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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Schrödinger's cat If we do not look, it is not there

Schrödinger's cat for a 6th grader: "Niels Bohr proposed a solution to create the events we all observe. He assumed that conscious observation caused events. He thought there was an aspect of the world described by the evolution of probabilities in quantum mechanics, and an aspect of the world that we observe. Whenever we look in the box or make a measurement, we get some definite result and not just a probability. But quantum mechanics never models these events. If we do not look, there are no events. There are just probabilities changing"