Schrodinger's Seki

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Is it dead or alive?

Being an obsessive Go player, I sometimes play Go in my Physics class with a few friends. One day our lecture was on Entropy and temperature. Because I was playing Go, I didn't really hear most of the lecture, but one line stood out at me. A side conversation went more or less like this:

Professor: "Generally the entropy of the system is proportional to the complexity of the system. The internal system of a gas is very complex. It is impossible to determine the state of it at any given time."

Me: "Woah, entropy stinks of Heisenberg!"

Her: "Does Heisenberg stink of dead cats?"



I present to you - Schrödinger's Seki!

[Diagram]

cat 1



Sebuc:If anyone can make a better looking cat out of Go stones, please go ahead . . .

MarkD:I am sorry to tell you: Your cat is dead!

Zarlan: How so? The below cat looks dead to me, but cat 1 is definitly seki. There is no way that white could possibly kill it.

Robert Pauli: The cat below, Zarlan? Miau! :--)


Robert Pauli: I'm still a child . . .

[Diagram]

cat 2




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