🔄FROM THE ARCHIVE: Why Schrödinger (figuratively speaking) put his cat in the box — and why it may never get out.
Long before cats conquered the internet, two of the greatest physicists of our time — Erwin Schrödinger and Albert Einstein — devised what almost seems like an evil thought experiment.
While Schrödinger’s cat remains something of an infamous thought experiment, the original equation he originally derived the scenario from has gone on to represent the foundation of quantum mechanics. It involves the idea that something can be in two simultaneous states and only becomes one or the other when observed, detected, or even when it interacts with other particles.
, a physicist at Williams College in Massachusetts. “We can think of them as somehow jumping between the different shapes.”The scenario involving Schrödinger’s dead — or undead — cat in a box involves a thought experiment to describe how the state of electrons might conceivably affect something much larger, in the macro world. He created it in response to a theory of quantum mechanics by other physicists called the Copenhagen interpretation to show the potential shortcomings of their view.
The thing is, Schrödinger didn’t actually mean for the situation to be taken seriously. The fact that an observing scientist’s curiosity could kill the cat was meant to show how an earlier interpretation of quantum mechanics was ludicrous.
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