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Today you learn about a version of Schrodinger's cat that might break quantum physics,

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why you're not as mysterious as you think you are, thanks to a cognitive bias called

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Ready for Schrodinger's Cat Part 2, The Revenge.

Yes.

Schrodinger's Cat is that old thought experiment where a cat inside a box is both alive and dead and it's

supposed to illustrate the absurdity of quantum mechanics. Well it's just come out

with a sequel and it straight up breaks quantum mechanics. You're really into the quantum stuff lately, aren't you?

I love it. This is my way of just like zoning out and thinking about how weird the universe is.

I love it.

So the original Schrodinger's cat from 1935 demonstrates a few basic

principles of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. When the cat is

both alive and dead inside the box it's in a state of quote superposition

when you open the box and see its state you've quote collapsed the wave

function this is kind of like how quantum particles function. In 1967, Hungarian physicist Eugene Wigner

tried a different experiment, where the thing inside wasn't a cat, but a physicist.

Let's say a physicist named Amy gets inside a box with a device that can flip a coin to show either heads or tails.

Does the wave function collapse when Amy sees the result?

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