Re:A Twist on Schrödinger's Cat Paradox
by rbanffy on Monday August 17, 2020 @05:21PM
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> You can always consider your automated apparatus to be part of the system and hence governed by unitary evolution.
But then wouldn't an external measuring apparatus (or person) observe the system in a single state instead of a superposition? Isn't that the same as a series of nested systems, each measured and having the state recorded by an apparatus that's part of a system that encapsulates it?
But then wouldn't an external measuring apparatus (or person) observe the system in a single state instead of a superposition? Isn't that the same as a series of nested systems, each measured and having the state recorded by an apparatus that's part of a system that encapsulates it?