Cat In The Box Experiment

Scientists have just kicked the famous schrodingers cat thought experiment up a notch by cutting that poor old hypothetical cat in half sticking him in two boxes and confirming that he still survives and doesnt even when theres two of him.

Cat in the box experiment. The experiment can be interpreted to mean that while the box is closed the system simultaneously exists in a superposition of the states decayed nucleusdead cat and undecayed nucleusliving cat and that only when the box is opened and an observation performed does the wave function collapse into one of the two states. Now the decay of the radioactive substance is governed by the laws of quantum mechanics. When the radioactive substance decays it triggers a geiger counter which causes a poison or explosion to be released that kills the cat. In schrodingers imaginary experiment you place a cat in a box with a tiny bit of radioactive substance.

Cat experiment the famous paradox was laid out by physicist erwin schroedinger in 1935 to elucidate the notion of quantum superposition the phenomenon in which tiny subatomic particles can be in. His feline paradox thought experiment has become a pop culture staple but it was erwin schroedingers work in quantum mechanics that cemented his status within the world of physics.