Do you think the absurdity of a Schrödinger's cat situation

>>7963204
QM is absurd. That doesn't mean it's wrong.

>>7963204
The "flaw" in QM can be fixed by accounting for the observer's consciousness.

What's with people reading about Schrodinger's Cat and suddenly thinking they're making frontier leaps in understanding of quantum mechanics.

>>7963215
You've TOTALLY misunderstood the idea of quantum mechanics. It's not about understanding how the smallest parts interact, or anything like that. It's about cats in boxes, that is the ultimatum of QM, of the very field of physics. There is no understand higher than Schrödinger's cat.

>>7963215
OP here.
You can't really understand the cat experiment before you understand basic QM-which I definitely do. It is thought provoking IMO so I created the thread

>>7963204
I think it's a good example of how qm effects could not make sense on a macroscopic scale. Problem is a lot of people see it as an example of how zany qm is.

>>7963244
not sure if bait but..

if you understood basic QM then you would understand that it is the thought experiment itself that is absurd, not QM. or rather, it is the absurd application of quantum phenomena to a macro-system without realizing that such a large system automatically observes itself, thus reducing such quantum uncertainties to an average of collapsed outcomes.

>>7963244
Eh, I guess I'm just annoyed about seeing everyone and their mother reading Schroedinger's Cat and then thinking they're a Physicist.

>>7963204
I think it points to a flaw in your understanding of QM and the "Schrodinger's cat scenario."

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>>7963207

How is the copenhagen interpretation doing for you?

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Btw, just a reminder that this has already been adressed. The answer is Bell's theorem.

>>7963280
>Many-Worlds Interpretation
>Interpretation
>Doesn't actually provide an interpretation of QM

Call me back when you can explain why the percieved probability of observing a quantum state goes with the square of the amplitude.

>>7963291
>non-locality
>schrödingers cat
embarrassing