Re: Purely AR:

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Posted by Jon on September 19, 2005 at 15:24:04 from 199.159.117.62 user Jon.

In Reply to: Re: Purely AR: posted by Andy G on September 16, 2005 at 14:03:59:

Andy G wondered:

Schroedinger's cat (first proposed as a thought experiment to question the quantum theory of superposition in 1935) needs to be in the box, i.e. unobserved, to be both dead and not dead at one and the same time. Yet in WDMTGTS (published two years later in 1937) Sinbad the kitten, at the time of his discovery, is in a half-dead state while hanging on to the top of the floating chicken coop. ;-)

So is Ransome (conciously or subconsciously) drawing on the findings of 20th century quantum physicists, with a nod to Schroedinger by introducing the subplot of Sinbad and the not-quite-a-box, when seeing how far his virtual characters can be immersed in relating to firstly:


. . . perhaps this also explains the state of the Bawdsey radio towers, which existed in an indeterminate state until Ransome looked out his window/porthole and committed them to paper. Thus, they may have existed in 1933, had anyone chosen to look, but they sprang into a determinate state once AR perceived the need for them in the landscape.

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