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From: virdy@pogo.den.mmc.com (Mahipal Singh Virdy)
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Nice ASCII-ART Colin....

In article <3h5pr0$gfm@southern.co.nz>,
Colin Douthwaite <Colin_Douthwaite@equinox.gen.nz> wrote:
>
>AndyW@ix.netcom.com (Andy Watson) wrote:
>
>> Yes folks, it's true!
>
>> Erwin Schrodinger was in fact sitting on the can when he 
>> made his many intuitive discoveries of QM.  In fact, he  
>> was in the classic "Thinker" pose as he did so...
>
>

He was sitting there thinking trying so very hard to forget. Saying to
himself, "I wish I'd never opened up that Cat story. It's going to come
back and haunt me as a <Cat in the Can| or |Cat on the Can> quandry. 
I want to forget. I want to forget. How do I think to make me forget...."

Is the can flip up or flip down? Does my observation change it so?
Perhaps if I never look then the can will be flip up and I can go...
Methinks the can is flip |up>! It's flip |down>! |up>!! |down>!!! Darn,
I can't decide and I have to go.... then just go... it's |up>. Assume
its |up> and then go, I mean |go>. 

The simple explaination of Schrodinger's Cat Paradox is that somehow
observation changes the outcome of an event. It's a very delicate
question. If I look inside the Box, will my looking cause the death of
the Cat? If I leave it alone, then the Cat lives forever...?

(I hope this helps Adrein)...

Mahipal,
May the |meforce> be |up> with you always.... now |go>...

>
>Which Can was Schrodinger actually sitting on ?
>
>
>
>This Can ?
>
>                                      ////////
>                                      |:---[.]
>                                      |(     _J
>                                      | ^ ( _|
>                                     / \_____)
>                                    /  _____  \
>                                   |  /     \  \
>         _________                 |  |     |   |
>       ./       ./                 \  /\   /\__ |
>     ./       ./ |                 |  |        \/--- _
>   ./        ./  |                 \   \            ) )
>  /________ / o  |                  |   >_____/_____)_)
>  |        |     |                  \__________/
>  |        |     |__  ________      /         \
>  |        |    /  ./ ------- .\    |          |
>  |        |   / ./            \.\  \          \\
>  |        |  /  (              ) )  \          |\
>  |        | /    \.          ./ /    \         | \
>  !--------------\ \._______./ /       \         | |
>  !               `============'        |        |  |
>   \                       I            |       |   |
>    >                      I           |        /   |
>   /                        \         |________/____|
>  <                          >        (_________)____)
>___\________________________/________________________________
>
>|=======================================================|  \      |
>|                  SCHRODINGER'S  CAN                   |   |     |

Flushhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... Flushhhhh...