Recent content by Ableman

Very well, will come back later, thanks for directing me to a book that may satisfy my curiosity.

I think a thought experiment is adequate to answer this, though it is true that I have not seen the experiment described (though my professors spoke of it, and it is described in my physics book. There though the explanation is that when you put a detector on, it adds a random phase to the...

I don't understand what the significant difference would be between microscopic and macroscopic. If the hammer is broken, then the wavefunction of the cat would be in the alive state no matter what the Geiger counter registers.

I apologize that I was unclear, I'm new to this forum. Now, I'm an undergraduate physics student, so maybe I'm missing something. But it shouldn't make a difference whether it's a macroscopic or microscopic system. What I mean is that as soon as the Geiger counter detects an atomic decay the...

Wavefunction Collapse I think that the cat in a box paradox is very exciting, and gets told a lot, and thus gets misinterpreted. You see, in this case, it is easy to believe that it makes no difference whether you can observe it or not. But there are cases where it does. Two-slit interference...