Schrodinger's Cat
Art by: Julia Maystruck
Schrodinger's Cat illustrates the paradox of quantum superposition: the idea that several quantum systems can exists in several quantum states at the same time.
- A cat 🙀 flask of poison 🧪 and radioactive substance ☢️ are sealed in a box 📦
- Detecting any radioactivity means the flask shatters ☠️ killing the cat 😿
- After a while quantum mechanics sees the cat as simultaneously alive & dead.
But once you open the box the cat is either dead OR alive (not both alive & dead). So at when did quantum superposition cease & reality start?
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