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Originally Posted by WeepingWillow23
The cat might know it's alive, but it won't know that it's dead, because it'll be dead. Anyway my understanding of quantum mechanics is that they are saying that the cat is BOTH ALIVE AND DEAD until the observer opens the box and forces the cat to pick a reality. So not how we normally conceptualise reality, which is how I got so confused by it before.
*Willow*
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Schrödinger's cat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The cat is used an an example to show that quantum physics does not work all the time not to validate it. The idea is that the cat being both alive and dead at the same time is in fact impossible despite the fact that quantum physics would predict it to be both alive and dead at once. Therefore there is a point at which the math we have for quantum physics does not apply. The physics of subatomic particles is vastly different than it is for cats or humans for that matter.