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@ VikiSecrets
2025-05-16 21:51:51
How to solve Schrödinger's Cat paradox: Can a cat be dead and alive at the same time? No, it can't. Here is why 🧵
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The paradox assumes that a decaying radioactive element is in superposition and that the superposition extends to the whole box including the cat, finally placing the cat in a dead and alive state.
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However, what would prevent the cat from being in a superposition of two contrary states (dead and alive) is decoherence.
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Interaction with the environment like the Giger counter would collapse the wavefunction (measurement) and nature would commit to a more concrete state. Paradox solved.