rc>    I enjoy physics but I think that some of it 
 rc> shouldnever be  considered a  science.  there was 
 rc> one case where they put a cat in a box with a 
 rc> little gass  container.   they said that the 
 rc> universe would split into all the different  
 rc> choices given to the cat.  I debated then as now 
 rc> that this is not science and  shouldn't be 
 rc> classsified as such.
 
     That's known as Quantum physics. I think that ties in with the 
Heisenberg (sp?) Uncertainty Principle. This principle aided in the 
representations of atoms. At any given moment, you can't tell where the 
electrons are, so they drew a haze around the nucleus. There's a debate about 
the probability of whether the cat is deat, and whether it matters at all.
     You see, there was a radioactive isotope placed inside the box with the 
cat. There was also a vial of poison that would kill the cat if an electron 
from the isotope hit it. There was a 50% chance of that happen-
ning. Who was it that proposed this experiment?
     Anyway, the theory was that the two probabilities battled with each 
other until it was known what happened. I don't see why it matters, since 
once we knew what happened, the other probability wouldn't exist.
Nick Douglas, newbie extraordinaire
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