The point is not that the cat is a valid observer, but that you have not observed the cat to be alive or dead.
Consider:
When you observe the cat, you collapse it's wave function - i.e. quantum probability - and it is either alive or dead. But if you are the only person in the lab when you do it, the state of the cat is no less determined for any other person outside the lab - as far as they are concerned, there now exists these two worlds:
You have observed the cat to be alive You have observed the cat to be dead
For an outside party, as with the original cat, both of these situations are true until _you_ are observed and _your_ wave function is collapsed.
Exciting, isn't it? And a bit surreal at the same time. You can see why the quantum pioneers - Einstein, Planck and the rest of them - were so reluctant to accept this.
The Cat experiment was a 'thought experiment' designed to show how absurd Quantum Mechanics should be - unfortunately, modern theory makes these experiments absolutely plausible.
Do you think Schrodinger et al would be happy or sad ?
As far as I understand Oracle, a shop of this size would not justify internal Oracle consulting, instead they would far it out to their registered development community, which is a bit hit & miss.
This model is at odds with MS, who very much support their MCSE's.
ps - MS haven't actually answered the challenge; they've just decried it as irellevant (yeah right, MS would NEVER make an irrelevant challenge...), and come up with some figures that they claim reflects the 'real world'.
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Hhm, I don't believe the appropriate theorists have yet decided whether they need 10 or 24 dimensions yet - both fit the theories put forward to date.
Oh joy.
james
The point is not that the cat is a valid observer, but that you have not observed the cat to be alive or dead.
Consider:
When you observe the cat, you collapse it's wave function - i.e. quantum probability - and it is either alive or dead. But if you are the only person in the lab when you do it, the state of the cat is no less determined for any other person outside the lab - as far as they are concerned, there now exists these two worlds:
You have observed the cat to be alive
You have observed the cat to be dead
For an outside party, as with the original cat, both of these situations are true until _you_ are observed and _your_ wave function is collapsed.
Exciting, isn't it? And a bit surreal at the same time. You can see why the quantum pioneers - Einstein, Planck and the rest of them - were so reluctant to accept this.
The Cat experiment was a 'thought experiment' designed to show how absurd Quantum Mechanics should be - unfortunately, modern theory makes these experiments absolutely plausible.
Do you think Schrodinger et al would be happy or sad ?
james
In the world of the data center, that kind of hardware is not ridiculous - just rare!.
;-)
The whole thing just highlights yet another shortcoming of SQL6.5/7 - namely, that it has to run on NT. hahaha.
Anyone like to try & benchmark mySQL on that kind of hardware ?
j.
As far as I understand Oracle, a shop of this size would not justify internal Oracle consulting, instead they would far it out to their registered development community, which is a bit hit & miss.
This model is at odds with MS, who very much support their MCSE's.
ps - MS haven't actually answered the challenge; they've just decried it as irellevant (yeah right, MS would NEVER make an irrelevant challenge...), and come up with some figures that they claim reflects the 'real world'.
j.