Then we just shouldn't look (personally I tend that direction, opting instead to hide under the covers...so as to not look..... with the cat).....but then nothing happens...ever....anywhere. We're doomed to cause some damage at least 1/2 the time if we look.....but we must in order to move forward with anything.....that is if you take the Copenhagen Interpretation at face value....which many do not (including Schrodinger)
@natedetailscars Says:
Would it be that the cat is both dead and alive or that the cat is neither dead nor alive? Or what if we say that it's alive until proven dead?
@ora-clle Says:
i think the explosion one is a bad example, couldnt you feel the explosion?
@maximumtophill6341 Says:
He was just studied years biology for
Knows about cats then he did tha experiment
And everyone thought he is crazy
But now in our advance technology
And blessed physicists
They proved He was right
What a Legend
And my name is shrodinger
I really loved him
RIP MY LEGEND ❤
@spamtong.spamton2213 Says:
Giant fucking meow with no big kaboom
@HardToVaryPhysics Says:
Taking the cat's side of the box without turning the paradox into a meme was the editorial choice that worked. Keeping superposition as a claim about the state, not a cartoon, is what stuck.
@madkem1 Says:
Can the cat really observe the gun powder explode? From the cat's perspective, the gun powder never explodes.
@VadimKudim Says:
Isn't cat the observer?
@AVTheKing_10 Says:
What did i just saw
@JillianAlexis Says:
Tell that to the blind cats that were used in the experiment
@CubeySquareThe294 Says:
Kitty went bye bye :(
@OopsScienceShorts Says:
Viewing quantum entanglement from the cat perspective makes Schrödinger thought experiment so much clearer.
@Random-integers Says:
What if the cat is facing away when the gunpowder explodes, and he closes his eyes, then he won’t see it explode and it will still explode
@Evereverii Says:
We have a different much less mystical way to say "superposition" and that is:
"uncertainty".
@Jagered Says:
So does that mean entanglement has to stay local? Surely this couldn’t work at a distance…
@Tastechicken11 Says:
The cat is dead OR alive
@azraphon Says:
Einstein’s version is worse, I’m pretty sure you’d hear the explosion
@Hunchothelight Says:
yes
@LFTRnow Says:
Kitty sees nothing as the explosion is faster than the neurons can fire to say it saw anything.
@DijonEntartainment Says:
So there is a theory, where things don't happen if those chunks are not loaded?
@TranscendEvolution Says:
If by "thought experiment" you mean critique of your exact parroted dog shit interpretation of it being true when every non money lending Jew/Nazi thinker KNEW it was WRONG!!!!!!!
@fetterkeks2796 Says:
If the act of observing collapses the potential outcome.. why don't the cat's eyes observe anything?
@Mister_Fermion Says:
That's wrong as the whole process will obviously encompass photons which will collapse the wave function so there will be no cat or any poision and explosive, this is a common misconception among inferior minds (no offence), we wouldn't have the cat's perspective as the cat would use photons but if there is a body with no photons and disturbance we the action happened next will completely be a mix of entropy and as for the cat the cat isn't only both alive and dead but rather it is also neither which is hard to process but that is the truth so the cat's life will also continue to exist, cease to exist and neither so the results will completely be random and for the cat the universe would be like the Schrodinger's cat as for it it is existing in all universes in which it is dead, alive or neither and will find out until the box is opened but if the cat is dead, it is a complex topic soooo.... Bye
@greenmachinemca Says:
Don’t tell PETA because they would make 100% sure to euthanize the cat rather than leave it up to chance
@jnzkngs Says:
Just imagine how much further advanced science would be if this had just been left as a thought experiment to predict an outcome back before we had the technology to do it live, The cat is either dead or alive. "superposition" is just a snobbish way of saying "I don't know" so financial benefactors don't lose confidence in you and pull funding. Just think of the thousands of intelligent people who've wasted decades of their lives just so we could have a comic book trope.
@smsfrancis Says:
Never really understood why it relies on us looking at it. If a tree falls in the woods, does it make a sound?
@fariesz6786 Says:
we don't know if the cat is dead or alive but we know it's going to spin us right round, baby, right round, like a record, baby
@opensocietyenjoyer Says:
so the cat gets entangled but the observer doesn't get entangled, instead he collapses the wave function? are you hearing yourself twisting yourself into a pretzel in real time?
@OptimusPhillip Says:
I prefer Schrodinger's version, because his was actually linked to quantum mechanics: the poisonous gas was set to be released when a Geiger counter detects the energy of a single radioactive atom decaying. Thus ensuring that the rules of quantum superposition apply in this case, rather than simply presuming that all probabilistic variables are in superposition.
Though of course, that also raises the question of what counts as observation for the purposes of the experiment. Does it have to be the observation of an intelligent being? Would the cat hearing the tick of the Geiger counter count? Or is it the mechanism of the Geiger counter itself that collapses the wave function?
@JazzyJayce1176 Says:
Isn't this just our perspective again? Or maybe it's just not clear bc of the language we're using?
From the cat's perspective, the thing _happens._ The cat doesn't experience a super position, bc it observes the experiment. We don't know what happened, bc we're outside the bunker and not observing. But inside the bunker, it's already over.
Am I misunderstanding something?
@jpe1 Says:
There is an enormous logical jump from “we don’t understand this phenomenon well enough to predict it” to “this phenomenon is random.” There is zero evidence that radioactive decay, or other quantum phenomena, is actually random; all we know is that we don’t know how to predict it, we don’t know that it is, in fact, unpredictable. For an analogy, consider coin tosses: they seem random, but there are roughly (depending on the circumstances of the flip mechanism) 20 variables which can be measured before the coin is tossed, which (if measured accurately and used in the formula correctly) will predict the result of the toss with 100% accuracy. Because some people like to maintain the illusion of “free will” they characterize the universe as having an indeterminate “future”, but past, present, future are all just coordinates in spacetime.
@AlTerego-g1f Says:
The question is: if we had perfect information about each gunpowder atom, so we could predict the exact moment ththat exact barrel of gunpowder will detonate, would it still be a paradox?
We just tie the maxvells and laplas` demons with shreodinger`s cat.
The thought experiment works due to "lack of information about some part of it".
@zanyzoozebra Says:
You got it wrong. The cat can't see the bomb explode, because it's dead before it realizes what happened. The cat can only ever see the bomb not explode. Consequently, the cat is immortal.
@riakata Says:
The key thing is observer is basically almost anything even thermal random effects are good enough to be an observer it's why quantum systems are often optical or super cooled to minimize pesky thermal effects breaking the quantum effect. In the cats example it's dead or alive it can't be either unless you make it near absolute zero which would kill the cat first or make the killing bit not work anymore but generally it just wouldn't work in any quantum sense at a macro scale. It's impossible for the cat to be in a superposition the cat, the temperature, you, the bunker, a drop of water would all cause the state to collapse into a classical state instantly.
@AnthonyFlack Says:
"observation" in a quantum sense doesn't mean a human noticing something.
@Larry82ch Says:
Either there is a superposition or there isn't. Can't have it both ways!
Or otherwise there would be a collapse of the superposition's position.
@slipperynickels Says:
the cat actually has a 0% chance of dying because i'm rescuing it from this situation every time
@johnbeamon Says:
The act of observation involves interacting with the quantum particles via some energy or force. THAT is what collapses their behavior. It's not that the cat magically dies when we look. It's more like the flashlight we use to look either will or will not ignite the gunpowder (if it hasn't spontaneously already).
@eisaatavilla Says:
Our curiosity have 50% chance to unalive the cat
@asvarien Says:
Is the cat not also an observer?
@SpinachLeafDealer Says:
Correct me if I’m wrong, but that cat and the air in the box’s interaction with the explosive/radioactive material collapses the wavefunction, so the cat really is just either dead or alive.
@sriramjavvadi6598 Says:
Kitty go bye bye 😂
@meinspielzeugammobiltelefon Says:
Either way the cat had it coming
@Nick4Forsi Says:
This is basically Wigner's friend no?
@gaurav.prajapati Says:
what if instead of cat human is inside box?
@LMS9000 Says:
Infamous thought experiment. Heard this my whole life appropriating the "alive and dead because of entanglement" explanation while dropping the historical context that Schrodinger used this example to point out issues in early quantum mechanics. It's not meant to explain anything, it's a diss at Bohr and the Copenhagen Interpretation. We have to stop pushing this as baby's first quantum physics in media.
@Devanshgupta-e6l3p Says:
Guys can't we just let cats live peacefully ?
@umbrascitor2079 Says:
The cat experiences quantum immortality and survives endless repetitions of this experiment.
@BlazingSun72 Says:
Listen cats only let themselves be put in a box because they like cardboard alright? They eventually come out cuz they're hungry or bored, you just gotta wait a little bit, they like it if you put the box near the sun and mine likes that I cut little entrance holes in hers
@PrecioustheMovie1 Says:
Wow. When will we stop punishing this thought experiment to death?? It was a reductio ad absurdum to help convince people that everything at the macro scale DOESNT have quantum effects. No observer effect. You left out the part where the explosion or poison gas is released based on the result of quantum effects. The measuring device that detects the quantum effects collapses the wave function and everything macro scale functions classically. And the detector collapses the wave function simply because the detector itself is macro scale. No magic, no bullshit. This is very well understood by anyone with a at least bachelor’s degree in physics.
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