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      • Schrödinger's cat is a thought experiment designed to show how certain interpretations of quantum mechanics lead to counterintuitive results. In the experiment, a cat is placed inside a box with a vial of poisonous gas. A mallet is set up such that it breaks the vial of gas if a particular radioactive atom decays, killing the cat.
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  2. Dec 5, 2019 · Schrödinger's cat is one of the most famous thought experiments ever devised. He suggested that if quantum mechanical states are described as superpositions of multiple different states, what if this superposition was transferred to a macroscopic object, like a cat? Could it be both alive and dead?

  3. Schrödinger's cat: a cat, a flask of poison, and a radioactive source connected to a Geiger counter are placed in a sealed box. As illustrated, the quantum description uses a superposition of an alive cat and one that has died.

  4. May 5, 2021 · The scenario involving Schrödinger’s dead — or undead — cat in a box involves a thought experiment to describe how the state of electrons might conceivably affect something much larger, in the macro world.

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  5. In simple terms, Schrödinger said that if you place a cat and something that could kill the cat (a radioactive atom) in a box and sealed it, you would not know if the cat were dead or alive until you opened the box, so that until the box was opened, the cat was both "dead and alive".

  6. Oct 21, 2024 · Schrödinger’s cat argues that, in the Copenhagen interpretation, until an observer opens the box and reveals the cat’s fate, the cat is both alive and dead—a state described as a “superposition.”

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  7. Feb 28, 2020 · The thought experiment known as Schrödinger's cat is one of the most famous, and misunderstood, concepts in quantum mechanics. By thinking deeply about it, researchers have come to...

  8. The Schrödinger's cat thought experiment demonstrates the strange nature of quantum superposition. A cat is placed in a box with a vial of poison, which will be automatically smashed if a radioactive particle decays. Radioactive decay is one of the probability-driven aspects of quantum physics.

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