From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about the thought experiment. For the novel, see Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy . Schrödinger's Cat: A cat, a flask of poison and a radioactive source are placed in a sealed box. If an internal monitor detects radioactivity, the flask is shattered, releasing the poison that kills the cat. The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics implies that after a while, the cat is simultaneously alive and dead . Yet, when we look in the box, we see the cat either alive or dead, not both alive and dead. Schrödinger's cat is a thought experiment , sometimes described as a paradox , devised by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935. It illustrates what he saw as the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics applied to everyday objects, resulting in a contradiction with common sense. The scenario presents a cat that might be alive or dead, depending on an earlier random event. Although the or...
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