What is Schrödingers Cat?
It is important to note that no actual cats, real or superpositioned, were harmed during the creation of this wiseGEEK article. (Inside joke for physics majors). Erwin Schrödinger was a contemporary of other eminent physicists such as Albert Einstein and Neils Bohr, although he was more interested in a relatively new field called quantum physics. Quantum physics in general went against much of what Einstein and Bohr considered to be scientific fact, which led to a number of high-level debates between Schrödinger and Einstein. One of those arguments contained a paradoxical thought experiment we now know as Schrödinger’s Cat, although the cat was never more than theoretical. One of the inherent problems with subatomic systems is the difficulty of human observation. One can assume that subatomic particles behave in a certain way, but introducing a microscope or a camera to observe them in action can negatively affect the natural behavior of the subatomic system. This would be the equivale
It is important to note that no actual cats, real or superpositioned, were harmed during the creation of this whatisabc article. (Inside joke for physics majors). Erwin Schrödinger was a contemporary of other eminent physicists such as Albert Einstein and Neils Bohr, although he was more interested in a relatively new field called quantum physics. Quantum physics in general went against much of what Einstein and Bohr considered to be scientific fact, which led to a number of high-level debates between Schrödinger and Einstein. One of those arguments contained a paradoxical thought experiment we now know as Schrödinger’s Cat, although the cat was never more than theoretical. One of the inherent problems with subatomic systems is the difficulty of human observation. One can assume that subatomic particles behave in a certain way, but introducing a microscope or a camera to observe them in action can negatively affect the natural behavior of the subatomic system. This would be the equival
