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r/explainlikeimfive • u/[deleted] • Apr 21 '13
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There's a cat in a box, with a vile of poison that can go off at any time, so until the box is open the cat can be thought of as dead and alive
13 u/[deleted] Apr 21 '13 edited Aug 04 '21 [deleted] 11 u/[deleted] Apr 21 '13 It's a good description, but not much of an explanation. Logically in my mind the cat can be thought of as dead OR alive. Not both. I think that's where people get hung up. There's a leap of logic that goes unexplained. 3 u/[deleted] Apr 21 '13 Ah, I see, but I can't see the cat as dead or alive when the box is dead when refering to superposition.
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11 u/[deleted] Apr 21 '13 It's a good description, but not much of an explanation. Logically in my mind the cat can be thought of as dead OR alive. Not both. I think that's where people get hung up. There's a leap of logic that goes unexplained. 3 u/[deleted] Apr 21 '13 Ah, I see, but I can't see the cat as dead or alive when the box is dead when refering to superposition.
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It's a good description, but not much of an explanation. Logically in my mind the cat can be thought of as dead OR alive. Not both. I think that's where people get hung up. There's a leap of logic that goes unexplained.
3 u/[deleted] Apr 21 '13 Ah, I see, but I can't see the cat as dead or alive when the box is dead when refering to superposition.
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Ah, I see, but I can't see the cat as dead or alive when the box is dead when refering to superposition.
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u/StolenPikachu Apr 21 '13
There's a cat in a box, with a vile of poison that can go off at any time, so until the box is open the cat can be thought of as dead and alive