<b>The second death of Schrödinger's cat </b><b>or the paradox of simultaneity in SRT</b>

<b>Abstract</b><br>The logical-pragmatic analysis [1, 2] of the concept of "time" in the special theory of relativity leads to a logically insoluble paradox of simultaneity in SRT, associated with two ways of clock synchronization in inertial frames of reference.author puts forward a hypothesis about a new connection between reality and consci The first, usual way, when time is interpreted as the duration of some physical process - the propagation of light, does not lead to a paradox.The second way - any way of synchronizing two clocks spaced apart in space, excluding any reference physical process (which is quite acceptable in a thought experiment), leads to a paradox when a cat is alive in one inertial frame, and the same cat is dead in another.The paradox is logically unresolvable, since according to the synchronization condition of the second method, any physical objection (argument), up to Lorentz transformations, is logically put out of consideration. Since all such arguments are based on the first method of clock synchronization.The author puts forward a hypothesis about a new connection between reality and consciousness, which can only be confirmed or falsified experimentally.Key idea of the article - the interpretation of time in the form of duration of a reference physical process (propagation of light in a vacuum) or in the form of an instantaneous perception of a measurement (as in the collapse of the wave function of a quantum state).Time is not only duration, but also the beginning and end of duration. Without these two points of perception, time is meaningless.Duration and points of perception of time (both concepts are intuitive and demonstrative-doxic in nature [1], like time itself) constitute its integral structure, which cannot but manifest itself in the laws of nature.In the macroworld as duration, in the quantum world as points of perception.The interpretation of time is not only a mental action (not words), but also an experimental one.The latter is what arouses the aversion of professionals, constrained by modern scientific superstitions about the secondary nature of that part of the reality of life that we call consciousness.<br>The arguments of my paper can only be refuted by finding a logical error in it and within its assumptions, and no one has ever managed to do this.<br>The article is deliberately written at the most elementary level available to convey its ideas.So it can be analyzed by an academic and a university freshman alike.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>1 Сурин С.Ю. «Метафизика достоверного» - 1996, Нижний Новгород, https://archive.org/details/MetaphysicsReliable2 Сурин С.Ю. «Четыре принципа логики: логико-прагматический анализ» - 1997, Нижний Новгород - https://archive.org/details/Surin_FourLawsOfLogic<br>

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The second death of Schrödinger's cat or the paradox of simultaneity in SRT

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<b>Abstract</b><br>The logical-pragmatic analysis [1, 2] of the concept of "time" in the special theory of relativity leads to a logically insoluble paradox of simultaneity in SRT, associated with two ways of clock synchronization in inertial frames of reference.author puts forward a hypothesis about a new connection between reality and consci The first, usual way, when time is interpreted as the duration of some physical process - the propagation of light, does not lead to a paradox.The second way - any way of synchronizing two clocks spaced apart in space, excluding any reference physical process (which is quite acceptable in a thought experiment), leads to a paradox when a cat is alive in one inertial frame, and the same cat is dead in another.The paradox is logically unresolvable, since according to the synchronization condition of the second method, any physical objection (argument), up to Lorentz transformations, is logically put out of consideration. Since all such arguments are based on the first method of clock synchronization.The author puts forward a hypothesis about a new connection between reality and consciousness, which can only be confirmed or falsified experimentally.Key idea of the article - the interpretation of time in the form of duration of a reference physical process (propagation of light in a vacuum) or in the form of an instantaneous perception of a measurement (as in the collapse of the wave function of a quantum state).Time is not only duration, but also the beginning and end of duration. Without these two points of perception, time is meaningless.Duration and points of perception of time (both concepts are intuitive and demonstrative-doxic in nature [1], like time itself) constitute its integral structure, which cannot but manifest itself in the laws of nature.In the macroworld as duration, in the quantum world as points of perception.The interpretation of time is not only a mental action (not words), but also an experimental one.The latter is what arouses the aversion of professionals, constrained by modern scientific superstitions about the secondary nature of that part of the reality of life that we call consciousness.<br>The arguments of my paper can only be refuted by finding a logical error in it and within its assumptions, and no one has ever managed to do this.<br>The article is deliberately written at the most elementary level available to convey its ideas.So it can be analyzed by an academic and a university freshman alike.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>1 Сурин С.Ю. «Метафизика достоверного» - 1996, Нижний Новгород, https://archive.org/details/MetaphysicsReliable2 Сурин С.Ю. «Четыре принципа логики: логико-прагматический анализ» - 1997, Нижний Новгород - https://archive.org/details/Surin_FourLawsOfLogic<br>

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