Thomas Edison's Secret Lab

  The Schrödinger’s Cat is a paradox, a thought experiment, the purpose of which was primarily to challenge a rather popular interpretation of Quantum mechanics back in the 1930s. This theory is called the Copenhagen interpretation . Copenhagen Interpretation According to the Copenhagen interpretation, a quantum system remains in all possible states (called “superposition”) until somebody observes or measures it. This might remind you of this famous image: The paradox of the plates being broken and unbroken is quite like what this thought experiment brings. According to the Copenhagen interpretation, the moment something is observed or measured, the wavefunction “collapses” into a single, definite outcome. Schrödinger proposed this thought experiment to challenge the logic of this interpretation when applied beyond the atomic scale, on a more macroscopic level. How did this thought experiment work? Imagine a sealed box. Inside, we place one cat, a tiny piece ...