hmmm...if somebody could go into specifics a bit more. It seems to me if you replace "and" with "or" there is no conundrum.

"The radioactive atom inside has yet to make up it's mind whether it is decayed and spat out a particle". Make up it's mind? It either has or hasn't. And what effects does time have over whether the radioactive has spat out a particle?

With that logic I could put a cat in a box with poison on a banana. Not knowing if the cat loves bananas and will lick the banana, and thus the poison, or if the cat loathes bananas (like my cat), I can deduce that the cat is both dead AND alive until I check?

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The reason this is a mind experiment is because the radioactive material had to spit out only one atom triggering the event. I think that's pretty hard to do.

It makes sense even without the fancy trigger. If you have no idea if the cat is alive or dead, you could logically conclude that he is both alive and dead at the same time in order to proceed beyond the conundrum. Sort of like using the imaginary number in math.

It sounds stupid in our common world, we know that it's either alive or dead, but in the quantum world it actually IS alive and dead at the same time, and opening the box to check would change the outcome.

I don't see the damn point of carrying out a thought experiment in the real world. But upvote and playlist nonetheless.

A cat named, "Dawkins." Upvote!

I don't see the damn point of carrying out a thought experiment in the real world. But upvote and playlist nonetheless.

More to the point, it is absolutely useless to carry out this thought experiment in the real world, since the theory behind the experiment states specifically that such a real life enactment can't possibly yield any useful data - the act of any such observation will, by necessity, negate the usefulness of the data. Gratuitous, but the sift gets to stay because it's a passably decent explanation.

I think this is the worst explanation i've heard for Schroedinger so far. Nice idea showing the box and the cat to illustrate the basic frame for the idea but this guy's explanation just doesn't do it.

You can't assume it's in both states just because you don't know which state it's in. It's in either one or the other, you just don't know until you open the box.