Schrödinger's Cat

Do you ever think about objects maintaining more than one state of existence? Do you think it's possible? Maybe not, maybe so. The [thought] experiment "Schrödinger's Cat" is just a test of that. The idea behind it is to provide you with a real life example of how fundamental (sub-atomic) particles exist and behave.

Schrödinger's Cat is simple, we get a steel box that cannot be seen into or out of (sound proof as well). Then we take and set up a contraption with a poison connected to a hammer. Attached to that hammer we have a device that measures the spin of a particle (we can just think of it as clockwise or anti-clockwise). If the particles spin is one direction the device will release the hammer and release the toxin, otherwise it will do nothing. The trick is that after an hour we have to decide (before we actually check) if the cat is alive, dead, both, or neither.

The answer is both, the state of the cat is alive and dead. We cannot know with specifics and the ratio is exactly 50/50 (this is because particles spin and decay are completely random [TRNG's]). So until we open the box and find out the answer is both.

One interesting tangent that comes from this is the idea that the cat can stay alive for ever. The only trick is to follow the rules of the multiverse, which states that an infinite amount of outcomes are always present. Thus if there is always a situation where the cat is alive, then the cat is still alive.

-Adam
adam@ashannon.us