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How Can You Be Both Alone and Not Alone at the Same Time?
Alone and not alone coexist differently from feeling lonely.
There are no absolute truths. Even the most well-known, established scientific laws can change.
One of the most amazing things about science is how it recognizes that for everything we know, there’s infinitely more that we don’t know. There are always new questions, new ideas, new perspectives, and things beyond our knowledge to be learned.
One of the most fascinating notions in science, to me, is that of Schrödinger’s cat. If you are not familiar, this is a well-known thought experiment of quantum mechanics. It goes like this: Presented with a sealed box containing an unobserved cat and a poison within it, until the box is opened the cat has an equal chance of being dead and being alive. Until you observe the cat by opening that box, you can suppose that it’s both dead and/or alive until you know.
This paradox illustrates many, many elements of life as we know it. What’s more, there are numerous scientific interpretations of this thought experiment. But the long and short of it is that you can only know what you know based on limited information — until you make a closer, more detailed examination of it.
