Friday, February 01, 2019

I realise I am Schrodinger's cat

My realisation happened when I was getting dressed. I explained it to Husband. 'I am both slim and chubby, depending on what I'm wearing and how I feel.'

'It only works while you can't see the cat,' Husband said.
'Which is nonsense. Whether you can see him or not the cat is either dead or alive. He isn't both. So really I am a better example.'

Having declared this I thought perhaps I should find out a little more. Apparently it's all to do with quantum mechanics. That stuff Sheldon and co. talk about on The Big Bang Theory.

The ‘Copenhagen interpretation’ of quantum mechanics states that a particle exists in all states at once until observed. Which to anyone with any sense is obviously nonsense. And it is, in fact, to show the limitations of this interpretation that Schrodinger came up with the cat story. Which wasn't even a real experiment.

However if you use my example i.e. being slim and chubby at once, then actually it confirms that a particle can exist in more than one state at once, observed or not.

I think I may have made a major breakthrough in the field. Hinds' fat could run alongside Schrodinger's cat in the study of quantum mechanics. 

I could get a Nobel prize for my discovery. I wonder to whom I should write to put myself forward. 
Schrodinger's cat Hinds' fat

3 comments:

Debra She Who Seeks said...

And you'll get to go to a big Swedish State Dinner when you win your Nobel too, thereby enhancing your hypothesis!

Anonymous said...

So sorry, Liz. I had not caught onto the fact of your being such a great theoretician, before. Kudos for your breakthrough. I spent a lot of time worrying about particle states, in physics, but never worried about a cat - Schrodinger's or otherwise. Alas! I am not a member of the Storting so am unlikely to be able to vote for your obtaining a Nobel prize in physics. (But...you KNOW I would do that, were I able!)
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Liz Hinds said...

Precisely, Debra.

How could you have missed that, CC?! Thank you for voting for me were you able to.