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This is freaky...
| quote: | | Schrödinger's Cat: A cat, along with a flask containing a poison, is placed in a sealed box shielded against environmentally induced quantum decoherence. If a Geiger counter detects radiation then the flask is shattered, releasing the poison which kills the cat. Quantum mechanics suggests that after a while the cat is simultaneously alive and dead, in a quantum superposition of coexisting alive and dead states. Yet when we look in the box we expect to see the cat either alive or dead, not a mixture of alive and dead. |
The behavior of quantum particles is changed simply by the fact of observing them. So if we do not observe a quantum particle, that particle takes on all possible states simultaneously, until we attempt to measure the particle. So, therefore, as long as we do not measure the radiation in the sealed box with Schrödinger's Cat in it, the quantum particles take on all possible forms, both radioactive, and non-radioactive. So the cat can be both dead and alive, as long we DO NOT OPEN THE BOX. Only when we open the box do we change the state of the matter to find a dead or alive cat.
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