The Box

Assassin

Member
Joined
Mar 19, 2011
Posts
33
Reacts
0
Reputation
0
Credits
0
If I take a cat and put it in a sealed box.
And leave it there and come back after an indefinite period.
Is the cat living or is it dead I can only assume that it is dead but I have no evidence that it is alive or dead before for I open the box.

I guess it is live therefor it is alive.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
 
The cat would obviously be dead from lack of oxygen, food, and water. While there is no ACTUAL way of telling whether it is fact; Common sense tells us this.
 
Let's say we have a person who has been isolated from the world and only know the basic things about science and think that if it capture's a cat and stores it in a box. Then the person is 100% that the cat is alive.
 
Someone could open the box and free the cat. The world may never know...
 
You forgot the poison. This is known as Shrodinger's Cat.
 
You might actually be right.
 
Oops, I did not know there was a theory of what was so famus i guesst there must have been somon that have thought of it before but still whats the odds for me having the almost same teory whitout knowing about his.

Schrödinger's Cat: A cat, along with a flask containing a poison and a radioactive source, is placed in a sealed box shielded against environmentally induced quantum decoherence. If an internal Geiger counter detects radiation, the flask is shattered, releasing the poison that kills the cat. The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics implies that after a while, the cat is simultaneously alive and dead. Yet, when we look in the box, we see the cat either alive or dead, not both alive and dead.
 
Ah the old Schrödinger's cat, I believe you knew very well there was a posed question.

However until you open the box we can only assume that the cat is both dead and alive, and even the observation will have an impact on the outcome.
 
Dr. Hobo said:
Ah the old Schrödinger's cat, I believe you knew very well there was a posed question.

However until you open the box we can only assume that the cat is both dead and alive, and even the observation will have an impact on the outcome.
Click to expand...

No, I knew absolutely nothing on the the case I would have him get the credit I would not directly copy an old professor. And I would have copied it better.
 
Anyways, to address the first post, no, you must assume it is both living AND dead.
 
Quantum Physics states precisely this. The cat isn't dead until there is an observer to verify this.

I personally think the cat is just plain dead, I don't buy all the aspects of quantum physics.
 
I ask you please no one test this
 
Well in all honesty you don't know if it is alive or dead till you open the box, but basted on time the cat will die to lack of natural aspects to live. So no water, food, and air = death common sense.

If a person is isolated and thinks the cat is alive well when that person opens the box that person still realizes the look of death so it would just fall back to death.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.