loop Quantum Gravity...... When he talks about bubbles and foam he loses me every time.
Here's one explanation:
http://relativity.livingreviews.org/...es/lrr-2008-5/

[pixl]

i was watching an interesting program the other day about someones theory on time. the truth is all of us are living in the past

I believe that. An example of this would be stars. Many of the stars that we see in our sky burnt out millions of years ago, yet because of the distance their light is still traveling towards us.

Which also means the same is true in reverse. If there was a way for you to fly to one of these stars and look back on Earth on with a really powerful telescope, you would see dinosaurs.

[c-issler]

Hmmm - I get these types of discussions every day of the week. Son is doing a PhD on Loop Quantum Gravity...... When he talks about bubbles and foam he loses me every time.
Here's one explanation:
http://relativity.livingreviews.org/...es/lrr-2008-5/

Then you are a very lucky man indeed ; as is your son. My father was a nuclear physicist in his early career and went on to become a systems analyst at the very beginning of the personal computer revolution. He was a quantum mechanics expert and inventor too. He died very young unfortunately (46) and left a pretty huge void. I'm glad you share stories with your young fella. I wouldn't worry too much about the
BTW, that abstract is beautifully written.

[Spyda]

Yet you still do not understand.

How the do you know?