On 04/11/2009, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Ian Woollard
<ian.woollard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Schroedinger's cat very definitely is
fictitious; it's not an
experiment you can actually do and get an alive/dead cat that you can
actually see, you would get either an alive cat, or a dead cat.
I agree with the statement that it should not be in that category.
Essentially, because schrodinger's cat is not a cat.
Schrodinger's cat is a fictitious cat that is in the Schrodinger's cat
thought experiment.
It is fictitious because it is not a factual cat; it is countrafactual.
There is no notable fiction in which
Schrodinger's cat features heavily, for example.
It is notably in "Schroedinger's cat" thought experiment.
That's what a thought experiment is; it's a made up story about what
would happen if you did X,Y,Z which is used to illuminate aspects of
physics.
Steve
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-Ian Woollard