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Saturday, November 3, 2012

Questions for Monday, Nov 5


Each is worth 1 point. Tricky ones this week. Or are they?

1.     How can the feline be both dead and alive? Or is it?
2.     What branch of Physics does this paradox deal with?
3.     What is the name of the famous interpretation of this Physics and over which years was it formulated?
4.     What two famous physicists were responsible for this interpretation?
5.     Why did my t-shirt have those things written on the front and back?
Good Luck,
Mr A

7 comments:

  1. 1.Referring to the cat in the box experiment, where the cat either lives or dies based on whether a radioactive atom has decayed or not. it csn live in both states untill it has been observed.

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  2. 2. Explained by multiverse theory and string theory
    3.Multiverse theory and quantinum logic.
    5. Because one interprets the cat (alive or dead ) and your tshirt shows both perspectives.

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  3. Neha, good answers to #1 and #5.
    #2 and #3 are wrong.
    Mr A

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  4. 4. Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrodinger.

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  5. 2. Quantum Physics

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  6. 3.Copenhagen interpretation 1924-27
    if so 4. Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg

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  7. Neha I'll give you #2 but not #4.
    Grace you got both #3 and #4.

    That's it everyone!

    Mr A

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