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Why Shroeder's test? Does it have anything to do with Gerhard Schroeder? I fail to see what. :-)
by krab 5y ago
Why Shroeder's test? Does it have anything to do with Gerhard Schroeder? I fail to see what. :-)
- Retr0id 5y agoI wonder if they meant Schrödinger - the test could be both passing or failing, but we don't know until we use the correct function to check the results.
- rikatee 5y agoyou're right thanks! Updated :)
- tialaramex 5y agoNote that Schrödinger's thought experiment is intended to ridicule this way of thinking. Schrödinger is trying to suggest that since it's clearly nonsensical to imagine that maybe a whole cat can be both dead and alive the same would be true for other macroscopic subjects. Instead popular culture has decided that at best, this is what Schrödinger believed (Ha those crazy scientists) and at worst that somehow the cats being dead and not-dead at the same time is the core idea of quantum physics :/
- 3pt14159 5y agoWriting software for a long time really changes your perspective on things. It no longer seems weird that "the" cat is both alive and dead. It's just compression between two universes and until we open the box our perspective is the same.
- marcosdumay 5y ago> and at worst that somehow the cats being dead and not-dead at the same time is the core idea of quantum physics Yet people are keeping larger and larger objects in a coherent state. Probably nobody will ever do it with a cat, but quantum physics is keeping its tradition of taking anything people think as absurd and saying "well, not really, look at this".
- rikatee 5y agooh dear time for a edit as I did indeed mean Schrödinger!
- contravariant 5y agoMaybe it's supposed to be Ernst Schroeder? Though I don't see the immediate connection.
- carpenecopinum 5y agoThat typo/misread (Schroeder instead of Schrödinger) honestly almost causes it to make more sense to me. Because I don't really see how those tests relate to quantum mechanics. Instead comparing those tests to a chancellor of the local labor party that was expected to help the situation of workers in the country, but essentially only used the office as a stepping stone to become a russian oligarch, making situation even worse in the process, makes plenty of sense to me...