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about deterministic systems and disproving the schrodinger's cat theory.
if your system state is determined by a quantum wave function then the theory states that your wave function collapses as soon as it is observed... if you set up your system so that after a set time period based on the state of the system, the system say releases a particle or doesn't release a particle. the act of the particle being observed will collapse the system, but the trick is if the system doesn't release a particle then according the theory the system will still be in a quantum super position (and half of the time it will have released a particle) and it will there for either defy causality or have collapsed by some other means.
Is this correct logic, or am I missing something?
if your system state is determined by a quantum wave function then the theory states that your wave function collapses as soon as it is observed... if you set up your system so that after a set time period based on the state of the system, the system say releases a particle or doesn't release a particle. the act of the particle being observed will collapse the system, but the trick is if the system doesn't release a particle then according the theory the system will still be in a quantum super position (and half of the time it will have released a particle) and it will there for either defy causality or have collapsed by some other means.
Is this correct logic, or am I missing something?
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