There are few thought experiments in science as famous as Schrödinger's Cat, even though most people couldn't explain it to you if they tried.
It's not that the implications of the thought experiment are opaque. In fact, the implications of the thought experiment are the one thing that almost everyone knows: that Schrödinger's Cat is both alive and dead at the same time.
But what does that even mean? What chain of logic could possibly lead to that kind of result?
Fortunately, you don't need a degree in physics to understand what Schrödinger was getting at with his thought experiment, and even Albert Einstein praised Schrödinger for devising such a simple illustration of some of the more confusing parts of quantum mechanics.
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