Notes - Don't let the cat out / a pair a docs forthcoming /

         Up earlier for a quick bath with jets and bubbles. Dressed for Cleveland trip this morning. Stopping at Westerville for lunch with Mary Lou, and stopping to see your sister Cathy and Tod. About scene nine – think Tom Stoppard and “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”.

         Wikipedia says in the conclusion of the summary of the play:

         “Major themes of the play include existentialism, free will vs. determinism, the search for value, and the impossibility of certainty. As with many of Tom Stoppard's works, the play has a love for cleverness and language. It treats language as a confounding system fraught with ambiguity.”  (Wikipedia)

         And, (one of your favorite parts) in Act One:

         “The play opens with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern betting on coin flips. Rosencrantz, who bets heads each time, wins ninety-two flips in a row. The extreme unlikeliness of this event according to the laws of probability leads Guildenstern to suggest that they may be "within un-, sub- or supernatural forces". The reader learns why they are where they are: the King has sent for them. Guildenstern theorizes on the nature of reality, focusing on how an event becomes increasingly real as more people witness it.”  (Wikipedia)

         Now we need some info on probability in terms of quantum reality.   (From Wikipedia)

Orthodox quantum mechanics

Orthodox quantum mechanics has two seemingly contradictory mathematical descriptions:

1. deterministic unitary time evolution (governed by the Schrodinger equation) and

2. stochastic (random) wavefunction collapse.

Most physicists are not concerned with this apparent problem. Physical intuition usually provides the answer, and only in unphysical systems (e.g., Schrodinger’s cat, an isolated atom) do paradoxes seem to occur.

Orthodox quantum mechanics can be reformulated in a quantum-probabilistic framework, where quantum filtering (2005 . . . ) gives the natural description of the measurement process. This new framework encapsulates the standard postulates of quantum mechanics, and thus all of the science involved in the orthodox postulates.”

From: Wikipedia

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         I do not understand the above probability business, but I sensed you wanted it included.

         We have the cat to work with. Post. You have chores before you head out.– Amorella.

         While loading the car I was thinking: a paradox is a natural event/occurrence.

         So?

         Well, that means a paradox can readily occur in the settings of the Dead. This might be useful.

Paradox: Etymology: Latin paradoxum, from Greek paradoxon, from neuter of paradoxos contrary to expectation//

1 : a tenet contrary to received opinion
2 a : a statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true;  

b : a self-contradictory statement that at first seems true;  

c : an argument that apparently derives self-contradictory conclusions by valid deduction from acceptable premises;
3 : one (as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases.

(Selections from M-W)

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         It seems to me that 2a. “a statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true;” would fit the bill best in a fiction.

         That is because it is easier for you to consider and work with. – Amorella.

         I happen to think that 2c: “an argument that apparently derives self-contradictory conclusions by valid deduction from acceptable premises;” is better and that is what we are going to use if you genuinely want to add a paradox to the mix. Carol has come downstairs. Time to stop and focus on the trip. Post. Later, dude. - Amorella.