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Xanfor

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« #6 : 01-03-2012 19:50 »
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Same thing. The other thread explains them for you. That thread is for things you didn't get or notice until later. This thread is for things you still don't get.
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cyber_turnip

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« #20 : 01-05-2012 19:18 »
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It's a theory, or rather a criticism of quantum mechanics, whereby it poses a scenario in which a cat is placed in a box with some poison. It applies rules of quantum mechanics to every day items which basically means that whilst the box is closed and you can't know of the cat's well-being, the cat is both alive and dead until you open the box to check. Not that it could potentially be alive or dead, but it is literally both alive and dead at the same time, existing in two states. As I said, it's more of a criticism of quantum mechanics than an actual theory stating that the cat exists in two states. And the cat and the box are just examples - it can be applied to anything. Until I look in my biscuit tin, I have to assume that all the biscuits have been eaten and all of the biscuits have been left for me.
'Law and Oracle', very lazily, crammed Schrodinger into the episode to say "Look, we're doing a science joke!" without actually doing anything interesting with it. I hated that joke although I adore the episode as a whole.
I'm sure someone can explain it better than I have, anyway.
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Boxy Robot

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« #21 : 01-05-2012 19:23 »
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It's a theory, or rather a criticism of quantum mechanics, whereby it poses a scenario in which a cat is placed in a box with some poison. It applies rules of quantum mechanics to every day items which basically means that whilst the box is closed and you can't know of the cat's well-being, the cat is both alive and dead until you open the box to check. Not that it could potentially be alive or dead, but it is literally both alive and dead at the same time, existing in two states. As I said, it's more of a criticism of quantum mechanics than an actual theory stating that the cat exists in two states. And the cat and the box are just examples - it can be applied to anything. Until I look in my biscuit tin, I have to assume that all the biscuits have been eaten and all of the biscuits have been left for me.
'Law and Oracle', very lazily, crammed Schrodinger into the episode to say "Look, we're doing a science joke!" without actually doing anything interesting with it. I hated that joke although I adore the episode as a whole.
I'm sure someone can explain it better than I have, anyway.
Thank you so much (I also agree that the joke didn't really work at that moment in the episode) but yeah, that is a really interesting theory...
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