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I was doing some research for school and I was thinking of he Schrodinger's Cat Experiment. Can someone explain it to me. Sorry if I sound Amateur because I am.
Ima_Fraud said:I was doing some research for school and I was thinking of he Schrodinger's Cat Experiment. Can someone explain it to me. Sorry if I sound Amateur because I am.
EileenSchuh said:re spelling: to get that special Ö character in Schrödinger's Cat hold down alt key and type 0162.
The cat's dilemma has more to do with the dual nature of quanta--subatomic particles. Some experiments prove they are particles and other prove they aren't--that they are wave functions. Scientists believe it is the experiments themselves and the resultant observations of these particles, that causes them to be one thing or the other. Schrodinger said that didn't make sense...that quanta had to have a single true identity. Otherwise, if say an electron was shot a box that was triggered to kill a cat inside it if the electron was a particle and to leave it alive if it turned out to be a wave function what would happen to the cat until someone opened the box to "observe" which of its dual natures the quanta had expressed when it hit the trigger?
Then along came Everitt and his Many Worlds Theory...you can read all about that part of the story here http://eileenschuh.blogspot.ca/2010/07/whos-schrodingers-cat.html
Schrodinger's Cat is a thought experiment in quantum mechanics that was proposed by physicist Erwin Schrodinger in 1935. It involves a cat in a sealed box with a vial of poison and a radioactive source. According to the principles of quantum mechanics, the cat exists in a state of superposition, meaning it is both alive and dead until the box is opened and the observer collapses the wave function.
No, Schrodinger's Cat is a hypothetical scenario used to explain the concept of superposition in quantum mechanics. It is not an actual cat and no animals were harmed in the making of this thought experiment.
The purpose of Schrodinger's Cat thought experiment is to illustrate the strange and counterintuitive principles of quantum mechanics, specifically the concept of superposition and the role of the observer in collapsing the wave function.
Schrodinger's Cat thought experiment highlights the uncertainty principle in quantum mechanics, which states that the more precisely we know the position of a particle, the less we know about its momentum, and vice versa. In the case of the cat, its state of being both alive and dead at the same time reflects the uncertainty of knowing its exact state until it is observed.
Schrodinger's Cat thought experiment is a theoretical concept and has not been proven or disproven. However, experiments in quantum mechanics have shown that particles can exist in a state of superposition, lending support to the principles behind the thought experiment.