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
So the cat experiment was that an alive cat is placed in a box, and a thing exists in that box which at some random time in the future kill the cat.
Because it could be a second or a millenia before that thing transpires, we have to consider that until the box is opened the cat is both alive and dead, because it could truly be either.
We can interact with the box, move the box, and the box surely exists in our universe, but we don’t know the state of the box and that doesn’t impact how we feel about it.
When we open the box, we will either be met with an alive (and quite angry) cat, or a dead cat. And that act of knowing will now impact us. Before we opened the box, we didn’t know what would greet us, but on observing the box is when it is changed in our mind, and for quantum mechanics, in the universe.
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