In the everyday world of common sense and the old physics, one switch or the other would be triggered, and the cat would eat either good food or poison; consequently he would be either alive or dead. But Schrodinger's cat is a quantum cat, so things don't work that way for him. These coexisting quantum possibilities ensure that Schrodinger's cat is fed both food and poison simultaneously. Consequently he is both alive and dead at the same time. Both possible realities coexist.

Of course we never see alive/dead cats and we can never catch Schrodinger's cat in his double act. If we open the box to look at him we will see that he is either alive or dead. But it is our looking that has saved or lost the cat. The observer is part of what he or she observes; observation changes things, and the world of observation is a world of either/or. The quantum world of both/and is always at one tantalizing remove.

Now compare that story to your watch story.

Joseph Stewart

Abduction Researcher

Date: 98-12-01 18:43:27 EST