What happens when a thread cannot acquire a lock on an object

If a thread attempts to execute a synchronized method or synchronized statement and isunable to acquire an object's lock, it enters the waiting state until the lock becomesavailable.

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Feb 24th, 2011

It goes to blocked state as it can not continue.
but the cpu scheduler will wake him up once in a while .
every time he wakes up he will try to get the lock again until he can finally get it.
if he never get's the lock he will circle around from blocked to ready until:

     a) some other thread interrupts him and he has a check for the interrupted flag
     b) you kill the whole program
     c) you turn off your computer