Recent content by alan white

No joke. At least not to me. In Japan, old folks are often not told by the sons/daughters and doctor that they are terminally ill. The ones who are told die much sooner. Anyway, I don't see any difference at all between macro or micro worlds. The only difference is our beliefs, which are...

Very true. And by the same token, quantum collapse occurs each time a new observer observes the same thing. This is a departure from a lot of people who believe that once collapsed, the works been done. Renegade thinking, because it implies that the objective reality is not really objective...

Perhaps the experiment would be more understandable if you saw each sentient being as a single observer in a personal universe. You are assuming a single objective universe involving all participants including a cat and a number of humans. It is pointless to talk about the cat's timeline as...

Interesting thread. I'm new here but I find the forum fascinating.

Thanks, but in what way would there be a problem maintaining the cat in a superposition? If no erasure is done, an interference pattern kills the cat, and if erasure is done, the cat lives. Doing nothing (not erasing) kills the cat by ordinary means---- immediately. A camera reads the...

Pardon me if I am jumping into an established thread. I wonder if anyone might like to analyze the following thought experiment:The double slit test is performed using a right/left particle detector. Photons are projected in quantities sufficient to ensure each particle can be allocated to...