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I don't understand the outcome of Schrodinger's cat.

How can it be alive and dead? Am I looking at it too literally, or is it just saying that you don't know which one it is until you open it?

Because all the articles I've read keep saying something along the lines of "Schrodinger said it was simultaneously alive and dead." But that isn't possible. He either lives or dies. Not both. You just don't know which until you look.

Am I missing something?