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
Nope. No one can explain it. The underlying reality of superpositions is one that, at least as of 2024, unexplained.
I know that sounds snarky, but it’s not. It’s something called the Measurement Problem. When you observe the cat and it collapses to one state, nobody knows for sure what’s making it do that or why.
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