GrayArea wrote: ↑May 13th, 2022, 6:10 pm
Some or most of you may be familiar with the famous physics thought experiment made by Erwin Schrodinger, called the Schrodinger's Cat Experiment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat
So here is a very simple extension of the experiment. I decided to add another factor that may or may not affect quantum probability, which is time.
It goes like this: After the cat inside the box has either lived or died, one goes back in time (whether time travel is possible or not is not important to what this thought experiment attempts to question.) and re-runs the experiment again.
Will the cat encounter the exact same fate no matter how many times we go back in time and re-run the experiment, or will the quantum probability be "reset" every time one turns back time?
Unfortunately, time travel brings with it its own problems. For example, your thought experiment begins thus:
We begin at some time T
0. Your thought experiment continues:
After the cat inside the box has either lived or died...
So you move to some later time T
1. Then your thought experiment continues:
...one goes back in time and re-runs the experiment again.
So one then changes their time again, from T
1 to T
2. Your experimental conditions just changed significantly. You cannot run the experiment "again", as it has not yet been run. The timeline is (in chronological order): T
2, T
0, T
1.
The difficulties just get worse as things progress, don't they?
Sorry, that's not
schadenfreude, but just laughing at
life, the universe and everything, because if you don't laugh, you'd have to cry.