Was Zeno the First Theoretical(quantum) Physicist?
So Zeno's paradox discusses the arrow than when observed/measured is in one spot and not moving.
When a particle is spinning Schrodinger says we have to consider it spinning in both directions until we observe and measure it and find out whether it is spinning left or right etc.
From what I can tell Zeno was already starting to break into the world of the quantum even without knowing Einstein's theory of relativity or Isaac Newton's theory of gravity. I feel Schrodinger is just expressing the observed to the unobserved with relation to the arrow and a radioactive particle in the manner of the technology available at the time. The arrow is both moving and not moving, the cat is both dead and alive.
When a particle is spinning Schrodinger says we have to consider it spinning in both directions until we observe and measure it and find out whether it is spinning left or right etc.
From what I can tell Zeno was already starting to break into the world of the quantum even without knowing Einstein's theory of relativity or Isaac Newton's theory of gravity. I feel Schrodinger is just expressing the observed to the unobserved with relation to the arrow and a radioactive particle in the manner of the technology available at the time. The arrow is both moving and not moving, the cat is both dead and alive.
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I dont think so. Zeno was making entirely different points with what you are referencing. He did not have anything like the quantum level in mind, but rather logic.
I think you are reading into Zeno too much to draw that conclusion, and resemblance to quantum mechanics is superficial and coincidental.
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I would assume that what Zeno had in mind were things like the problem of the infinitesimal.
(Too bad we don't have his book around anymore.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Zeno_effect
and this is actually used by birds in navigation, so it is not just restricted to the particle world...
from the article.
Im under the impression they are about logical paradoxes. Connecting them to mathematics is an extrapolation imo.