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Originally posted by Eldaire
This is true. The "cat in the box example is best". You put a cat in a box with mustard gas (let the precise points go please like "airtight box" and just take this for what it's worth). You close the box and until you open it again to see, the cat is both alive AND dead.
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This is not really the Schrodinger experiment at all.
Not nitpicking your details, but you left out the most important part of the experiement, the radioactive-isotope, and the geiger-counter.
Further more, the Schrodinger experiment was originally intended as a reductio ad absurdum argument AGAINST the subjective, observer dependant interpretations of quantum mechanics.
Very few people actually take it seriously, and it is accepted that the cat is dead or it isn't.
Of course it isn't provable, but does a tree falling in the woods make a sound when nobody is there to hear it?
Most sensible people would say that it does, but obviously by the very nature of the question it is improvable.