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**tearidrusydet** · 07-16-2012, 08:02 PM

If I understad the paradox correctly, it's not that nobody knows if the cat is alive or dead, it's that the cat exists in both states simultaneously until the event of observation solidifies one of the two possible realities. Meaning, at the point of observation, the universe splits, one universe where the cat is alive, and one universe where the cat is dead, both universes existing together prior to the point of observation.

I think it is more of a stochastic argument: the cat has some statistical chance of being in some state, confirmed upon observation. The wave function is a probability function.

07-16-2012, 08:02 PM	#17
tearidrusydet Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 483 Senior Member	If I understad the paradox correctly, it's not that nobody knows if the cat is alive or dead, it's that the cat exists in both states simultaneously until the event of observation solidifies one of the two possible realities. Meaning, at the point of observation, the universe splits, one universe where the cat is alive, and one universe where the cat is dead, both universes existing together prior to the point of observation. I think it is more of a stochastic argument: the cat has some statistical chance of being in some state, confirmed upon observation. The wave function is a probability function.
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