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?
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You’re thinking about it wrong. It was never an actual experiment done as far as I understand, but a thought experiment for understanding quantum superposition. Quantum theory is extremely weird and doesn’t follow the rules we use for everyday objects, aka classical physics. It’s saying that until the observation is made, the result of the cat being absolutely alive or dead literally didn’t happen. It takes observation, which involves interacting with the quantum system, to “collapse” it into a single state.
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