Did Schrodingers Cat experiment contradict or compliment what was known about quantum physics at the time?
Schrodinger’s cat is not an actual experiment. It is a thought experiment. That means you think about it, you don’t actually do it. And the point of the thought experiment was to highlight some specific issues that Schrodinger had with quantum mechanics. That is to say, it highlights the fact that superposition, which is a quantum phenomena, seems ridiculous on macroscopic (cat-size) scales. So, perhaps Schrodinger had a problem with how superposition was being thought about at the time. But it really doesn’t make sense to say that this thought experiment either contradicted or complimented quantum physics, as it really did both.
