I like all the corollaries from this PDE.

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[–]hennojisan 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

For example? He put the cat in the box 95 years ago and it's long dead.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_tunnelling

[–]hennojisan 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You also may like doing a search for < wave particle duality cartoons >. Some good ones there.

[–]motionlessoracle 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Would 95 years be long enough for all the atoms in a cat to tunnel out of the box, assuming each tunneling event takes around 1 millisecond?

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Yeah THANKS. Now i need my blackboard, again. What size of box do we assume ? How many mols of cat ?

[–]motionlessoracle 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Assume a spherical cat of uniform density, 1 gram/cm3, and a mass of 5 kilos.

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Do we assume the cat outside the box, even when all its atoms did tunnel to the outside (Browns molecular movement) the box and on its outside not actually a cat but rather a mess of spread atoms?

Do we assume an open (epsilon like) or a closed border ? On which sides ?

Wave-like PDE's in three space dimensions are a real hassle i realized once more now.