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It was 1935 and the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrodinger had a problem with Albert Einstein.

Einstein had just released a paper with two fellow scientists that discussed the concept of superposition, an idea

that seemed somewhat absurd to Schrodinger. Superposition implied that an atom or any quantum system was simultaneously in multiple states

until the point of observation. Once the system was observed, its true state would be revealed to the observer.

This implied that the act of observation changed how the universe behaved.

In order to convey his skeptical view on his changed how the universe behaved.

In order to convey his skeptical view on the matter,

Schrodinger devised a thought experiment.

Quote, one can even set up quite ridiculous cases. A cat is penned up in a steel chamber with a Geiger counter and a tiny bit of radioactive substance, so small that perhaps in the course of the hour one of the atoms

decays, but also with equal probability perhaps none of it decays. If it decays, the counter tube discharges and

releases a hammer that shatters a small flask of hydrocyanic acid. If one has left this entire system to itself for an hour, the

cat still lives if no atom has decayed. However, the first atomic decay would have poisoned it. The entire system would

express this by having in it both the living and dead cat." Shrodinger argued that since the atom's state of decay is unknown, the cat's state of

being alive or dead is also unknown.

Only once you've opened the steel chamber could you determine

whether the cat was living or deceased. You've probably heard of Shrodinger's cat

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