tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14840542.post113805897981820724..comments2023-06-17T06:46:48.762-07:00Comments on The Odds Are One: Ceci N'est Pas Une Second Wave/Particle PostTransient Gadflyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10313323030838183737noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14840542.post-1138222168042488192006-01-25T12:49:00.000-08:002006-01-25T12:49:00.000-08:00You seem to be making a distinction there between ...You seem to be making a distinction there between the cat being alive and the cat being not dead. Which I guess is a distinction that I've never seen made, but given the terms of the experiment is perhaps important, now that I think about it.Transient Gadflyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10313323030838183737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14840542.post-1138211017001414072006-01-25T09:43:00.000-08:002006-01-25T09:43:00.000-08:00I learned a great deal there. Something is nagging...I learned a great deal there. Something is nagging me about that cat, though. You see, I totally buy that the cat is neither dead nor alive until we observe it, but there's something about saying it's dead and not-dead at the same time that's troubling. That seems like a sort of logical deduction from within the very paradigm of logic that the particle/wave results ought to be breaking down. <BR/><BR/>We don't know what's up with the cat until we look - sure. But that's reallly all there is to say.<BR/><BR/>Alas, I don't think I myself am making this point very clealry, but I feel certain that there is a point there to make.fronesishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13544185676179565507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14840542.post-1138143542261425422006-01-24T14:59:00.000-08:002006-01-24T14:59:00.000-08:00"Welcome, Dan."Thanks!I'm not that clumsy, so it's..."Welcome, Dan."<BR/><BR/>Thanks!<BR/><BR/>I'm not that clumsy, so it's unlikely that I'll fall on you anytime soon. I'm pretty sure that you and I are rarely on the same coast, let alone in the same US state, thus further decreasing the odds that I will, in fact, fall onto or even run into you. However, if I did fall on you, I, too, wouldn't know you except that you were someone I just fell on to, and that would be embarrassing enough that I'd probably try to get as far away from you as possible as quickly as possible. That wouldn't likely be my reaction if we were to meet in some other capacity (though, no guarantees).<BR/><BR/>I promise not to respond to the rest of your post until I've read it and the external links several times. (Ask most people who have had a class with me/had me in a class -- I have trouble not responding, even if I don't know what I'm talking about).Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04448647157972462097noreply@blogger.com