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makes me irrationally angry when people misunderstand schrodinger's cat
I'm not even sure I get it. Isn't he just saying that it's silly to imagine a cat being alive and dead therefore the Copenhagen interpretation must be wrong?^['cause you know, armchair reasoning about the world works great and if we know one thing it's that the universe is preordained to make sense to one species of planes ape]
yup
I studied applied physics. We did the "just shut up and calculate. Do you want to build an electron microscope or have an interesting debate?" interpretation of the wavefunction.