Do you believe Schrodinger's Cat exists?
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Yes, and he lives with CG.
No.
Who cares?
1+1 = 2.
Only Konrad knows.
Neither.
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For the uninitiated, Schrodinger was a scientist who brought the wave equation to our sorry souls, and made life in science harder blessed us all with the Wave Equation, that was a reply to the then popular (and flawed) Copenhagen interpretation of Quantum Superimposition. The latter, put simply, stated that a particular quantum system remains in a state of superimposition of multiple outcomes, until its observed/interacted with in the real world, in which case it collapses in one of the outcomes. Schrodinger wasn't happy, and so he decided that he would make an unintentional meme out of this by suggesting a thought experiment involving.... cats.
Imagine a cat, a flask of poison, and a radioactive source is placed in a sealed box. If an internal monitor detects radioactivity (i.e., a single atom decaying), the flask is shattered, releasing the poison that kills the cat. The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics implies that after a while, the cat is simultaneously alive and dead. Yet, when one looks in the box, one sees the cat either alive or dead, not both alive and dead. This poses the question of when exactly quantum superposition ends and reality collapses into one possibility or the other. While Schrodinger only intended to illustrate the absurdity of the existing view of quantum mechanics, it didn't stop there, as usual, because some people didn't get the joke at all. Since then so many jokes based on the Schrodinger's Cat have surfaced, which makes for some fun science humor. Is the cat real? Or is it not? (The answer is neither, but hey, it ruins the joke entirely.)
Solve the paradox yourself.
Oh, and this is entirely thanks to jeffhowe giving me a job to design a Science Humor puzzle, and since this is all I found (which isn't a big surprise), I wish to get all the info I know out of my head so that I could start looking for something else.
Because. Cats. Are. A. Nuisance.
Also I blame you, jeffhowe. May you be showered with cats for the rest of your life.
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