I take a SchrГ¶dinger's cat approach to email. AlliMcAlliFace рџЊ€ #FBPE #FBIW (She/Her) рџ’™#NHS February 16, 2021 Maybe if I sat in a box it might help вЂ¦ like SchrodingerвЂ™s cat. While the thought experiment itself is still discussed and taught in schools today, online references to SchrГ¶dingerвЂ™s cat are often more for the amusement of those who know and appreciate the thought experiment. On August 12, 2013, which would have marked Erwin SchrГ¶dingerвЂ™s 126th birthday, Google celebrated by marking its homepage with a cat-themed doodle. For example, there is an image of a cat angrily clawing its way out of a cardboard box, with the caption вЂњSchrГ¶dingerвЂ™s cat is alive вЂ¦ and very pissed off.вЂќ The popularity of the LOLcats meme, which depicts house cats in various cute or amusing poses, has also inspired humorous depictions of SchrГ¶dingerвЂ™s cat, with many images of cats in cardboard boxes serving as a chance to reference the famous theory. References to SchrГ¶dingerвЂ™s cat have been featured in webcomics, images, YouTube videos, in poems, and T-shirts saying that вЂњSchrГ¶dingerвЂ™s cat is deadвЂќ (as some physicists like to joke). At what precise moment do the mathematical probabilities give over to physical reality?Д¬omplex scientific theories donвЂ™t tend to become online memes, but SchrГ¶dingerвЂ™s cat is an exception, perhaps due to its rather visceral nature. Obviously, a cat canвЂ™t be both alive and dead-vampire cats excluded-which was exactly SchrГ¶dingerвЂ™s point. The problem is that this would mean that until the very last moment before someone opens the box, the cat is somehow both alive and dead at the same time. Now, if we scale up the Copenhagen theory from the quantum level all the way up SchrГ¶dingerвЂ™s scenario, then all outcomes simultaneously exist in all possible configurations until one opens the box, which, according to the complex mathematics of quantum mechanics, forces only one outcome: the cat is either alive or dead. Thus, after an hour, there is equal probability of the cat being alive or dead, and an observer can open the box and see which state the cat is in. If the particle is emitted and hits the Geiger counter, a relay is set in motion whereby the hammer shatters the flask, releasing the gas and killing the cat. Over the course of an hour, there is a chance that the radioactive substance might emit a particle (specifically, an alpha particle), and an equal chance that it might not. SchrГ¶dinger found this theory flawed, and to demonstrate why, he asked his colleagues to imagine a вЂњridiculous caseвЂќ where a cat, a tiny bit of radioactive material, a Geiger counter, a hammer, and a glass vial of poison were all locked inside a single box. The Copenhagen theory stated, essentially, we canвЂ™t know what state or place an atomic particle is in until itвЂ™s observed, and so that particle could hypothetically be in all possible states or places until then. In 1935, SchrГ¶dinger came up with a famous thought experiment, now eponymously referred to as SchrГ¶dingerвЂ™s cat, as a criticism of whatвЂ™s known as the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. ItвЂ™s pathetic.Austrian physicist Erwin SchrГ¶dinger won the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in quantum mechanics, a branch of physics that studies the nature and behavior of subatomic particles. Everyone just keeps referring to it as вЂSchrodingerвЂ™s CatвЂ™. вЂњErwin dedicated his Nobel Prize to that cat, and now no one can remember the things name. вЂњYou have to know things to be a physicist, and not remembering something as simple as a catвЂ™s name is unacceptable,вЂќ claims Shepard. вЂњFirst this, then what next? ItвЂ™s like physics is entering the dark ages.вЂќ вЂњSadly, this may be one those bits of history that just gets lost,вЂќ says Edward Shepard of the Los Alamos National Institute for Physics. And during this experiment Schrodinger called his cat by its name some nineteen times, yet according to the latest data available not a single scientist was able to correctly name the most famous cat in the history of physics.ДЄ reward has been offered in hopes that someone will come forward to help solve the mystery, but scientists are losing hope. The experiment is quite famous, thereвЂ™s even a Wikipedia page about it and everything. Erwin Schrodinger once made a great point about quantum physics, something an average person could understand, by using his cat in an experiment.

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