November 5, 2019

• copenhagen interpretation

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  • i am the butterfly eater
    dining on illusions,
    quandary mechanics and chaos theory;
    it's the difference between determinism
    and indeterminism...is it true that if
    you know everything in the present, you
    can predict the future? for example playing billiards--
    if you feed everything into a computer, such as
    how hard you hit the ball, the angle of the cue,
    it would still be impossible to tell how each ball
    would respond to a collision--a speck of dust
    could throw everything
    out of whack...then there's the butterfly
    effect. ( for every butterfly eaten in tennessee, a woman
    dies in massachusetts. ) Newton's universe was
    a clockwork universe, but the quandary world is not
    deterministic--you can't predict the outcome because
    you can't know both the position and the momentum
    of your lover/ex lover, dead/alive, loving/not loving
    at the same time. things change as you look at them
    when does the wave
    become the particle?

    wave and particle are two aspects
    of a single reality, an unknowable reality--
    wave function defines an area of
    probability-- like being in a certain place at
    a certain moment, loving and not loving at
    the same time, a la Schrödinger's cat.

    here's my quandary: in the absence
    of measurement, is there no reality?
    to measure, must one have to see?  if you have no
    separate reality until i can see you, can measure you--

    and if you are neither separate nor real,
    then you are an illusory part of me,

    so how can i prove the existence
    of that which never goes away
    but does not exist?  how could something
    be true but unprovable?

    it's the liar's paradox.*

     

    * i am a liar

    

    Schrödinger's Cat: A cat, along with a flask containing a poison, is placed in a sealed box shielded against environmentally induced quantum decoherence. If an internal Geiger counter detects radiation, the flask is shattered, releasing the poison that kills the cat. The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics implies that after a while, the cat is simultaneously alive and dead. Yet, when we look in the box, we see the cat either alive ordead, not a mixture of alive and dead.

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