It's not exactly the nicest experiment in the world to set up for an explanation of quantum physics, but I don't believe Schroedinger himself ever thought someone would ever set it up in real life. The absolute truth would only be known once the box was opened. Since the release of the poison would be completely random, or not even happen at all during that hour, the experimenter would have to believe the cat was both alive and dead at any point in time during the experiment. The idea would be that IF someone set up the experiment in real life, there would be no way of knowing whether or not the "cat" died until the box was opened an hour later.
Rest assured, no actual cats were harmed in the Schrodinger's Cat experiment. I kind of figured that, but it had me really curious about what happened. What would happen if the cage was of plexiglass? Would that not make it so that the observer could observe the experiment without actually interfering? Or is it that the experiment is not being interfered when the observer opens the cage and looks into it to uncover the results, but instead in the act of knowing and observing the experiment? I cannot stress enough how much it does not matter about the cat. In a "thought" experiment, you can be whatever you want. In the real world, you are either alive or dead. Death itself is a process that generally takes some amount of time, but once your dead, your dead. The cat is not "both" alive and dead at any one give time. You, sir are failing to understand the concept of a parallel universe. What would we call a being that is alive and dead at the same time, a zombie? Making an assumption that the cat is "both" alive and dead at the same time is both illogical and unnecessary.Ĭan something be both hot and cold at the same time? Can something be wet and dry at the same time? Can something be fast and slow at the same time? The cat will either be alive or dead as a result of the experiment. 'the cat is not "both" alive and dead at any one give time. Like Einstein, he tried to prove that quantum physics doesn't answer the questions of the real world. That's totally wrong as Schrödinger never went against Einstein. Rooferman, it has already been said that the experiment was purely for thought and was never actually conducted. Is this thought experiment only to be considered through the point of view of an outside observer? However, relative to the cat, the cat must be definitively either alive or dead. Relative to the experimenter, the cat is both alive and dead. My brain struggles with the concept of the cat being both alive and dead. Light has both particle and wave like properties, and it is things like this that brought about the concept of quantum mechanics, because light can't act as a particle if it's a wave, and it can't act like a wave if it's a particle, but the reality is that it does, and no one knows why.Īnother interesting experiment that demonstrates the beauty of quantum mechanics is Young's double slit experiment, worth googling.įrom what did Schrodinger derive such a conclusion?Īll instances of this cat that may or may not have actually been sealed in a box since 1936 are dead. It is so obvious, it is confusing because no one gets why he even brought it up in the first place.Īpril 10, can something be both a particle and a wave? Actually, the answer to that is yes. Schrodinger's cat is the state our minds are in - what we are thinking. The bottom line, which is the explanation for all things is, we do not know the outcome until we look. And he got a Nobel Prize for pulling the most legs in scientific history. It is so obvious Schrodinger made fools out of us all with this "theory" which makes no sense. First of all, we all know the cat kills himself because no cat is just going to sit there when there is something else in his space to play with.
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