From: helbig@asclothestro.multivax.de   
      
   In article <5bec5e16$0$22357$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>, Jos Bergervoet   
    writes:   
      
   > > What I understand is that when I look inside the box that there is   
   > > 50 - 50% chance that the cat is either alive or dead.   
   >   
   > No that is wrong. That is only what a small minority of   
   > physicists think. They believe that at that point the state   
   > 'collapses' to one 'true' reality and there is a 'chance'   
   > for each of the previously present realities to become the   
   > chosen one. If such a collapse does not happen, then there   
   > is no meaning to the concept of chance. (And few physicists   
   > believe that such a collapse actually happens.   
      
   So you are saying that only a small minority believe in the traditional   
   Copenhagen-school idea of collapse of the wave function?  That's   
   probably a true statement.   
      
   Various informal surveys indicate that many if not most now prefer the   
   many-worlds interpretation.   
      
   There are probably more different attitudes to quantum mechanics than   
   there are quantum physicists.  This is not inconsistent because certain   
   quantum physicists hold different views at the same time.   
      
                                                           ---Roger Penrose   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)