RafaelFajardo

This paradox of Schrodinger’s cat is a paradox in the older interpretation of quantum physics, the one which I do not subscribe to. I subscribe to the Everett, to the many universes or multiverse interpretation, and in that interpretation it is not true that the cat is either alive or dead; what is true is that in some universes it is alive and in others it is dead. And what happens when you open the box and look at the cat is that the many copies of you that exist in the many universes differentiate themselves accordingly, so that some copies of you see the cat alive and other copies in parallel see the cat dead, and because of a phenomenon called decoherence, those two copies never see each other; and so that is why we mistakenly believed, in the time of classical physics, that only one thing happens. But in fact, all possible outcomes of a process happen in reality. So it’s not a paradox, it’s just unfamiliar.