Comments on: Schrödinger’s Preening Booth http://boakes.org/schrodingers-preening-booth/ nice of you to drop by. tea? Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:00:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6-bleeding By: LesleyG http://boakes.org/schrodingers-preening-booth/#comment-7035 LesleyG Thu, 09 Mar 2006 09:00:09 +0000 http://boakes.org/schrodingers-preening-booth#comment-7035 Hey! This could help us in re-homing rescued cats & dogs at the <a href="http://www.llysnini-rspca.org.uk/">Llys Nini Animal Centre</a> in Swansea. People coming to view prospective pets could see contented animals from every view point simultaneously. As an RSPCA associated outfit though, we could only consider this on the understanding that no animals would be adversly affected in the process. (Herr Schrödinger, please note). If you'd like a furry friend to come and sit in your mirror lined think-tank, <a href="http://www.llysnini-rspca.org.uk/how_you_can_help.html#Rehoming">rehoming</a> is a good solution. Hey! This could help us in re-homing rescued cats & dogs at the Llys Nini Animal Centre in Swansea. People coming to view prospective pets could see contented animals from every view point simultaneously.

As an RSPCA associated outfit though, we could only consider this on the understanding that no animals would be adversly affected in the process. (Herr Schrödinger, please note).

If you’d like a furry friend to come and sit in your mirror lined think-tank, rehoming is a good solution.

]]> By: Chris Samuel http://boakes.org/schrodingers-preening-booth/#comment-7034 Chris Samuel Thu, 09 Mar 2006 08:32:37 +0000 http://boakes.org/schrodingers-preening-booth#comment-7034 Strangely enough, I've been thinking about this problem from a different viewpoint - if the box with the dead/live cat in is opened by an observer inside a locked room who then dies before being able to pass on the information does the waveform collapse when he sees it and stay collapsed, or does it not collapse from the point of view of an observer outside the room? I was wondering if it collapsed and then uncollapsed, but I suspect from a QM point of view it's likely to be one of the two former cases.. So again it begs the question of who/what exactly constitutes an observer ? There is the participatory anthropic principle that says that conscious life is necessary to the universe in order for the collapse of QM waveforms to occur, but I think that's a particularly long straw to grasp.. Hmm - this would make a good blog post in its own right - <a href="http://www.csamuel.org/2006/03/09/schrodingers-cat-observers-and-the-participatory-anthropic-principle/" rel="nofollow">I'll go chuck it on my site too</a>.. Strangely enough, I’ve been thinking about this problem from a different viewpoint - if the box with the dead/live cat in is opened by an observer inside a locked room who then dies before being able to pass on the information does the waveform collapse when he sees it and stay collapsed, or does it not collapse from the point of view of an observer outside the room?

I was wondering if it collapsed and then uncollapsed, but I suspect from a QM point of view it’s likely to be one of the two former cases..

So again it begs the question of who/what exactly constitutes an observer ? There is the participatory anthropic principle that says that conscious life is necessary to the universe in order for the collapse of QM waveforms to occur, but I think that’s a particularly long straw to grasp..

Hmm - this would make a good blog post in its own right - I’ll go chuck it on my site too..

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