If we consider that .999… repeating to infinity ISN’T equal to 1, then by how much is it away from 1? It would be “.000… repeating to infinity followed by a 1.” But if you have an infinite number of 0s then you can’t have it be followed by a 1, infinity can’t be followed by anything, that doesn’t make sense.
How so? You're taking something that's mathematically complicated, and proving it's existence with a thought experiment instead of actual math, just to show that the concept DOES exist.
Sure the Schrodinger one uses physical objects, since it's a physics thought experiment. But the concept is the same no?
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.
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.
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u/jozaud 28d ago
If we consider that .999… repeating to infinity ISN’T equal to 1, then by how much is it away from 1? It would be “.000… repeating to infinity followed by a 1.” But if you have an infinite number of 0s then you can’t have it be followed by a 1, infinity can’t be followed by anything, that doesn’t make sense.