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
It seems like it’s really not in one of two outcomes, but in both outcomes at the same time. Which seems absurd in the case of the cat, which is the point of the Gedankenexperiment. I think the double slit experiment shows that weirdness better. If you shoot photons through two slits onto a flat surface, you will not see simply two stripes of light, but rather an interference pattern. The idea that the photon went through one of the slits and not the other, and we just don’t know which one seems to be false. It really seems to be going through both slits at the same time, because even if you just shoot one photon at a time. Over time, slowly that interference pattern builds. So every single photon had to be interfering with itself.
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