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I had a question about Schrodinger's cat that extends to the universe.
First, I'm sure everyone knows the Schrodinger's cat set up so I won't repeat it. I will just ask, how can the cat be dead or alive prior to measurement? This measurement would be either atoms in the radioactive substance decay in an hour or they don't decay and the Experimenter opens the box.
Until this measurement occurs, how can we say the cat is dead or alive? Decoherence tells why you will see a dead cat or live cat but how can decoherence know which state to decohere to prior to measurement?
This leads to another question that I was curious about. What does Science say about the objective universe? For instance, we live subjective lives like I like spaghetti/I hate spaghetti. As far as I can tell these are subjective experiences.
An objective experience would be an Experimenter that measures which slit the particle went through.
My question is, what does Science say about that objective experience? Is it objective or is it just a subjective local experience and we're the end of observation in our local universe, therefore some superobserver could see a version of the Experimenter measuring the particle going through one slit and another version going through the other?
I remember reading in Nature about the death of local realism. So, does Science say our universe is non local and what we experience as Objective is really Subjective when connected to some wider universe that may be at thermodynamic equilibrium or is an isolated objective experience that's objectively real?
Does Science say anything when it comes to these questions?
First, I'm sure everyone knows the Schrodinger's cat set up so I won't repeat it. I will just ask, how can the cat be dead or alive prior to measurement? This measurement would be either atoms in the radioactive substance decay in an hour or they don't decay and the Experimenter opens the box.
Until this measurement occurs, how can we say the cat is dead or alive? Decoherence tells why you will see a dead cat or live cat but how can decoherence know which state to decohere to prior to measurement?
This leads to another question that I was curious about. What does Science say about the objective universe? For instance, we live subjective lives like I like spaghetti/I hate spaghetti. As far as I can tell these are subjective experiences.
An objective experience would be an Experimenter that measures which slit the particle went through.
My question is, what does Science say about that objective experience? Is it objective or is it just a subjective local experience and we're the end of observation in our local universe, therefore some superobserver could see a version of the Experimenter measuring the particle going through one slit and another version going through the other?
I remember reading in Nature about the death of local realism. So, does Science say our universe is non local and what we experience as Objective is really Subjective when connected to some wider universe that may be at thermodynamic equilibrium or is an isolated objective experience that's objectively real?
Does Science say anything when it comes to these questions?
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