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+This paradox has always puzzled me, as a layman, for that reason.
originally posted by: jaxnmarko What exactly does the cat see under the circumstances? If both a live cat and a dead cat must be true at the same time, then the cat must have observed something, so how does this affect a determination inside the first box or the second box?
originally posted by: DISRAELI
+This paradox has always puzzled me, as a layman, for that reason.
originally posted by: jaxnmarko What exactly does the cat see under the circumstances? If both a live cat and a dead cat must be true at the same time, then the cat must have observed something, so how does this affect a determination inside the first box or the second box?
They say "Nothing happens until the result is observed"; but surely the cat himself is an observer, meaning that the result is observed instantly, by the cat, and so the paradox doesn't arise?
That thought experiment was an analogy made up for people to comprehend what is happening on extremely small scales. It's if you acctually did the experiment the cat would either be alive or dead because it is a macroscopic object. So it is trying to discribe quantum phenomena using marcroscopic objects it is not acctually discribing a real situation if that makes sense.