I don’t understand..
When we observe it, we can define it’s state right? But it was never in both states. It was only in one, we just didn’t know which one it is. It’s not like if I go back in time and open the box at a different time, that the outcome will be different. It is one of the 2 outcomes, we just don’t know which one until we look. And when we look we discover which one it was, it was never the 2 at the same time. This is what’s been bugging me. Can anyone help explain it? Or am I thinking about it wrong?
In: Physics
I think the basic point of Schrödinger’s cat is that you can’t in any way, **predict** what’s going to happen to the cat **until you open the box**. Even if you knew the state of every atom inside the box and knew the cat on a cellular level, you wouldn’t know if it would live or die until you **experienced** it. This is because “the cat dying” is tied to a quantum event that isn’t really defined until we perceive it, which is the point of the parable.
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