I should perhaps point out that at no point did I say the state of the cat being dead and alive was a non-zero probability scenario, I was simply stating the lack of determinism! The "slipperiness" of language
Apologies Bill,
I was going by what I had read in Griffiths intro to Quantum Mechanics, we live and learn, thanks for posting that link! Very interesting
The cat is in a superposition of states and when you observe the cat it will collapse into the dead state, or the alive state! It's a thought experiment simply to highlight that until a measurement is made there is no way to predict the state of the cat. Determinism disappears on a quantum level...
Because if we call it a particle we collapse the wave function to a single point? So it cannot have a probability to be "everywhere" like quantum theory boasts
That is all fine, I'm aware I have only scratched the surface of the quantum world. However we do not have particle equations? We have wave equations? Or is this a matter of mere naming
No one really know what electrons are, they have never been observed, along with a lot of constituent parts of matter (strings) it was a general comment which I regret ;)
I have been reading Richard Feynmans Quantum Electrodyamics and quite early in the first chapter he asserts that Photons are particles. His reasoning that as you decrease the intensity of light incident on a photomultiplier the clicks which the multiplier make become less frequent but equally...