On 24/04/18 10:16, Roger Hayter wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 24/04/18 08:09, wrote:
On Monday, 23 April 2018 23:47:58 UTC+1, Archibald Tarquin Blenkinsopp
wrote:
On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 22:16:04 +0100, John Rumm
wrote:

You come across a cable, pink, yellow, brown, blue, whatever.

Until you assign an indicator, it is neither alive nor dead.

Are you suggesting that the circuit will in some way become self aware
and alter its wiring in response to it being labelled?

Of course not, that's stupid. It will remain neither dead nor alive
until an observation of the charge is made.

and you remain neither sane nor insane until you can prove your sanity.
Which appears to not be possible.

Porr old Pork Sword Blinking Soppy - he doesnt really understand
Schrödinger , but he has HEARD of him.

He appears to be conflating quantum indeterminancy with more general
philosophical questions of the existence of the unobserved. Neither
provide a useful or safe (or even theoretically valid) guide for the
practical electrician.


Precisely. By the time the electricain HAS touched it, its existence is
verified.

And unless teh electri8ci9anm has as little sense as PorkSword he willo
have observed it first, thereby rendering it live, or not, depending on
it's connectivity and its label.





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