Posted: Oct 28, 2018 9:58 am
Whether the cat dies or not, in the theory, is not fixed by the initial conditions, so Schrodinger's behaviour similarly cannot be fixed, otherwise he would, at best, record the result correctly about half the time. Neither can his behaviour be random, for the same reason.newolder wrote:This shows behaviour determined by the rules of science and results that are a matter of chance.ughaibu wrote:let's take the science seriously, the predictions of quantum mechanics are irreducibly probabilistic, this means that if time is rewound to the point at which Schrodinger puts the cat in the box, on about half the subsequent evolutions the cat will be dead, when he reopens the box, on the rest it will be alive. Recall that researchers must be able to accurately record their observations, almost every time, so, Schrodinger must be able to correctly record "dead" or "alive", according to how the world evolves. This immediately commits us to the view that his behaviour is neither determined nor a matter of chance.
To say Schrodinger's behaviour is "determined" by the rules of science is to equivocate over "determined", and what results are a matter of chance?