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Quantum Physics

Schrödinger's Cat

Schrödinger's Cat is a metaphor Schrödinger used to describe a portion of quantum theory as it relates to particle physics (in this case, the cat is the particle). It is a relatively simple explanation of the uncertainty principle. This is a realtively simple explanation of the explanation.

Inside of a box is a device, which is activated fifty- percent of the time. This device controls the release of a deadly toxin into the box.

According to Quantum Theory, if a cat is placed into the box and the lid is shut, something very peculiar happens. The cat loses it's deterministic nature and becomes both alive and dead, simultaneously. It could be alive or it could be dead. The point is that we do not know so we say that it is in a superposition of the states, (i.e. it is both).

When the box is opened, the cat will be either dead or alive, but until the box is opened, we will not know which. Once the box is opened, the cat cannot be returned to its original state.

Like points in space or particles, until you measure (sample, look-at) the thing, it both exists and does not.

Traditionally, Science leaves it there as a wave of probability, which fills the space of all possible states until the box is opened. Science then allows that the wave collapses into one single state. We humbly suggest that this superposition of the states is a state unto itself. The resulting model elevates the binary system (two wait-states) to a trinary system (three wait-states), and tips the whole of Quantum Physics on it's ear.

We humbly submit that Descartes' old saw be modified to read:

I measure therefore it is

I think therefore I maybe.

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