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Article: The war for the woods.(ECONOMICALLY SPEAKING)(Viewpoint essay)
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- Northern Ontario Business
- Article date:
- November 1, 2007
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Have you ever heard of Schrodinger's cat? It was the original high-tech zombie--alive and dead at the same time. Northern development is lot like Schrodinger' cat.
Schrodinger invented this story to show how strange quantum mechanics can be. He imagined a cat locked in a steel box with a vial of poison, a Geiger counter, and a tiny bit of some radioactive substance. If even one atom of the radioactive substance decays, the Geiger counter spills the poison, and the cat is dead. If no atom decays, the cat is alive. According to the quantum theory, the right way to describe the situation is to say the cat is both alive and dead until you open the box.
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