@Uair@actuallyautistic More accurately, he used the example as an argument against the Copenhagen interpretation, he meant it as areductio ad adsurbem argument.
Which means he presumed the cat was either alive, or dead, but not some weird inbetween state.
Ironically this means he was both being a dick to hypothetical cats, and not being a dick to hypothetical cats, at the same time.
“For a process that’s anything but exotic, ice nucleation remains surprisingly mysterious. Chemists can’t reliably predict the effect of a given impurity or surface, let alone design one to hinder or promote ice formation. But they’re chipping away at the problem.”
#Journals | EPJ Applied Physics
"Investigating the structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of Cd1–xVxTe: insights from first-principles calculations" M. Baiboud, A. Labrag, M. Bghour, M. Khenfouch, H. Charkaoui, A. El Hassan, H.El Ouaddi & S. Laasri
➡️https://bit.ly/3VzRTNS
Mathematicians Attempt to Glimpse Past the Big Bang
“Researchers already knew that in a universe with so-called dark energy, but without matter, the start of inflation identified in the BGV theorem is a coordinate singularity that can be eliminated. But the real universe has matter, of course. Might mathematical tricks also make it possible to get around its singularity? The researchers showed that if the amount of matter is negligible compared to the amount of dark energy, then the singularity can be eliminated.”
Mathematicians Attempt to Glimpse Past the Big Bang
“Researchers already knew that in a universe with so-called dark energy, but without matter, the start of inflation identified in the BGV theorem is a coordinate singularity that can be eliminated. But the real universe has matter, of course. Might mathematical tricks also make it possible to get around its singularity? The researchers showed that if the amount of matter is negligible compared to the amount of dark energy, then the singularity can be eliminated.”
Seeking Ultimates: An Intuitive Guide to Physics, Second Edition by Peter T. Landsberg, 2020
Takes us on a journey that explores the limits of our scientific knowledge, emphasizing the gaps that are left. The book starts with everyday concepts such as temperature, and proceeds to energy, the Periodic Table, and then to more advanced ideas.
If there are people liking physics here in the #actuallyAutistic ? I was doing my walk and spotted this nice example of refraction of the light with stones on the river bank. The stones look flatter on the right due to the refraction of the light.