*vial

Wait... So the radioactive material or poison is meant to keep the cat alive? 🤔

Going to, but there was no given time frame. So you don't know if it is dead, yet

Are you also dead because you're guaranteed to die eventually? It's not an experiment of the eventual outcome but the observation of the outcome. While you're observing the cat it has to be alive or dead, it can't be both. But when you stop observing the certainty disappears and the cat is no longer dead or alive but both at the same time.

Depends on the size of the box and how long it’s been

What

Edit: okay yep wow that's true. Damn. Okay. Today's lesson was not in quantum mechanics.

Schrödinger's Discord Kitties, as it were

No, it's a conscientious objector

Luckily, Bilbo remembered to add "Answer fully"

Alive and death at the same time. It's more like asking if the coin is heads or tails when the coin is still spinning.

Not if they are both wrong.

No, the cat is one or the other. Radioactive half-life is the point at which there is a 50/50 chance that any single isotope had decayed, and we usually work around that in classical systems by using large sample sizes (a pile of isotopes, it's easy to see that half of it would have decayed). But for one single isotope we aren't observing (or the cat), we need to look at it in terms of probabilities until we observe it

wrong again!

oh god you just made me write the stupidest nerdiest song about schroedinger in about half a second and the chorus goes "and he's got boxes and boxes and boxes of cats/ yeah he's got boxes and boxes and boxes of cats" i feel so ashamed

Aren't we all?