so bottom line, we don’t know anything until we know something. This mind experiment has to be phrased properly, “the possibilities of the cat being alive or dead are equal without more information” Well, duh.
3 Boxes, each with a cat inside, 2 dead, 1 alive. You choose a box. Monty opens one of the unchosen boxes to reveal a dead cat, and asks if you wish to switch your choice to the other remaining box. Should you? ㋛
Ubintold about 1 year ago
Was the cat’s name “Humdinger”?
The Reader Premium Member about 1 year ago
Headache! Think of how the cat feels.
HappyDog/ᵀʳʸ ᴮᵒᶻᵒ ⁴ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠᵘⁿ ᵒᶠ ᶦᵗ Premium Member about 1 year ago
why do the odds change when the box is opened?
FassEddie about 1 year ago
And what kind of box has a 50% chance of killing the animal? Where’d he get it, Harbor Freight?
Serial Pedant about 1 year ago
MalWart.
mountainclimber about 1 year ago
The trouble with the “absurdity of quantum physics” is that every experiment validates it.
car2ner about 1 year ago
so bottom line, we don’t know anything until we know something. This mind experiment has to be phrased properly, “the possibilities of the cat being alive or dead are equal without more information” Well, duh.
ChessPirate about 1 year ago
The Monty Schrödinger Problem:
3 Boxes, each with a cat inside, 2 dead, 1 alive. You choose a box. Monty opens one of the unchosen boxes to reveal a dead cat, and asks if you wish to switch your choice to the other remaining box. Should you? ㋛
morningglory73 Premium Member about 1 year ago
But why use a cat as an example. Seems uncaring and cruel just to prove a point.
oakie817 about 1 year ago
actual question is: why would you put a cat in such a box to begin with?…box is empty
paul brians about 1 year ago
Schrödinger didn’t say the box killed the cat—just that it concealed whether the cat inside was either dead or alive.
Andrew Bosch Premium Member about 1 year ago
Quantum physics may be absurd but it’s quite real.
abucksworth Premium Member about 1 year ago
Does Sheldon know Schrödinger did it to prove the absurdity of physics? ’Cause I don’t really think that’s why he did it.