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What counts as “observation” in Schrödinger's Cat, and why are superpositions possible?
So if I understood correctly, Schrödinger's Cat is a thought experiment that puts a cat inside a box, and there's a mechanism that kills the cat with 50% probability based on a quantum process. The ...
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Do scientists literally believe the Schröedinger's cat though experiment?
I've heard the Schrödinger's cat "paradox" (although there's nothing particularly paradoxical about it, just counterintuitive), but I've never been clear on whether or not it's meant to be taken with ...
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Is Schrodinger's Cat a real conceptual problem or just a problem with approximations?
In this thought-experiment a cat is placed in a box set with a bottle poison that will release and kill it depending on whether or not a certain radioactive particle decays. The box is kept closed and ...
