Quote Originally Posted by 13redfan View Post
Imagine a cat being in a black box, along with a vial of cyanide that will break if an atomic substance emits a nuclear particle. The half life isn't constant, so you don't know at which point a particle will be released, so you can't at any point tell if the cat is alive or dead (let's ignore it's squealing at this point) so you assume that the cat is both alive and dead at the same time.

That's how the electron's revolve around atoms, somehow...
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If you're talking about Schrödinger's cat then it's a bit different than you described. I think it's not that we assume that it's alive or dead. It is dead and alive at the same time, or so it says (unless I missread) on wikipedia. It's in quantum superposition, as long as you keep it seperate from the outside world. Quantum mechanics are funny, did you hear that they were making a quantum computer? There won't be bits, but qubits- it will be a 0, a 1 and both at the same time, if I understand correctly, meaning that the computers will be come "super charged W0osh!" using the laws of the "quantum world". This really is an interesting time to be living in, don't you think?