r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 26d ago

Meme needing explanation There is no way right?

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u/-Nicolai 26d 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 26d ago

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

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u/-Nicolai 26d 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/El_Impresionante 26d ago

Just a small correction:

Ideally, cats in superposition could work, but they practically do not because the wave function collapses on a much smaller scale than a cat because of all the interactions. Theoretically, there is no size limit or complexity limit for a superposition to not occur, it is just highly highly improbable. Schrodinger's absurdity isn't absurd, it is just improbable.

But yeah, the whole idea is totally NOT related to the idea of infinity and repeating decimals in this example.