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<blockquote data-quote="Mayhem" data-source="post: 166530" data-attributes="member: 9738"><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat" target="_blank">Schrödinger's cat - Wikipedia</a></p><p></p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Schrodingers_cat.svg/330px-Schrodingers_cat.svg.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Schrödinger's cat: a cat, a flask of poison, and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive" target="_blank">radioactive</a> source are placed in a sealed box. If an internal monitor (e.g. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geiger_counter" target="_blank">Geiger counter</a>) detects radioactivity (i.e. a single atom decaying), the flask is shattered, releasing the poison, which kills the cat. The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics implies that after a while, the cat is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_superposition" target="_blank"><em>simultaneously</em> alive <em>and</em> dead</a>. Yet, when one looks in the box, one sees the cat <em>either</em> alive <em>or</em> dead not both alive <em>and</em> dead. This poses the question of when exactly quantum superposition ends and reality collapses into one possibility or the other.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mayhem, post: 166530, member: 9738"] [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat']Schrödinger's cat - Wikipedia[/URL] [IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Schrodingers_cat.svg/330px-Schrodingers_cat.svg.png[/IMG] Schrödinger's cat: a cat, a flask of poison, and a [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive']radioactive[/URL] source are placed in a sealed box. If an internal monitor (e.g. [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geiger_counter']Geiger counter[/URL]) detects radioactivity (i.e. a single atom decaying), the flask is shattered, releasing the poison, which kills the cat. The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics implies that after a while, the cat is [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_superposition'][I]simultaneously[/I] alive [I]and[/I] dead[/URL]. Yet, when one looks in the box, one sees the cat [I]either[/I] alive [I]or[/I] dead not both alive [I]and[/I] dead. This poses the question of when exactly quantum superposition ends and reality collapses into one possibility or the other. [/QUOTE]
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