Ep63 - Sean Carroll: "Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime"
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The Schrodinger's Cat Experiment
In quantum mechanics, we have a new possibility of this superposition. The cat can be in a combination of awake and asleep. And then we tell a story about what happens when we open the box and measure that superposition. In Copenhagen, we treat the observer as classical. So I'm putting classical things in square brackets and quantum things in parentheses. But remember Schrodinger was unhappy about quantum mechanics. That was his point.
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