Schrödinger hated this cat metaphor, he originally told it to highlight its absurdity.
However, Schrödinger was also a devout pedophile and rapist, so I take glee every time his cat is referenced. Fuck him.
Schrödinger was also a devout pedophile and rapist
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Loved my psych professor. When we went over him she made it VERY clear that we were only doing so because he happened to be influential in the founding of modern psychology, but otherwise he was full of shit and a horrible person.
Edit: I’m an absolute dumbass and somehow mixed up Schrödinger and Freud.
Are you perhaps thinking of someone else? As far as I’m aware, Schrödinger is only well known for work in particle physics, quantum mechanics, and related physics fields.
Don’t forget his contribution to paedomechanics.
No, I think I am. I have somehow confused Schrödinger for Freud.
Wow. Brains be dumb sometimes.
I’ve seen this exact comment copied/pasted from elsewhere
That was probably me. A sign that I’ve saturated the fediverse with my rant and I should cool it.
Still my first time seeing it. And as a physicist who wants to strive to improve my field we should know these things.
Including the follow up of someone questioning “devout” and getting that quote in response.
Yes, he was an Epsteinite, but his point was generally correct. Einstein, Schrödinger, and Bell all recognized that the orthodox interpretation of quantum mechanics makes no sense because it postulates a transition from quantum to classical with no explanation of how this actually occurs. They would not have liked Many Worlds either because it does not actually get rid of the transition, it just claims the classical world is an illusion so it shifts the transition to something happening in your brain, but then doesn’t explain how your brain could possibly create a world of discrete events happening in 3D space from a world where no discrete events ever happen that is just one giant continuous wave evolving in an infinite-dimensional space as there is no clear way to map the latter onto the former. Bell was around when Many Worlds was becoming popularized and so he did comment on it and pointed out it is nonsense and Everett never demonstrated any way to carry out this mapping consistently.
That cats attorney looks like the sidekick bad dog from all dogs go to heaven
Lmao
I don’t get the punchline
The message could be read as either
Kill him not, wait for me
Or
Kill him, not wait for me
It’s a bit of a stretch to be honest
Kill him not, wait for me and I’ll kill him.
oh its supposed to be interpreted two ways, I see thank you
I think they forgot the comma in the telegram
Commas cost extra, so it was commonplace to leave them out.
