Dead or Alive?

All I know for sure is that any cat whose owner would subject it to such an experiment cannot have been “Wanted”.

But if Schrodinger had had many cats to try this on I guess about half of them would be dead and the other half alive. And in all cases the “collapse” would have occurred long before the box was opened – or rather never, because a cat could never be put into a pure quantum state in the first place.

Source: (1001) Alan Cooper’s answer to After Schrodinger opened the box with the cat inside, and thoroughly observed the cat, collapsing the superposition, was it dead or alive? – Quora

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