me: you know that according to schrödinger, anything you put in a box is both dead AND alive
everyone at the funeral: *nervously stares at coffin*
my friend: this is a bad understanding of the “cat state”… when something dies, it is Known to be dead (observed as being in a State). being in the box doesn’t allocate the potential for living. when the cat goes into the box, you fire a laser that has a 50% of killing Said cat (r.i.p in pieces). the cat is both dead + alive bc it’s unobserved. if you’ll notice, this puts the cat in a quantum state; the same state we need for things like quantum computing and - what are u doinG
me, about to be seriously disappointed, halfway through crawling into the coffin along with the Dearly Departed: wait are u saying the box won’t kill me