So a Physics master’s student friend of mine tried to explain it to me but I just got more confused. Apparently it has to do with whether time is an actual thing or a 4th dimension on the space-time blanket?
He said that because you can look at the cat and see if it’s alive or deaf that meant Quantum mechanics implied a discrete existence of time, there was a time where the cat was uncertainty both alive and dead, and a time after the observation, but relativity… wouldn’t have an event take place in actual time?
Help me out hivemind this has gone over my head but I feel so bad he looked so crestfallen when I didn’t get it. I studied English in school and managed to avoid even touching Calculus. I want to at least understand the thing he said.
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