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Famous \'quantum\' thought experiment revisited
THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: You seal a cat in a box along with a vial of poison gas and a trigger that will release the gas if a quantum event that has precisely a 50-50 chance of happening in the next hour occurs. Without opening the box an hour later, can you say whether the cat is alive or dead?
No is the correct answer. But not because you can't tell which it is. Rather, because it's neither. The cat is neither alive nor dead' but instead is a superposition of wave fronts -- a mingled combination of both possibilities. Only the act of opening the box and looking causes the wave front to resolve itself into one concrete reality. That's quantum mechanics: things are indeterminate until they are observed.
Suppose I look in the box first, see that the cat's alive and then close the box. You come along a few minutes later and you open the box and look, unaware that I've previously had a peek at the cat inside the box. What do you see? A living cat.
Why do the observations of a single observer create a concrete reality for everyone simultaneously? One answer is that everyone is part of the overmind or collective unconscious. So the observation made by one person is the observation made by all people -- indeed, quantum mechanics requires the overmind in order to work.
Consider the link (below) as an example. Was the Peekskill meteor impact event designed and caused by an advanced extraterrestrial agency to relay a message to humankind, or was it a purely natural event? The question may seem absurd on the surface, but upon examination ("opening the box") the astounding answer becomes clear.
THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: You seal a cat in a box along with a vial of poison gas and a trigger that will release the gas if a quantum event that has precisely a 50-50 chance of happening in the next hour occurs. Without opening the box an hour later, can you say whether the cat is alive or dead?
No is the correct answer. But not because you can't tell which it is. Rather, because it's neither. The cat is neither alive nor dead' but instead is a superposition of wave fronts -- a mingled combination of both possibilities. Only the act of opening the box and looking causes the wave front to resolve itself into one concrete reality. That's quantum mechanics: things are indeterminate until they are observed.
Suppose I look in the box first, see that the cat's alive and then close the box. You come along a few minutes later and you open the box and look, unaware that I've previously had a peek at the cat inside the box. What do you see? A living cat.
Why do the observations of a single observer create a concrete reality for everyone simultaneously? One answer is that everyone is part of the overmind or collective unconscious. So the observation made by one person is the observation made by all people -- indeed, quantum mechanics requires the overmind in order to work.
Consider the link (below) as an example. Was the Peekskill meteor impact event designed and caused by an advanced extraterrestrial agency to relay a message to humankind, or was it a purely natural event? The question may seem absurd on the surface, but upon examination ("opening the box") the astounding answer becomes clear.
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