How warm is Schroedinger's cat?

[cojawfee]

Breen is alive, but he is not an advisor, he is something much more terrifying. He has become an apparition, similar to Gman

So we will see him at the end of the game? And then 30 years from now, Gabe Newell will replace Breen with a younger version.

 

[Zeus]

he's on a life support system, I bet... a vegetative state.

Nope, he's dead

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

Nope, he's dead

Seconded...I hope we're wrong...

 

[Lightice]

It's actually several concepts combined which have already been proven true. The "works best when turned off" is just a matter of perception since quantum physics can't be described perfectly in common physics world. To explain them properly the person who it was explained to shoud also understand at least the basics of quantum physics and I really, really doubt that people here in general know their stuff about quantum physics.

And what you are essentially saying is "I learned it all from Michael Crichton" or whoever popular writer who included some would-be quantum physics in their books. I have a very strong doubt that you would possess ability to understand quantum physics.
I am no physicist, myself, but I keep my ear on the modern science community and listen to what the experts have to say and while I have read several essays and interviews by actual quantum scientists, none have given such explanations. Simple quantum computers already exist in labs. None of them does the stuff you describe, nor will they, no matter how much complexity is added.

There is plenty of interesting and exotic topics in quantum mechanics, but that only adds to the misconceptions surrounding the matter.

 

[Para]

And what you are essentially saying is "I learned it all from Michael Crichton" or whoever popular writer who included some would-be quantum physics in their books. I have a very strong doubt that you would possess ability to understand quantum physics. I am no physicist, myself, but I keep my ear on the modern science community and listen to what the experts have to say and while I have read several essays and interviews by actual quantum scientists, none have given such explanations. Simple quantum computers already exist in labs. None of them does the stuff you describe, nor will they, no matter how much complexity is added.

There is plenty of interesting and exotic topics in quantum mechanics, but that only adds to the misconceptions surrounding the matter.

I'm not a physicist either but unfortunately I learned quite a lot about it in school. See, Finnish basic education includes a crapload of stuff to cover all the possible startpoints for greater things, one of them is being a physicist which means that they have to cover quantum physics very briefly too. I also follow scientific publications as much as I can, mostly in form of Tiede magazine (Finnish magazine which covers all the scientific fields there is...dunno what magazine you know I could compare it to) and I believe that "works best when turned off" was something I read from New Scientist several months ago.