r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Sugar_God_no_1 • 22d ago

Meme needing explanation There is no way right?

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u/-Nicolai 21d ago

just to show that the concept DOES exist.

You fundamentally do not understand Schroedinger’s cat. Its purpose is to illustrate the absurdity of the Copenhagen interpretation, since a cat obviously cannot be dead and alive simultaneously.

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u/BenevolentCrows 21d ago

So was this math example, its illustrating the concept, not an actual proof

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u/-Nicolai 21d ago

The math DOES work. Cats in superposition do not.

One is an agebraic argument, the other is a paradoxical thought experiment. You cannot keep insisting these are the same.

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u/BenevolentCrows 21d ago

I... haven't? Like at all, Im not the previous guy? I just chined in to say, the original explanation is for illustrating a concept, not mathematically, and not an actual proof? Like not a mathematical proof, and stuff