That's cool and all... but man, I really have to say, I don't agree with the discussion. One of the things that John Bell proved is that an unmeasured quantum state is NOT the superposition of the eigenstates - it is completely indeterminate. So in the gedanken experiment, the cat is not simultaneously both alive and dead, but rather is neither alive nor dead. Quantum indeterminacy is more fundamental than a "state of coherent superposition" - it is a complete absence of definable states. Maybe this seems like nitpicking, but the difference is really quite profound.
Also, Schrödinger's first name was Erwin, not Edwin.
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Also, Schrödinger's first name was Erwin, not Edwin.
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I fixed the typo, which i hadn't noticed.
I assembled the desktop from this flash presentation.
http://www.thinktechnologies.com/portfolio/demos/cat.html
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