After netting the world’s highest-paying science award, preeminent theoretical physicist Gerard ’t Hooft reflects on his legacy and the future of physics
Wasn’t Schrödinger’s cat originally supposed to be a refutation of superposition anyways? Like it literally makes no sense that the cat is simultaneously alive AND dead, and that’s why Schrödinger sent the example in his letter to Einstein.
It’s wild that it still gets trotted out as an explanation of Copenhagen interpretation to this very day. Total pet peeve. (Pun intended?)
Yup, it is a refutation. But people seem to be eager to ignore reality, to keep things consistent with the bullshit they believe (in this case, the Copenhagen interpretation):
what Schrödinger wanted to show - if the cat can’t be dead and alive at the same time, then superimposition is bullshit
what people did with the thought experiment - if superimposition is true, the cat is dead and alive at the same time
Wasn’t Schrödinger’s cat originally supposed to be a refutation of superposition anyways? Like it literally makes no sense that the cat is simultaneously alive AND dead, and that’s why Schrödinger sent the example in his letter to Einstein.
It’s wild that it still gets trotted out as an explanation of Copenhagen interpretation to this very day. Total pet peeve. (Pun intended?)
Yup, it is a refutation. But people seem to be eager to ignore reality, to keep things consistent with the bullshit they believe (in this case, the Copenhagen interpretation):