What is schrodinger's cat?
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Explanation:
Schrodinger's cat is a thought experiment developed by the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrodinger in an attempt to solve the problem that he saw with the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics.
The thought experiment involves different items depending on which version you prefer, but in essence, there is a closed environment, a cat, and an explosive device. Einstein's version of this involved gunpowder, while Schrodinger's original version involved poisonous gas.
The cat would be sealed in the container with the gunpowder/gas, and once the container was closed, the experiment says that there is no way to tell if the cat inside is dead or alive without opening the box. If one were to open the box, they would collapse the so-called quantum superposition into one of two states; dead or alive.
