Nasty hobitses did not mention radioactive particle decay or poison vile vial! Cat is just dead dead dead!! Suffocated, starved, sensory deprived cat!
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A box without a lid, no way to check on the cat, and no air holes. That cat is dead. It was always going to die.
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.
What's really in the box are the 12 year old girls Schroedinger used to rape
What
Edit: okay yep wow that's true. Damn. Okay. Today's lesson was not in quantum mechanics.
Quoting directly from Schrödinger’s diaries, Moore revealed that the physicist justified his attraction to girls by considering that, being a genius (which he believed no woman ever could be), he was naturally entitled. “It seems to be the usual thing that men of strong, genuine intellectuality are immensely attracted only by women who, forming the very beginning of the intellectual series, are as nearly connected to the preferred springs of nature as they themselves. Nothing intermediate will do, since no woman will ever approach nearer to genius by intellectual education than some unintellectuals do by birth so to speak.”
TIL. Ugh.
is the cat a qualifed observer>
Shouldn’t they both be right
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.
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
The correct answer is yes.
just shake the box up a bit. you'll soon know if the cat inside is alive or dead!?
... It'd be a lot easier to explain this if Schroedinger had a whole pile of boxes with cats in them
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
'and half of them are dead / but what about THIS ONE? / nobody knows, nobody knowwwws'
Bro the cat is dying
The cat was Schrödingers example how super positions make no sense in complex organisms. It was a counter-example, yet everyone uses it as if there would be a undead cat in the box.
Tricksy hobbitses! What has it got in its pocketses boxeses? What is superposition, precious?
Statisticses! They gives us filthy probabilities, precious! Tricksy physicistses too lazy to find the real answers, yes yes!

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