Schrödinger’s Cat The Biggest Mystery of Physics is Finally Solved
Schrödinger’s Cat The Biggest Mystery of Physics is Finally Solved
There may be a way of sneaking a peak at Schrödinger’s cat — the famous feline-based thought experiment that describes the mysterious behavior of subatomic particles — without permanently killing the (hypothetical) animal.
The unlucky, imaginary cat is simultaneously alive and dead inside a box, or exists in a superposition of « dead » and « alive » states, just as subatomic particles exist in a superposition of many states at once. But looking inside the box changes the state of the cat, which then becomes either alive or dead.
Now, however, a study published Oct. 1 in the New Journal of Physics describes a way to potentially peek at the cat without forcing it to live or die. In doing so, it advances scientists’ understanding of one of the most fundamental paradoxes in physics.
