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And then we enter Schrodinger's Cat levels of confusing.
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Schrodinger's Cat is just a thought experiment emphasizing the theory that the universe is defined by the manor in which it is observed. Under this principle things only exist when observe. Therefore a cat in a box with poison is by the extrapolation of what happens when a cat encounters poison dead however because the cat is unobserved it is impossible to prove that it is dead therefore it can be surmised that it is in fact living. Resulting in a thought paradox that states until it is observed the cat is both living and dead.