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What if I open the box and let out the Schrodinger's cat and don't inform the experimenter?

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  • Who
    Lv 7
    1 year ago
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    you dont need to inform them

    you became the experimenter when you opened the box (i.e you "collapsed" the wave function) and already know the result - the cat didnt die

     (The experiment ceased when the box was opened and you saw the result)

  • 1 year ago

    He'll figure it out when the litter box doesn't fill up any more.

  • D g
    Lv 7
    1 year ago

    When you open the box. You become the observer

    The cat will be in a state of death or life after you observe it but before it will be both

  • 1 year ago

    You will have to buy him a new cat. 

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 year ago

    You wont get any Milk

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  • Anonymous
    1 year ago

    It depends on whether or not you, yourself are a sentient being.  I have my doubts.

  • 1 year ago

    It will run off toward a freeway, and you *still* won't know if he made it or not...

  • 1 year ago

    a) You can make friends with the cat 

    b) You can take the liberty of feeding the cat 

    c) You can leave the box open for physicists to contemplate 

    d) You can have a heart-to-heart conversation with the cat 

    and assure it that it is extant, and not just 'theoretical' 

    e) All of the above (Not necessarily in the order listed)  

  • ANDY
    Lv 5
    1 year ago

    If you do this.....Quantum Physics will collapse!!

  • Anonymous
    1 year ago

    Seriously, you can’t figure that out? Duh.

  • 1 year ago

    Then the experimenter will be surprised when he/she opens the box to find nocat

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