Schrodinger's cat isn't new to me. I learned about it in school like anyone else and it's in popular culture here and there. But I'm playing Virtue's Last Reward/999-2 and they're making a big deal out of it again in the game and it reminds me that I've always not "got" it.
Like idea is that if there's a cat in a box with a 50% chance being dead/50% chance being alive, it's in a state of being neither dead, nor alive. Then when you open the box it becomes a defined state of dead or alive.
This is bullshit to me. There is no such thing as not dead, not alive with cats. To me, the cat is either dead, or it's alive, the actual state it is when in the box is simply "we don't know" It always bugs me when people bring up schrodinger's cat and ask someone if the cat is dead or alive in the box and no one just says "I don't know"
Is it just semantics? Is the whole "neither dead or alive" state just a scientific way to say declare a state "WE DON'T KNOW" because scientists were too embarrassed to say they don't know something that they tried to sound super smart saying we do know what it is! It's neither dead nor alive! Like if variables X is alive, Y is dead, and Z is we don't know, is that the same thing as X is alive, Y is dead, and Z is neither dead nor alive? Because if they're not the same and the neither dead nor alive state is real actual scientific state, it just does not make sense to me. Never has.
