08-26-2016, 01:18 PM
So which Donald Trump are we getting?
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Schrödinger's cat (from Wiki)
Schrödinger's cat: a cat, a flask of poison, and a radioactive source are placed in a sealed box. If an internal monitor detects radioactivity (i.e., a single atom decaying), 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 one looks in the box, one sees the cat either alive or dead, not both alive and dead. This poses the question of when exactly quantum superposition ends and reality collapses into one possibility or the other.
Whether Donald Trump keeps which of his contradictory promises is not up to the random decay of an atom; it will be up to President Trump himself. It's easy for me to say spare the cat... we simply need to spare ourselves the danger of an analogous, i f less horrible plight.
Schrödinger's cat (from Wiki)
Schrödinger's cat: a cat, a flask of poison, and a radioactive source are placed in a sealed box. If an internal monitor detects radioactivity (i.e., a single atom decaying), 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 one looks in the box, one sees the cat either alive or dead, not both alive and dead. This poses the question of when exactly quantum superposition ends and reality collapses into one possibility or the other.
Whether Donald Trump keeps which of his contradictory promises is not up to the random decay of an atom; it will be up to President Trump himself. It's easy for me to say spare the cat... we simply need to spare ourselves the danger of an analogous, i f less horrible plight.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.