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Quote by: Nemiroff  i think it's silly, i understand the whole you can't see it so you dont know, but how does that mean that as long as noone looks in the box both are true.
they may be equally true meaning that we dont know. but for both to be true, for the cat to be alive and dead at the same time, thats a contradiction and is logically impossible.
can someone please explain to me how it works, and how does it in any way apply to real life. |
the "as long as you dont look in the box" as you put it, is only one interpretation, the Copenhagen Interpretation i believe. Another interpretation is the Many Worlds which states that when the 1 hour time period elapses, the universe splits; one into which there is an alive cat (no radioactive particle released), and one into which there is a dead cat (radioactive particle released). Another, the Objective Collapse Theory states that the system collapses once a certain period of "un-reversibility" is reached. There is not any real application to real life, its just something interesting to think about imo... and then theres quantum immortality... =)