• runjun@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I’d imagine most people here already know but the thought experiment was originally put out to show the absurdity of it and to poke fun.

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        7 months ago

        Most don’t, because explaining the why beyond “just because you can’t know which one is true doesn’t mean it’s both at the same time” gets funky.

        Especially once you start saying “Okay, now this is why particles aren’t real”

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    Schrödinger’s cat only “works” if the inside of the box is physically isolated from the environment. Maybe a faraday cage in freefall surrounded by vacuum. That’s probably insufficient, but if you can still hear the meow then it’s woefully insufficient.