Schrödinger's cat

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From the Heisenberg cut to the Copenhagen interpretation

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Culture Scicomm Science classical mechanics cloud chamber Copenhagen interpretation Erwin Schrodinger Heisenberg cut Jim Baggott John Bell John von Neumann many-worlds interpretation matrix mechanics Niels Bohr Quantum mechanics quantum superposition Schrödinger's cat uncertainty principle wave mechanics wavefunction wavefunction collapse Werner Heisenberg Wolfgang Pauli

The following post was motivated by this exchange (on X.com), which prompted me to write out my understanding of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics and the part the Heisenberg cut play…

Dispelling Maxwell's demon

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Analysis Scicomm Science arrow of time Charles Bennett decoherence Dennis Gabor entropy information theory James Clerk Maxwell Léon Brillouin Leo Szilard Maxwell's demon no-cloning theorem quantum entanglement quantum information Quantum mechanics Rolf Landauer Schrödinger's cat second law of thermodynamics unitarity wavefunction collapse

Maxwell’s demon is one of the most famous thought experiments in the history of physics, a puzzle first posed in the 1860s that continues to shape scientific debates to this day. I’ve struggled to mak…