Schrodinger's cat is definitely dead because he put it in that box in 1935. amirite?

actually the average cat lives 13-17 years meaning that if you assume the cat has 9 lives Schrödinger's cat could still be going strong until 2088

by Anonymous 3 years ago

I'm with you on this. "only applies to indoor cats" -- uh.. it's in a box "escape death in their lifetimes" -- we don't know the metaphysical rules around cats and 9 lives... perfectly possible it is still alive. I'm a believer that the cat is still alive...

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Chunga cat

by Anonymous 3 years ago

That only applies to indoor cats. Including feral and people who let their pets wander because they are terrible people… I believe it averages out to closer to like 8.5 years for all cats.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

That's a stretch. The 9 lives thing is around how many times they escape death in their lifetimes, not a multiplication of the average age of a cat.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Got a source on that, OP?

by Anonymous 3 years ago

You're not serious right?

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Schrödinger's cat never existed. It can't be dead if it was never alive.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Ah, a man of culture.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

So he put a non-existent cat in a box? Sounds like a waste of time.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Did the box exist though? Lay it gently on me, please.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

This brings up another conceptual conflict between general relativity and quantum mechanics - is time absolute or is it relative?

by Anonymous 3 years ago

It is relative. I've always supported this theory. Time can be nothing but relative, as time experienced can only inform time remaining. This explains the childhood summers which seemed to last forever. If you're ten years old, one year is one tenth of your combined experience. If you're forty, one year is one fortieth of your combined experience. That's why time appears to pass more quickly the older you get. It is always relatively less than what you have already experienced.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

You're talking about human perception of time, not time itself.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Someone once used a roll of toilet paper for this analogy. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Exactly. Everything is relative to experience, particularly time. It stands to reason. If you've been alive 60 years then one year will seem like a much smaller experience than if you're 20.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

I think you're getting perception confused with relativity. Time will vary with relation to speed and gravity. The faster an object goes, the slower time goes for it. Also time slows down around increased gravity.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

What if he put it in Pandora's box?

by Anonymous 3 years ago

I'm not sure what an overpriced trinket shop's boxes have to do with this 😉

by Anonymous 3 years ago

One of my University Buildings is named after Erwin Schrodinger and we always joke, that we are Schrodinger Students. Nobody knows if we are dead or alive while in this building.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Particularly after a heavy night out, I would imagine.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Or is it?

by Anonymous 3 years ago

*vsauce theme intensifies*

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Yes. Yes it is.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

You wouldn't know that until you opened the box

by Anonymous 3 years ago

I'm 100% sure that cat is bones if it was put in a box in 1935 with no air, water or food. To argue against that is moronic. Schrodinger's Cat as a theory is absolutely sound. But Schrodinger's actual cat is brown bread mate.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Technically you don't know that with 100% certainty until you open the box. It's possible it's not an ordinary cat. Maybe it was made in a lab, or has some extremely where genetic mutation where it can hibernate and burn nearly 0% energy. Of course it's less than a 1 out of a trillion chance but theoretically it could be alive in there

by Anonymous 3 years ago

You would only know that if you opened the box

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Maybe he only put it in the box to bury it- because it was already dead

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Then the whole experiment is redundant.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

What if the box was empty the whole time??

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Then the cat is still dead what with it being alive in 1935.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

But what if it never existed in the first place

by Anonymous 3 years ago

If I had a dollar for everyone who misunderstood 'Schrodinger's Cat' then I could probably afford quality healthcare in the US.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

But did you check the box though?

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Is anyone gonna tell him?

by Anonymous 3 years ago

How can you be sure ?

by Anonymous 3 years ago

How do we know Schrodinger is still dead if nobody has opened his coffin? Also I just saw the cat yesterday, turns out he jumped out seconds after being put in the box.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Or is he?

by Anonymous 3 years ago

There is no cat

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Then the experiment is invalid.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

The cat is a lie

by Anonymous 3 years ago

I'm not saying the cat is alive. that wasn't my point

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Make your point clearer.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Sorry

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Due to the nature of cats having 9 lives, and the average lifespan of a cat being 13-17 years, this means that Schrodinger's cat could still potentially be alive or dead, as the average lifespan for all 9 lives would put the cat's time on earth at an average span of 117-153 years. So while possible the cat may have run out of lives by this point, since it hasn't even been 100 years yet, it's much more likely that the cat is still alive in there. Though who can know for certain, so long as you don't open the box?

by Anonymous 3 years ago

We can't know for sure without opening it. That's the whole point.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Bruh... We're in the quantum realm. It's be 86 years for us. Could be 5mins for the cat.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

That's more Einstein's theory more than quantum theory.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

All part of quantum physics.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Einstein's theory of relativity is part of quantum physics?

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Well... Thanks for forcing me to touch up on the physics. You're right, hope one day they'll be unified.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Not how quantum mechanics works There is a nonzero chance it is dead and there will always be so. It will just grow smaller over time tending towards the probability of a random quantum fluctuation creating an exact copy in its place

by Anonymous 3 years ago

this the best one i ever seen!

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Too kind

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Agreed.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Unless he then set the box in motion to a speed close to the speed of light.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Yeah the cat is dead. It's also alive though...

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Maybe he did, maybe he didn't how do you know?

by Anonymous 3 years ago

… I feel like you don't understand how Schrödinger's Cat works.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Does time matter inside the box?

by Anonymous 3 years ago

How do you know that time passes at the same rate in the box?

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Well, actually…

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Can you go check for me?

by Anonymous 3 years ago

It could've escaped

by Anonymous 3 years ago