Schrödinger's Cat and the Imagination

James D. Stein

Jaykov Foukzon, Alex Potapov, Менькова Елена Романовна +1 more

In his famous thought experiment, Schrôdinger (1935) imagined a cat that measures the value of a quantum mechanical observable with its life.Since Schrödinger's time, no any interpretations or modifications of quantum mechanics have been proposed which give clear unambiguous answers to the questions posed by Schrödinger's cat of how long superpositions last and when (or whether) they collapse?In this paper appropriate modification of quantum mechanics is proposed.We claim that canonical interpretation of the wave function 1 2 cat live cat death cat c c = +.

Philip Yam

J Foukzon, A A Potapov, S A Podosenov

In his famous thought experiment, Schrôdinger (1935) imagined a cat that measures the value of a quantum mechanical observable with its life.Since Schrödinger's time, no any interpretations or modifications of quantum mechanics have been proposed which give clear unambiguous answers to the questions posed by Schrödinger's cat of how long superpositions last and when (or whether) they collapse?In this paper appropriate modification of quantum mechanics is proposed.We claim that canonical interpretation of the wave function 1 2 cat live cat death cat c c = +.

Peter John Bussey

Jaykov Foukzon, A. A. Potapov, Менькова Елена Романовна

In his famous thought experiment, Schrodinger(1935) imagined a cat that measures the value of a quantum mechanical observable with its life. Since Schrodinger’s time,no any interpretations or modifications of quantum mechanics have been proposed which gives clear unambiguous answers to the questions posed by Schrodinger’s cat of how long superpositions last and when (or whether) they collapse?In this book appropriate modification of quantum mechanics is proposed.We claim that canonical interpretation of the wave function ψ=с1ψ1+с2ψ2 is correct only when the wave function supports ψ1 and ψ2 essentially overlap. When these ones have separated supports we claim that canonical interpretation of the wave function ψ is no longer valid for a such cat state.Possible solution of the Schrodinger’s cat paradox is considered. We pointed out that the collapsed state of the cat always shows definite and predictable outcomes even if the cat also consists of a superposition:|cat>=с1|alive cat>+с2|death cat>.Using new quantum mechanical formalism the EPRB-paradox is considered.We find that the EPRB-paradox can be resolved by nonprincipal and convenient relaxing of the Einstein’s locality principle.