File[Schroedinger's startling cat bag simulation.swf] - (521 KB)
[_] [G] Dead or alive, only you can decide. Anon 1299331
>> [_] Anon 1299339 Does nothing.
>> [_] Anon 1299358 >># u mad?
>> [_] Anon 1299404 >># How's the weather? hot?
>> [_] Anon 1299413 the schroedinger's cat thing isn't about a dead or alive cat, it was his response to an idea he found foolish put forth in the early days of quantum theory that it didn't matter what individual subatomic particles did when you dealt with large numbers, that they were in probabilistic states. in the thought experiment, a sensor sensitive enough to detect a single particle decaying would be hooked up to a device that would poison a cat in a box if a single radon particle decayed. reasoning at the time could be deduced to say that any subatomic particle at any time would be both states (non-decayed and decayed) unless it was observed (at which point it would suddenly assume one of the two states), therefore the cat in the box would be both dead and alive until observed. people have taken it to be a proof of the concept where schroedinger was pointing out how foolish such a concept was.
>> [_] Anon 1299417 >># Oooooh, I now have so much more respect for him now. Sarcasm doesn't always carry well over the years, apparently.
>> [_] Anon 1299421 >># this is also one of the key reasons people have trouble actually understanding quantum physics today, that they assume that it's supposed to be weird. this is one thing that hasn't been proven or disproven yet: the rate of time for a particle traveling at light speed is zero. also, extrapolating from that, the edge of the universe, which is the original light not captured by gravity at the point after the cosmic egg broke (if this ever actually happened) and the energy had cooled down enough to form the minor subatomic particles is still as new as it was at that point.
>> [_] Anon 1299422 >># Not mad. Just disappointed.
>> [_] Anon 1299440 Windows XP = Dead Ubuntu 5.10 = ALIVE GRUB 2.0 BITCHES! We hazors it now!
>> [_] Anon 1299526 if i open this with xp will it actually do something?
>> [_] Anon 1299541 >># It's a simply loop with music.