What If Time Really Exists? (2008)

Re:What If Time Really Exists? (2008) by stale2002 on Saturday January 07, 2017 @05:24PM (#13347015)

This issue is that what an "observer" is isn't defined.

According to your argument, a situation like Schrödinger's cat, where a Cat is both dead and alive, is completely ridiculous.

Which is a fair point. But apparently a whole lot of quantum physicists believe that Schrödinger's cat is a perfectly reasonable situation.

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Re:What If Time Really Exists? (2008) by TuringTest on Sunday January 08, 2017 @10:19AM (#13349993)

I never understood why the cat isn't considered an observer in that experiment. Certainly a live cat must know that it's alive?

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Re:What If Time Really Exists? (2008) by echelon on Sunday January 08, 2017 @11:29PM (#13354014)

Every atom in that box is an observer.

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