Schrodinger’s Cat
What is the state of the cat before the box is open?
Just like the two slit problem!
- If the experimenter does not provide any way to determine which slit the electron goes through, then the interference pattern is produced. The electron pattern is that produced by an electron which went through both holes. If the holes are labeled “dead” and “alive” the electron is in a state that is a combination of “dead” and “alive”. One knows if the electron is “dead” or “alive” only if one looks!
Just like the hydrogen atom problem!
- If the electron is found at a givenpoint in one experiment, does that mean it ”was” at that point beforethe experiment?
- Or was it simple not at any one point until the observation declared it to be at a point