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Comment author: nshepperd 10 March 2012 07:42:25AM -1 points [-]

I just threw Schrodinger's cat outside the future light cone. In your Everett branch is the cat alive or dead?

Both?

Comment author: wedrifid 10 March 2012 09:32:33AM 1 point [-]

Both?

No.

Comment author: nshepperd 11 March 2012 03:18:55AM *  0 points [-]

Well, in this case the universal wavefunction does factorise into a product of two functions 𝛙(light cone)𝛙(cat), where 𝛙(cat) has an "alive" branch and "dead" branch, but 𝛙(light cone) does not. I'd rather identify with 𝛙(light cone) than 𝛙(light cone × cat) [i.e. 𝛙(universe)], but whatever.

The point you were trying to make is correct anyway, either way.

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